Fly Anakin’s “The Times” is produced by Mono En Stereo and it’s on his forthcoming album, (The) Forever Dream. The Richmond, Virginia, rapper collaborated with Quelle Chris, who executive-produced the new album. Pink Siifu, BbyMutha, The Alchemist, Turich Bengy, and more appear on Anakin’s sophomore studio album. His Mutant Academy brothers Big Kahuna OG and Sycho Sid also have verses to share. Since 2020, Anakin has been in a race to become an underground legend with the release of a joint project with Pink Siifu, FlySiifu’s. He had been recording since 2014 but FlySiifu’s was a breakthrough moment. In 2022, his studio debut Frank arrived to critical acclaim. The millenial rapper has stood out because of his proud influences from people like Ghostface Killah and Sean Price. He raps more like a Gen Xer instead of the drowsy triplet flow so popular among his peers and Gen Zers. Check out the Phillip Youmans-directed visualizer for “The Times” and look for (The) Forever Dream on April 25th via Lex Records. 

                                                                                (The) Forever Dream

1. Good Clothes (feat. Demae)

2. Teen Summit

3. My N*gga (feat. Quelle Chris, $ilkmoney & Big Kahuna OG)

4. Lil One (Intro)

5. Lil One

6. CheckOnMe (feat. lojii)

7. NOTTOOSHABBY (feat. Quelle Chris, Nickelus F & $ilkmoney)

8. Lord Forgives, I Hold Grudges (feat. Denmark Vessey & Pink Siifu)

9. The Times

10. Forever Dream (Interlude)

11. Forever Dream

12. Corner Pocket (feat. Quelle Chris & BbyMutha)

13. Dr Phil [skit] (feat. Psycho Sid)

14. YOUGOTME!!

15. Foreverever Dream (Interlude)

16. Say Thank You (feat. Pink Siifu & Turich Benjy)

Cosmic hip-hop group Shabazz Palaces and rock band Osees are on the lineup for The Broad Museum’s Intuition Festival. The two-day event is centered on themes explored in the museum’s Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature exhibit. The festival will use music and film to explore body healing, social change, environmentalism, and political activism. The event pays homage to the Krautrock movement of post-World War II Germany during the time Beuys was an artist and a professor at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. The name of the festival comes from the Intuition multiples that Beuys distributed in 1968. Wooden boxes with the word intuition written inside were sold at a low price to people, symbolizing art that is available for all with the option to personalize the boxes. Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature and The Broad’s third-floor galleries will be open during the festival. The shows are open to all ages and there is a bar available to ticket holders 21+ with valid ID. 

Intuition Festival Schedule  

March 21, 2025 | 8 – 11pm   

March 22, 2025  | 8 – 11pm 

Tickets: $45 for single night, $80 for both nights; Night 1 Tickets HERE, Night 2 Tickets HERE

Event Location: East West Bank Plaza and Oculus Hall at The Broad, 221 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012 

Night 1: March 21, 2025 

On the outdoor stage, Osees—torchbearers of Krautrock pioneers such as Can, Kraftwerk, and NEU!—let loose in an energetic special set, moving between songs from their prolific oeuvre and improvisations responding to themes of the festival. East German-born artist, time-based media art professor. German artist and experimental musician Alva Noto presents a specifically tailored, rhythmically driven set accompanied by live projected visuals.

On the indoor stage, harpist Mary Lattimore and accordionist Walt McClements collaborate on a performance that stretches the limits of what their respective instruments are expected to do in a meditative, healing, and uplifting sonic experience. Barr, whose personal reinvention throughout her career echoes the shapeshifting and self-mythologizing Joseph Beuys, performs in a reinvigorated iteration of her former Kill Rock Stars label-era output. Clare Major’s short documentary film, OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage, follows activist and sexual abuse survivor Whitney Bradshaw as she photographs women mid-scream in cathartic group sessions in a journey from anger and heartbreak to triumph and joy. 

East West Bank Plaza

7:30 – 8:10 pm: DJ Ale Cohen

8:10 – 9:20 pm: Alva Noto

9:45 – 10:45 pm: Osees 

Oculus Hall 

9 – 9:30 pm: Screening of Outcry: Alchemists of Rage by Clare Major????????????????   

9:30 – 10:15 pm: Barr 

10:15 – 11 pm: Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements 

Night 2: March 22, 2025 

On the outdoor stage, German guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Michael Rother and his band perform from his repertoire of works by Harmonia and NEU!, both of which he co-founded in the early 1970s.  Shabazz Palaces simultaneously melds and abstracts jazz, hip hop, and African percussion influences while paying tribute to artists such as Can, Kraftwerk, and Tangerine Dream in a combination DJ set and live performance. Both Rother and Shabazz Palaces integrate custom-projected visuals into their sets. 

On the indoor stage, local punk band Sage Against the Machine delivers a raucous set of songs paying homage to California’s native plant species. Composer, musician, and builder Money Mark demonstrates his innovation and experimentation on keyboard and self-made instruments, and queer musician Saturn Risin9 shares their journey of perseverance with a short film centering self-discovery, healing, and creative expansion through documentary, dance, visual narrative, and performance. 

East West Bank Plaza   

7:30–8 pm: DJ Ale Cohen

8 – 9:15 pm: Shabazz Palaces   

9:30 – 11 pm: Michael Rother   

Oculus Hall   

9 – 9:30 pm: Screening of the eponymously titled Saturn Risin9   

9:30 – 10:15 pm: Sage Against the Machine   

10:15 – 11 pm: Money Mark 

Fats Domino covered “Blueberry Hill” in 1956 after hearing Louis Armstrong’s version. Sammy Kaye and The Glenn Miller Orchestra also had recordings of “Blueberry Hill,” but it was hearing his fellow New Orleans’ native that convinced Domino to give the song his treatment. He had already asserted himself as one of the earliest stars of rock and roll with 16 hit singles, including “The Fat Man,” “Ain’t That A Shame,” and “I’m Walkin’.” His version of “Blueberry Hill” became his most successful hit, sitting at number one on the R&B chart for 11 weeks, number two on the Billboard Juke Box chart and selling five million copies within two years of its release. The song was included on his third album, This Is Fats Domino!, released in 1956. The popularity of his music made his record sales only second to Elvis. 

Elvis Presley told Jet Magazine in 1957 that Domino was the true king of rock and roll but Domino told the Hearst organization that same year that the music being called rock and roll was actually R&B and he had been playing it in New Orleans for 15 years. Domino was one of the Black artists that integrated audiences and he survived four riots at his shows, even jumping out of the window to escape cops spraying tear gas. His fame grew with movie appearances in Shake, Rattle & Rock, The Girl Can’t Help It, The Big Beat, and a television performance on the Ed Sullivan Show. He also had an appearance in the TV special 33 1/3 Revolutions per Monkee in 1968. Domino continued to record after the early successful days of his career and he always managed to remind the public of his presence in every decade after his initial rise. In 1980, he had a cameo in Clint Eastwood’s Any Which Way You Can. Domino was in the first class of artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. His rescue during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was televised and he was seen again in the third season of the New Orleans-based show Treme in 2012.

Domino passed away in 2017 at the age of 89 of natural causes. Led Zeppelin, Elvis, and Little Richard released versions of “Blueberry Hill” after him, but of all the recordings of the song, Domino’s version is the one credited with making it a rock and roll standard. 

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