You can buy my book at Amazon.com or at my blog: http://ernesthardy.com/
You can also buy it directly from my publisher, Red Bone Press. Check the website: www.redbonepress.com or email info@redbonepress.com
Music
Classic soulful House / Aretha Franklin (especially early '60s - mid '70s) / Nina Simone / Sade / Fat Lutha / Prince / Dinah Washington / Me'shell / Stevie Wonder / Lauryn Hill / Erykah Badu / Jimmy Scott / Diana Ross / Curtis Mayfield / Ledisi / Pharcyde / Kim Hill / Paris (the rapper) / Dead Prez / Massive Attack / Lewis Taylor / Mos Def / Levi Stubbs (Four Tops) / Temptations / Marvin Gaye / Bjork / Outkast / PM Dawn / Gladys Knight / Missy Elliott / the Pretenders / Hole / Inner City / the Lighthouse Family / Crack Whitney ("It's fine... fine, fine, fine, fine, fine") / isolated Armand Van Helden tracks / D'Angelo / early Deniece Williams / Barbara Tucker / Funky Green Dogs / Larry Heard / Frankie Knuckles / David Morales / Incognito / Jomanda / the Smiths / Housemartins / Shara Nelson / Aztec Camera / David Ruffin / Billy Lawrence / Rachid / Style Council / Teddy Pendergrass / Dolly Parton / Common / Auf der Maur / Linda Clifford / Marlena Shaw / Gabrielle / Ani Di Franco / Tindersticks / Art of Noise / Ten City / Rahsaan Patterson / Shalamar / Annie Lennox, Eurythmics / First Choice / Chic / Donnie / Delilah Harris / Martha Reeves & the Vandellas / Sinead O'Connor / Grace Jones / Teena Marie / Neneh Cherry / Chaka Khan / Q-Tip / Etta James / Mary Margaret O'Hara / TLC / Les Nubians /
Ambersunshower
Movies
Wong Kar-wai / Pedro Almodovar / Charles Burnett / Claire Denis / Douglas Sirk / Spike Lee / Catherine Breillat / Julie Dash / Mike Leigh / Stephen Frears (most) / Kristen Bjorn / Far too many to mention...
Television
Oz / Six Feet Under / Chappelle Show / Buffy the Vampire Slayer / the White Shadow / Veronica Mars / Action / Twilight Zone / the Shield / the Boondocks
Books
The usual suspects: James Baldwin, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston. Works by Fay Weldon, Zadie Smith, Greg Tate, Donald Bogle, Angela Davis, Jacqueline Susan, Dorothy Allison, Angela Carter, John Rechy, Arundhati Roy, Kathy Acker. Individual titles: "Oreo," "White Boy Shuffle," "Confederacy of Dunces," "Wide Sargasso Sea," "Things Fall Apart," "Caucasia." Too many to list...
Heroes
Dorothy Allison, Pedro Almodovar, Erykah Badu, James Baldwin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Bey, Kristen Bjorn, Donald Bogle, Octavia Butler, Jean-Daniel Cadinot, Don Cheadle, Countee Cullen, Manohla Dargis, Angela Davis, Miles Davis, Claire Denis, Electrifyin Mojo, Nikki Giovanni, Aretha Franklin, Herbie Hancock, Dianna Hardy, Essex Hemphill, Kim Hill, Lauryn Hill, Billie Holiday, Shirley Horn, Lena Horne, Langston Hughes, Frenchy Hodges, Diane Hurd, Zora Neale Hurston, Derek Jarman, Chaka Khan, Martin Luther King Jr., Gladys Knight, Frankie Knuckles, Spike Lee, Audre Lourde, David Morales, Toni Morrison, Meshell NdegeOcello, Huey P. Newton, Prince, Marlon Riggs, Diana Ross, Bayard Rustin, Sarah Schulman, Pamela Sneed, Billy Strayhorn, Sylvester, Greg Tate, Wallace Thurman, Wong Kar Wai, Jeffrey Wright, Malcolm X, Ledisi Young, Howard Zinn...
About me: I write about film and music from my home base of Los Angeles. My criticism has appeared in the LA Weekly, the LA Times, Vibe, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Source, Millennium Film Journal, Flaunt, Request, Minneapolis City Pages, and the reference books "1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" and "Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide," among others. I've written liner notes for "Chuck D Presents: Louder Than a Bomb," the box-set "Say It Loud: A Celebration of Black Music in America," "Curtis Mayfield: Gospel," and the box-set "Superstars of Seventies Soul." I won the 2006 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Excellence, honoring my liner notes for the Chet Baker CD, Career 1952-1988. I'm a Sundance Fellow and a member of LAFCA (Los Angeles Film Critics Association) who's sat as a juror for the Sundance Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival and Los Angeles Outfest.
My book, "Blood Beats: Vol. 1 Demos, Remixes & Extended Versions," was written from a critical center that is melanin-based, pro-people-of-color, pro-queer, and unabashedly-leftist. Subject matter ranges from underground hip-hop and American indie film to modern French cinema, from cool interviews with Warren Beatty, Meshell NdegeOcello and Les Nubians to an essay on gay rappers and queer rap audiences that pushes beyond the clichés of the media-stoked "down-low" phenomenon.
You can buy my book at Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com (www.bn.com) or at my blog http://ernesthardy.com/
Good luck tonight...Party like a Rock star!!! Or at least like one of those R&B disco groups making a comeback on the local PBS station ...LOL...How was the tour?
