Daily Session will be doing their first ever event August 8th @ The Huckleberry Bar. This event will be a full on BBQ and cocktail affair, fueled by the music of Vinyl Mania’s Charlie Grappone and Funky Slice’s very own dignified Gentleman, Earl Broclo ESQ. Charlie will be bringing his usual Vinyl Mania classics and Earl will be playing all the funky breaks to make you shake. Come down to The Huckleberry Bar to enjoy some great food, great drinks, and definitely great music. The BBQ will begin at 3pm and go until 8pm, so bring your appetite and as many friends as you can gather. We’ll be updating you with more info as we get closer to the day of the event.

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By CBC News

amaican reggae artist and producer Sugar Minott died Saturday at age 54.

His wife Maxine Stowe said he died unexpectedly in a Kingston, Jamaica, hospital after complaining of feeling ill earlier in the day. No cause of death was released.

Minott had cancelled a string of Canadian concerts in May because of health problems, reported to be angina.

The smooth-voiced singer helped popularize reggae in the 1970s and 1980s with hits such as Good Thing Going, Vanity and Mr. DC.

He also was a pioneer of the Jamaican dance-hall scene, and known as a mentor to young Jamaican artists. [Read More]

By Rob Harvilla – The Village Voice

“What rhyme with ‘asshole’? Asshole.” Thereby does Terius Nash, a/k/a deliciously absurd r&b semi-superstar The-Dream, deliver the best five consecutive words of 2010. A perfectly executed terrible joke—the hokey throat-clearing sound between the two “asshole”s seals it. And so it goes with the whole of “Florida University,” triumphant closing track to his third-straight deliriously triumphant solo album, the modestly titled Love King.

It’s a wantonly juvenile kiss-off, the song, a poppy frat-party trifle you’d despise if, like, LMFAO or Maroon Five or whoever, was behind it, particularly given the lyrics. The last line before the chorus is, “So forget you ever heard of me/This is short for ‘Florida University’ “; the chorus, designed to be shouted en masse, is “Eff you/Eff you/Eff you/Eff you.” Ridiculous. A fifth-grade sensibility at best—maybe fourth-. Plus it can’t help but remind you of Tim Tebow. No way. You know better than to find this song amusing. And yet in Dream’s hands it is profoundlyamusing, and amusingly profound. The genius here lies in taking objectively terrible ideas—getting emotionally involved with this guy, for example, given his penchant for “Patrónin'” and general sexual profligacy—and making them seem like brilliant ideas. [Read More]

By MELENA RYZIK – NY Times

A proclamation from Marty Markowitz, the excitable Brooklyn borough president, is no rarity. But receiving it under the head of a quasianimatronic wolf-creature, while, around the corner, a guy upholsters a seat cushion in brown argyle, and another blends cocktails by bike — that is something special.

At a party for its fourth anniversary last month, 3rd Ward, the arts and design collective in Bushwick, received a commendation from Mr. Markowitz for its program giving free bicycles to members. But 3rd Ward hardly needed the boost: hundreds of people had come to its brightly painted labyrinthine space to celebrate. Outside were bands and burgers; inside there were demonstrations of screen-printing, woodworking, weaving, designing jewelry and welding, as well as vodka-spiked strawberry lemonade. (A bike was powering the blender.) [Read More]