Nunu chops it up with Tanika Charles before her performance at this year’s Manifesto. Thanks T. You’re dope outside of the studio also. Lol.
I had the pleasure of meeting someone I’ve always heard about, but never knew a damn about her, or what she looked like. Ain’t that crazy? After speaking with Ms. Tanika Charles, I left with a feeling of having obtained some sense of purpose in life. She is of ‘good peoples’ who make beautiful music. To know that I have let you know a little about Tanika, makes me feel just a little better about myself. GetTOknow Tanika Charles.
The concept behind the project is to create collaborative, single take performance videos that we shoot on location. Away from stages and studios and mixing boards and effects processors. Just raw, usually unplugged, stripped down music. Our focus is to collaborate with local musicians, to help connect them with a wider audience and also to help the audience that’s hungry for more independent and raw music find talent they are unfamiliar with. We also want to work with more established artists, to help them show a different side then what the mainstream is used to seeing.
E continues her promo grind for the album At Last which is available now!
She looks like the girl next door but she sounds like she’d knock your teeth out.
Quick-tongued hip-hop artist Silk Kaya, who performs as Eternia, has a knack for rhymes and said she found a home in Astoria four years ago after responding to a craigslist ad.
Since then she has earned a record deal and recently filmed a series of short music videos titled “Queens Chronicles” in which she offers a glimpse into the neighborhood she fell in love with.
“It picked me, I didn’t pick it. It was kind of fate,” Kaya said. “What it’s become to me is a family, a neighborhood, a home, and a place that I don’t want to leave.
New music/visuals from artist on the come-up Geek. Song’s called “You’re Safe”.
This dude gets my attention for having the audacity to: (a) give himself the name he did and (b) assert the style lane he’s applying to his brand. There’s so many ways those two things make him an easy target for non-believers but he seems to have the confidence to roll with it. And with a sound that seems like a cross between Akon and The Dream we’ll see how far he can take it (salute).
The Remix Project is now accepting applications for their 7th semester.
The Remix Project is a youth-led urban arts organization focused on the individual, while building a strong and healthy community. They have 3 streams of programming:
Recording Arts (for the singers, rappers, poets, producers and engineers) Creative Arts (for graphic designers, fashion designers, journalists, illustrators, video/film and creative writers) NEW! The Art of Photography (for the photographers)
Each of these streams accepts 10 young people between the ages of 16–22 for a total of 30 participants per 6 month semester. These 30 work with their program leader in their chosen stream to design a 6 month curriculum around getting out their dreams.
To see The Remix Project in action, check out the video segment from Global TelevisionHERE.
Download and apply here theremixproject.ca. Send completed apps to remixapplications@gmail.com
Element, Shiera Aryev and producer Drasko V put together an interesting 3 movement hip-hop piece called “Saving Me”. The joint’s off his upcoming EP set for a March 2011 release.
