Posted on 05/22/2008

The first time I really checked for Janelle Monáe was, like many other 'players, when Ms. Erykah Badu popped into The Lesson and made a post co-signing Monáe's talent.  It's not everyday that analoguegirl feels compelled to big-up another artist, so I wiped off my ear-buds and I gave her a listen.  I had heard her before, first on the Purple Ribbon All-Star's Compilation Got Purp? Volume 2...

Posted on 05/20/2008
A powerful vortex touched down in D.C. a mere 4 bocks from the White House Thursday night (May 15). Performing on the second night of a two-night stint, (both shows were sold out), Low Down Loretta Brown swung through Constitution Hall with thunder of epic proportions! Digital City was not ready for all of that analog. You feel me?

Posted on 05/16/2008
Biased as it is, I have a soft spot for Black art that hits the big time. Suddenly, poetry I wouldn’t have paid twelve bucks for at Nuyorican Poets Café becomes wildly entertaining as Def Poetry on Broadway. Even A Raisin in the Sun starring Diddy touched me (once I stopped vomiting) because it’s so rare to see any Black people on Broadway anymore, much less all Black casts. So...

Posted on 05/14/2008

On Monday The Roots taped a special VH1 Soul Sessions show in mid-town Manhattan.  I was on hand to snap a few photos, but mostly I was on baby-duty.  (Big thanks to Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage for Vh1 Soul for the 1st five photos in this article).  Whenever anyone in the band has one of their little ones in town, it usually falls on me or Goodtimegirl to babysit during the show. ...