Sunday, December 19, 2010

Singles of Note




Weed Hounds-Skating Away From The Cops 7"

Hell yeah two-songs that are super-potent, couldn't get enough of this band, the demo is great too but I really like the way they produced these tracks not too hot not too cold if you know what I mean. The songs are great, would you run away if I told you they reminded me of "Isn't Anything" MBV? You can call me lazy, but don't discount the band. They are set to drop a full-length in the next coupla months and I can't wait.



The Pains Of Being Pure of Heart-Say No To Love 7"

Even though I've slowly been coming to the conclusion it ain't healthy to listen to all this spoon-my-heart-out/fatalist/uber-romance shit all the time I still have to give it up to these doods, it's just too pretty too well crafted. The secret hater in me can't wait till this band screws up so I can just hate on em but it's probably not gonna happen cuz they have a pretty damn consistent track-record of purrrfection. On a related note: When is Mac gonna come out with filters for your eyes, fuck rose-colored glasses, I want super 8 lenses.Say No To Love



Veronica Falls-Beachy Head 7"

Well I am getting a little miffed(that's british right?) that there hasn't been a full-length yet, or a deluge of singles....just a slow slow trickle it's all gold though I guess that's the trade-off. I heard somewhere this song is about a famous place to kill yourself, now that's goth and they didn't even need to bury it under a mile of white-noise. But on another note, has there ever been one sunny day in all of England's existence? Catch the Wave



Wild Nothing-Evertide Ep

Welp no surprise here I been jocking this band too damned hard lately. I don't even have words for this one too good too good. jock on



Balam Acab-See Birds

I think you could call Balam Acab rookie of the year, he came out of nowhere and pretty much won the hearts of all, he pulls more emotion out of machines than most can out a slew live instruments, and they are covered in gorgeous texture. Unlike witch house which he might be unfairly asscociated with he doesn't leave you feeling desperate or scared, mostly fulfilled and renewed and shit positive like that. See Birds



Ikonika-DCKHDBTCH

A lot of times I am really disappointed by dubstep, but really it's just that it's gotten so big now that it has gone in a million different directions. And unfortunately the directions leading to the general mindless herds are the ones most popular. Thankfully guys like Joker, Hudson Mohawke, and Nosaj Thing are still pushing boundaries and right up there with them is Ikonika. Her drums are pretty simple kinda cheap sounding, but she throws the most bonkers ass melodies over it, after a minute they just start to work on you, then her super woozy basslines start to take effect, it's real cool. This isn't the best introduction to her music but it is definitely solid.



Zomby-One Foot Ahead of The Other

Zomby definitely fits into the above-mentioned category of people not being content with the definition of dubstep the mindless are trying to impose on the rest of us. I don't know much about electronics or sequencers so I can't really say what he's doing, it sounds analog and complex to me. Actually I think this ep has more in common with Wendy Carlos than Bassnectar. It surely satisfies my brain in ways simillar to Switched On Bach.



White Ring/oOoOO-Emotion 7"

This whole genre is inevitably gonna get a whole bunch of flack but good music remains good music and this seven inch is good music. You shouldn't have to apologize for like DJ's Paul and Screw as well Portishead and Burzum it's fucking 2010 ya heard? Let em do their thang thang. And besides the clever genre tag isn't it really just cold wave or goth or whatever? I think sometimes people lose perspective and can't appreciate something cool when it's crawling like Ju-On across the floor.EmOtiONaL



oOoOO-EP

Yeah other than Salem I think these guys have got the most bankable catalog at the moment, NoSmmr4U is a certified banger.Did I mention the Pokerface Remix?

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Keep Ruling Violently



schools out thank the gods, another semester fumbled

Hell yeah in the next coming weeks there will be a couple vinyl releases brought to you by the homies, on saturday the mighty VIOLENT RULER will be dropping their first full length, SWELLING THE MORGUE. In fact if MO woke up he should be fucking around with transparencies and diddlin' with layouts as I write. the release party is on SATURDAY in Reno at Jub Jubs Thirst Parlor. As it stands I don't know any information on pre-ordering and all that but I'll pass it along once it's passed along to me...
For the woefully uninitiated VIOLENT RULER is hands-down the best metal act in Reno, taking the best parts from 80's splicing it with the best of the 90's, then they smother it with drugs and let it bleed. In other words they are top-notch Thrash Metal unit that make bands like Toxic Holocaust look like a cheap after-school special in comparison. But don't take my word for it you can check out six songs right below. They also are in the process of recording some other other shit so yeah be on the lookout for that as well. I've also heard rumours of a West Coast tour this year, don't wanna give too much away, but itll more than likely beINFAMOUS, and it might get RAINY and they might take a Pro-wrestler with them....anyways keep your ears and eyes open.

