Exit Clov is working on a new record, which isn’t easy to make happen, and takes a lot of money. First just travelling to meet each other to rehearse and write, then studio time for days and days of recording. Then mixing and mastering. Then printing the album and paying fees to online retailers. The [...]

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Continuing in the tradition of Metro Status, here is a new one called A DC State of Mind. Many thanks to Seez Mics, Ardamus, Cam One, Greg Baylon, Nizam, Jay Miller, Susan Hsu, everyone who came out to dance and all the staff at Ben’s Chili Bowl. I’m humbed by their generosity and support. This [...]

  I’ll venture a brief introduction where none is needed – Symphony X is a band from New Jersey that specializes in one thing: keeping it real. I’ve been a fan since my friend and fellow guitarist Jaime introduced them to me, around 2001 when Live On the Edge of Forever came out. I saw them play [...]

OnBeat will be presenting the Kaifuku album art on 8×8″ cards along with download cards for the song for sale at the Japan-America Society’s Annual Beer Garden tomorrow, on the rooftop of an office building on K St. All proceeds of card sales will be going to the Red Cross. Come out to support the [...]

I check with my friends every other day or so on how their situation is over there. I listen to their fears, and try to offer what little help I can. I read the news, and research to understand more about radiation. We decide together that the worst is over and that we shouldn’t worry [...]

This Wednesday there will be another Cap City Cypher, open cypher bboy jam at St. Stephen’s in Columbia Heights. The last one was exactly what I love about bboying: good music, cyphers, people vibing and sharing knowledge, battling, laughing and training to get better. It’s an all ages free gathering of underground hip hop and [...]

This Sunday May 29th I will have the honor of playing guitar with The Sounds of Domestic Living – a duo made up of Susan and Emily from Exit Clov. The show will be at the annual Passport to Taiwan festival in Union Square, Manhattan. I’ll be backing them up while they perform songs from [...]

I just got an update from my friend Katsumi of Orientarhythm on his latest project. He’s been experimenting with projected visuals and dance for a while now, and his latest effort is extremely impressive. Katsumi developed this piece for a performance on a Japanese TV program in front of a live audience - whose reactions shared my enthusiasm. [...]

Santi, Joelle, Jay and I saw First Name Basis perform at the mansion at Strathmore Hall at a Friday Night Eclectic Show. Props again to Strathmore Hall and all those involved for keeping these events going, our area is blessed to have such a beautiful venue to showcase our local artist scene. I really don’t [...]

Last Sunday we did another video shoot  for Doin It In the Park, a song I’m doing with Suzi. It was me, Jay, JL, Javier, and Gyasi, and we spent about 6 hours outside that day enjoying the park and the city. We got some great footage, mostly tricking and establishing shots of the park. The [...]

I remember when he died.  Or rather, when it was published on his blog for Hydeout Productions that he had passed away a month earlier in a car crash in Shibuya.  I’m finding it difficult now to type out exactly what kind of emotions it drew from me.  For lack of a better label, it was [...]

School’in Session, presented by B-terps and a host of other organizations at Univeristy of Maryland, College Park.  A 2 vs 2 battle, with over 50 groups of 2 that entered.  Judges were Toyz, Gunjack, and Spirit.  DJ Fleg was jockeying the discs.  All ingredients for a dope jam, and all that was left was to [...]

Friday Night Eclectic at the Mansion at Strathmore Hall, always a winner.  It’s a great opportunity to see local talent and enjoy the beautiful venue, and much respect to Strathmore Hall for providing this outreach to the young artist community.  A friday or two ago I went to check out a group called Bellflur, a [...]

The other weekend I visited Pittsburgh to see an old friend of mine, Hironori Yoshida.  While his first name is Hironori and he often goes by ‘Hiro’, I’ve always called him by his other nickname, ‘Yoshi.’  Yoshi is a guest researcher at Carnegie Mellon, working on digital fabrication.  For those unfamiliar with the term (ie me, before Yoshi explained slowly [...]