Aloe Blacc – Billie Jean Cover
Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III, known as Aloe Blacc, exists on the fringes of the mainstream music industry. If it wasn't for the friend of a friend passing on a copy of his 2010 album Good Things, he would probably wouldn't have registered on my radar. The song he is most known for is I Need A...
Win An Anthony Hamilton Hamper
I have a hamper of four Anthony Hamilton CDs to giveaway as a follow-up to my interview with and blog post on his latest album Back To Love. The hamper, courtesy of Sony Music Africa, consists of the following four CDs: Comin' From Where I'm From Ain't Nobody...
Onslaught on Watch The Throne
It has been interesting watching the reactions to Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch The Throne. Album has been out for a minute and, with the release of the first single Otis, everyone and their mother did a remix across the world, from Busta Rhymes, DMX and Justin Bieber through to South Africa's...
Anthony Hamilton – True Soul Man
Some moons ago, when I was a teenager, we would put together mixes on cassette tape (yes, cassette) for our romantic interests, incorporating songs that expressed our feelings much better than we could. Or we would phone, put the handset up to the speakers and press play. This was also an era...
Dirty Loops Do Bieber & Gaga
This is one of those wonderfully random things one would probably never ever hear of if it wasn’t for the interwebs. Amidst the noise, some things still do get heard, reaching beyond their traditional borders into the ‘everywhere else’. A friend of mine put me onto the Dirty Loops. Made up of...
Indian Family Who Lost Custody Of Children
I don't usually stray from the specific subjects I explore on my blog, when I actually do post, but felt the need to put this out. Last week, on my Tumblr blog, I reblogged a post about an Indian family in Norway who were said to have had their children removed by that country' child services...
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Win An Anthony Hamilton Hamper
I have a hamper of four Anthony Hamilton CDs to giveaway as a follow-up to my interview with and blog post on his latest album Back To Love. The hamper, courtesy of Sony Music Africa, consists of the following four CDs: Comin' From Where I'm From Ain't Nobody...
Onslaught on Watch The Throne
It has been interesting watching the reactions to Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch The Throne. Album has been out for a minute and, with the release of the first single Otis, everyone and their mother did a remix across the world, from Busta Rhymes, DMX and Justin Bieber through to South Africa's...
Anthony Hamilton – True Soul Man
Some moons ago, when I was a teenager, we would put together mixes on cassette tape (yes, cassette) for our romantic interests, incorporating songs that expressed our feelings much better than we could. Or we would phone, put the handset up to the speakers and press play. This was also an era...
Dirty Loops Do Bieber & Gaga
This is one of those wonderfully random things one would probably never ever hear of if it wasn’t for the interwebs. Amidst the noise, some things still do get heard, reaching beyond their traditional borders into the ‘everywhere else’. A friend of mine put me onto the Dirty Loops. Made up of...
Indian Family Who Lost Custody Of Children
I don't usually stray from the specific subjects I explore on my blog, when I actually do post, but felt the need to put this out. Last week, on my Tumblr blog, I reblogged a post about an Indian family in Norway who were said to have had their children removed by that country' child services...
The Roots Undun
With Undun, which chronicles the life of the fictional Redford Stevens , The Roots also put out a short film. Beautifully shot, intense and engaging.