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Soul Assassins Radio | THE WEST WING | Rhettmatic
Posted on 30. Nov, 2010 by JD.
Another installment of our favorite radio show, THE WEST WING. This week the show is hosted by the Budah Master DJ Rhettmatic. Get the download links below..
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Justin BUA | Artist
Posted on 30. Nov, 2010 by JD.
Just wanted to let you know about this dude. He creates some really amazing art. Cool shit that you should check out. Go to his website, peep the youtube channel. Its all good.
I copied the description below from his profile on YouTube.
Groundbreaking artist Justin BUA is internationally known for his best-selling collection of fine art posters–The DJ being one of the most popular prints of all time. Born in 1968 in NYCs untamed Upper West Side and raised between Manhattan and East Flatbush, Brooklyn, BUA was fascinated by the raw, visceral street life of the city. He attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Performing Arts and complemented his education on the streets by writing graffiti and performing worldwide with breakdancing crews. BUA went on to the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California where he earned a B.F.A in Illustration.
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Starting in the world of commercial art, BUA designed and illustrated myriad projects, from skateboards and CD covers to advertising campaigns. He developed the look and feel of the opening sequence for MTVs Lyricist Lounge Show, EA Sports video games NBA Street and NFL Street, and the world of Slum Villages award winning music video Tainted among others. He designed the BUA line of apparel and a limited edition shoe line with PF Flyers that sold out completely. Currently, he teaches figure drawing at the University of Southern California, while continuing to be a leading innovator in both the fine and commercial art worlds. BUAs energetic and vocal worldwide fan base ranges from former presidents, actors, musicians, professional athletes, and dancers, to street kids and art connoisseurs.
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In his first book, The Beat of Urban Art, BUA lays out his unique vision, melding urban rhythms, graffiti, and classical art training. This visually arresting book is about his life, his work, and the birth of Hip-Hop. As we follow BUA through his turbulent youth, navigating the streets and underground worlds of the urban jungle, we recognize the powerful evolution of BUAs distinct style—New Urban Realism. Following in the footsteps of the great masters, BUA represents the lives of both the revered and the marginalized, the heroes and the underdogs of his time—New York City during the 1970s and 80s. With an autobiographical narrative illustrated with photographs, drawings, sketches, studies, and explanations of how many of his paintings were created, The Beat of Urban Art takes you into the head of the modern-day Toulouse-Lautrec.
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YouTube – SESSION WITH MUGGS FLICT ROCK
Posted on 23. Nov, 2010 by JD.
Check out this session on the ones and twos between Muggs, Flict, and Roocky. Its a quickie.
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From doc star to rock star with Sublime
Posted on 11. Nov, 2010 by JD.
Dr. Todd Forman is taking time off from his family practice in Newport Beach to tour with the rock band “Sublime with Rome.” Forman, who has played sax since age 9, started playing with the original band “Sublime” when he was attending Harvard. The band’s original lineup earned two platinum albums.
NEWPORT BEACH – He hung his stethoscope and white coat behind the door.
“Cancel my afternoon appointments,” family physician Todd Forman told his staff one day last year.
In the parking garage, Forman yanked off his gray scrubs and pulled on jeans and a T-shirt. It was hard to calm the butterflies from the previous night’s call that had left him jumping up and down.
This was it. His second chance.
“It’s the kind of dream most people don’t think they can ever reach,” Forman says.
This from a man who graduated Harvard, UCLA med school; taught at USC; and now, as a husband and father of two, ran a successful medical practice.
He’d just spent the morning treating patients with high-blood pressure, ear infections and diabetes. Took a skin biopsy, stitched up a wound, and now …
He parked outside a Fountain Valley warehouse. Lifted two cases from his trunk. Carried them down a long hall.
Who are you?
“I’m the horn player.”
Horn player? Nobody told us about a horn player.
Inside, what was once one of the biggest bands in the world was staging a comeback. It would start in four days before 16,000 fans. Then it would circle the globe – Germany, Netherlands, England, Brazil. Crowds of up to 80,000. Once known as Sublime, they were now “Sublime with Rome.”
Dr. Todd Forman, 40, had a shot at joining the tour.
“Keep your cool and don’t say anything stupid,” he reminded himself. “Let the music flow.”
The door opened.
THE VAN
Friend of a friend.
That’s how Forman, a water-polo-playing, straight-A freshman at Harvard, first met the wild party boys of Sublime.
Forman not only swam and played baseball at Harvard, he blew sax in the jazz band. While home during the summer of 1989, a friend invited him to jam with some musicians at a Long Beach party.
