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Hip-Hop.com Buzz of the Week: Ryan Leslie – “Breathe” World Premiere (Live in SF)
Posted in MUSIC on March 15th, 2011 by The Dash – Be the first to comment
Young Dro, Killer Mike, Pac Div & Dee 1 Team Up for Grind ‘N Hustle Tour
Posted in MUSIC, THE CULTURE, UPCOMING EVENTS on March 13th, 2011 by The Dash – Be the first to comment
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Atlanta Natives and Grand Hustle Artists Young Dro & Killer Mike Kick Off their Grind ‘N Hustle Tour April 1st with openers Pac Div & Dee -1 Presented by Lessons Learnerd.
Keep up with the artists on Twitter via @DroPolo @Mike_Bigga @ItsPacDiv & @Dee1music
Grind N Hustle Tour Dates
Saturday April 2 – Corvallis, OR – Impulse Bar and Grill
Sunday April 3 – Seattle, WA – The Croc
Monday April 4 – Portland, OR – Roseland
Wednesday April 6 – San Francisco, CA – 330 Ritch – Hip-Hop.com Official Date
Saturday April 9 – San Diego, CA – Adult Swim Block Party
Monday April 11 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theatre
Tuesday April 19 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrew’s Hall
Wednesday April 20 – Cleveland, OH – The Grog Shop
Thursday April 21 – Akron, OH – Club Rose
Friday April 22 – Columbus, OH – Club Mansion
Monday April 25 – Boston, MA – Middle East
Saturday April 30 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
Ms. Lauryn Hill Announces MOVING TARGET : Extended Intimate Playdate Series!! 12 City Series To Kick Off On March 16th!!
Posted in UPCOMING EVENTS on March 11th, 2011 by The Dash – Be the first to comment
San Francisco Show @ the Warfield!
MOVING TARGET: EXTENDED INTIMATE PLAYDATE SERIES
12 CITY SERIES SET TO KICK OFF ON MARCH 16th IN ORLANDO, FL
ANNOUNCES @MSHILLMVNGTRGT AS THE DEFINITIVE SOURCE FOR NEWS, HIGHLIGHTS AND UPDATES FOR THE SERIES
The legendary GRAMMY Award winning MC, vocalist, producer and songwriter, Ms. Lauryn Hill, has announced dates for her Moving Target: Extended Intimate Playdate Series. The series will kick off in Orlando, FL on March 16thand hit 12 cities across the country including sets at Miami’s Jazz in the Gardens Festival on March 19th, this year’s Coachella Music and Arts Festival on April 15th and then wrapping at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on May 7th (full routing below). More dates to be announced in the coming weeks. In addition, Ms. Hill has also announced the creation of @MsHillMvngTrgt on Twitter as the definitive source for news, highlights and updates for the Moving Target Series as well as a place for her to communicate directly with her supporters.
Of these playdates Ms. Hill says, “One of the benefits of playing venues smaller than the ones I’m used to allows me the opportunity to not only reconnect with my supporters but to expose them to a portion of the musical journey I’ve been on which the world for the most part has not had access to. I’ve never shied away from being musically adventurous, nor am I known for being a lightweight when it comes to lyrical content or musical exploration. These more intimate playdates afford me the time to perform for listeners who haven’t heard from me over the past several years or have been misinformed by the inaccuracies in some media coverage, many of which I might add, I find very amusing. Getting back out there to perform is a lot like resuming a strenuous sport after having been away from it for a while, but eventually the muscle-memory kicks in and each day brings progressive strength. It’s an exciting and REAL process which these audiences will get to witness.”
Ms. Hill recently ended a set of dates last month playing venues predominantly on the Eastern half of the country, which included performances at the Sundance Festival in Park City Utah and an exclusive party held during Fashion Week celebrating the opening of Alexander Wang’s New York City Flagship store. Ms. Hill has been performing an innovative set list of classic material, evolved but faithful to the rigor, soulfulness and power of the original music from her iconic and groundbreaking solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill as well as classic Fugee numbers and a few covers honoring some of the music that Ms. Hill grew up influenced by.
OFFICIAL LIST OF DATES ARE AS FOLLOWS:
3/16 Orlando, FL House of Blues
3/19 Miami, FL Jazz in the Gardens Festival
3/23 Tampa, FL The Ritz
3/26 Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues
3/30 Atlanta, GA Center Stage
4/3 Oahu, HI Aloha Tower
4/9 Portland, OR Arlene Schnitzer Hall
4/12 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
4/15 Indio, CA Coachella Music and Arts Festival
4/18 Los Angeles, CA Club Nokia
4/23 Denver, CO The Fillmore
5/7 New Orleans, LA Jazz and Heritage Festival
For more information, please visit @MsHillMvngTrgt
Praise for Ms. Lauryn Hill’s 2011 Tour:
“Hill sounded fantastic. She’s probably the best female singer-rapper of all time (sorry, Nicki!), switching between Nina Simone-style soul incantations and limber Caribbean-inflected rhymes with ease.”
Rolling Stone
“As she bobbed and weaved through the thickets of sound, it became clear that Hill had a firm grasp on bringing both the noise and the funk.”
