Interview | John Forte

This past Valentine’s Day, singer, songwriter, rapper and producer John Forte performed at Shank Hall. John Forte was member of the legendary Fugees, and is a Grammy award winner.  I got to chance to sit down with Forte a before his show. We talked about many things including his reaction to George W. Bush’s pardon [...]

Nas & Damian Marley| Distant Relatives – The Roots of Hip Hop & Reggae

National Geographic Music held an amazing forum this past Saturday in Washington, DC. The forum was on the African origins of hip hop and reggae and the deep-rooted connections betweent the two.   Hip hop icon Nas, and reggae icon Damian Marley (son of Bob Marley) lead this forum that was moderated by Sway (MTV [...]

Free Figureheads Download and new EP from The Championship!

As you may know, Milwaukee’s own, Figureheads is one of the bands featured in this week’s New Music Wednesday.  In my opinion, this is one of the best New Music Wednesday’s that we’ve had to date.  Great music from K’Naan, The Noisettes and fellow Milwaukeeans, The Championship (who have a EP release party this Saturday [...]

New Music Wednesday: K’Naan, Noisettes, The Championship and Figureheads

For New Music Wednesday 6/24/09, we have new music from two Milwaukee bands: The Championship and Figureads plus new music from K’Naan and UKs Noisettes. Listen to the tracks below and then let us know what you think by voting for your favorite tune. We’ll announce the winner next week. You can also grab this week’s picks in [...]

Are You Feeling This: The Rural Alberta Advantage, Free Energy and K’Naan

Lots of songs never make it to the radio that are getting lots of attention online. Live tracks, sanctioned and unsanctioned remixes, mash-ups, overlooked gems by unsigned artists. Every week on “Are You Feeling This,” we invite you to hear what the buzz is all about. You tell us what you think. Vote in the [...]

K’Naan On Somali Pirates…

Many of you in the know enough to read the news knows that there is a serious case of terror on the high sea off the coast of Somalia. The region is known as the Horn of Africa and is highly volatile as the area is geographically specific to Somalia and that Somalia has no [...]

New Music Wednesday: Bonnie Prince Billy, Serena Ryder, Estelle and K’Naan

  For New Music Wednesday 2/25/09, we have new music from Bonnie Prince Billy, Serena Ryder, Estelle and K’Naan. Listen to the tracks below and then let us know what you think by voting for your favorite tune. We’ll announce the winner next week. You can also grab this week’s picks in our iTunes store! Bonnie Prince Billy – [...]

Are You Feeling This: Peter, Bjorn and John, K’Naan and Chester French

  Lots of songs never make it to the radio that are getting lots of attention online.  Live tracks, sanctioned and unsanctioned remixes, mash-ups, overlooked gems by unsigned artists.  Every week on “Are You Feeling This,” we invite you to hear what the buzz is all about.  You tell us what you think.  Vote in the [...]

Sound Travels…Global Hip Hop

Hey all, another Sound Travels here for you. This week is all about hip hop with a global perpective and origin… [Audio=http://radiomilwaukee.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/global-hip-hop-mix.mp3] 1. ADAMA : “Aduna Bi” – African Underground… Rap is still CNN in Senegal, especially for poorer people. The active political presence of local rap in Dakar largely sets it off from its [...]

Don’t Sleep On… K’Naan

Over the next few years we’re all going to really start hearing (and feeling), the manifestastions and implications of hip hop being a truly world music. Artists like M.I.A.(Sri Lanka), TTC (France) and even M.anifest (Ghana) just start an all-day list of cats crossing seas with beats and rhymes transforming hip hop from the inside [...]