I recently looked into Sly & Robbie’s back catalog which included a collaboration with the Rolling Stones (“Too Much Blood” on 1983′s “Undercover” album). This made me revisit several of my favorite Stones albums as well.
While doing this, I reencountered “Too Rude” from 1986′s “Dirty Work” album – a song which features lead vocalist Keith Richards and which is closer to ‘roots reggae’ than “Too Much Blood” (despite Sly & Robbie’s involvement in the latter). Here’s a very nice 1988 version by Keith Richards & his Expensive Winos:
I’ve been lucky enough to be able to listen to an advance copy of N.A.S.A.‘s album Spirit Of Apollo which will be released in the U.S. on February 17, 2009 (according to Amazon.com), and in Germany on February 13, 2009 (according to Amazon.de).
According to its label Anti, >> N.A.S.A is an ongoing creative collaboration between two lifelong music aficionados, Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon, and their friends, friends of friends and musical heroes. While N.A.S.A. stands for North America/South America and contains a number of superstar artists from both coasts of the US, it is about as far from a tension-building geographical showdown as a record can get. (weiterlesen…)
Liebe HipHop-Aficionados in Mannheim, Frankfurt/M., München und Wien,
wenn ihr am Sonntag, 7. Dezember 2008 (Mannheim), am Montag, 8. Dezember (Frankfurt/M.), am Dienstag, 9. Dezember (München), oder am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember (Wien), noch nichts vor und um die 30 Euro übrig habt, dann schaut euch unbedingt Public Enemy an. Karten gibt’s beim Kartenhaus. (weiterlesen…)