Variety
“Several of the songs from ‘Miseducation’ were substantially reworked, but Ms. Hill’s energetic delivery enabled the crowd to find familiar segments to embrace…it seemed clear that she has renewed her enthusiasm for the music on which she built her reputation.”
The Wall Street Journal
About Ms. Lauryn Hill
Cited as one of the greatest female MCs of all time, Ms. Lauryn Hill’s prolific rhymes and powerful voice catapulted her into the public eye as a member of the Fugees, whose 1996 album The Score was certified six times platinum and took home two GRAMMY Awards for Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal and Best Rap Album. In 1998, Ms. Hill established herself as a creative force as a solo artist with her now classic debut The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. The iconic work earned Ms. Hill a record-setting ten GRAMMY Award nominations, five of which she took home, including Best New Artist and Album of the Year. The album was also nominated in several categories at the NAACP Image Awards, including Outstanding Female Artist, Outstanding Album, and Outstanding Song, where she was nominated for both “Doo Wop (That Thing)” and “A Rose Is Still A Rose.” The album has appeared on countless “Best Of” lists, including Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time,” SPIN’s “Top 100 Albums of the Last 20 Years,” Vibe’s “150 Albums That Define the Vibe Era,” and the Associated Press’ “10 Best Albums of the 1990s.” The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill has sold 8 million copies worldwide. In 2002, she released MTV Unplugged No 2.0, a live album of her 2001 performance on MTV Unplugged, which was certified platinum four weeks after its release. Ms. Hill has also been recognized for her humanitarian efforts, receiving an Essence Award for her work including the 1996 founding of the Refugee Project.
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Hip-Hop, R&B and All That Jazz
Posted in ART, FASHION & LIFESTYLE, MUSIC, Music industry, THE CULTURE, UPCOMING EVENTS on January 11th, 2011 by The Dash – Be the first to commentBy Seve Chambers for wsj.com
Attendees at Saturday’s Winter Jazzfest showcase at the Sullivan Room Lounge might have been slightly confused about the name of the festival they were seeing. The showcase, called Revive Da Live, did center around jazz, presenting artists like Chico Hamilton, Marcus Strickland and Kenneth Whalum. But it also brought together artists—like Vernon Reid’s Artificial Afrika, Ben Perowsky’s Moodswing Orchestra and TK Wonder—who are mostly influenced by R&B, funk, soul and, perhaps most curiously, hip-hop.
For Meghan Stabile, the founder of Revive Music Group, the self-described “boutique live-music creative agency” that planned the show, the novelty was precisely the point.
“The future of hip-hop is jazz,” she said. “That’s where they both are headed.”
Ms. Stablile, a 28-year-old Berklee College of Music graduate, launched Revive in 2006 with the intention of uniting hip-hop artists and contemporary jazz musicians in an effort to lure a wider urban audience to the origins of popular music.
“It’s about making people recognize and appreciate this great music we have,” Ms. Stabile said. “Jazz is seen like old posters of the ’50s now. Everyone thinks of it as being photos of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and such. We want to figure out if there is a way to reach out to kids and make them interested in this again.”
With a new blog (called the Revivalist) recently launched to document the emerging jazz scene, as well as a partnership with the online hip-hop Web site Okayplayer, Ms. Stabile and the eight-person Revive team are looking for new ways to make jazz seem young again. Future plans include inviting musicians to play in public-school classrooms, but for now the group’s bread and butter is pairing artists from different genres on single performance bills. Previous Revive-produced shows have featured trumpeter Nicholas Payton with rapper Talib Kweli; bassist Esperanza Spalding with rappers Jeru the Damaja and Large Professor; and trumpeter Roy Hargrove with the late emcee Guru.
Pianist Robert Glasper plays a modern strain of jazz that leaves room for hip-hop beats and rapping
Robert Glasper, a 32-year-old jazz pianist known for his work with the hip-hop-oriented Robert Glasper Experiment, sad that the greatest obstacle in luring younger listeners to jazz is the almost elitist attitude that jazz players and listeners often have about other, younger, genres.
“There are these jazz Nazis that won’t let you change anything, and will have you think that you’re not supposed to listen to anything else other than jazz,” said Mr. Glasper, who was a main attraction for Winterfest’s Revive showcase. “But, in fact, jazz fused together from a bunch of different kinds of music—that’s what jazz is. That’s why it changed so much throughout the years.”
Ms. Stabile noted that a recent evolution can be detected in the wave of live bands being hired to play behind rappers. She cited the pairing of rapper Jay-Z and hip-hop collective the Roots for the former’s MTV ‘Unplugged’ album of 2001 as a precedent-setting event. In the years since, it has become a common sight to see artists such as Eminem and Kanye West play with bands.
“The amount of rappers having bands backing them went from zero to 30 three years ago,” Ms. Stabile said. “It’s a good thing, but then you also have to wonder, where is it going?”
For its part, Revive Music Group is giving a new generation of evolving musicians a platform to speak for themselves.
“People coming to the shows are younger,” said bassist Derrick Hodge, who played with his own quartet at Sullivan Lounge and has worked with such hip-hop and R&B stars as Maxwell and Common. “We have to be perceptive of something that is relevant to them. And it is creating a movement of its own because other people can relate to it.”