On Mother’s Day, Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey (aka J Dilla‘s mom) announced the official launch of Ruff Draft Records, her own label (named after the 2003 Dilla EP) that will focus on releasing posthumous releases by her son, and possibly releases by new artists as well. The first release will be Rebirth of Detroit, due [...]
Tag Archives: moodymann
Moodymann interview
06.14.2010 – 4:26 am
If you haven’t already seen this, check out this rare 90 minute interview with the elusive Moodymann (aka Kenny Dixon Jr), conducted by the BBC’s Benji B for Red Bull Music Academy… complete with entourage and hairstyling. KDJ has apparently only ever done 3 interviews in his entire 15+ year career, preferring to let the [...]
Best of 2009 – MissRuckus
01.18.2010 – 4:12 am
What can I say that has not been said already? 2009 was a great year for music! I kept discovering new tracks, new artists, and most importantly, new sounds to my ears that made me excited about music again and again and again. I’m pretty bad at coming up with yearly “best of” lists since [...]
MissRuckus' Top 25 Albums, 2000-2009
01.09.2010 – 3:54 am
How have 10 years gone by so fast? Wasn’t it just last week that we were stashing away emergency rations in our basements, getting all ready for the apocalypse (aka Y2K)? This past decade was an interesting one for me because 2000 marked the actual year that I really began my increasing transition from guitars [...]
Hi-Tek Funk!
06.26.2009 – 6:12 pm
“Underground Resistance (commonly abbreviated to UR) is a musical collective from Detroit, Michigan, in the United States of America. They are the most militantly political example of modern Detroit Techno, with a grungy, four-track musical aesthetic and a strictly anti-mainstream business strategy. They have exerted their portion of Detroit Techno’s cultural influence towards promoting political [...]