Violent Ruler DEMOlition






Monday, December 13, 2010

Diggin the Nature Scene


I have a new band and we are happy to be playing our first show this friday with kill rock stars western gals, Grass Widow. They are playing their only show out of the bay for a while in Reno, and The Indoors is also playing. The Indoors are a Truckee Meadows super group, (mothers wing, juvinals, violent ruler, etc.) and it's their 3rd show I believe. Fresh acts, schools out, happy xmas, its the weekend get to freakin

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Graduate From Kali High





For those out of exhale range of california may find it hard to believe all the hype surrounding it's weed use. But take it from someone who lives real close but so far away....it's true it's true! California has been enveloped by a thickening cloud of potsmog and whatever you may think about Prop.19 it ain't showing any signs of dispersal. I was down on Venice Beach earlier this fall and my time was spent a lot like Juicy J's and Project Pat's....although the extreme police presence was a little more than nauseating. I sat looking out on the ocean wondering if Jim Morrison had touched a girl on the very sand I was looking out at, then I wondered if George Jung had met up with some mexicans under the palm tree I was at....and then I got bummed again on all the fucking cops, and the realization that a Jim Morrison or George Jung or anybody halfway tight has a whole harder time gettin' shit done when pigs are scuttling up and down the beach on four-wheelers and horses....well whatever all the cops didn't stop me from getting Cali High, and neither I suppose do they stop many people

Ill Omen Naughty

Daily dose of vitamin reality is brought to us today by B.O.B very eloquently said my man

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Thx 138


Without wood, there'd be no America. No ships to bring the pilgrims across the ocean. No log cabins, no schoolhouses, no churches, no covered wagons, no railroad ties, no cigar store Indians, no nothin'.
Tonight I'm driving down to San Diego to go kick it with the X-Ray Cat for the weekend. I'll try to swing some documents thisa way, but don't count on fate.

Gooble Gobble


In the spirit of the Holidaze, I will show thanks to my favorite albums of this year. Like any "best-of" I could do, this isn't super definitive and I am sure there are a couple of ones that I forgot that I will regret. I will probably do at least one more of these by the end of the year. Happy Thanksgiving!


Isobell Campbell & Mark Lanegan-Hawk

I have talked and talked about this album and listened to it waaaay too many times to write anything about it now.
Pitchfork did an alright job talkin it up so go ask them. Anyways yeah it's real real good.

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan from DUKOFF on Vimeo.



Wild Nothing-Gemini

Man this band crept on my hard and rapidly became one of my favorites. They encompass the term "sleeper" in almost anyway you can come up with. I paid no attention to the band when they put up their Kate Bush cover, which is odd. And then when the album came out, I liked it but didn't give it too much thought. It wasn't until the three-song Evertide ep, that I really got a good hold on them. Three songs and each one of them could have been a smash-hit, Duran Duran-big radio phenomenon...In an alternate, much much cooler universe. Revisiting the album I realized each and every song on the motherfucker was just about as good, and it was variated enough to not be monotonous, which is not the easiest thing to pull off when you are playing soft somber shit. It's all over the news, NOSTALGIA is waay big with the current generation and im a fan myself. Anyways this shit will definitely make you feel like you're living in whatever idealized past/future you've created for yourself.

WILD NOTHING - LIVE IN DREAMS from John Paul on Vimeo.



Big Boi-Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty

-I knew this one was gonna be great by the steady stream of singles that came out damn near a year preceding the album release. But actually a lot of the end of the album tracks have become my favorite, the whole album reminds me of why I fell in love with songs like Skew It On the Bar-B, B.O.B, Trans DF Express(remember that one?), and pretty much all Outkast in general. I find myself putting this album on more than others, oh and the below song will forever remain my personal anthem, I smoke weed and flex in my room by myself to this shit.

Big Boi - Fo Yo Sorrows VIDEO ft.Too Short,George Clinton,SamChris from SNORTTHIS.COM on Vimeo.



