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Sound Check's Blog Posts Tagged 'Word' (3)
Living Colour founder Vernon Reid talks to us about the upcoming Sekou Sundiata career retrospective. #SoundCheck
Vernon Reid is the legendary guitarist of the band Living Colour and the founder of the Black Rock Coalition. He'll be performing as part of a retrospective of the career of the late great poet, performer, and teacher Sekou Sundiata at the…
Added by Sound Check on April 22, 2013 at 7:30am — 2 Comments
INTERVIEW: Femi The DriFish Wades Into New Music Frontier
Femi The DriFish started doing spoken word in the mid-90’s but recently switched over to his more alternative sound where his poetic skills still resound. He has shared the stage with KRS-ONE three times, traveled with Raheem Devaughn during the Slaminomics tour in the early 2000s, and opened for Saul Williams. Femi started to explore and evolve his own artistic imprint with Clown Without a Circus,…
Added by Sound Check on February 28, 2012 at 11:30am — 1 Comment
Patti Smith Instigates The Weight of the "Rock n' Roll Nigger'
“Nigger no invented for color it was MADE FOR THE PLAGUE the word (art) must be redefined-all mutants and the new babes born sans eyebrow and tonsil-outside logic-beyond mathematics poli-tricks baptism and motion sickness-any man who extends beyond the classic for is a nigger-one sans fear and despair-one who rises like rimbaud beating hard gold rhythm outta soft solid shit-tongue light is coiling serpent is steaming spinal avec ray gun hissing scanning copper head w/… Continue
Added by Sound Check on February 23, 2011 at 2:30pm — 40 Comments
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