Category Archives: posts from the olde site

March 2009 “Making Love to the Dark Ages

By Burnt Sugar | Published: March 9, 2009
Well it’s d-day y’all as the Sugar drops it’s first all-studio release in five years on LiveWired/TruGROID. It doesn’t seem that long but that’s what hap­pens with a band that has twenty-minute segues. In other words… time flies by when your mak­ing extended-jammy music. Ya heard!! The [...]
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January & February 2008

By Burnt Sugar | Published: January 8, 2009
It’s 2008 and we feel blessed to get it started in a new way with Rashida Bum­bray bring­ing us to The Kitchen for two nights on Jan­u­ary 18th & 19th to re-create our More Than Posthu­man — Rise of the Mojo­sex­ual Cot­til­ion jam­mee. [...]
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January 2009

By Burnt Sugar | Published: January 1, 2009
It’s the new year and Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber is in a cel­e­bra­tory mood!! We wish each of you a happy and healthy 2009. 2009 com­mences: –  our tenth year in exis­tence. – and a boss-banging bunch of events, some we can speak of now, and some we’ll speak of later. (like the release of our first full stu­dio [...]
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October — November 2008

By Burnt Sugar | Published: October 30, 2008
Burnt Sugar has accepted Charles Blass’s offer to keep it ghastly with a live sug­ary broad­cast in the stu­dios of WKCR. The music starts at 2am and will go till we drop or becom­ing sanc­ti­fied or are kicked off the premises at 6am!! [...]
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September 2008

By Burnt Sugar | Published: September 9, 2008
It's back to visit our new friends in Hamilton ( the Pepper Jack Cafe ), Guelph ( The Guelph Jazz Festival ) and Toronto ( the Lula Lounge ) Ontario on September 5th, 6th and 7th, with a first-time stop in Buffalo N.Y. on September 4th, thanks to Steve Baczkowski & Hallwalls and Craig Reynolds & the Big Orbit Gallery.
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August 2008

By Burnt Sugar | Published: August 9, 2008
As part of Harlem Day, the BRC Orchestra pays tribute to Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsys
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March 2008

By Burnt Sugar | Published: March 9, 2008
They say vari­ety is the spice and we say that applies to Burnt Sugar. This month we have a visit to the world famous Blue Note in Man­hat­tan on the 8th; then our first Cana­dian [...]
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December 2007

By Burnt Sugar | Published: December 9, 2007
Being a fes­tive band, we are hit­ting early and on both sides of Christ­mas this month to close out 2007 and get ready for 2008. Start­ing with a Dar­ryl McNeil-curated BRC fundraiser at the fab [...]
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September & October 2007

By Burnt Sugar | Published: October 9, 2007
Glut­tons for Music, we are doing the dou­ble dip on the 20th with an early CMJ per­for­mance at Manhattan’s Crash Man­sion and then a late night set at our home-away-from-home, Zebu­lon in Brook­lyn. If there’s ever been an oppor­tu­nity [...]
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August 2007

By Burnt Sugar | Published: August 9, 2007
Hey…haven’t heard from us in a minute, but we’re same as we ever where, and to start things off due to the ban­gin response “Chopped and Screwed — Vol­ume 2″ has received from Burnt Sugar cd pur­chasers as a give-away item, B.S.I.llc has [...]
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May 2007

By Burnt Sugar | Published: May 9, 2007
We’re jump­ing into May with two NYC shows and as we enjoy our sev­enth year as a fam­ily — a great­est hits release. — “Never Been Kissed: The Groidest Shiznits 1999–2006″ “Never Been Kissed is our ver­sion of a great­est hits album, even if you’ve never heard a [...]
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For the Love Warriors

By Burnt Sugar | Published: January 9, 2005
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TruGROID Records proudly presents : “Black Sex Yall Liberation & Bloody Random Violets”

By Burnt Sugar | Published: September 9, 2003
Tru­GROID Records proudly presents Burnt Sugar’s brand new dou­ble CD “Black Sex Yall Lib­er­a­tion & Bloody Ran­dom Vio­lets”– their most diverse and opu­lent record­ing to date. Rep­re­sent­ing their sixth stu­dio record­ing in four years, the col­lec­tion fea­tures key con­tri­bu­tions from Ver­non Reid, [...]
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In which Greg Tate interviews Greg Tate about Burnt Sugar’s New Album ‘The Rites’ and Related Matters

By Burnt Sugar | Published: May 9, 2003
Burnt Sugar vs. Stravin­sky? How did we get here? Why y’all tripping? GT It was really more a case of Burnt Sugar vs. Butch Mor­ris. Uncle Igor was just an inno­cent bystander who got caught in our [...]
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December 2008

By Burnt Sugar | Published: December 1, 2000
Burnt Sugar has a santa-bag full of gigs this month start­ing with a per­for­mance for the Art for Arts Inc. ben­e­fit on Mon­day, Decem­ber 15th. We”ll be joined by the noted acoustic bassist and vio­lin­ist Henry Grimes . Then before you can say jin­gle, we feel for­tu­nate to [...]
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