Joanna Newsom-Have One On Me

In time this album could very well become my favorite album of all time. The problem is that it is sooo dense and packed to the brim with imagery and harmony and swirling strings and all that and more that even nearly 10 months later I have not been to fully grasp all three albums. I just take off a chunk or so and chew on that for a couple of months, but honestly I haven't really been able to get past "Good Intentions Paving Company" which is one of those songs that just plucks every heartstring I have, in a fashion probably not too different from the way she plays the harpstrings. But what in the hell is up with all those sex symbol press photos?! That is definitely not the spritely elf singing about clams my junior year. I mean can't say I'm objecting, I just never imagined she'd intentionally give dudes boners to sell her music, but like I said I'm not complaining.


No Age Everything In Between

I came into this album with little to no expectation beacause I wasn't that big of a fan of their earlier shit. That's what suprised me the most is because I wasn't really looking for anything in their vein, but they brought it so hard that I liked it anyway. It rocks way harder than their other albums, more concise I think. It sounds like a band really honin' in on their own sound, it's cool to listen to. They've always tried to that pulsing white-noise build up into structure thing, well I think they pulled it off the best they've ever done it on this album. They shift seamlessly from amorphic to anthemic throughout the album.

No Age - Glitter (not the video) from Sub Pop Records on Vimeo.



Dum Dum Girls-I Will Be

I was an early fan of these guys especially of that song Ship of Love, but I tell you what the recording on those early releases was pretty bare-bones. This record continued the great songs from the demo and whatnot but with just enough polish. My only complaint would be that more of the older stuff wasn't re-recorded. I know bands usually get flack for that, but Im usually all for it.

Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La from Sub Pop Records on Vimeo.

Monday, November 22, 2010

You're In The Jungle Baby

actually just found out about this just recently and am waaay surprised that someone has ripped this....what you have here is a bit of the Old Guard gettin' the fuck down, Toby owns Pnuematic, Spencer is the drummer for Huck(also Tate Labianca featured on the blog), Beau Shaver was mentioned in a previous post, and Jake Griffin tatoos at Ace's).













ps-they all have at one point lived on Sinclair st. yeehaw!

Live Four Die Four



The newest Thrasher magazine has a little piece on Shake Junt and the memorial/skate jam that went down earlier this year in remembrance of Beau Shaver, local skate-legend/all-around BMF. It's a pretty good article and most definitely surreal to see local dudes get national recognition in the biggest skate magazine there is. Unfortunately Out of Bounds recently had to close their doors, which kind of makes this article bittersweet, since a large part of the skate scene here revolved around that store. But Reno iz resilient if nothing else, hopefully we can make the Shred 4 Shaver event an annual get down.


there's no sound on this video, but so just put on this Lil Gin track while you watch it...

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Oration On Tha Dignity of 23

A new form of human being announces itself: dynamic, creative, multidimensional, protean, unfinished, self-defining and self-creating, infinitely aspiring, set apart from the whole, overseeing the rest of the world with unique sovereignty, centrally poised in the last moments of the old cosmology to bring forth and enter into the new.
-from Tarnas' Cosmos and Psyche on twenty-three year old Pico della Mirandola's 1486 Oration on the Dignity of Man

"Neither a fixed abode nor a form that is thine alone nor any function peculiar to thyself have we given thee, Adam, to the end that according to thy longing and according to thy judgment thou mayest have and possess what abode, what form, and what functions thou thyself shalt desire. The nature of all other beings is limited and constrained within the bounds of laws prescribed by Us. Thou, constrained by no limits, in accordance with thine own free will, in whose hand We have placed thee, shalt ordain for thyself the limits of thy nature. We have set thee at the world's center that thou mayest from thence more easily observe whatever is in the world. We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal, so that with freedom of choice and with honor, as though the maker and molder of thyself, thou mayest fashion thyself in whatever shape thou shalt prefer."
Here's Korine's preferred shape at the same age:
yesterday was jodie foster and larry king's birthday too, here they are:

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Ham Ratchet JCAT


Cupla posts back Austinian mentioned Die Antwoord Harmony Korine and Lil Boosie in the same sentence. Im gonna chalk that down as one of my November highlights. Anyways got me to thinkin about the Boos, I honestly wastn't sure if he was ever going to get any real attention thrown at him, because those in the know can clearly see that the dude has bona fide skills. Any youtube comment list you read will have some talk about him being the next Pac. Hmmmm that whole conversation is kinda, "eh" but it got me thinking, first I had to construct a "2Pac" in my head and distill his importance cross-referenced and translated into a form(a sort of mental rubrick if you will) that I could compare Lil Boosie too. Once I did that, I found that indeed Lil Boosie fulfilled my arbitrary and completely baseless expectations of 2Pac. But unfortunately the type of people who are good at identifying Lil Boosie's greatness are not usually given much clout in any form, maybe least of all in the music-journalists world. But we shall see we shall see.



