As you already know, Fourth of July weekend is about to jump off, and that means it’s time for SLF‘s THIRD ANNUAL 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND ROOFTOP BBQ PARTY. We’re at a new location this year, still in Brooklyn, but this time we’ll be partying it up in Prospect Heights. And, we’ve put together a really diverse lineup that we know you’ll love.

PLEASUREMAKER and SEÑOR OZ from the wildly popular AFROLICIOUS party in San Fransisco will join us and they’re bringing their band to keep the dancefloor bubbling. Last year’s crowd favorites, PEOPLE’S CHAMPS return with their energetic live performance and are guaranteed to knock your socks off once again. The MUSIC WITHOUT BORDERS crew will be in the place, with KUNAL MERCHANT and SEIF AL-DIN bringing their diverse party vibes to the tables, and rising star DJ LILY VANILLI of NANA CHILL will be showing off her party rocking skills. And of course, it wouldn’t be an SLF party without the SLF DJ crew — LIL TIGER, Q-MASTAH and DJ TRAINWRECK — keeping the party live with their trademark eclectic blend of Funk, Hip-Hop, Soul, Disco, Afrobeat, Reggae and more.

Best of all, the party is FREE (but bring some cash for booze and BBQ). For the address to the rooftop and directions to the location, make sure to send an RSVP email to rsvp@soundliberation.org. Keep in mind, space WILL be limited, and RSVP does NOT guarantee entry.

As some of y’all know from previous years, this party goes off, so get there early (and stay late)! If you’re looking to avoid the tourist crowd, cheesy parties and overpriced bars, and you want to have fun with great DJs and bands playing awesome music, the SLF ROOFTOP BBQ PARTY is def the place to be.

NOTE: The party will be on SUNDAY, JULY 3 (and NOT on the 4th itself, that way you’re not hurting on Tuesday when you go back to work, and you and your dancing feet can spend the actaul holiday recovering from all the fun).

Here are the details:

SUNDAY | 03 JULY 2011
[[ 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND ROOFTOP BBQ PARTY ]]
6p-2a | FREE | No dress code | cash bar

/// featuring ///

[[ PLEASUREMAKER and SEÑOR OZ of AFROLICIOUS ]] :: SF

[[ PEOPLE’S CHAMPS ]] :: BROOKLYN

[[ DJ LIL TIGER ]] :: HOUSTON/QUEENS
( WHCR’s Impulse Travels, Sound Liberation Front, Soular Grooves, –=(] buhbOmp [)=– )

[[ Q MASTAH ]] :: BROOKLYN
( Sound Liberation Front, Music Nerd Club )

[[ MUSIC WITHOUT BORDERS: KUNAL MERCHANT + SEIF AL-DIN ]] :: NYC

[[ LILY VANILLI ]] :: HOUSTON/BROOKLYN
( Nana Chill, The BRMG )

[[ DJ TRAINWRECK ]] :: BROOKLYN
( Sound Liberation Front, Music Nerd Club )

Please send e-mail RSVP for location: rsvp@soundliberation.org

More info:
¬ facebook event page

Here’s some video footage of AFROLICIOUS in action so you can see how they get down:

SF Music Wrap – Afrolicious from VidSF on Vimeo.

Click here for pics from last year’s rooftop party.

Hope to see y’all out there on SUNDAY.

AFRO-DUB SESSIONS is back! Come kick off your Memorial Day weekend with the SLF crew FRIDAY NIGHT as we take our renowned AFRO-DUB party out of the club and into an awesome loft space in Brooklyn. As a special treat, we’re bringing in Boston’s Ethiopian groove collective, DEBO BAND to help you get loose on the dance floor. SUPER HI-FI, New York’s hottest Afro-Dub band, will also perform, and SLF resident DJ’s LINH, Q-MASTAH and LIL TIGER will keep the party popping on the decks.

If you’ve never seen DEBO BAND before, you’re in for a treat. DEBO is not your mother’s Ethiopian dance band. Searing horns, crooning vocals, slinky funk grooves. Dubbed out violin and accordion. Bass-heavy, brazen, and dense. Led by Ethiopian-American saxophonist Danny Mekonnen and fronted by charismatic vocalist Bruck Tesfaye, DEBO‘s performances bring together the best of the last forty years of Ethiopian music, with a reverence for the vintage sounds of the 1970s and a commitment to discovering contemporary gems, as well as developing new compositions.

Don’t forget to RSVP for the address to the party!

