RT@annfriedman: Watch @madayo …

RT@annfriedman: Watch @madayo and @reihansalam talk blipsters, Sotomayor, comic books and the economy http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/20109

@madayo: “So what happens when…

@madayo: “So what happens when the hybrid hipster culture hits black America?” http://bit.ly/RwRlD (with gallery http://bit.ly/jf6ns)

Loving Barry Jenkins & Kandia Crazy Horse this week

We dig the Bay Area filmmaker and East Coast author and columnist. You should too.

How it has influenced me is incalculable

Bon Iver on some of his musical influences

L.A. Times’ Powers advances Prince Q&A

She shares five items from next Sunday’s Sunday Calendar night-with-Prince story.

Shoot Living Colour’s next album cover

The band would like fans, non-fans, and photographers to participate in this process by submitting original images conveying their interpretation of “The Chair in the Doorway”.

But Relentless 7 is a band, and it takes Harper into promising new territory

Look for plenty of dates from this road dog and his new crew in the new year, and an album, “White Lies for Dark Times,” in late spring on Virgin.

Her most direct avenue to that “place up on the radar.”

“Me I’m a creator/Thrill is to make it up/The rules I break got me a place up on the radar.”

Best black-rock moments of 2008

If you’ll permit an elastic definition, I’ll make listing (in no order) my mission.

The Cocker Spaniels asks you to become a patron of the black-rock arts!

Here’s the text of an e-mail I got today from Sean Padilla of the Austin-based indie-rock band The Cocker Spaniels: