ACTION BRONSON X MR.MUTHERFUCKIN EXSQUIRE
THIS IS GONNA BE SICK….COME GET MESSY WITH US…..WORK OFF SOME OF THAT XMAS GUT ….LIVE NAKED OIL WRESTLING MIDGET BOWLING ON STAGE…. IF YOUR REALLY LUCKY YOU MIGHT JUST GET THIS TSHIRT FOR FREE!
ACTIONBRONSON: UNDER THE MISELTOE
Actions Xmas gift to the unsuspecting featuring his homie Justin Beiber Bad Santas in full effect
http://www.xxlmag.com/bangers/2011/12/action-bronson-mistletoe-remix/
CESARIA EVORA’ REST IN POWER
From The NY Times:
Cesária Évora, who brought the music of the tiny Cape Verde islands off Senegal to a worldwide audience, died on Saturday in Mindelo, on São Vicente, her native island in Cape Verde. She was 70.Her death was announced by her managers. She had a stroke in 2008 and a heart attack in 2010. After another stroke this year, she announced her retirement.
Ms. Évora’s music was in a style called morna, which is sung in taverns on the Cape Verde islands: slow, pensive ballads with an underlying lilt, suffused with sodade, the Cape Verdean creole term for a nostalgic longing that pervades music across Portugal (where the word is saudade) and its former empire.
Ms. Évora sang about love, sorrow and history, including slavery, in a husky, dignified, unhurried contralto that brought warmth and gravity to songs by Cape Verde’s leading poets. She also sang in her country’s more upbeat styles, coladeira and funaná, but her serenely sorrowful mornas were her legacy.
She always performed barefoot, a gesture of solidarity with poor women. A concert review in The New York Times described her as “a Yoda of melancholy” onstage.
Ms. Évora was born in 1941, grew up in a poor family and was reared in an orphanage after her father died when she was 7. She began performing as a teenager at sailors’ taverns and on the ships that stopped at the harbor in Mindelo. Her local reputation spread; she performed on Cape Verdean radio, and two of her broadcast concerts were released as albums in Europe in the 1960s. Ms. Évora abandoned music in the 1970s, unable to make a living. But in 1985 she re-emerged on an anthology of Cape Verdean singers recorded in Lisbon.
In 1988 a Cape Verdean producer based in France, José da Silva, brought Ms. Évora to Paris to make an album. Her studio debut was “La Diva aux Pieds Nus” (“The Barefoot Diva”), which fused morna and coladeira with Caribbean, Brazilian and European pop. Ms. Évora drew a following among Cape Verdean expatriates in Europe, but it was not until she returned to unembellished morna with her third album, “Mar Azúl” (“Blue Ocean”) — a 1991 collection recorded with acoustic instruments — that her music began to reach a broader audience.
French listeners and radio stations embraced her music’s kinship to cabaret chansons. She performed at theaters and festivals to growing audiences. Reports of her fondness for cigarettes and Cognac burnished her reputation; a few years later, she would give up drinking but not smoking.
Her 1992 album, “Miss Perfumado,” sold an impressive 300,000 copies in France alone. Concerts at large theaters in Lisbon and Paris were sold out, and her touring circuit expanded across Europe and into the Americas.
Her 1995 album, “Cesária,” was released internationally and brought Ms. Évora her first Grammy nomination. Her album “Cabo Verde” won four Kora awards, a pan-African prize, and was also nominated for a Grammy, as was “Miss Perfumado,” belatedly released in the United States in 1998. In 2003 Ms. Évora’s “Voz d’Amor” won the Grammy Award for best contemporary world music album.
Ms. Évora toured the world through the 1990s and 2000s, expanding her repertory with Cuban and Brazilian songs on “Café Atlántico” in 1999, and collaborating with Bonnie Raitt, Caetano Veloso and the Cuban musicians Chucho Valdés and the Orquesta Aragón on her 2001 album “São Vicente di Longe.” Her final studio album, “Nha Sentimento” in 2009, introduced tinges of Arabic pop to her music from the Egyptian composer and arranger Fathy Salama.
With Ms. Évora’s prominence, a younger generation of Cape Verdean musicians embraced morna and performed it internationally. Ms. Évora was a direct mentor to Fantcha, who toured the United States with her in the late 1980s, and an indelible influence on Lura, Mayra Andrade and Sara Tavares.
When Ms. Évora announced her retirement this year, she told the French newspaper Le Monde: “I have no strength, no energy. I’m sorry, but now I must rest.”
She is survived by her children, Eduardo and Fernanda, and two grandchildren. The government in Cape Verde declared two days of national mourning in her honor.
She was a personal favorite of mine the song Crepuscular Solidiao is one of my all time favorite songs:
ACTION BRONSON X TERRY RICHARDSON
Action Bronson and The Volcano from Terry Richardson on Vimeo.
