Lollapalooza
Been busy times around Blakeslee Studio with recording the new album and been on and off the road for a few gigs, we’re just getting caught up on the site of what we’ve been up too. Check out a few photos from Lollapalooza, please send us your photos if you have any and we’ll post [...]
Brian Grant Foundation Raises $350,000
Raphael performing “Keep Your Head To The Sky” (Earth, Wind & Fire cover) dedicated to Brian Grant.
Raphael on stage reaching out to talk to Brian Grant in the audience.
BRIAN GRANT FOUNDATION RAISES $350,000 AT FIRST ANNUAL CELEBRITY FUNDRAISER FOR MICHAEL J. FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON’S RESEARCH
Muhammad Ali, Pat Riley, Clyde Drexler, Charles Barkley and more [...]
RS at VOODOO Experience !
OCTOBER 29, 30, 31: NEW ORLEANS
Website: VOODOO EXPERIENCE or click flyer below.
Giant Step’s 20th Anniversary: NYC Summerstage
What better way to spend a Summer afternoon in NYC than celebrating good music with us!
NYC Summerstage: July 17th Giant Step’s 20th Anniversary: Raphael Saadiq, Aloe Blacc, with Special Guests TK Wonder and Vikter Duplaix.
Always a blast to share the stage amongst LA musician fam … Cali folks are ready to bring the heat! [...]
SHOW: LOLLAPALOOZA
We’re playing Lollapalooza!
Get your tickets August 6-8, 2010 in Chicago >> www.lollapalooza.com/2010
“100 YRD DASH” ON BONNAROO DVD
Our friends at HeadCount and the NRDC Action Fund put together a Best of Bonnaroo compilation featuring “100 Yard Dash” to encourage action on climate change. You can download it FREE at www.musicforaction.org, where you can also email your elected officials on the issue. Get Best of Bonnaroo now.
Essence Music Festival 2010
ESSENCE
AND
EARTH, WIND & FIRE
CELEBRATE 40 YEARS OF MUSIC
THIS JULY 4TH WEEKEND
AS THE ROCK AND ROLL AND ROLL HALL OF FAMERS
JOIN THIS YEAR’S
ESSENCE MUSIC FESTIVAL
LINE-UP
PRELIMINARY LINE-UP
FOR ANNUAL WEEKEND-LONG CELEBRATION OF
MUSIC, CULTURE AND COMMUNITY
INCLUDES GLADYS KNIGHT, KERI HILSON, JILL SCOTT, RAPHAEL SAADIQ, CHARLIE WILSON AND OTHERS
The line-up for the 2010 ESSENCE MUSIC FESTIVAL–the annual weekend-long celebration of [...]
ILLFONIC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Digital Game Publishing and Development Studio, IllFonic Launched to Bring Underground Culture to Gaming
LOS ANGELES, CA – February 4, 2010, Independent developer and publisher IllFonic today opens its publishing arm to help small talented teams showcase and sell their games. IllFonic is independently funded and will focus on developing and publishing original [...]
Bonnaroo DVD Review – Jambands.com
Published: 2010/02/01
by John Patrick Gatta Various Artists – Live at Bonnaroo 2009
Axis Operations/Superfly Productions/Forty Four Pictures/Third Wave ProductionsOver four days, there were nearly 200 musical performances. Add in heat, humidity and lack of sleep to the equation, and even without the high possibility that there was consumption of adult beverages and/or mind-altering substances, a straight [...]
Big Thanks to Conan and The Tonight Show Staff. A new journey begins…
Unofficial video…
THE TONIGHT SHOW SPECIAL PERFORMANCE TONIGHT !
TONIGHT TUNE IN TO SUPPORT CONAN!!! RAPHAEL IS MAKING A SPECIAL APPEARANCE ALONG WITH A FEW OF HIS BAND MEMBERS (LEMAR, CALVIN, & CHARLES) TO PERFORM “BIG OL GAME” WITH THE LOVELY JOSS STONE! DON’T MISS THIS SPECIAL PERFORMANCE IN WHAT LOOKS TO BE LIKE ONE OF CONAN’S FINAL NIGHTS WITH THE TONIGHT SHOW.
FOLLOW [...]
Throwbacks
All produced/filmed at Blakeslee Studio and surrounding neighborhood of the studio.
Bring it on Home to Me / Roy Hargrove Quintet
Last year when the band and I arrived in Toyko, we bumped right into Roy Hargrove at the hotel on his way to Blue Note, where I was performing for the following 5 nights. Dropped my bags in the hotel room and headed over to Blue Note to catch Roy’s show, before I knew it [...]
Love That Girl – Pilot Airs 1/19 – 1/21 on TV ONE!
Love That Girl – Pilot Airs 1/19 – 1/21 on TV ONE 9pm & 9:30pm
Pilot episodes filmed at Blakeslee Recording Company. Tune in next week!!
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HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Martin Lawrence producing TV One comedy
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Martin Lawrence producing TV One comedy
‘Love That Girl!’ aimed at largely neglected black audience
By James Hibberd
Jan 4, 2010, 11:00 PM ET
Direct Link: Hollywood Reporter
Martin Lawrence is returning to TV, executive producing an African-American comedy for cable network TV One.
The project is the latest effort by independent producers to serve an audience on [...]
VARIETY: TV One Acquires ‘Love That Girl’
VARIETY: TV One acquires ‘Love That Girl’
Four-episode sitcom, starring Tatyana Ali, will air Jan. 19-21
By MICHAEL SCHNEIDER
Direct link here: Variety
TV One has acquired “Love That Girl,” a four-episode sitcom from Martin Lawrence and scribe Bentley Kyle Evans.
Evans created the sitcom, which stars “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” alum Tatyana Ali.
“Girl” will air as a [...]