Wednesday, June 10, 2009 5:30PM - By Morelli
Bonnaroo 2009 has some of the biggest names in music at the head of its lineup this year, including the reunited Phish, Beastie Boys, Wilco, Snoop Dogg, Nine Inch Nails, Grizzly Bear, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Mars Volta, Animal Collective, Femi Kuti and Bruce Springsteen.
“If there was such a thing as a recession-proof lineup this year, this had to be it,” said Ashley Capps, the co-founder of Bonnaroo and president of AC Entertainment.
Enticing fans to pay $250 to $300 for tickets to the festival is no easy task, and its producers have definitely played it safe, with over 100 must-see bands spread out across six stages.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009 11:00AM - By sergiosoto
“Femi vs. KCRW Soundclash” is a strange, yet extremely engaging album. In order to understand this album as it is, you must look at its details. The songs here are remixed versions of tracks by Afrobeat forerunner, Femi Kuti (son of Fela Kuti). What KCRW, the Santa Monica based public radio station, does with the songs is hand them over to a few of their key DJs and lets them re-imagine the songs. The music does not suffer from this; rather it grows in a different direction. By the end of it, you realize that these are no longer the songs that Femi wrote; they have become a brainchild of the respective DJ.
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Friday, January 30, 2009 11:00AM - By Mali
The reigning king of Afrobeat Femi Kuti gets the remix treatment from KCRW DJs, including new Music Director Jason Bentley, as part of a unique creative collaboration between the Santa Monica-based public radio station and Mercer Street/Downtown Records. The five-song EP will be available during KCRW’s winter pledge drive January 30 through February 9 with a donation of $100 or you can win it hear on BeatCrave.
We will be giving a copy of the CD away on February 9th to one of our lucky readers. Check out the details on how to play below…
First stream the track “Tell Me (Jeremy Sole’s Musaics remix feat. Ticklah)”:
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