But then there is the other impending and faaaar more bleak reality that he is currently facing 6 muder 1 charges and could very well be the first Rapper to be executed. When keeping it real goes wrong? Or should we entertain the idea that the powers to be might not like a Boosie type popular in the world. Well, of course the powers to be don't like the idea of Lil Boosie, but to the extent that they would orchestrate some way of blacklisting him like this....that's hard to imagine.



Now I fully realize that there is some (probably large) percentage of the Boosie character that is completely made-up. But it certainly was not made in a vacuum. Just as Captain America didn't ever decapitate a red skulled Nazi-type, but it is definitely coming from somewhere, so too does some element of Lil Boosie really exist in our world. But are people really listening to what he has to say? and thinking about what it all means? probably not, but just do a comparison between the homespun wisdom of rappers like Rakim and Big Daddy Kane, and then think about the life-philosphy of the new-school, it's not that the new school is dumber or meaner per se. It's just that the situation they are reflecting is probably far grimmer.



But honestly put yourselves in the position of an old-timey white sheriff or D.A. in some shit parrish in the south, over your life-time you too have seen the degradation of your way of life and your base of power, and out of the woodwork comes these twacked out, bug-eyed, homocidal maniacs flashing guns and money and throwing a middle finger to your whole world. Speaking for myself it would be coonin' time for sure.



But what do you do? Sit on the side and try and wipe yourself clean from the mess and throw admonishments and call it macaroni? or do you say fuck it and get knee deep in the muck and bask in the evil surrounding you? I'm not too sure, on the whole I don't think the kind of shit these guys are saying is really constructive or beneficial long-term. But I can't deny that I like it, and indeed love all the robbin' mobbin' shootin' and lootin'. I feel like I can separate good fantasy from the reality we live in and extract what should be extracted and leave the rest, but I don't really trust the next man to be able to do the same....hmmm problems without answers



Sun Valley Above The Rest

as with most towns the real gold usually lies in the outskirts, the fringe. where people don't get shit so easily. anyone who grew up in Sun Valley/Lemon Valley/Stead/Fernley/Cold Springs/Spanish Springs/Carson/Dayton or whatever corrolary applies to your world...I see you. fuck yeah keep doin you and flash on the rest.

AMERICAN ART otherwise known as AMERICA LIVES!!!!




I dont know how the rest of everybody else feels but I still love America and think it's pretty fuckin tight! im glad prop 19 didnt pass lets keep the weed to the punks and faggots haha. ive been thinking alot lately on how tight sex is. All us boys used to dream of it and we all know when we finally crossed the flesh-hold we came immediately. and lsd !!! come on what happened to everybody just eating THAT shit every weekend. I think we need to call the snow storm off its killing the colorful eyes of americans. here is some good american cinema from americas primal years of america.THE JERKY PARTY.




I HIGHLY SUGGEST TAKING ALL HALLUCINOGENS ESPECIALLY D.M.T. THE SPIRIT MOLECULE: AN ULTIMATE TEST.

Monday, November 15, 2010

I Need The Darkness

Ok, so for better or for worse, I haven't ever gotten into Arcade Fire. Haven't really even thought twice about them, until I saw this song on SNL the other night.

I cannot stop listening to it. It's like..
mixed with

catching the 'emotional landscapes' of 'the suburbs'

and the sound of the heaviest century getting brushed off yr shoulders. Whatever it is, it makes getting out of bed easier..
here is a cover they did of jay reatard's "oh its such a shame", which is really pretty sad and puts this year into a little more focus.

Graci Widow

ain't it apparent? this band has aesthetic down like a goose-feather jacket

Grass Widow - Give Me Shapes from Kill Rock Stars on Vimeo.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Dan Fransisco Sike

Grass Widow "Shadow" from Kill Rock Stars on Vimeo.



psst you didn't hear it from me but these lovely ladies maybe making a stop in reno mid-december

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Our angels are hard of hearing

I want rough voices and shouting women
to cry out against the blinding of Samson.
I will always cry, take away those knives.
Isn't it enough that
the evening star sets at night
and lovemaking ends at dawn?
Please god help the human beings,
for men are coming to blind Samson.
(on the gulf war)

If we dont lift our voices,
we allow others, who are ourselves,
to rob the house.
(on war in iraq)

Noosphere integration v2.0

Started a YouTube channel for the blog. A more wholesome experience. Here are two videos that are better online somehow than in a file somewhere on the desktop. From The Holland Project's "Under 3 minute Film Showcase" 2010 and 2009

