“Getting in a room and being really noisy is just a natural response to what’s going on right now, because otherwise you’ll just go crazy. That gave Live Skull a reason to exist again.” – Mark C Artist: Live Skull Title: Party Zero Formats: CD/LP/digital Label: Bronson Records Genre: No Wave, Experimental, Noise Rock, Alternative Rock Stream and […]
Text by Dawoud Kringle The music world was shocked to hear of the passing of Tina Turner. Born Anna Mae Bullock in Brownsville TN and raised in Nutbush, TN, on November 26, 1939, she began her interest in singing with the church choir at Nutbush’s Spring Hill Baptist Church. She first saw Ike Turner (who, […]
An Editorial by Dawoud Kringle – originally published in Dawoud’s Soapbox – reprinted by permission (https://dawoudtherenegadesufi.substack.com/p/the-ais-are-coming?sd=pf) Remember those sci-fi movies about thinking machines? It’s not fiction anymore. It’s here and it’s changing our world forever. For those few of you who are unaware, artificial intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence in machines. The goals […]
Text by Dawoud Kringle We were just beginning to recover from the news of the passing of Wayne Shorter and Harry Belafonte. Then another iconic musician is called home, reminding us of the fragility of life, and how the age many of us grew up with is drawing to a close. Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist […]
Text by Dawoud Kringle American musician, actor, and activist Harry Belafonte has died. Belafonte was a popular and well respected singer and actor. His more famous songs included “Day-O,” and “Jamaica Farewell.” His roles in movies such as Carmen Jones, Island in the Sun, and White Man’s Burden cemented his place among the great American […]
