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: Lese Majesty
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, […]
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, […]
If you’ve followed this site over the past couple of years in particular, you’d know that I’ve written about the Seattle, WA-based hip-hop act, Shabazz Palaces on a number of occasions. After all, the group […]
In a recent NPR interview about their latest effort, Lese Majesty, Shabazz Palaces’s Ishmael Butler offered a challenge to contemporary emcees and hip-hop artists. At one point, the former Digable Planet said, “This endeavor that […]
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 […]