Checking In.....

Hello faithful readers! I have been away for ten days, but it feels like forever :) Please stay tuned, I'm editing some new interviews and other goodies to post at the beginning of this coming week!!! In the meantime, please take some time to catch up on some posts you may have missed.....or you can just watch these...lol:





See you next week with lots of new interviews and features!!!

Love and light (and lotsa laughs)....

Songspiration: Bobby Ray

They Asked. I Answered.

In October I was featured as a style icon on BGLHonline.com. Well, they've brought me back and this time they interviewed me about what I do! Check it out and leave comments there, please, to let them know that you'd like to see/hear more of me on their site!

Check it out here.

Announcement and Appreciation!!!

Good day, good folks! I'd like to take a moment to express my infinite appreciation to you guys for supporting this website and my work everywhere else that my words have found a home on the interweb. Your enthusiasm about my writing keeps me motivated to write more....so thank you.


I'd also like to thank Leila over at Black Girl with Long Hair and all the rest of you who have re-posted the Brown-Skin Lady piece. I will be posting part dos of that piece before February is over, so stay tuned!


2010 has presented me with opportunity after opportunity and I am both thrilled out of my mind and humbled. I will continue to work with Rebel TV and Bold As Love this year, I recently became the newest Block Report News correspondent, I have a few surprise writing projects in the works and.....I am the newest member of the PodiMouth team! I will be co-hosting a show, as well as writing for PodiMouth and I hope that you will all continue to support my work as I continue to be a voice for all things rock. Please tell someone you know to become a follower of this website today! Muchas gracias!!!

HOT OFF THE PRESSES!!!!!

Check out the brand new single from WANLS alums, Mama's Dirty Little Secret!!!



You just can't get enough, can you? Satisfy yourself with more MDLS:

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Interweb Mail: Mama@MamasDirtyLilSecret.com
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Brown-Skin Lady

February is Black History Month. To celebrate, I've put together a tribute to Black women who rock - or have rocked - this world of ours. The Nguzo Saba admonish us to "define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves" (kujichagulia) and to "do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it" (kuumba). This post celebrates the self-determination (kujichagulia) and creativity (kuumba), as well as the beauty, of the women featured. This is far from a comprehensive list of Black women who rock; these are just some of my personal faves. I had alot of fun putting this together....I hope you enjoy it!

Betty Davis





Skin (formerly of Skunk Anansie)






More Skin here.

Teneia Sanders





More Teneia here.

Elida Zulu (of Dirty Fuzz)





More Elida/Dirty Fuzz here.

Tamar-kali






More Tamar here.

Felony Melony (of The Objex)






More Felony Melony/The Objex here.

Shingai Shoniwa (of The Noisettes)






More Shingai/The Noisettes here.

Eden Rox





More Eden here.

Me'Shell Ndegeocello




More Me'Shell here.

Last, but definitely not least, I'd like to spotlight DJ Beverly Bond. Her vision for a brighter future for young women of color prompted her to found Black Girls Rock, Inc., a mentoring organization aimed at breaking down the walls that mainstream media has built to keep young women of color trapped in cycles of low self-esteem, hypersexuality and exploitation. Black Girls Rock, Inc. accomplishes this goal by presenting girls with creative outlets through which to channel their talents, accountability and inspiration through positive female role models, and motivation to do more, be more and have more by introducing them to college options. WANLS salutes DJ Beverly Bond!





More Black Girls Rock, Inc. here.

Strong and beautiful....rock on, my sisters!!!



Love and light....

Special Sunday Edition of OURstory

Salutations, good people. It's Sunday...the international day of chillllll. So sit back, and watch Electric Purgatory, in its entirety, right here on WANLS. Its an interesting take on "Black rock" in the words of some old school Fishbone/Burnt Sugar types and some new school ?uestlove types, as well.

It's OK...I'm With the Band: Game Rebellion

In my ongoing visual stimulus series, "It's OK I'm With the Band," I bring you pictures of yours truly with the bands that I feature on this site. Here I am with some of my favorite rockers from NYC, Game Rebellion. All photos are by Scott La Rockwell, the Canon Whisperer (I just interviewed him, as well....coming soon!). Click on the pics for a larger view.















The guys put on an insanely hot show in San Francisco that night. You can view the rest of the pics here.

Game Rebellion's newest release, "Sounds Like a Riot" is available now on iTunes...I haven't taken it out of my rotation since I purchased it. You should all go buy it today...you're already in front of the computer...what are you waiting on? Support awesome people who make awesome music. Unless you're ok with the weeny-pop that the radio tells you to listen to.......I didn't think so! This is not a game.....this is rebellion!!!

Songspiration: The Thirst

I love this song....

Songspiration: Whole Wheat Bread

Yeah!

Pretty Neat...

Whether you're a fan of these people or not, I think this is one hell of a picture.... All sorts of folks together in one place...for one cause {::HAITI::}. That's pretty dopalicious. {Even if some of these folks have horrible weeny-pop songs...I'm just sayin'.}



Amor y luz....