Demons of the Static Age

Word has it that with super high bit-rates this video appears to be more than it is...I haven't actually been able to watch it yet, and certainly not download and watch it proper, high and defined, but yeah check this shit out. No lie I've listened to this song more than any other in the last couple of months(beating out Joanna Newsom, Big Boi, Isobel Campbell...that is one large feat). While static is an interesting medium, they really need to get someone with a Carpenter/Kubrick aesthetic up on their videos and start churnin' out the new DARK...you can pick up a super Fidelic version of the video somewhere on this website but not entirely sure how...how helpful

Balam Acab - "See Birds (Sun)" from stereogum on Vimeo.



balam acab - see birds (moon) from allblurry on Vimeo.



watch this dude cuz he's definitely on the up and up

Monday, November 1, 2010

Runaway

This is probably everywhere, but in 1080p it's totally gorgeous, and I'm reposting.

We Out Chea Evil Boi


Affinity is a weird thing. It's somewhere between intuition on one side and rational thought on the other. Something like taste in the middle. Reminds me of a dream I'm going to have. Suffice to say, Harmony Korine and Die Antwoord are doing a short film this week in Nashville propelled by Lil Boosie? ! ! !


spin:
What American hip-hop have you've been getting into lately?
Well, we're making a short form movie with [Kids writer] Harmony Korine and he started playing me Lil Boosie's video "We Out Chea." It's pretty fuckin'….I've never seen something like that. They all look cooked in the video. It looks like there's something wrong with all their eyes and Harmony told me they all drank cough medicine.
inmusic:
"We're making a short film with Harmony Korine in a few weeks time. He sent me this gangsta rap music of these videos of these gangsta rappers in the Deep South. And I kind of understood Die Antwoord a little bit more after watching them. They all drink that cough mixture or something [drank] and they're all like f**kin wired and stuff. And I was watching these gangsta rappers and I didn't know what the f**k they were saying and I kind of got it. It reminded me of Die Antwoord. They're in this f**kin zone. It's the only thing I've seen in a long time that reminded me of Die Antwoord."
pitchfork:
We're doing a short film in a few weeks time with Harmony Korine that will screen at the Rotterdam Film Festival this January. [Korine] wrote the script and we made it a little more Zef. It's come out fuckin' wild. It's a short film called Wat Kyk Jy-- which means "watcha lookin' at?"-- which I tattooed onto my penis as well.

and this is what ninja says about his raps:
I'm rapping about finding boobs and stuff. And black magic and like stealing money.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Bathe in the Obscene




Happy Halloween everybody. I must say this year I am feeling the call of the ultra-violent and grotesque more than other years. Which is perfect because Brotha Lynch Hung signed to Strange Music, Tech 9's label. Now some of the more ignorant and uninformed might not see how any part of that story could be tight. But Brotha Lynch is one of the best that ever did it, and Tech 9 is definitely on the up and up, and I think it shows real character that he would extend a hand to Lynch in the midst of all his success....it's real good for Lynch because he has the most potential for exposure and all that than probably any point in his career. I feel he sees this oppurtunity and on his Strange Music debut he laid it the fuck down. Mark my words if you take all the shitty skits out
Dinner and A Movie' is one doozy of an album. I think that when Brotha Lynch raps about depression he is unequaled in ability to elaborate on the sickened mind. And as for the cannibal shit. well well well. I could intellectualize about what cannibalistic fantasies says about our culture. shit, you and i could intellectualize about anything in the world we wanted, but im gonna leave it short. If you are a fan of horror movies, than there is no way you can't like Brotha Lynch. you know "nuts, and guts and slabs of human meat motherfucker" if that doesnt excite your mind than we are different people and should stay to our different ways, that is fine. But I tell you, if you like Horror, then Dinner and a Movie is essential. And in the spirit of Halloween I will share a link to a new mixtape, I haven't had the chance to listen to it, so I can't quality control but it's a Strange Music affair and Im gonna assume that is a stamp of quality, and it's called Silent Supper so there is no question as to what the content is gonna be. Like I said, happy halloween. Boo!
Now Eat

Thursday, October 28, 2010

The Grimeys (nSFw)

In it's short time in existence WSHH has become a major factor in the way hip-hop is disseminated among the masses. It's whole existence is blessed just by the simple fact that Gucci Mane's "Makin' Love To The Money" would never have been possible without a website like this. I no longer lament the passing of MTV/MTV2 because in the void something faaar better is coming to surface, and grimy-ass rap videos are just but one part of that.







