Our friend and the artist responsible for a handful of The Giant Peach ads that you may have seen in various issues of Juxtapoz, has posted some of his original art for sale. One of them being an original painting of the Peach Skull Ad which was in the August 2009 issue of Juxtapoz. Click here to view the pieces that are up for sale. Also visit Jason’s web-site @  www.ingoadwetrust.com while you’re at it!

Rhymesayers Presents: A Benefit For Haiti Tuesday, February 9th 2010
First Ave (701 North First Ave, Minneapolis, MN)
Hosted by Slug of Atmosphere
Performances by Brother Ali, Freeway, Sage Francis, Jake One, I Self Devine, Sims, Toki Wright, BK One, B. Dolan, Muja Messiah, Kevin Beacham, and King Otto
$20 | 18+

Tickets for the Rhymesayers presented Benefit For Haiti are officially on sale today! You can pick up tickets at the following independent record stores; Fifth Element, The Electric Fetus, Treehouse Records, Road Runner Records, Down In The Valley (Golden Valley) as well as the First Avenue box office and online through Ticketmaster!

See the crazy packaging that Brent Rollins freaked for the new Freeway release:

guessing they’ll post the other song soon…

Grouch finally stopped by to bring us his latest release, Three Eyes Off The Time (we held out so he could autograph them), and restock his character tees & hoodies.  Miss Rio also made an appearance…she shows off her new tokidoki tee and the pic she took of her dad (while he was signing the cds):

Afrobeat * Latin * Disco * Bass * Electro * Bridging the gap thru music & art.

Live performance by Chico Mann of Antibalas nyc

All Star DJs: APOLLO / SAKE ONE / J BOOGIE / SIMILAK CHYLD

Latin/Afro Dance crews + BGirls/Bboys dance to a universal break & afro/latin beat.

Live Painting & Art Show Curated by Lower Hater SF

Wed, Feb 10, 2010

$5 before 11, $10 all night 21+

Triple Crown 1760 Market St. @ Octavia SF

www.triplecrownsf.com

www.facebook.com/similakchyld

Similak Chyld is also lacin’ you up with a free mix to go along with the night.  Find it here.

This one week exhibition will showcase rare performance & behind-the-scenes images captured by cognito while accompanying Mos on the two year journey of making & supporting the June 2009 release of The Ecstatic.

Candid photographs of Mos Def, include images from visits to the Cape of Great Hope, South Africa, performing in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a powerful series of US Summer Tour “end-of-the-night posse shots” featuring such artists as Jay Electronica, Talib Kweli, Erykah Badu, and even a surprise guest appearance by the legendary Shuggie Otis. Cognito has also immortalized Mos Def in bright moments from “The Ecstatic” studio sessions with producers Madlib, OH NO, Preservation & Georgia Anne Muldrow. The photographs in this exhibit, soon to be published in book format, are offered by Mos Def to his family, friends and fans in order to share the many “ecstatic moments” he experiences while creating, recording, traveling and performing around the world.

The exhibition will be open to the public from January 30, 2010 through February 6, 2010 at the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery, located at 661 N. Spaulding Ave., Los Angeles CA, 90036; open Tuesday to Sunday, 1 – 6 pm or by appointment. (323) 655-HVW8(4898)

Dang everyone we know has been jetsetting internationally. Bamu spreading the positive vibe to the UAE at the Fujairah Monodrama Festival.

Bobbito just returned from a trip to Senegal where SEEDS Foundation invited him to coach clinics in four Senegalese cities over a three-day weekend.  It is part of its GROW THE GAME program which helps kids learn how to play ball and inspires them to choose education as a route to self-empowerment.  Read about his experience here.

If you didn’t get a chance to attend the Youth Run 4 Haiti, you can still help out by purchasing a Help Haiti tokidoki leopard shirt (as seen on Josh Duhamel) for $25.  All proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross.  Both men’s and women’s shirts are available at the Melrose tokidoki store and online here.