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July 03 2008 9:15 pm
NYC's Solar Powered Festival Feat. Blitz + FREE mixtape download
Finally an answer to the age-old question: how does one run a solar-powered festival on an overcast, stormy day? With a lot of interruptions - as The Citysol Festival, New York City's best and only solar energy music festival proved over the weekend at Stuyvesant Cove Park. Actually, the breaks in the music had less to do with the sun playing hide-and-seek as it did with the intermittent buckets of water pouring from the sky. The concept was to promote solar energy and advocacy by running four days worth of activities on the sun. A solar-paneled house sat behind the small stage, hosting the festival's batteries, which collected solar energy whenever it could and remained charged enough to keep Saturday's lineup of bands running throughout the day and night.
news.Watch the Al Green tribute with Anthony Hamilton, Jill Scott, and Maxwell. Then see Al perform two of his hits. Big up to Erykah Badu on her win!
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discussion.Topic: Some of your favorite rappers commission ghostwriters to pen their rhymes for them on the low. So the question is, do said rappers get respect in your book? Or does it not matter as long as the end product is dope?
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stories.Live video! Take a minute to press play and watch as J*DaVey did their thing at L.A.'s Key Club a little while ago. Watch out for their double disc The Beauty Of Distortion/The Land Of The Lost CD in stores July 1st!
stories.Read this comprehensive review of the Paid Dues festival from Denver, CO. Performers included Yakballz, Kidz In The Hall, Supernatural, Murs and 9th Wonder, Sage Francis, Gift Of Gab, and De La Soul.
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news.Download the free mixtape from 88-Keys ft. KiD CuDi, Izza Kizza, Tanya Morgan, Guilty Simpson, and more.
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stories.The Roots Picnic weekend has left me with a blur of memories that all sort of overlap in a heatwave of hazy flashes- from Santogold's performance at the pre-Picnic jam to The Cool Kids colorfully bouncing around the sweaty Picnic stage, from the guestlist madness of Hors D'Oeuvres, to the REAL guestlist madness of The Picnic. Read on to find out what really went down over The Roots Picnic Weekend.
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