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April 2009

Dutty Geisha

My girls over at Wrong Lips did a lil write up about SAKIR aka Dutty Geisha on their blog last month. When I read the post I was immediately drawn to her crafty, sophisticated, funky jewelry that I just had to get me some! Unfortunately the link on Wrong Lips wasn’t working but SAKIR saw [...]

Black Blondie Album Release Tomorrow Night!

Two years in the making Black Blondie is finally releasing their debut full-length album, Do You Remember Who You Wanted To Be, which has proven to be anything but disappointing. The album is filled with intense emotions of story telling on themes such as self-examination, loss and love along with a wide range of [...]

Sarah White-”I Wanna Be With You”

Sarah White moved to New York City from Minneapolis almost two years ago to get her solo career rolling. White has been on the grind day and night while building up her name. She’s been working with amazing artists, released a solo EP and won the Scion Vocalist contest! We Love you mama! FiveSixPromo [...]

Martha Cooper In Chicago

When I found out my boyz store (Novem) was going to host Martha Coopers book tour date in Chicago I was extremely excited! He kept sayin’ it’s not 100% yet. A couple weeks ago he confirmed and I bought my ticket this week. I will be headin to Chicago on May 1st and then straight to [...]

Making Music with Black Blondie

Photograph by France Barbeau
Tonight the Whole Music Club hosts another installment of Making Music, a series of interviews with short performances by local musicians started by James G. Everest. Black Blondie will be the second in the hot seat tonight of the 2009 series. The three ladies will be conversing about growing up, writing [...]

Scion Art Installation 5 in Minneapolis Now

If you missed the opening party of the Installation 5 series at Rogue Buddha this past Friday make sure you check out the show before it’s off to it’s next city on April 25th. The tour traveling across the United States to nine different cities and will end up in LA where all the art [...]

Stones Throw DJ Tour Coming to MPLS

Fresh off a successful tour of Europe, PB Wolf, Dam-Funk, Mayer Hawthorne & James Pants are now touring the states & Canada. This is not strictly a “DJ Tour” - James Pants is performing with his band Royal Zodiac, and Mayer Hawthorne will be performing a few songs as well.
4/21: Los Angeles @ Echoplex (Dam-Funk, [...]

UPDATES!

For some reason I’m having some issues with my server and my PHP sheet. I updated the concerts in MPLS and I’ve been trying for the past couple of hours trying to figure out why it is not updating on the site. I’m going to just walk away now and work on this PSA poster.

Gangsta Girl?

I was asked by Stack Duckets to make a tee shirt that was girly but gangsta. I sat down with my sketchbook and came up with a few ideas but settled on this one. Now this is only a sketch and I still have some work to do but it’s going to be on a [...]

HIATUS! Part Duce

Yo! I know I said back in Feb that I was going to step up my game on this website—obviously that didn’t happen. Sorry! I just scanned in some fresh type treatments that I will swap out on a few of the headers and I got some great projects I’m working on that I’ll also [...]

FLOSSAHOLICS

Currently in production, Flossaholics is the lastest project that C-Rocka is kickin' out. This will be a quarterly publication that is anything but typical! Flossaholics is made up of the main subject or theme's 10 essentials, the things s/he just can't live without. Be on the look for the print piece soon to be out along with one sick mix that WHUTNUT DJ and C-Rocka put together.

LOUDER THAN BOMBS

Louder Than Bombs has been throwing some of the freshest parties since May 2007. With the backing and support of the label Black Corners, Louder Than Bombs was created by Jon Jon Scott and Christina "C-Rocka" Rimstad. Read more here.

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