Photographer and former bartender Sheldon Nadelman shot hundreds of photos during his ten-year stint at New York’s seedy Terminal Bar. This is his son’s documentary about his father’s experience and the customers who visited. A lot of our Saturday Matinée features have a 70s blaxploitation slant and this week’s example slots right in. Between 1972 …
The second episode of RBMA’s “Sounds Like…” series, featuring TOKiMONSTA, is our Saturday Matinée feature presentation. Ever wanted to know what your favourite producers do to get their sound? RBMA have you covered. “Sounds Like” is a series from Red Bull Music Academy and AKG about innovative musicians and their musical processes. The first episode featured BADBADNOTGOOD and special guest …
The Mack is our Saturday Matinée feature presentation this week, starring Max Julien as a drug dealer who later becomes a pimp lord.
Nicolay’s RBMA lecture from Barcelona 2008 is our Saturday Matinée feature presentation this week. I’m a bit of a RBMA lecture junkie, to the point where I’ve saved them all to Watch Later on Vimeo. One of them is Nicolay’s lecture from Barcelona 2008 and in it, he discussed the humble beginnings of The Foreign …
Before punk even existed, three brothers from Detroit formed a band in their spare bedroom, moving from R&B to rock. A Band Called Death tells their story.
RJD2 discusses his record collection, his love of records about Philly, and why he thinks the experience of vinyl will die out with his generation in the latest episode of Crate Diggers. In one of the most insightful and profound episode of Crate Diggers so far, RJD2 joined the illustrious list of record collectors and …
Relive moments from the Civil Rights America and the Black Power Movement through the eyes of Swedish journalists in The Black Power Mixtape.
Grammy award-winning super producer 9th Wonder steps out of the studio and into the classroom with James Peterson and Professor Mark Anthony Neal to talk about one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time, the impact it made, and much more in this week’s edition of Saturday Matinée. If you’re talking about hip-hop these …
Get some hip hop knowledge from this week’s Saturday Matinée where KRS One discusses philosophy and hip hop’s origins. New listeners to hip hop have the disadvantage of having a culture and its music forced down its throat by the media with little or no links to its past heritage. That’s not to say all …
Erykah Badu’s RBMA lecture at their Madrid 2011 event is our Saturday Matinée feature presentation. She might have spoken at the New York event this year but back in 2011, Erykah Badu gave a RBMA lecture in Madrid (hosted by Now Again Records owner Egon). The “Queen of Neo Soul” touched upon a number of …