Soul Clapping



Over the bridge and through the woods, to an 8-5 job we go. We were skipping and clapping all while steady laughing as we fell on our cheeks in the snow. (date: 01.28.04)


NYC Subway Centennial. Celebrating (link via Gothamist) The subway opened on October 27, 1904, from City Hall to Harlem where 150,000 people paid a nickel each to ride. The New York City subway, operated by MTA New York City Transit, is the largest subway system in North America, moving over 4.5 million customers each day, in 6,400 train cars, over 656 miles of subway track, to 468 stations, on 26 train lines.


Kelefa Sanneh reviews last week's Slick Rick show at the Knitting Factory and The Crusade has images of his performance. Slick has another show coming up at Southpaw on Feb. 20th with DJ Evil Dee, Soul Purpose and Theodore Unit.

Von Bondies bassist, Carrie Smith pleads for Jack White to get some help: "I hope Jack White gets help. He's not a very happy person." Von Bondies will be touring in NY on Feb. 25th @ the Bowery Ballroom.

Jean Grae airs it out on an Allhiphop.com exclusive. She's frustrated of having to explain herself, mad at XXL for misquoting her, and just tired of being overlooked and underpaid.



Buddyhead's Best/worst of 2003 gave us a good laugh this morning. On TV on the Radio's Young Liars EP they had this to say:

We went and saw these dudes, and they slayed. The bass player looked like he was in N.W.A and had learned to play bass the day before, one of the guitar players looked like Omar from The Mars Volta after a month long Krispy Kreme binge, and everybody had fire shooting out of the ends of their hands. It ruled. Their album rules too, but doesn't "officially" come out til this year, so we put the e.p. on here. Boo yah.

Dave Chappelle Questlove and John Mayer rehearse their new single, "I'm rich, biaatch" - (image via thecrusade.net)





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