Black Lily Fest Kicks off in Philly with Female DJs
May 1, 2008
PHILADELPHIA—The 2nd Annual Black Lily Film & Music Festival for women artists will be held May 1-4, 2008 in University City at International House, World Café Live, University of Pennsylvania, and Drexel University.
This year’s film festival features cutting-edge cinema from 30 women and trans directors from around the globe. Highlights include the East coast premiere of, Trouble the Water, the 2008 Sundance Grand Jury prize-winning film directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, which tells the gripping story of an aspiring rap artist and her husband who seize the chance for a new beginning while trapped in the flood waters of New Orleans. Other notable screenings include Stephanie Black’s Africa Unite, about the Marley Family reunion in Ethiopia, and Ava DuVernay’s The is the Life, which chronicles the underground L.A. hip-hop scene in the early 1990s. All film screenings take place at International House.
On the music side, this year there is one jam-packed concert on Saturday May 3 featuring Bahamadia, Ladybug Mecca, Jaguar Wright, Amanda Diva and many more! The Black Lily Honors will be incorporated into the concert. This year’s honorees are: Bahamadia, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Jeri Lynne Johnson, Martha Diaz, Pearl Bowser, Stephanie Black, and Tia Lessin. There is also a hip-hop night featuring all female DJs and emcees on Thursday May 1 with a performance by Invincible. Both concerts take place at World Café Live.
The Young Lily Girls Workshop has already begun with pre-festival classes taking place each Saturday at the University of Pennsylvania Carriage House. Girls ages 12-18 are participating in workshops on DJing, film editing, music production and the business of fashion. During the festival the girls will have the opportunity to participate in hand-son master classes and build on the skills they’ve learned in the workshops.
For a complete up-to-date festival schedule, ticket prices, trailers, synopses, and other information please visit the website at www.blacklilyfilm.org.
No Detox Yet, But Dr. Dre Releasing New Headphones
May 1, 2008
Monster, the popular audio peripheral manufacturer has teamed up with legendary music producer Dr. Dre to create a line of headphones called “Beats By Dr. Dre.” In development for over two years, Beats feature newly developed driver technology by Monster Cable and tuned by Head Monster Noel Lee and Dr. Dre themselves.
“People aren’t hearing all the music. Artists and producers work hard in the studio, perfecting their sound. But people can’t really hear it with normal headphones,” says Dr. Dre. “Most headphones can’t handle the bass, the detail, the dynamics. Bottom line: the music doesn’t move you. With Beats, people are going to hear what the artists hear and listen to the music the way they should: the way I do.”
Monster’s Beats by Dr. Dre advanced technology headphones deliver a true “high-definition” music listening experience, with all the highs, clarity, power, and most importantly, deep bass that is only paralleled by a big speaker studio system. A push-to-listen Mute button and folding design adds to the flexibility and convenience.
Scheduled to launch at the end of June, Beats by Dr. Dre headphones not only represents a major step forward in sound, and but also a major innovation in design for today’s style conscious electronic consumer.
For more product and purchase info go to: http://www.monstercable.com/beats/
WHO DID THAT BEAT? “DAILY CONVERSATION’S” ERIC G
May 1, 2008
About four years ago this young man from Washington State started clicking away on borrowed copies of Fruity Loops and Sound Forge software. Late last year he landed three beats on Torae’s critically acclaimed CD, Daily Conversation: “Callin Me” “Taylor Made” and “Think About It.” Today he has some placements in the works with One Be-Lo and several other independent artists, doing the long-distance grind from Seattle. So Nodfactor took a few minutes on iChat to catch up with a rising star.