Hielo Negro | th

Quartet from Dominican Republic. .

The Negro Problem is the brain child of Mark Stewart (aka Stew) and performs an intriguing blend of psychedelic rock, funk, motown r&b, and Bacharach-style pop. The band's name is meant to be ironic, as the music industry doesn't seem to know what to do with a band fronted by a black man that doesn't necessarily perform what gets typically shoehorned as "black music" in the modern segregated music industry. The band tries to harken back to the era of "Jimi Hendrix" and "Sly and the Family Stone", where rock music wasn't just marked as a "white" genre, and lovers...

O conjunto musical Negroove se utiliza da total abrangência que o seu nome sugere para produzir samba, funk e soul, incrementados com pitadas generosas do universo afro-brasileiro, não só musicalmente falando, como também em suas temáticas. Tocando juntos desde sua estréia em novembro de 2003, a banda recifense toma como influência a estética dos sambistas bambas de qualquer roda, dos bluishmen norte-americanos e suas descendências, a macumba boa da rua de baixo e o tropicalismo. O seu álbum de estréia, entitulado "Eles Não Usam Enê", elenca um track-list dançante, onde a ironia, o bom-humor e a sentimentalidade contextualizam-se em várias...

This is a Cuban artist, from Havana. Called Gorky Aguila. His group is called Porno para Ricardo. And he hasn't being recognized in Cuba as an artist at all. The Cuban government considers Gorky's songs to be a threaten against the State security. Gorky has being arrested and wrongly accused of antisocial behavior in several occasions. The lyrics on his Cd's are an extreme critic to the radical Communist Regime. Implanted in Cuba by Fidel Castro. You can find out more and listen to his work (famous song El Comandante) at Porno para Ricardo's Blog. 'Warning'!! All the Cd's contain...