The music video for the remix of Brooklyn rock singer Tamar Kali’s “Pearl” featuring the rapper Jean Grae. Damn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lhzd1vgtBk Time to promote some continental filmmakers again. The young ones. The organizers of Design Indaba, an annual design fair held in Cape Town (this year’s edition was last week), recently commissioned six local filmmakers to make short profiles of the country’s designers. Not an original idea, but the subjects are interesting. Here’s two of […]

[vodpod id=Video.5675225&w=500&h=411&fv=] Amoeba is a landmark record store in Berkeley (on Telegraph). Now they have branches in San Francisco and LA. They also hosts live concerts with artists, like Nneka above (we get a 38 minute set out of her), or Asa, Bassekou Koyate and Ngoni Ba, The Noisettes, etcetera.

When the Danish film, “For a Better World,” won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film Sunday night, I immediately started googling it– all the descriptions and reviews suggested it took place “in an African village” (it turns it is supposed to be Sudan); and the trailer conjured up the usual stereotypes (white man saves natives). […]