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Big Mean Sound Machine are hitting the road to support the brand new split 7″ with Super Hi-Fi on Peace & Rhythm. Check the dates and venues on the poster!

June 19 @ 9:00 pm | $5 Big Mean Sound Machine will be making their first ever appearance in Northampton, MA at Hinge this Friday night in celebration of their new 7″ on Peace & Rhythm, a split 45 with Super Hi-Fi. Fat Bradley will open. 9pm-2am. Details here. Big Mean Sound Machine are rooted in Ithaca, NY, but with members across the Northeast these folks have plenty of reason to deliver this humongous sound all over the damn place. A constantly-traveling brigade of funk-and-sweat, citizens armed with horns, guitars, synths and percussion all together in one Big Mean Sound...

DJ and record collector alert! Announcing the long-awaited release of Peace & Rhythm’s brand new 45: Super Hi-Fi “Q Street”/ Big Mean Sound Machine “Wolfpack” – coming to record stores near you, and online at quality vinyl purveyors. A “split 45” with two awesome bands, two different vibes, great for dancing or just chilling. Featuring super thick red vinyl, color picture sleeve, liner note insert. This video is a special “megamix” preview of what’s on the 45, with visuals courtesy of Andrew Greto – one half of video art duo Bell & Howl. Subscribe to our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjb0swesOBphfr9KDtvI0VQ Item...

VISUAL CLAVE 50 Years of Latin Album Cover Design Visual Clave documents the little known evolution of ‘Salsa Graphics’ and  the expression of Latino identities through the prism of album cover art over  half a century of music packaging and graphic design. This exhibit explores the evolution of Latin music album cover art over the last 50 years,paying critical attention to issues of identity and aesthetics through depictions of Hispanic people and cultures, with an emphasis on historical context and the unsung graphic artists who helped present Latin music — and its attendant socio-cultural themes — to the world. Visual Clave’s premise...

A joint exhibit between Charlie Rosario and Peace & Rhythm’s Pablo Yglesias is now showing at the Bronx Music Heritage Center, with an opening reception on May 2, with music by DJ Andujar and Charlie Rosario with Los Rumberos Callejeros. More info at Bongohead’s blog. “I just put up a new art show with my friend Charlie Rosario last week in the Bronx at the Bronx Music Heritage Center Lab (1303 Luis Niñé Boulevard). We hung our work side by side, and collaborated on a shrine to the great conga players, percussionists, and rumberos of Cuban and Puerto Rican origin...