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Black Grooves

http://www.blackgrooves.org

Black Grooves is a music review site hosted by the Archives of African American Music & Culture (AAAMC) at Indiana University. Our goal is to promote black music by providing reviews of interesting new CD and DVD releases in all music genres,including gospel, blues, jazz, funk, soul, and hip-hop, as well as classical music composed or performed by black artists.

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  • Welcome to the October/November Issue

    Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 11:30 in blues, african american culture & history

    Welcome to the October/November issue of Black Grooves.  In celebration of our upcoming conference, Reclaiming the Right to Rock: Black Experiences in Rock Music, which will be hosted on the IU-Bloomington campus on November 13-14, 2009, we̵...

  • Electric Purgatory

    Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 11:30 in black rock, popular

    Title: Electric Purgatory Director: Raymond Gayle Format:  DVD, NTSC (85 min.); also available as View-on-Demand Label: Cinetic Catalog No.: 83629 68138 Release Date: November 26, 2008 Black musicians have held a very peculiar position in rock â€...

  • White Lies, Black Sheep

    Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 11:29 in popular, james spooner, african american culture & history

    Title: White Lies, Black Sheep Artist:  James Spooner (director) Label: Renew Media Catalog No.: N/A (no commercial DVD release) Date: 2007 White Lies, Black Sheep is the work of James Spooner, a modern day Renaissance man. In addition to being ...

  • Fire in the Dark

    Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 11:27 in black rock, popular

    Title: Boldaslove.us Presents: Fire In The Dark Artist: Various Label: Boldaslove.us Format:  MP3 (available for free download) Release Date: September 19, 2009 Since early 2007, Rob Fields has been championing the existence and worth of Black ro...

  • The Chair in the Doorway

    Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 11:26 in black rock, popular, living colour

    Title:  The Chair in the Doorway Artist:  Living Colour Label: MegaForce Records Catalog No.: 020286137924 Release Date: September 15, 2009 Living Colour has just released its fifth CD project, The Chair in the Doorway, which highlights a plet...

  • After Robots

    Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 11:25 in World music, popular, secretly canadian, blk jks

    Title: After Robots Artist: BLK JKS Label: Secretly Canadian Catalog No.: SC 197 Date: September 2009 Driving distorted guitar riffs backed by complex polyrhythmic drumming and a warped dub-style bass provide a darkly dense foundation for the haun...

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This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 2 comments.

Soullounge

5 stars Soullounge

Very good blog with a lot of background information for people who enjoy music aside from mainstream.

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nogueira

5 stars sonia nogueira mossri

I love black music and this blog is great. Comgratulaions brom Brazil.

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