They hit if off.
Soon, he was playing alleyways, garages, even street corners with Brad Nowell, Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh, who played a unique fusion of reggae, rock, punk and ska.
“I remember playing in front of a bank on Second Street and Brad put his guitar case out for change,” Forman says, noting that, at times, that was the money his band mates lived on.
“They were hard-core.”
Each fall, Forman returned to Harvard. Each summer, he returned to Sublime.
“They kept getting bigger,” he says. “More refined. More of a following.”
After his junior year, he helped record their first album, “40 Oz. to Freedom.” After graduating, he was forced to make a choice.
Med school? Or music?
He’d now heard himself on the radio. Played clubs with 1,000 people singing to every song. Opened shows for No Doubt.
After one show at “The Whiskey” in Hollywood, the band piled into a van to cross America and strike it big. The party boys of Sublime came up to the Harvard graduate and asked:
You wanna hop in?
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THE GIFT
In every life, there are turning points. Forks in the road.
And as much as Forman loved Sublime, he hated Nowell’s heroin use.
“If you want to find evil in society, look to these drugs,” Forman says. “They change people. They take over. There’s nothing you can do for a heroin user.”
Forman chose medical school over music as the band’s fame grew.
And grew.
In 1996, they called him to record tracks for their third album, “Sublime.”
A few months later, they called again. Nowell – the band’s singer, guitarist and creative genius – was dead of a heroin overdose.
“Absolutely crushed,” Forman says. “You feel a huge sense of loss.”
The band was left rudderless, just as their self-titled third album propelled them into superstars. Producing five hits. And selling an estimated 5 million copies.
“It wasn’t just the death of your friend,” Forman says. “It was the death of a dream.”
The other band members and friends formed the Long Beach Dub Allstars. But by this time, Forman not only had a future medical career, he’d met his future wife, Kristen.
“I chose my wife over music,” he says. “And medicine over music.”
For seven years, his saxophones remained in the closet. He opened a family practice with his mom. And started raising a family with Kristen.
Then, in 2006, for his 36th birthday, he got an interesting little gift.
Talk about turning points.
THE BEST PART
Forman still has the card.
I want you to get back into music, Kristen wrote.
“I saw how much joy he had when he was playing,” she says. “I gave him my blessing to get back into it.”
So he did. Local gigs. With friends. Nothing like before. Not on his end.
But elsewhere, wheels were turning. A decade after Nowell’s death, Sublime’s music was thriving. A Sublime tribute band earned $1 million a year. Album sales were booming. Reunion hung in the air.
Finally, last year, Sublime’s drummer and bassist teamed up with upcoming singer and guitarist Rome Ramirez. Four days before their first big show, they called Forman.
“I didn’t know if I’d be playing on one song, three songs or what,” he says of his audition with the new band. “But from the first note, I could tell everyone felt, ‘OK, this guy’s legit.’”
This time, when they asked him, You wanna hop in, it was different. It was a chance to tour the world, then return home to his family and career.
“To stand on that stage before a sea of people as wide and far as you can see,” he says, of a gig in Sao Paulo, Brazil, before 80,000 fans. “With everyone clapping. To actually experience it, it’s magical. It’s a mythological place.”
Back at the office, he gets ribbed for being a rocker.
“We got him a coffee mug that says, ‘Dr. Rock Star,’” says office scheduler Amy Aaron. “That’s what we call him.”
On the current leg of their tour through the American South, he gets ribbed for being a doctor.
“His playing is killer,” says singer Ramirez, by phone, somewhere in Florida by now. “People go, ‘What? He graduated Harvard? No way!’ ”
Even his wife, a Newport Beach dermatologist, gets ribbed for letting him go on the road: Better put a ball and chain on him, she hears.
“We had one agreement,” Kristen adds. “If it’s affecting the kids negatively, he’d hop a plane and come home. But it hasn’t happened.”
What has happened is something entirely different. A turning point no one expected.
“She gave me the freedom to pursue this dream,” Forman says. “Her love allowed this. And our relationship has never been better – that’s the best part.”
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KiD CuDi “Marijuana” – You Like?
Posted on 29. Oct, 2010 by JD.
Fresh off of the news that KiD CuDi will be taking a break from rap music and heading down the road of Rock and Roll we get “Marijuana” off of his upcoming album Man on the Moon 2: The Legend of Mr. Rager!
Download it here! KID CUDI – MARIJUANA
KiD CuDi “Marijuana” – Hot or Not? | RadioPlanet.tv | Where Hip Hop Meets Hollywood.
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