Magnetic: Mos Def News

Just a quick site announcement. I’m going away for a couple weeks (I’m getting married), so I’ve recruited a guest editor to fill in for me while I’m gone.

Steff will keep the posts flowing. She runs the MosDefinitely Forums, knows her stuff, and has info hook-ups close to Mos Def himself. So if anything changes, it will only be for the good, since now the info will come straight from the source.

Thanks to Steff. Make her feel welcome. I’ll be back in a couple weeks…

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Mos Def has rejoined the Breed Love posse, and they are playing their first of two shows at the 9:30 Club tonight, which is about two miles south of where I now sit. I don’t have tickets, so I’ll be watching him in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” on my TV about 30 feet south of where I now sit instead. A poor substitute to be sure.

If any readers out there are going to the show, send me your photos and videos of the show!

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By showing up to the Breed Love shows at the 9:30 Club. And this time it’s official, with a press release and everything.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.

(thanks Steff)

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The death knoll to Mos and crew showing up in many cities rang today as no fewer than seven shows were cancelled:

• 11/21/2005 – Gainesville, FL
• 11/27/2005 – Atlantic City, NJ
• 12/02/2005 – Northampton, MA
• 12/03/2005 – Toronto??? ... TBD
• 12/04/2005 – Cleveland, OH
• 12/07/2005 – Detroit, MI
• 12/08/2005 – Indy or Champaign… IN or IL…TBD

Keep an eye on the official site to see if the tour will land in your city or not. They way this tour has gone, however, there’s no telling what’s going to happen. If I was lucky enough to have a ticket to a show, I’d call the club the night of to make sure things were still on.

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Just scanning the blogs for Mos Def bits, as I’ve done before, and this time I turn up an angry track by Immortal Technique that features Mos Def in the chorus on Violette’s MP3 blog.

No, the irony of this song appearing on a site with flowers in its logo is not lost on me.

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