Shabazz Palaces continues Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler’s (of Digable Planets) reputation for creating a sound that uncompromisingly defies easy description or categorization. With his collaborative partner, Baba Maraire, the sound on the band’s last release, Black Up was psychedelic, kaleidoscopic and […]
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Afrofuturism is an emerging movement consists of an aesthetic look, feel and sound that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, Afrocentrism, magic realism and frequently non-Western cosmology to comment and critique the plight of […]
Before the 2013 release of their debut effort, Midcity, the Los Angeles, CA-based hip-hop trio of clipping, which consists of Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson never expected to find much of an audience […]
