The Morning After Comic-Con
Black Dynamite Sound Orchestra on FOX 5 in San Diego!
The Black Dynamite Sound Orchestra plays for its toughest audience yet: Stormtroopers.
Inside the Archer Record Pressing Plant with Invincible + Waajeed
Follow the Detroit hip-hop duo Invincible + Waajeed as they tour the Archer Record Pressing plant and watch their debut 7-inch, “Detroit Summer,” get pressed.
Melvin Bliss
by Matt Rogers
Photo by Matt Rogers
Over the years, I’ve met many older, bitter singers and musicians who have had their work sampled throughout the world, and though they may be grateful that their art has been re-utilized and (just maybe) recognized by later generations, they would have always been happier to have cashed a check here and there. Melvin Bliss was not one of the bitter ones. read more »
Embark with the Arkestra
From the mind of producer/arranger/composer Ed Bland comes The Cry of Jazz, an unclassifiable, partially-scripted film that examines race relations and jazz in 1950s America. Finished in 1958 and released the following year, Cry is “the first hip-hop film,” according to Bland.
