News & Updates — DC
Peace & Rhythm Spring 2018 Tour Continues!
POSTER by Tess Gadwa for artmeetscode.com We're two amazing parties in!! And more to come! Check out our tour schedule for Spring: Peace & Rhythm Spring 2018 Tour continues... May 11 Washington DC Safari DC Restaurant & Lounge Details: Funky Tropical Party: Leon City Sounds and Peace & Rhythm DJs with Leon City Sounds May 12 Richmond VA The HofGarden details: Skyyline with special guests Peace & Rhythm Records! with BODY TALK May 13 Richmond VA Steady Sounds with Armando Muñoz details: Peace & Rhythm Records In-Store at Steady Sounds May 14 Chapel Hill NC Nightlight Bar & Club details:...
Gil Scott-Heron / April 1, 1949 - May 27, 2011
Today is the birthday of one of my very favorites!! The poet/vocalist/songwriter/novelist Gil Scott-Heron was one of the great lyricists of all time, combining the personal and political, and as a vocalist he would weave his stories into the fantastic soul-jazz tunes he cooked up with Brian Jackson. The music contained elements of blues, jazz, Latin and funk, and he has been justly considered a precursor to hip-hop, with GSH's "rapping" delivery and socio-political consciousness. He was inspired by a performance he saw by the Last Poets and released Small Talk At 125th & Lennox in 1970. He started working...
2015 Year-End Round-Up (with guests!)
Among the many beautiful things about sound & music is that it can supplement your life's routine in so many different ways. Whether you look at (or hear or make) music as artistic expression, ritual, relaxation, protest, celebration, dance release, mathematical composition, entertainment, fashion, comedy or even as background sound, there is no wrong way to appreciate music. It fills our lives with joy or aggression, songs about love and hate, constructions of rhythm and noise, harmony or disruption. Only a high-minded snob will pooh-pooh somebody's artistic creation. (Although they are certainly out there, usually in the form of talentless...
Peace & Rhythm's Interview with Jim Thomson of Electric Cowbell
Jim Thomson is an enthusiastic promoter of music, with a hand in booking, producing and distributing the wide variety of sounds he digs. A percussionist with several notable ensembles (discussed within), his Electric Cowbell label puts out (mostly) 7" records with seemingly no stylistic boundaries. Since 2009 the label has released "a marching band that thinks it's a rock band" (Mucca Pazza), a funk band with people from USA Is A Monster (CSC), an Ethiopian groove band (Debo), a progressive salsa band (Bio Ritmo), a collaborative 7" with ESP-Disk (Talibam!), a record by Greg Ginn...and that is just a tip...