New Album FINISHED!
Posted on December 11, 2007
it’s been 2 years of hustling, writing, working, blood, sweat, and tears; but it’s finally DONE!
it is my great pleasure to introduce (drumroll please…… .)
The Weapon of the Future, by Beltaine’s Fire
This is my 6th album and the first with my band. it’s taken more then double the time of any of my solo albums and i think that shows. it’s 14 tracks, all-original, all-the-way- live, and lots of other adjectives. Basically this is my favorite thing that i’ve ever done musically, period. and i am so fucking proud of everyone who’s been involved in this long crazy proccess I can’t even really describe it.
respect to all, and special thank-you’s to all my bandmates, to davin and the folks at expressions for hooking us up with recording time, to everybody’s that come out to our shows or sent emails to say they like the music, and to humanity in general because I’m just feeling that good right now.
and, one more time in case you didn’t catch it before, you can get the album at http://beltainesfire.com It’s for sale on a pay-what-you- want basis. so check it out, throw some money in the bucket if you like it, and tell a friend.
allright. that’s about it. thanks for listening, I hope ya’ll enjoy it.
Lynx
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Jay Z on Violence, Racism, and Censorship
Posted on December 10, 2007
Jay Z just did a new interview where he focusses on racism in the media and poverty in black communities. Jigga is an interesting character to me in that on the one hand he’s a poster boy for the bling crowd, but at the same time he seems far more willing to speak on serious issues like this then just about anyone else in the mainstream, this isn’t the first time he’s spoken on these issues and it probably won’t be the last. To me that speaks to a certain level of integrity in that – even though he’s obviously in a very different place from someone like me ideologically – he’s got enough respect for himself and the community he comes from that he’s not going to let the spotlight silence him when he wants to speak out on something.
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big pimpin’
Posted on August 11, 2007
it’s not often any more, but occasionally I run across something that reminds me of how much i love hip hop, despite all the bastards selling snake oil and exploitation in it’s name. this video right here gave me one of those moments.
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the artist is J. Medeiros from the Procussions. He’s signed to Rawkus, and – you’ll love this – when his label sent this video to MTV it was rejected for being “too controversial”. So wait a second here, MTV sees nothing at all controversial about glorifying the shit out of a million fake pimps who glorify exploiting women but when someone finally makes a video about what being a Pimp actually means THEN they get all sensitive and say the subject is controversial? Typical. And the label, of course, isn’t even interested in standing up for the artist. fortunately we’ve got a way around ‘em now and you can get the video live and direct on your web browser.
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