Dance

A Lady in Hip-Hop: A Musing on the Dance Scene

I realize that I’ve never introduced myself, despite the fact that I started at The 5th back in August. My name is Noelle Marie and I am a freestyle dancer repping Femme de la Funk, Homeland, and International House of Artistic Punking. I used to run my own blog titled “A Lady in Hip Hop,” in […]

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Video

Peep This: The Internet Stops by NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert

The Internet’s 2015 “Ego Death” marks the band’s coming of age record into presenting a brand of refreshing neo-soul and R&B thought to be lost in the rising wave of one-man production teams and drum machines. The band has long built a reputation for precise and stellar musicianship under Matt Martian’s stead, backed by a […]

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DJ

Jam On It: Kaytranada BBC 1 Residency 5/5/15 Mix

With the large influx of DJs out there, it’s a true gem when we find a dude that just seems to get it: possessing an eclectic taste of music that encompasses past, present and future and can find the common thread and weave them all interchangeably. Kaytranada is definitely one of those DJs, and his […]

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Events, Media, Video

Peep This: 7 Days of Funk – “Hit Da Pavement”

  Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dam-Funk are at the ‘doh… err the streets of LA, in the newest video release following the previous house party “Faden Away” video. True to D-O-double-G fashion, the two cruise around low and slow in Snoopzilla’s baby blue Lincoln Continental, not veering too far from Snoop’s glorious Doggystyle days. Not […]

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DJ, Emcee, Media

Jam On It: Snoop Dogg & Dam-Funk – Faden Away

Forget that Fall season is upon us, because perpetual proprietors of the G-Funk establishment, Snoop Lion Dogg and Dam-Funk, have just put out a track that’s just dripping in so much top-down-sun-shinin’-pourin’-up vibes, that you’d swear we were in the middle of July still.  A match that we should have seen coming, the Doggfather and […]

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DJ, Emcee, Issues, Media

The Friday Five

Earlier this week, the musical world mourned the loss of legendary keyboardist, George Duke.  A virtuoso of his craft and a luminary figure in music for decades, Duke was a master of composition and an absolute musical maven.  Not surprisingly for a man of his talents, George Duke has worked with the likes of Miles […]

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DJ, Emcee, Lifestyle, Media

The Friday Five

Last night for dinner I had these new waffle battered chicken tenders at Popeye’s.  Now just on paper, the concept alone blows me away already – I mean let’s just bypass the whole “AND” part of chicken and waffles and fry it in some waffle batter!  Wylin’.  Stoners must really be joining the culinary ranks […]

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Events, Lifestyle

RECAP: 70’s SOUL JAM

Sorry.  I underestimated LA traffic.  An hour from Costa Mesa on a Sunday afternoon is definitely not enough time to get to the Greek Theatre.  This being said, I missed a few acts for the 70’s Soul Jam on July 14th, 2013.  But, in the almost two hours it took to get there, I must’ve […]

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Emcee, Issues, Lifestyle, Media

The Friday Five

TGIF, people.  It’s probably the best acronym known to man.  Though AYCE and DTF could make strong cases.  Now if both AYCE and DTF are somehow incorporated into your Friday, well then my friends, TGIF indeed.  To the tenth power.  And who knows, any one of the songs on this week’s Friday Five couple possibly […]

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Emcee, Lifestyle, Media

The Friday Five 6/14/13

I have been running around this whole week singing to myself, “Oh-oh, luxury.  Chitty-ching-ching could buy anything.  Cop that oh-ohhhh!”  I promise that new “Collard Greens” joint from Schoolboy Q and Kendrick Lamar is as tasty to your ears as its title suggests.   But besides that, we’ve got some other feel good tracks that […]

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Media

JAM ON IT: MAYER HAWTHORNE – DESIGNER DRUG

After Easter Sunday comes #MayerMondays, and it’s one funky egg.  They say love is a helluva drug, and Mr. Hawthorne agrees that nothing competes and offers up his newest track for free.  I swear I’m the only one who came to work today, but that just makes it easier to groove without being noticed.  Pop […]

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