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Shaolin Jazz presents "The Gil Scott Suite" (free download)

This 3-song EP is the latest from the Shaolin Jazz team

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VIDEO: Saul Williams — "Explain My Heart"

Saul primes the pump for the release next month of “Volcanic Sunlight”

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VIDEO: Muthawit featuring Boston Fielder — "Wasted (Fill My House With Salt)"

The new video from Muthawit featuring Boston Fielder!

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Post-Festival Highlights

Some highlights from an all-around amazing day. And you all had a lot to do with it being a success.

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TOMORROW: Chat w/ Fishbone on Facebook–4PM

The Fishbone doc kicks off its NYC theatrical run with an au courant Facebook chat! Details here

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LISTENING POST: Kendra Ross — "Strange Fruit" (for Troy Davis)

Kendra Ross offers her take on a timeless classic, done in the wake of Troy Davis’s execution.

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Festival Update: Speakers and fundraising

We’ve stepped out on faith: The Festival is coming together, but we definitely need your support during our fundraising drive. See how you can help!

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REVIEW: Colin Grant's "The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Wailer"

A new, triple biography illuminates the early lives and influences of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer

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UPCOMING: Just A Band's 1st US show–August 25

The Kenyan Afro-electro-pop trio makes their US debut. Analogue Transit opens. Hot, right? Find out how to win tickets!

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UPCOMING: 24-7 Spyz @ Highline Ballroom–August 6

As ever in NYC, there’s lots of music happening.  This Thursday, it’s Sandra St. Victor’s “Naked & Lovely” set.  Then, you can return to the Highline on Saturday for Spyz. Not only do you get Jimi Hazel, Rick Skatore and Tobias Ralph, but you get the first-ever reunion of the Strength In Numbers lineup that [...]

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GOOD READS: #TrayvonMartin Around The Web

So much conversation–and now maybe some justice–for this young man.

GOOD READ: Charles Blow on the Trayvon Martin case

Will an innocent black boy get justice?

What’s Race Got To Do With It?

The antidote to the country’s first black president

Why Is The N.Y.P.D. After Me?

A 23-year-old New Yorker talks about having been stopped and frisked by NYPD at least five times.

The Rise of the New Confederacy: How America-Hating Right-Wingers Took Over The GOP

Those on the extreme right are different. Here’s how and why.

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