Posted on 07/11/2008
"The New West Movement"- this is a term that gets thrown around a lot these days to categorize all of the young and up-and-coming talent out of that region. In reality, this movement isn't new at all. High quality Hip-Hop has always been a part of Cali's music scene, and the rest of the world is just now catching up. You can argue about when it began and who is included in it, but...

Posted on 07/09/2008
It was my master plan to write about the awesome Afro-Punk films altogether later in the week, but the New York City premiere of I'm Through with White Girls (The Inevitable Undoing of Jay Brooks), written by Courtney Lilly, made me change my mind. A romantic comedy that's not as centered around the title as you may think, "I'm Through with White Girls" is a literate tale of two misfits...

Posted on 07/07/2008
This past Saturday Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood hosted the kick-off to the Afro-Punk Festival (click for a full schedule), a week long event filled with concerts, films, out-door festivities, live painting, a full on skate park, and more.  The afro-punkers transformed an empty parking lot situated next to the Brooklyn Academy of Music into a skate park and concert area, and throughout the day skaters and bmxers were...

Posted on 07/03/2008
Okay.  This story is too big for us not to cover and we don't run your typical type of blog where we just post everything one at a time as it comes.  For those of you who read the blogs religiously, most (not all) of this might be considered old news.  However, you know we always put our OkayTwist on everything we do which often means giving you perspectives directly...