Action and Terry Richardson getting silly with it. One of my favorite photo shoots so far…..Cope that Well Done record while your at it!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/well-done/id473284177</a
ACTION BRONSON LIVE ON LAST CALL WITH CARSON DAILY
This was really fun Carson’s crew were super nice Karie and the crew who produced the clip were awesome and my kitchen looks pretty cool. Bronson and the Giambi shades are killer… funny stuff…CMJ week and then this. Bronson is getting his grind on hard work does pay off. The new record with Statik Selecta drops 11/22 Well Done cop that when it drops!
Enjoy
D Ross
ACTION BRONSON LIVE AT SANTOS PLAYHOUSE CMJ
CREEPING ON A COME UP AND RONNIE COLEMAN: Featuring Mayehm Lauren and AG Da Coroner love from Santos CMJ
Action Meyhem Lauren and AG Da Coroner rocking at Santos dropping some Ray Lewis and Typhoon Rap on ya. Action is slowly but surely becoming a part time stand up comedian dude is too funny… Great show awesome vibes… lots of fun glad Action and the crew got to be part of it
CEREBRAL BALLZY: ON THE RUN LIVE
and like a blur they were gone!
LITTLE DRAGON: TWICE LIVE
Saw Little Dragon 2 times this week one time at a instore at the Mulberry opening which was small and intimate but also a little awkward half the people there were just trying to be seen and didn’t really know the music. The band like always was great though
The 2nd show was at Terminal 5, it was awesome seeing them with 2000 other people who love them. It’s cool seeing the band grow right before my eyes in an organic fashion, it was only 2 years ago i saw em at LPR with about 150 other people. It says good music still can find it’s natural audience without the hype.
Little Dragon is slowly but surely becoming the coolest band around. I feel like Yukimi the lead singer is hitting an almost Bjork like level of hipness with her quirky fashion sense, amazing vocals and all around unorthodox sex appeal. Shes a star in a very unique sense of the word one that both men and woman dig. If you haven’t seen Little Dragon yet get a late pass they’re unreal live. Yukimi also has a song on SBTRK’S record that’s been getting a lot of play it’s amazingly haunting it’s called Wildfire:
Enjoy
Dante Ross NYC
COAST TO COAST PEOPLES
Hanni El Khatib future star…Good dude….good music http://www.hannielkhatib.com/
a Mountain called Lance
Dr Revolt and The Rickster… OG cool guys…Revolt gave me styles way back in the day… One of the best hand styles of all time….You already know all about the Rickster I assume
Nicky Diamonds and his lady Michelle
The Tijuana Panthers they’re rad… http://tijuanapanthers.com/
Peace and Fuck you all at once: Jaqualine and Monica at FYF festival
Atiba Jefferson: he’s rad… and he’s as coast to coast as me and that’s saying a lot.
My man Glen E Friedman OG skate and punk rock photographer/vegan: http://www.burningflags.com/main.php
Bronson, Meyhem Lauren and Philly Lo Life crew….
Felix Arguiles my man forever… good dude his company Ammo is rad: http://www.ammousa.com/
Cassie Veggies future superstar and his bro/Manager Josh Peas. The kids got the goods
The Home girl: Taryn aka Teak Tha Sneak….she takes some rad pics.
Brother Rodney Smith: Shut Skates/Zoo York are is calling cards, holding up the Vans he designed.
Action Bronson and Party Supplies cooking up some shit Bk NY
Scott Oster hipstamtic shot: Great skater,dude and DJ my frend for 20 years plus. Photo courtesy of Block
The other half of a Mobb called Deep: Prodigy,welcome home G!
Rad people I came across in my coast to coast travels of late, musicians,skater and pretty lady’s!
Enjoy
Dante Ross currently in NYC and digging it!
MORE SUMMER PEOPLE 2011
Ricky Powell Village genius
Josh the filmer and my brother Eli Reed pro ripper
Action Bronson and Alchemist at Al’s studio Venice Ca
Phil Frost getting busy summer Nye House
Mike Muir Suicidal Tendencies live at House of Vans DQM Vans store event
More house of Vans: Skate legends Steve Olson and Tony Alva… U may not realize it but if you skate it’s in part because of these 2 dudes
Tal, Benji Madden and Revok Fairfax August 11
Havok 1 half of the Mobb they call Deep
DannyBoy and Bobby Hundreds… Action bronson lurking in the back
Sheperd Fairey and Wk Interact… Summer BBQ in BK
Best pic ever: Jeff Pang, Jeru the Damaja and Bruno Musso. Jeff’s a NYC skate legend, Jeru is well you know and Bruno Musso started Shut Skates and is a great dude
That Vinny dude from Naughty By Nature one of my fav rap groups ever… Vinny wheres Trech at man?
The genius photographer named Boogie: Most people take pics he captures souls….My Serbian brother right there
The new face of HardCore punk rock: Trash Talk pure aggression at it’s finest
Me acting a fool at the Surface to Air party last week…….New York’s Fashions Weak Night Out
People make the world go round and I like taking pics of people I think are rad…. If I took a pic of you that would mean I think your pretty rad basically
Enjoy
Dante Ross Currently in NYC but that’s due to change!
