Timeless Tuesday: Rock the Bells
For this week’s Timeless Tuesday, let’s take a trip to Shaolin. But before we get there, let me mention that this past weekend in California, the eighth annual Rock the Bells festival took place. It featured artists like J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, and Nas to name a few. The festival was available for live streaming [...]
Timeless Tuesday: Return of Mase
For this Timeless Tuesday, I want to take you guys back a few years to the mighty return of Mase to the rap game. In 2004, Mase dropped an album called Welcome Back. This was his first album release since his classic Double Up album in 1999. In between these albums, Mase decided to retire [...]
Timeless Tuesday: Mac Miller Riot
This past weekend, Boston celebrated its third annual Boston Urban Music Festival. The Boston Urban Music Festival is a free concert put on for the city by the Mayor’s Office to celebrate unity. It is also a place to showcase local talent as well as national talent. During last year’s festival in August, Mac Miller was the headliner [...]
Timeless Tuesday: Free Mason
Every Tuesday, 889@Night takes time to honor a snapshot in Hip-Hop history. This week we will be honoring Rick Ross aka Ricky Rozay! Let’s call this edition of Timeless Tuesday the BOSS edition. The picture above shows Rick Ross and Jay-Z in the studio while creating their song “Free Mason” off of the Teflon Don [...]
Timeless Tuesday: Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival 2012
Every July since 2005, the Brooklyn Bodega puts on a historical event called the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival. It took place this year at the Brooklyn downtown waterfront and attracted over 20,000 people. Legendary hip-hop acts perform there every year and it is always full of surprise guests. The picture above is from this year’s Brooklyn [...]
Timeless Tuesday: The Ecstatic T-Shirt
Timeless Tuesday is a snapshot of a moment in Hip-Hop history. We take this time to highlight moments or events that were unique or huge for hip-hop culture. This week’s Timeless Tuesday focuses on the mighty Mos Def. Mos Def is a hip-hop legend that now goes by the name Yasiin Bey. For the sake [...]
Timeless Tuesday: Juneteenth
For this week’s Timeless Tuesday, we will commemorate “Juneteenth”. “Juneteenth” is celebrated on June 19th every year to celebrate the official announcement of the abolishment of slavery. On June 19th, 1865 in Galveston, Texas union soldiers, led by General Gordon Granger, of the Civil War arrived and told all the slaves that they were officially free. Galveston [...]
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Serenata de Amor Brings Cape Verde to Emerson
Serenata de Amor, a musical theater project spearheaded by visual media arts associate professor Claire Andrade-Watkins, was brought to Emerson this past year. The project is a tribute to the morna of Cape Verde and Brava set in the 1940s. Andrade-Watkins worked with a team of faculty and staff members from Emerson to bring Serenata [...]
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June 21
Fleetwood Mac
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June 23
B-52s + Go-Go’s
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July 9
Paul McCartney
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July 10
She & Him
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July 20
Bob Dylan, Wilco, My Morning Jacket
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