Sunday May 9th
the BLOCK ASSOCIATION invites you to…
“ROCK & BOWL” -Bowling Party w/ concert
@ Brooklyn Bowl – 61 Wythe Ave, (btwn N.11th & N.12th St.)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn (L train to Bedford Ave.)
6pm-12am (or beyond)
Showtime 8pm
Performing Live: Game Rebellion, Melene, + Man On Earth
Hosted by Silky Valente’
FREE ADMISSION!
Music by the BLOCK HEADS
(the M Report, the Ahficionados, & Soundproof Intl.)
Yes, it’s THAT serious!
D.R. and Blitz the Ambassador will be doing their respective things next week at Le Poisson Rouge for the Almost Famous concert series hosted by our homie Che Guerilla.
Here’s an official unofficial fanboy video for D.R.’s ‘Fake Patois’…
Das Racist – ‘Fake Patois’ from dallas penn on Vimeo.
Living in New York City you have to be rich as hell just to be poor. Anywhere else people would feed you handpicked grapes and cool your brow with giant feather fans. Not in this glam capital. What was once the grittiest city is on the level of Tokyo or Paris when you consider how far your dollar goes.
Unlike Tokyo or even Paris tho’ is the fact that NYC has culture oozing from the cracks in the sidewalks. No time is this more evident than during the summer. This is when the museums and parks will be packed to the racks. Of all the events that go down in the city’s summer season nothing is better than the Central Park Summerstage.
Celebrating it’s 25th year in operation, the Central Park Summerstage is a concert series that features major artists along with up and coming talent. Best of all… It’s free. Yes, FREE.99! This year boast one of their most impressive Hip-Hop lineups evar. Jay Electronica, Public Enemy, EPMD, Big Daddy Kane, Pharoahe Monch, Doug E. Fresh, Brand Nubian and so many more artists are on the schedule.
The R-n-B lineup will be just as satisfying with acts like Raphael Saadiq, Chrissette Michelle, Jon B, Ryan Leslie and Aloe Blacc.
The Central Park Summerstage will also host the reunion of Living Colour. If you are real then you will recognize real and acknowledge the greatness of this rock band. Gil Scott-Heron is on the schedule with two(2) dates as well. My advice to you is pretty simple… Go to the City Parks Foundation Central Park Summstage website to check the full season schedule and plan your summer around these free shows.
Going back to Philly, Philly, Philly…
I’m going back to Philly.
Hmmmm, yeah I think so.
The Roots annual picnic is going down in Phillytown again during the first weekend in June. Along with the hardest working band of all time and the Money Makin’ Jamboyz on stage this year’s event will also host rap retro-futurists Das Racist.
Along with those acts the lineup for the show is stacked: performances from Mayer Hawthorne, The Clipse, The Very Best, Tune-Yards, Bajah + The Dry Eye Crew, Pattern is Movement, a special set with DJ Jazzy Jeff and Vampire Weekend headlining.
Last year’s picnic brought in Public Enemy to perform their greatest hits while the Roots crew held them down. The chatter is that this year’s picnic will look to be just as epic with some surprise guests on tap. You need to run, walk, drive, hop a bus or take a plane to Philly for this event.
The best part is that you could end up going to Philadelphia for free courtesy of the Philly 360° Roots Picnic Getaway Contest. Here’s what you get str8 laced with…
Just click on the tab in the sidebar to enter yourself in the contest.
All of you winners need to holler at the kid so we can hang out at the show.
Here’s the part of our program where you were in the right place at the right time…
I have three(3) DVD’s of the Wachowski brother’s feature film ‘Speed Racer’ to give to the first three DP.commenters on this thread. I fuxed with the film in theatres a couple of times. I liked it that much. I think you will too especially if you ever watched the classic cartoon.
Go Speed Racer, goooooooo!