BAM Live at Fort Greene Park, is a free concert series that brings Brooklyn residents together for live outdoor music and performances. Produced by Danny Kapilian, this year's concerts will take place over two weekends—Saturdays and Sundays, October 1 & 2 and October 8 & 9.
From September 23 through November 30, 2022, the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) will present a major exhibition by funk music icon George Clinton. Presented in partnership with AARP, 'Boundless: The Manifestation of Self Expression' features 33 pieces of art with vibrant colors unique to the icon's eclectic style.
This week, Brooklyn Botanic Garden unveils two new birdhouses by legendary artist George Clinton made exclusively for its For the Birds exhibition. Clinton, the visual artist and musician who revolutionized music and performance in the '70s and '80s through the pioneering work of Parliament-Funkadelic, began painting birdhouses during the pandemic when he ran out of canvases to work on. Clinton's garden in Florida eventually filled with these birdhouses and become a “funk village” for the birds. This summer, Clinton created two new birdhouses for the Garden and For the Birds. Visitors can see the two new birdhouses by Clinton now on BBG's Magnolia Plaza.
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) has announced the lineup for BAM Live at Fort Greene Park, its free concert series that brings Brooklyn residents together for live outdoor music and performances.
A conceptualist like Frank Zappa, a mixologist like George Clinton, and an experimenter like Sun Ra, the Massachusetts-born, 54-year-old, Somali-American singer-songwriter named Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz, AKA Fantastic Negrito, concocted his own blues-based, psychedelic sonic stew. Inspired by his growing up on the mean streets of Oakland, CA, Negrito's music is a surreal, twilight-zonish, cosmic blend of sounds with ancient roots and hints of the future.
Cimafunk, one of music's most talked about live performers, brings his nine-piece band from Havana to Albuquerque this fall. Cimafunk is an Afro-Cuban rock star whose name refers to his heritage as a “cimarrón,” Cubans of African descent who resisted and escaped slavery, as well as to the essence of his music that aims to subvert conventional sounds with rhythmic innovation.
To herald the upcoming album's pending release, he shares the lead single and video “Let It All Go,” with visuals directed by Johnson himself. What We Do For Others marks the third studio album by the Austrian producer and synthesizer savant, famed for his singular, beautifully detailed sonic tapestries and wild, utterly live keyboard jam videos.
It’s 2022 and Richard X. Heyman is releasing 67,000 Miles An Album. The disc is a collection of brand-new songs mixed with some from a few years back,produced by Heyman, recorded at his home Kit Factory studio with drums recorded at Eastside Sound in NYC. The earlier compositions were written for The Doughboys.
Josh Hoyer And Soul Colossal announced Friday, Sept 2 at Northside Tavern.
“Garden of Eden” is the latest in a string of singles the band has released during the pandemic and is part of a bigger body of work they’ve been working on since 2019. Kalu shares the inspiration, “‘Garden of Eden’ centers around the struggles of remaining open and vulnerable in relationships, partnerships, and life.
Capturing the high energy and hilarious antics of two teenagers trying to save the burger joint where they work, GOOD BURGER was the first big screen adaptation based on characters from the Nickelodeon universe. The film was originally released on July 25, 1997 and features a fantastic ensemble cast, including Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell.
Progressive journeyman Dopapod are excited to announce the release of their seventh full album, Dopapod. The eleven tracks on the album are the sonic harvest from a period of deep creative outpouring that saw the picking up the threads of a “concept catalog,” first introduced on 2014’s Never Odd Or Even. Plus, check out upcoming tour dates!
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Allman Brothers Band's iconic Eat a Peach double album, the highly praised tribute band, Trouble No More will perform at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) on Thursday, November 3, at 7PM.
JABM is proud to bring the party to North Las Vegas with George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic's One Nation Under a Groove Tour on August 13, 2022. Iconic front-man George Clinton is still at the helm, and this time, he's bringing his friends Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Fishbone and Fantastic Negrito.
Mixed by GRAMMY-winner Adrian Quesada (Black Pumas), who transferred all of the sessions to analog tape, and mastered by Chris Longwood (Khruangbin, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic), It Starts With Love is an album for survivors, for the down and out, for the doubted and the written off.
With his new sonic experiment and journey into electric, eclectic tropicalized, funky pop music, Jose Conde re-emerges from the New York Afro Cuban music cocoon with Moog synthesizer, looper, Yamaha vintage organ, wah-wah electric guitar, acoustic and electric beats, and a slew of new signature songs on his upcoming album. Souls Alive in the 305 (out May 20th on PiPiKi Records) is Conde's ambitious second solo album recorded between Brooklyn and Miami in a five-year span produced by him with co-production help from Miami legend DJ Spam (Andrew Yeomanson).
The 2022 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival—produced by the Flynn in association with Burlington City Arts, and presented by New England Federal Credit Union—takes place June 3-12, with events all over Downtown Burlington and beyond. The Flynn will welcome Michael Mwenso, leader of the captivating band Mwenso & The Shakes and co-founder of Electric Root, and his creative partner Jono Gasparro as the curators for this year's festival.
Skyrocketing to #1 worldwide, Red Hot Chili Peppers have delivered the Biggest Rock Album in the World with their twelfth full-length offering, Unlimited Love [Warner Records]. It notably bowed at #1 on the Billboard 200, marking the group’s second #1 debut on the chart and first since 2006’s classic Stadium Arcadium.
The Houston-based band shared the official video for their album opener “Don’t Bother Me,” an electrifying declaration of independence and empowerment. Crafted in collaboration with Swedish writer/producer and longtime friend Johan Karlberg, the new single sets the stage for an album that refuses to back down from any challenge.
Yesterday, the Red Hot Chili Peppers appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to promote their latest release, their twelfth studio album. Unlimited Love [Warner Records] was released yesterday, April 1st.
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