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Sound Liberation Front + The BRMG + buhbOmp presents:

[[ AFRO-DUB SESSIONS: Loft Party Edition ]]

SATURDAY | 27 MAY 2010
10p-4a | $10 | No dress code

featuring Ethiopian groove collective DEBO BAND (Boston)
+ SUPER HI-FI (w/ members from Aphrodesia, Slavic Soul Party, The Superpowers and Blue Man Group)
and the SLF DJs (LINH, Q-MASTAH and LIL TIGER)

RSVP for location and directions: rsvp@soundliberation.org

+ facebook event page

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Here’s some live footage of DEBO BAND:

FEBRUARY 11 | FRIDAY
[[ 3rd Annual Pre-Valentine’s Day Pants Off Dance Off!! ]]
@ a special secret Bushwick loft

featuring performances by:
Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds (seductive funk and soul explosion!)
People’s Champs (polyrythmic rock special!!)

+ DJ sets by:
Planet Rump (bootie. Bootie. BOOTIE.)
and SLF’s Lil Tiger, Q-Mastah and Trainwreck!

10pm-4am. $10, cheap booze available, bring a sweetie, or meet a new one …

(RSVP to bushwickmusicloft@gmail.com for address and directions)

+ facebook invite

A SPECIAL PLACE…A SPECIAL TIME…A SPECIAL CELEBRATION!!!!

IAN FRIDAY, MANCHILDBLACK & AFRO MOSAIC SOUL invite you to come out of the cold and heat up at the party Time Out New York calls “a full-on throwdown”, LIBATION!

On Thursday, February 3rd, LIBATION will team up with B-BOY HODOWN to bring you the official opening party for the JUSTE DEBOUT Dance Competition being held for the first time in the USA! Expect to sweat alongside some of the best dancers from around the world who’ll be in town for the special event. Libation’s Global Soul messiah, IAN FRIDAY, will be joined on the decks by DJ LIL TIGER (Sound Liberation Front) who will rock his own eclectic mix of soul, funk and more!

NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!

Join the Libation Facebook Fan Page.
Check out Juste Debout here.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3rd

IAN FRIDAY & MANCHILDBLACK/HYPE LIFE MUSIC
In Association w/B-BOY HODOWN

Present

LIBATION
(The Global Soul Experience)

***OFFICIAL JUSTE DEBOUT OPENING PARTY***

w/ IAN FRIDAY
(Tea Party Music)

& Special Guest
DJ LIL TIGER
(Sound Liberation Front)

Hosted by
AFRO MOSAIC SOUL

@ SULLIVAN HALL
214 Sullivan Street
Bet. 3rd & Bleecker
NYC
A,C,E,B,D,F,V to W. 4th
212.252.2151

12-4am
$15 ($10 with Juste Debout pass)

–> Facebook invite <-- For a sip of Libation:

For more on Juste Debout, check out their youtube clips.

Sound Liberation Front + The BRMG + buhbOmp presents:

[[ AFRO-DUB SESSIONS: ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY ]]
Sounds of the Rhythm R(evolution)

SATURDAY | 29 JAN 2011
10p-4a | NO COVER | No dress code

@ Rose Live Music
345 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
– Between Marcy Ave. and Havemeyer St. in Williamsburg
– G/L train to Lorimer or the L to Bedford)
718.599.0069

maps: google | hopstop | yahoo

/// This month, AFRO-DUB SESSIONS celebrates its ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY with special guest DJ CARTER VAN PELT, host of WKCR 89.9FM’s “Eastern Standard Time” Jamaican music show, and MCs K VIBES and WILLOW WILSON. We’ll also have two live performances by SUPER HI-FI and sets by SLF resident DJs LINH, Q-MASTAH and LIL TIGER. The party is FREE and starts at 10pm.

This is the last of our parties at Rose Live Music, but it’s NOT the last of Afro-Dub Sessions. We’ll be taking the party to varying locations from here on out. In the meantime, come celebrate with us a great one-year run at Rose! ///

featuring special guests:

[[ DJ CARTER VAN PELT ]]
( WKCR’s Eastern Standard Time )

[[ K VIBES ]]
( K Vibes on facebook )

[[ WILLOW WILSON ]]

w/ resident live Afro-Dub band:

[[ SUPER HI-FI ]]
( Super Hi-Fi on Facebook )

and SLF residents:

[[ DJ LINH ]]
[[ DJ LIL TIGER ]]
[[ Q MASTAH ]]

/// About the artists:

DJ CARTER VAN PELT hosts WKCR 89.9FM’s “Eastern Standard Time”, a Jamaican music program that airs live every Saturday from 6-10 a.m. The show highlights roots reggae of the ’70s and early ’80s, Rocksteady from the mid ’60s and Ska from the early ’60s. Carter also co-hosts the weekly Roots Rock Reggae party at Motor City Bar, and organizes the popular Coney Island Reggae Soundsystem parties, one of which SLF co-hosted this past summer.

