Suheir Hammad

Red Baraat will release their new LP, Sound The People this Friday,June 29 via Rhyme & Reason. The album is now streaming via Brooklyn Vegan - downloads of Sound The People are available upon request.

Red Baraat will be releasing a new album, Sound The People on June 29 via Rhyme & Reason. Today they share the LP's title track which features vox by Heems (Das Racist). The single premiered via Stereogum who note, 'like always, Red Baraat delivers an explosion of sound...(and 'Sound The People') is a politically soaked display of energy.' The band's Sunny Jain told them, 'Heems and I met several years when he was still doing Das Racist. When Red Baraat started working on the new album, there were various ideas I had about South Asian diaspora, migration and Trump's disconcerting victory, but it hadn't all been tied together just yet. I shared all this with Heems and also sent him a couple of songs I had composed specifically thinking about his flow. The band was tracking for a few days at Studio G in Brooklyn and I asked Heems to come in and lay down a rap. He turned up in the studio and did his thing and that's when we all realized, 'Holy crap! This is the title track!' He pulled the whole album concept together with those words.' Read the full write-up here. Jain further notes, 'When we were hearing Heems deliver those lyrics we knew what our hook needed to be and Little Shalimar (Run The Jewels) helped bring the whole song together in post production'

Red Baraat are excited to announce the upcoming release of a new album, Sound The People. The LP will be released on June 29 via Rhyme & Reason, their second for the label. You can pre-order the LP or CD here. Pre-order the album now!

Following the Women's Marches around the country, Occupy and other recent protests, we ask ourselves: what next? House Divided unites artists, writers, thinkers, and politicos in a one-of-a-kind event to be held at the historic Great Hall at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art where Lincoln gave his famous address against the expansion of slavery.

Currently in its twelfth year, Journal to Journey is a pre-professional, creative youth development program of Urban Word and Hi-ARTS, designed by Creative Legacy Projects and co-presented at New York Live Arts.

Currently in its twelfth year, Journal to Journey is a pre-professional, creative youth development program of Urban Word and Hi-ARTS, designed by Creative Legacy Projects and co-presented at New York Live Arts.

New York Live Arts presents Urban Word's Journal to Journey: Flaw(ed) Less, a four-month program that culminates in a showcase performance of new solo works created by young poets, tonight and tomorrow, December 18 & 19 at 8:00pm.

New York Live Arts presents Urban Word's Journal to Journey: Flaw(ed) Less, a four-month program that culminates in a showcase performance of new solo works created by young poets, December 18 & 19 at 8:00pm.

This week at Joe's Pub, August 27 through September 2, look out for Sasha Allen, Ryan Raftery, Jared Evan, Veronica Klaus, Tori Scott, Annie and the Beekeepers, The Snow / C. Gibbs, Kate Douglas and the Imaginary Menagerie, Julia Haltigan / Rusty Belle and Saul Williams. More details below!

terraNOVA Collective is proud to announce Subterranean, a new monthly party in the D-Lounge, a 75-seat cabaret-style venue below the D?R?2 Theatre at 101 East 15th Street at Union Square, commencing on Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 10:00pm. As the newest addition to terraNOVA's residency at the D?R?2 Theatre complex, Subterranean will present a variety of performers, including spoken word, music, burlesque, magic, storytelling, short play readings, vaudeville acts and DJs.

terraNOVA Collective is proud to announce Subterranean, a new monthly party in the D-Lounge, a 75-seat cabaret-style venue below the D?R?2 Theatre at 101 East 15th Street at Union Square, commencing on Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 10:00pm. As the newest addition to terraNOVA's residency at the D?R?2 Theatre complex, Subterranean will present a variety of performers, including spoken word, music, burlesque, magic, storytelling, short play readings, vaudeville acts and DJs.

On Wednesday, October 1st, Hip-Hop Theater Festival and The Center For Multicultural Education and Programs at New York University presented 'Voices of a People's History of the United States: The Remix'! Beginning in the summer of 2000, the annual Hip-Hop Theater Festival brings together the Hip-Hop generation and those interested in learning more about it in a celebration of the Hip-Hop culture.

Hip-Hop Theater Festival and The Center For Multicultural Education and Programs at New York University will present Voices of a People's History of the United States: The Remix featuring Oscar winner and acclaimed film director Tim Robbins, Golden Globe winner Lili Taylor, Black Thought of The Roots, Hip-Hop pioneer Bobbito Garcia, award winning HBO's Def Poetry Jam on Broadway spoken word artist Staceyann Chin, political activist and HBO's Def Poetry Jam on Broadway poet Suheir Hammad, NYU student leader Joshua Xavier, and many more, in collaboration with Hip-Hop Theater Festival and NYU's Center for Multicultural Education and Programs, give a modern voice to the unsung stories surrounding our American history.

Hip-Hop Theater Festival and The Center For Multicultural Education and Programs at New York University will present Voices of a People's History of the United States: The Remix featuring Oscar winner and acclaimed film director Tim Robbins, Golden Globe winner Lili Taylor, Black Thought of The Roots, Hip-Hop pioneer Bobbito Garcia, award winning HBO's Def Poetry Jam on Broadway spoken word artist Staceyann Chin, political activist and HBO's Def Poetry Jam on Broadway poet Suheir Hammad, NYU student leader Joshua Xavier, and many more, in collaboration with Hip-Hop Theater Festival and NYU's Center for Multicultural Education and Programs, give a modern voice to the unsung stories surrounding our American history.

Kathy Bates, Jane Fonda, Marcia Gay Harden, Shiva Rose, Marian Seldes and Kerry Washington will be among the starry line-up taking part in a reading of Eve Ensler's Necessary Targets on June 12th