New music from Solid Gold & Estate, video footage of Brother Ali in Paris, and Guante & See More Perspective drop a new album.

New music videos from No Bird Sing and Felt, Rain Machine plays The Current and Sufjan Stevens to return to the TC later this month.

Noam the Drummer put together this megamix of Guante & Big Cats!’s new album, An Unwelcome Guest, essentially condensing an hour-long zombie-superhero-love-story concept album into 15 crazy minutes.

Tonight: a group including members of the 2009 National Poetry Slam champion team, the Minneapolis National Poetry Slam team, and others will be performing at the Music Box Theater in Minneapolis.

On Wednesday, September 9, a group including members of the 2009 National Poetry Slam champion team, the Minneapolis National Poetry Slam team, and others will be performing at the Music Box Theater in Minneapolis.

On Wednesday, September 9, a group including members of the 2009 National Poetry Slam champion team, the Minneapolis National Poetry Slam team, and others will be performing at the Music Box Theater in Minneapolis.

Video footage of Guante & Big Cats! @ the 75th anniversary of the historic 1934 Teamster strikes (07/25/2009).

While May’s high profile major label releases might’ve dominated sales charts, it was the month’s independent releases that were the most compelling. Add to that a series of fantastic concerts, the Twin Cities’ largest hip hop festival and a few solid music videos and May measures just as strong as any other this year. Above all however, these are Culture Bully’s favorite things from the month of May.

Hip Hop Against Homophobia has announced two new shows: June 13 @ Bedlam Theater & June 27 @ the Depot.

Photo coverage of Guante & Big Cats!’s CD release show at the Nomad World Pub (05/09/2009).

Performance and interview video footage of Jeremy Messersmith, Big Cats! & Guante.

This could simply be coincidental, but it’s fitting that the tracks on Guante and Big Cats!’s Start a Fire EP have been edited and cut down to their most basic…