K VIBES has been singing reggae professionally for nearly 20 years. She was one of the last of a new generation of Brooklyn-based reggae artists to record for iconic Jamaican record producer Clement “Coxsone” Dodd, scoring a cult-hit with “Frenemies” in 2001.

WILLOW WILSON was widely recorded at the height of Brooklyn’s digital reggae/dancehall era in the mid/late 1980s. His voice can be heard on dozens of recordings, including a full length self-titled LP, made primarily for Whitfield Henry’s prolific Witty’s label. His latest release, a cover of Bob Marley’s “Slave Driver” for Taitu Records, reveals his strong affinity for singer Dennis Brown.

SUPER HI-FI, whose sound combines elements of Afrobeat and Dub, is a five-piece collective that features members of Aphrodesia, Slavic Soul Party, People’s Champs, and the Blue Man Group.

About Afro-Dub Sessions:

AFRO-DUB SESSIONS is dedicated to the idea that Dub, born in Jamaica, and African musical styles like Afrobeat, Afropop and Afrofunk are natural partners in the origins of global dance music. Each month SLF explores these connections by hosting a different guest DJ specializing in Dub or African-influenced styles.

The first Afro-Dub Sessions kicked off at Rose Live Music on January 30, 2010, and since that time has featured the talents of Victor “Ticklah” Axelrod, Sal P of Liquid Liquid, Amir (of Kon and Amir), Deadly Dragon Sound, Subatomic Sound System, Bastard Jazz’s DJ DRM, Awesome Tapes From Africa, DJ Afro-Marc, Hahn Solo of Dub Is a Weapon, DJ Chicus of Redbud Records, Mr. Chatman, Victor Rice and more. ///

+ facebook event page
+ going.com: www.going.com/afrodub_oneyear
+ eventful: bit.ly/eHmqH8
+ culturemob: bit.ly/ecXXB7
+ upcoming: bit.ly/gdbO1u

So, almost a year to the day of our first SOUNDLIB, we’re ending our run.

Come join us this Thursday for the final edition of SOUNDLIB. I’ll be spinning my unique mix of soul (new and old), funk, Hip-Hop, afrobeat, reggae, broken beat and much more. NO COVER. We kick things off at 8pm and go until 1am.

Sound Liberation Front + buhbOmp + The BRMG + Rappers I Know present:

[[ SOUNDLIB ]]

THURSDAY | 16 DEC 2010 | 8p-1a | NO COVER | No dress code

@ Moe’s
80 Lafayette Ave
Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY, 11217
718.797.9536

C to Lafayette Ave / G to Fulton St
Also within walking distance from the Atlantic Ave station (B-Q-2-3-4-5 trains)

maps: google | hopstop

featuring:

[[ LIL TIGER ]]
( –=(] buhbOmp [)=–, Sound Liberation Front, touch&feel:radio, Soular Grooves )

+ facebook event page

SOUNDLIB returns to Moe’s this week. I’ll be spinning soul (new and old), funk, Hip-Hop, afrobeat, reggae, broken beat and much more. This is the second-to-last SOUNDLIB before we end our run at Moe’s, which will be shutting its doors soon. So stop by and enjoy some great soulful music at one of Fort Greene’s legendary local haunts while you still can. As always, the party is FREE. We kick things off at 8pm and go until 1am, so we won’t keep you out too late.

Sound Liberation Front + buhbOmp + The BRMG + Rappers I Know present:

[[ SOUNDLIB ]]

THURSDAY | 02 DEC 2010 | 8p-1a | NO COVER | No dress code

@ Moe’s
80 Lafayette Ave
Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY, 11217
718.797.9536

C to Lafayette Ave / G to Fulton St
Also within walking distance from the Atlantic Ave station (B-Q-2-3-4-5 trains)

maps: google | hopstop

featuring:

[[ LIL TIGER ]]
( –=(] buhbOmp [)=–, Sound Liberation Front, touch&feel:radio, Soular Grooves )

+ facebook event page

For our November edition of SOUNDLIB, our good friends SEIF AL-DIN and KUNAL MERCHANT of MUSIC WITHOUT BORDERS will bring their eclectic, diverse party vibes to Brooklyn to get down with us at Moe’s. Since July, the duo has been hosting MWB Tuesdays, the best after-work weekly party in the city, and they’re eager to give BK a taste of that energy.

