Seattle has a long-held reputation for being the home of an important indie rock scene but over the past few years, the Pacific Northwestern city has started to develop a reputation as the home of […]
Tag: Black Up!
Comprised of the Seattle, WA-based emcee Stasia “Stas” Irons and vocalist Catherine “Cat” Harris-White the duo of THEESatisfaction first met in 2008 while they were both students at the University of Washington. As the story goes, Irons used to […]
Lese Majesty, Shabazz Palaces’s much anticipated follow up to their critically acclaimed Black Up! continues to cement the group’s reputation for being relentlessly experimental and for their focus on crafting rather intricately nuanced psychedelic soundscapes. However, […]
Afropunk Festival Day 1: 8/23/14
Afropunk Festival Commodore Barry Park, Fort Greene, Brooklyn August 23, 2014 As I mentioned in a previous post, throughout the bulk of JOVM’s history, I essentially ran the site full-time and as a side project, […]
If you really know your hip-hop and were a child of the 80s as I was, you would remember Digable Planets – after all, their debut effort Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space) was […]
Going back to his days as a member of the Grammy-winning Digable Planets. Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler has had reputation for being exceedingly different; after all, Digable Planets were one of the more unique and forward-thinking acts of […]
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 […]
Formed by Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler, once of Digable Planets flame, Shabazz Palaces manages to continue Butler’s reputation for creating a brand of hip hop that’s so unique that it uncompromisingly defies easy description or categorization. In fact, on Black Up, […]
Formed by Ishmael “Butterly” Butler, of Digable Planets flame, Shabazz Palaces continues Butler’s reputation for creating a sound that uncompromisingly defies easy description of categorization. With his collaborative partner, Baba Maraire, the sound on the band’s last release, Black Up was […]
Ishmael “Butterfy” Butler, formerly of Digable Planets has a long developed reputation for creating an uncompromising hip hop sound – one that defies easy description or categorization. His current project, Shabazz Palaces, furthers cements that […]