Wednesday, October 13, 2010

"i went to parties and saw kids get around black lights!!"




tryin something new, i made this pouch for whatever you may want,(weed pipe, sage, 40oz, tiny-bong, etc.etc.) the painting is untitled show far, ill be showing stages of it and all the backseat insiders footage where they show you all the shit not seen in theatres or stores. the 2 larger panels are 24x30 and the smaller is 8x24, medium is acrylic, enamel, spray paint, gouache, pen and ink, also human blood is mixed in with the red lining you see. just taste it, it's salty. next up is a painting of the famous "The Pine" market. a real blast from the past up your ass roller coaster ride back to yesteryear. hopefully by christmas ill have all my work ever done in a digital format where you can actually see details etc.

Monday, September 27, 2010

"Get the hell off that jet-ski, Blonde Ambition Tour!"

















































just some ideas, super high on this shit called "blue dream" i highly recommend it. Sierra Nevada has a new beer out its 30th anniversary Bock. that too is also i recommend. much better than bud light with lime and clamato. all reno all white trash event inspired works. from the birds and the bees, fly honeys and the love of it all. oh yeah with a little bit of Gummo mixed in but still, its one in the same. get some head, smoke some weed look at some drawings, do some drawings but still. the canvas witht the bat is called "Circus, Circus" and is a tribute to austin pratt, all the colors i used were lifted from an earlier painting austin did and gave to me, . it was almost 50 individual colors. the two brown, black , red pieces are my favorite so far.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Which House?

The Flaming Lips famously stated, "Finally the punk rockers are taking Acid", I would like to say, "Finally nerdy computer geeks are taking cough syrup". If they were ever to accurately remake a classic horror film(mostly Nightmare on Elm Street) The opening shot would be a descending aerial view of a sleepy neighborhood that slowly descends on to one open upstair window....this song would be playing and their would be choppy cuts of an underwater scene and maybe some stock owl footage spliced in there really artfully. Plus that guitar solo sounds ripped straight from David Gilmour's hands circa 1983.

oOoOO - Seaww from Ridge Valley Digital on Vimeo.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

America at the Dawn of a New Century

Came across this a night or two ago, don't have much information and I can't remember where I originally stumbled upon it. From what I can gather it is a homemade movie of a weekend in Michigan with a group of people. Seemingly innocuous, it is actually probably the best summation of America that I have ever seen....completely blown away.
It's like gummo, but real.


and the soundtrack is fucking spot on

Monday, August 30, 2010

Time ain't nothin' but a thing



this and C&C Music Factory's everybody dance now were the first tapes I got, tape singles mind you, it was a while later till I actually got full albums. Turtle Tape's, I loved the sign and thought it was the coolest place on earth....why in the hell do I remember that?



Before the internet if your parents didn't know the answer, then there was no way to know something. Case in point, my mom had no idea who Leaders Of The New School were so it didn't matter how many times I tried to get more info on them, I couldn't, at the end of the day my mom was my only source of information, and the slight trickle I would get from MTV, but that mostly just frustrated me because I would see something hecka tight but have no way to follow up on it at all, it would appear out of nowhere with no context and disappear just the same. It's funny that Busta Rhymes was in Leaders Of The New School, I had no idea until many years later, I couldn't youtube the above mentioned video, and by the time Gimme Some More was out, Leaders of The New School might as well have never existed....they surely weren't getting played in between Usher and En Vogue.

ha! I can't wait until twenty years from now when I can REALLY start laying on the "when I was your age-isms", something like, "when I was your age, we had to wear clothes and spend our whole day in stuffy rooms with artificial light, sitting in funny chairs staring screens that lied to us all day, and the lies on the screen tried to take advantage of you and make you buy other screens and clothes and get you to sit in other stuffy rooms with funny chairs and artificial light...." yeah something like that would be a pretty cool thing to be able to say.


hey but as long as we're not saying shit like this anymore I'd be good

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Shangaan Electro....Agaan



CANNOT get enough of this shit. I don't have words to extrapolate...sorry.



as long as marginalized people like the Shangaan of Limpopo have a vehicle to share their souls with the rest of the planet, the internet will get a pass in my book.
If you can buy this album I would highly suggest it, these guys are from South Africa...which you know has a whole can of problems-poverty being right there on the top of the list

Get Naked You Beezy




Dr. Laura, what can be said that you haven't already said yourself? appreciate the n00dz though!