MUSIC WITHOUT BORDERS will join resident DJ LIL TIGER for a night of soul (new and old), reggae, funk, Hip-Hop, afrobeat, world music and much more.

Since we’re on a new night (THURSDAY instead of Wednesday), we’ll be starting an hour earlier than usual. The party kicks off at 8pm and goes until 1am, so we won’t keep you out too late. And, as always, the party is FREE. Hope to see you there. …

Sound Liberation Front + buhbOmp + The BRMG + Rappers I Know present:

[[ SOUNDLIB ]]

THURSDAY | 11 NOV 2010 | 8p-1a | NO COVER | No dress code

@ Moe’s
80 Lafayette Ave
Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY, 11217
718.797.9536

C to Lafayette Ave / G to Fulton St
Also within walking distance from the Atlantic Ave station (B-Q-2-3-4-5 trains)

maps: google | hopstop

featuring special guests:

[[ SEIF AL-DIN + KUNAL MERCHANT ]]
( Music Without Borders )

and resident DJ:

[[ LIL TIGER ]]
( –=(] buhbOmp [)=–, Sound Liberation Front, touch&feel:radio, Soular Grooves )

+ facebook event page
+ going.com: bit.ly/9xTN4w
+ eventful: bit.ly/9op8bN
+ culturemob: bit.ly/ckIHWU
+ upcoming: bit.ly/aAsu1a

Sound Liberation Front + The BRMG + buhbOmp presents:

[[ AFRO-DUB SESSIONS ]]
Sounds of the Rhythm R(evolution)

SATURDAY | 27 NOV 2010
(and every last Saturday of the month)
10p-4a | NO COVER | No dress code

@ Rose Live Music
345 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
– Between Marcy Ave. and Havemeyer St. in Williamsburg
– G/L train to Lorimer or the L to Bedford)
718.599.0069

maps: google | hopstop | yahoo

/// This month, AFRO-DUB SESSIONS welcomes SAL P from the legendary early 80’s “No Wave” band LIQUID LIQUID for a featured DJ set. We’ll also have two live performances by SUPER HI-FI and sets by SLF resident DJs LINH and LIL TIGER. The party is FREE and starts at 10pm.

About the artists:

Best known as the lead singer and percussionist of the highly influential New York group LIQUID LIQUID, SAL P has been active in the NYC music scene for three decades. Liquid Liquid’s three groundbreaking EP’s from 1981-84 on 99 Records forged a template of minimalist funk, dub and world music mixed with punk energy that has been followed by countless bands. Famously, their song “Cavern” was used as the basis for Melle Mel and Grandmaster Flash’s hit “White Lines” in 1983. Liquid Liquid broke up in 1984 but reformed in 2008 and continues to perform. Since 1999, SAL P has hosted “Universal Sundays,” a regular party at various NYC nightspots featuring African and Caribbean music.

SUPER HI-FI, whose sound combines elements of Afrobeat and Dub, is a five-piece collective that features members of Aphrodesia, Slavic Soul Party, People’s Champs, and the Blue Man Group. ///

featuring:

[[ SAL P of LIQUID LIQUID ]]
( Liquid Liquid on Facebook, Liquid Liquid on Myspace )

w/ resident live Afro-Dub band:

[[ SUPER HI-FI ]]
( Super Hi-Fi on Facebook )

and SLF residents:

[[ DJ LINH ]]
[[ DJ LIL TIGER ]]

+ facebook event page
+ going.com: www.going.com/afrodub_nov27
+ eventful: bit.ly/aTSF8L
+ culturemob: bit.ly/a4ztc3
+ upcoming: bit.ly/ccfb5E

Sound Liberation Front + buhbOmp + The BRMG + Rappers I Know present:

[[ SOUNDLIB ]]

WEDNESDAY | 27 OCT 2010 | 9p-1a | NO COVER | No dress code

@ Moe’s
80 Lafayette Ave
Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY, 11217
718.797.9536

C to Lafayette Ave / G to Fulton St
Also within walking distance from the Atlantic Ave station (B-Q-2-3-4-5 trains)

maps: google | hopstop

/// DJ LIL TIGER will be holding it down solo this week at SOUNDLIB with his unique mix of soul (new and old), funk, Hip-Hop, afrobeat, reggae and much more. As always, the party is FREE. We start and end EARLY (9pm-1am), so we won’t keep you out too late. Hope to see you there. … ///

featuring resident DJ:

[[ LIL TIGER ]]
( –=(] buhbOmp [)=–, Sound Liberation Front, touch&feel:radio, Soular Grooves )

+ facebook event page