Frequency Activism is a CT/NY political hip-hop/soul/funk/jazz group consisting of vocalists Hired Gun (also of 3rd Party), PaintDragon (flute and saxaphone), and Stat, d.j./vocalist Mista Mayday, The Specialist on drums, bassist Jon Caruso, Harmonica player Paul Robertson and guitarist Matt Turcotte. In other words, a full funk band with emcees trading off with a jazz vocalist with dense, politically charged lyrics layered with a dj. Yeah.
Check for their first album, Hip Hop in Strange Places, in addition to solo albums and other projects by these artists.
Hired Gun, NJ born / BK residing emcee, has performed all over the country, from small clubs to large music festivals, and recently completed a 3 year run of a regular set at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC. He has headlined the NorthEast Kingdom Music Festival alongside the Coup and Fishbone, and performed on the same stage as many hip hop luminaries. He is a member of the ESP crew, founder of Free Radicalz music, and co-founder of Say Word Entertainment. Though already several albums deep, including an album that recieved 4 stars in Urb magazine, he is readying to release his first solo albu, "The People's Verses".
PaintDragon is an artist/jazz vocalist from CT who has played all over New England with various jazz bands. Also proficient on saxaphone and flute, she is well known throughout the music/poetry/art community in southern New England.
Mista Mayday is a well known activist/musician from CT. He is secretary of the CT socialist party, a former member of the Demigodz crew, founding member of the ESP crew and former co-host of WHUS's Boombox from the Boondocks, the legendary hip hop college radio show co-hosted by rapper Apathy. Mista Mayday has released many albums and mixtapes working with artists ranging from hip hop to the well recieved collaboration with New London, CT bluegrassers the Can Kickers.
Stat is the former front man of the Subterranean Beet Cooperative. A guitarist and emcee, he has performed all across the country, from NY to CA. His solo efforts have involved collaborations with producers all over the US and Europe.
Love the revolution! Free Music for this Saturday, March 29: 10:30am Shawn Taylor, an authentic blast of well blues/folk/rock originals! http://www. myspace. com/theshawntaylorband 12noon Denise Jordan Finley & Daniel Pagdon, stunning, amazing lyrical folk music on tour from Woodstock, NY!! ’A superb blend of genres, folk, country, jazz, blues, rock, with an awesome style all your own!!! Five stars high & five stars wide!!!!!’ (Wade Farlowe, Soundclick) http://www. myspace. com/denisejordanfinleyanddanielpagdon - listen to the song on our profile-'Under the Radar'! Please come and listen to this sweeping music of gracious passerbys!
"...We do for self like ants in a colony/ Organize the wealth into a socialist economy/ A way of life based off the common need/ And all my comrades are ready We just spreading the seed"
You guys got some good intentions and a cool vibe. I like your stuff. Peace for now and thanks for showing love to the site.
I want to personally thank you for your interest in promoting peace. With the President and Congress having a collective approval rating of 25%, we need to do something.
Would you help letting others no that we can stop the war with a petition to ammend the constitution; and that we can do it from the comfort of our computers?
This first link goes to a place for information on a petition to end the war,
If you would like to stop the war, send a friend request and sign the petition, here is a link.
If every person tells everyone they know, and they tell everyone they know, and it continues before we know it we will have enough signatures to submit.
If you can recommend any resources that I should post this on please let me know.
We can end the war, we can do it for free, we can do it from the comfort of our living rooms. There were 500,000 people at Woodstock protesting the war. That was then. We can convene an unlimited number of people right now over the internet.
Heck, just look at how many myspace profiles there are, 170 million or so? 70% of America is on-line, 50% at home, the rest at some other location. Technically because of free public libraries EVERY American now has access to the internet.
Thursday February 28 7PM NYC Film Screening/Discussion "From 9066 to 9/11" from Japanese-American Internment in WW 2 to Attacks on Arabs, Muslims, South Asians Today post 9/11
at 339 Lafayette Street 3rd Floor (ring buzzer #11) A.J. Muste Institute (between Bleecker & Bond) Manhattan/NYC #6 to Bleecker, F/V to Broadway/Lafayette no elevator, there are bathrooms in building, vegan refreshments potluck
February, 17 2008 CT United For Peace Conference 381 Main St., Middletown, Connecticut
We will have a table here to collect signatures for our ballot access petition! PLEASE SIGN!!!
“From Palestine to Pakistan: A Creaking Empire” Connecticut United for Peace Conference Sunday, February 17
Confirmed Speakers: * Riham Barghouti, activist NYC Adalah (Justice) on Palestine * Michael Schwartz SUNY, Stonybrook on Iraq (author of forthcoming War Without End: The Iraq Debacle in Context) * Lenni Brenner, historian, activist on Saudi Arabia (author, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators) * Junaid Ahmad - President of the Muslim Law Students Association, on Pakistan Speakers on Israel, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan in the works
Sunday, February 17, 1-5 PM Church of the Holy Trinity 381 Main St. Side door Middletown, CT
Whats the deal yall? I downloaded the album from okayplayer, and its fire yall! One of the most original albums ive heard in a while. Please Keep it up. We need it.
Yo Frequency Activism!! Thanks a lot for the request! We already knew your homeboy Stat... You really got some dope tracks on this site! We downloaded your album, and are looking forward to listen to it!! Thanks!
If you guys are interested in some new music: Last October we released our debut “A Day At The Office”. We worked for about 2,5 years on this one and we are glad to finally share it with the rest of the world! Judge for yourself, and download the whole album FOR FREE on www.paxandpry.com.
Feel free to share the album with everybody… We hope you’ll enjoy it!
We want any peace or all of you especially, Frequency Activism! We warmly welcome Any musicians, classicalists, all buskers, performance artists, storytellers...! Please get in touch here on myspace if you are interested... and more details on scheduling in an upcoming flyer. We would like aproximately 4 musicians/Sat., collaborative experiments, light group jammies acceptable! note: we are getting a piano asap!!
Friday, January 11th 2008 1199 King-Davis Center 77 Huyshope Avenue, Hartford 5:30 PM Doors Open 6:00 PM Dinner Served
New York City's food industry, from the warehouses to the restaurants, are notorious for their sweatshop-like conditions. Sub-minimum wages, extremely long hours without overtime, and abusive, openly racist employers are all-too-common.
But the IWW Food and Allied Workers Industrial Union has been waging a campaign to build power in these shops, force employers to obey labor laws, and create a dignified work environment for this mainly immigrant, largely undocumented workforce. In response, management has fired organizers, locked workers out and black-listed them from the industry. And despite the ever-present threat of deportation, the campaign has spread to a dozen shops around the city, with nearly a hundred members and industry-wide influence. Many fired workers have been re-hired, won back-pay, raises, overtime and humane hours.
But the union is at a critical point in its campaign, and its members are in dire need of financial assistance. Please come show your support, learn more about this struggle, and enjoy an evening of food, music and solidarity. The program will include rank and file workers and organizers speaking about this struggle and live music with:
Evan Greer & Ryan Harvey of Riot Folk Collective www.archive.org/details/rhgiveittime
Mista Mayday and Hired Gun of ESP www.frequencyactivism.com
Several Local Musicians and Poets TBA
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored By: Hartford Area Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) www.newsds.org/ccc Socialist Party of CT (SPUSA) www.socialistpartyct.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For more information please contact Matt at 860.416.4575 or circleamatt@gmail.com.
