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BOLD AS LIVE! coming July 22

2007-07-18T19:22:54Z

[...] What’s kept me out of the blogosphere is that I’m launching a Black rock music series here in Brooklyn. Called BoldasLIVE, it’s a new live event platform for Black rock. I call it a platform because I envision the output of BoldasLIVE tak...

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BLUCK YOU! coming July 22

2007-07-18T16:54:58Z

[...] I would be overwhelmed with a barrage of all of those things everytime I wanted to go out and have fun seeing a band I liked. None of my friends liked the music I did so there was usually no one to go with. And no one to start bands with....

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Vibe magazine's Indie-Rock Issue

2007-07-13T19:14:30Z

Douglas Martin of Fresh Cherries From Yakima wields a guitar and wears a TV On The Radio T-shirt. Not too long ago, I was asked by a listener of Fresh Cherries from Yakima if I thought there was an African-American Indie-Rock Scene developing ...

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C'mon ride the train (choo, choo, ride it)!

2007-07-13T18:17:13Z

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Video of the Day: Djevara's "Seeks Asylum"

2007-07-02T19:00:22Z

Djevara: Official site The Gig Reviewer: Michael Freeman's "Interview with Bass from Djevara" Wikipedia: Djevara MurdochSpace: Djevara

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Great moments in blipster history, pt. 1

2007-07-01T05:35:45Z

Picture by joguldi under Creative Commons license [...] But the seemingly obligatory question I have to ask is - can negroes be hipsters? I don't think so, right? I mean the whole point is for hipsters to condescend and be hipper than everyon...

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Has increasingly become a collection of niche cultures

2007-06-22T01:38:06Z

Photo by fatal Cleopatra under Creative Commons license [...] Even today, the news media are inclined to assume that popular musicians have something to say about serious matters — and many of them do. But the fragmentation of mass culture has...

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It's rude to point. Whoops.

2007-06-19T00:41:57Z

Nothing much here, really, just a couple of things I liked reading: Ph.D candidate and author Ken Mondschein's Nerve.com essay "History of Single Life: The birth of the urban hipster" and PopMatters blog Crazed by the Music post "Betty Davis and ...

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Lightspeed Champion's "Galaxy of the Lost"

2007-06-12T20:08:28Z

(via Pitchfork)

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What distinguishes the zombie hipsters at large today from the "white Negroes" Norman Mailer describ

2007-06-11T02:23:31Z

Photo by RobK under Creative Commons license [...] Under the guise of “irony,” hipsterism fetishizes the authentic and regurgitates it with a winking inauthenticity. Those 18-to-34-year-olds called hipsters have defanged, skinned and consumed ...

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