Reintroducing Ruby
Fresh from a trip to the Philippines, Ruby comes back to Brooklyn with a brand new website, a hot video, and a curriculum for changing the world.
The Bay: Elements (w/George Watsky, The GetBack, Trackademicks, Senbei & Lunchbox Theory)
Because we just can’t stay away, here’s yet another update on our extinguished comrades from the State of Low Budgets.
The Bay: Rediscovered
The holidays are over and it’s time to fly back to the snow…but let’s make a visit to some of Cali’s finest, including Bambu, Do DAT, Hopie Spitshard, and The Jealous Guys.
The Getback premiers Get:Live Sessions with Netta Brielle & Nio Tha Gift
Spotlighting some of freshest the Bay has to offer, the Get:Live series is a powerful entry for the young music world…the best example of what technology and creative genius can do.
Aja Monet's "Scared to Make Love, Scared Not To" is a brave step forward
People don’t realize how difficult it is to make a good spoken word track. The emotion that runs through a room with poetry present is impossible to replicate. It is a transdimensional experience, where the writing and performance are as important as the wails from the audience, buzz of the speakers, feedback from the microphone, [...]
Blue Scholars: Coffee & Snow 2
Been spending the better part of my morning getting over my post-Thanksgiving hangover by watching Blue Scholars’ road videos. There might be some style-biting going on in the future. Sabzi, you’re a funny motherlover.
Catching up with Ruby
Much like Bedstuy and the rest of the world, I exist in my own beautiful dichotomy- a fly girl activist excited by grassroots movements as much as I am by red carpet glamour, speaking of the United Nations and Nicki Minaj in the same conversations, reading bell hooks and Vogue Magazine in the same sitting, [...]
A word with Beau Sia
What can I really say about Beau Sia? He has certainly been one of the most influential artists in my life – not only because he was one of the first Asian American poets that I was introduced to, but because the past few years he has demonstrated an openness as a guide, teacher, and [...]
Siaira Shawn sounds "Like a Star"
Oakland songstress Siaira Shawn dropped by last August to record some vocals for our iB4the1.2 project, I haven’t been able to take the tracks off my rotation. And lucky us, she has decided to present a series of covers guerilla-stylee on YouTube. This week’s installment is Corinne Bailey Rae’s “Like a Star.” Check out her [...]
Bloggity for Obama
I was recently tapped by some of my homies at the DNC and Organizing for America to lay down some design chops for their “internal” Tumblr entitled This Is How We Win – a rolling collection of inspirational clips and quotes to keep their folks amped up throughout the strenuous weeks leading up to this [...]
