del, acey & lyrics born at the Red Bull Em See “Road to 8 Mile” Rap Battle Event last night in SF

Pics from LB, like him on Facebook.

We’re just hella busy.  Like shipping out stuff to people on tour.  Reminder: Aesop this weekend in Wisconsin!

Is on our Facebook page.  Hop over…

We’ll be closed on Monday, so all orders will go out on Tuesday.  Have a safe 4th!

(msg from Nasa):

I had the rare treat of a sit down audio interview with him for my podcast, Uncommon Radio in early 2007.  We talked about the beginnings of hip-hop, the evolution of his career and played a bunch of his music including some stuff that was not released at the time.  He also dropped a super abstract freestyle at the end of the show.

I’m proud to have gotten the chance to talk with him and with him gone now, I thought this would be a good way for younger generations to now find out more about him.

peace, nasa.

Check it out here:

http://uncommonradio.libsyn.com/2007/04

I also wrote a blog post about my day with him doing the show here:

http://www.uncommonmusic.net/theprogblog/2010/6/30/my-day-with-the-rammellzee-rip.html

Details are sketchy, but it is being reported that Rammellzee has passed away.  A serious innovator, you can see some of his more recent work and philosophy on his site, Gothic Futurism. Condolences to his friends and family.

Souls of Mischief this week:

JUNE 29 BOISE @ The Reef, 105 South 6th St, Boise, ID 83702
JUNE 30 SALT LAKE CITY @ Bar Deluxe, 668 South State St., Salt Lake City, UT
JULY 1 DENVER @ The Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St, Denver, CO 80205
JULY 2 SANTA FE @ The Santa Fe Brewing Company, 35 Fire Place, Santa Fe, NM 87508

Warning: it’s super shakey…but some footage of Kashmere Stage Band from their performance on Sat at the L.A. Film Festival.  Check Soul-sides.com for info about their documentary, Thunder Soul.  Check out some of their (re) releases here.

Shadow’s footage from the world premiere of the film at this year’s SXSW:

On the anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death, Aloe Blacc offers up a soulful, bluesy version of “Billie Jean”. R.I.P., MJ.

20 years have passed since the Groove Merchant record store opened up on Haight Street in San Francisco and became the launch pad for the Ubiquity family of labels: Luv N’Haight, CuBop and Ubiquity.

The label will be celebrating this anniversary in multiple ways including an art exhibit at Guerilla Art Cafe in Berkeley opening June 25th, 2010. The show will focus on a handful of the Bay Area funk and soul artists whose music has been re-issued on the Luv N’Haight label. The art show will include paintings of, and inspired by, Darondo, Eugene Blacknell, Sugarpie Desanto, and Twilight, the latest addition to the Luv N’Haight family. The Guerilla Cafe art collective will be painting, and a video montage of vintage footage will be created by Ubiquity Recordings artist Ohmega Watts. Throughout the length of the show Guerilla will be hosting special events featuring guest appearances by the musicians and DJ sets playing their sounds.

OPENING RECEPTION
FRIDAY, JUNE 25
5-9PM

GUERILLA CAFE
1620 SHATTUCK AVE.
BERKELEY, CA 94709

and…

SATURDAY, JUNE 26

Fatsouls and On The One present: Classique
PROJECT ONE
251 Rhode Island St @ 16th St.
9PM-2AM
$5 RSVP / $10 Door

A special one off event celebrating and spinning the deep and jazzy vibes of the classique San Francisco club scene with special DJ selectors:

Andrew Jervis (Ubiquity Records)
Paul Craven (On The One/Le Jazz Hot NYC)
Capitol A (2000black/Galaxy Group)
Said (Fatsouls Records/We & The Music)

CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE