Yoooo!!! I hope you are outdoors and grilling dead flesh today to celebrate the lives of peep who sacrificed for freedom!!! I will be doing a few massive updates this week before I head out on “Halo Summer Jam Tour” so be on the looks for a new post from the ‘SXSW 2010: Collected Interviews from the Dirty Dirty’ series, new Morning Show and Six Feet Deep podcasts as well as other goodies (new mix bubbling…). Hey, can you pass me the potato salad…F*CK, it’s german style?! Ehh, I’ll just have a hot dog and fried pickle then…
Happy Memorial Day!!! and remember, Big Brother is always watching…Moo Whoo Hahaha!!!
Yoooo!!! I have to shuffle off to Buffalo real soon so I just wanted to hit you with the Artist of the Week and be out…This week’s feature is none other than NYC underground favorite BS!!! Hell Yes it’s BS!!! Peep Game…
Don’t let the name fool you, there’s nothing BS about BS. A part of NYC’s next generation of up and coming emcees, BS has rocked the mic with a litany of former Artists Of The Week (aka B-Listers, for the uninitiated), including Chaz Kangas, Jesse Abraham, and Premonition. In fact, the first time I saw him perform it was with a group of artists I’d known for a while, so it was almost as though he’d arrived on the scene already co-signed. To BS’s credit, he’s never taken advantage of that feeling and continues to work his ass off to get heard. This week I caught up with BS to find out more about the man behind the initials, including what those initials stand for, where you’ll never find him, and why instead of sneaking into shows he now has to sneak out of them. For Full Article, Check Adam’s World Blog… (As always thanks for the content jack!!!)
Whuttup!!! Alot of projects bubbling in the halodoesntsuck labs, will be in Buffalo the first part of the week to teach the yungins about the rap, self esteem and all that jazz…Holler!!! This week’s Ruff Mix is a video I made for a HILARIOUS track off the Party Fun Action Committee album ‘Let’s Get Serious’. If you are scratching your head like, “What the dunk is this cat talking about??? Jive Ass Mofo…” then check the link to learn more…
The short of it is; this project was a joke project produced by Blockhead and it just happend to get put out by Def Jux back at the start of the label…See! Rap can have a sense of humor too…Check the video and get at me about your sore abs from laughing.
For good measure here is another track from the album as well…Atoms Family anyone??? Plus the kid with the hoodie in the picture, dead up, could have been me 10 years ago…
PUNK ROCK!!!! Was feeling a bit down today doing my Morning Show on WPKN, finished strong with a punk rock set of Rancid, NOFX, Op Ivy, Bad Religion and am feeling much better…something about spring and punk rock are like Paddington and Marmalade, they just go together. So before I get into the Artist of the Week, peep this video of my favorite Bad Religion song of all time…American Jesus (as me for what the song means sometime…Holler!)
And for good measure…Blatz…
OK, Ok, ok…now that you have been all amped up from those two videos, let’s get into the Artist of the Week, Premonition!!!
The first time I heard Premonition was the remix to “Double Time” that was on the Spills & Jesse Abraham album Alphabutter. The song featured half a dozen of NY’s finest and when Premonition’s verse came on my initial reaction was “damn, who’s the dude with the deep-ass voice of God?” Then I started listening to his lyrics and thought “damn, the voice of God has some serious skills!” Over the next few months I’d run into Premonition at a number of shows and find that in addition to being able to shine on a track he can also rock a mic live. A truly passionate emcee, this week I caught up with Premonition to find out more about that passion, who’s going to end up on his future tour bus, and his strange connection with comedian Judah Freidlander. For Full Article click the link to Adam’s World Blog HERE…
That’s all for now…Don’t forget to check the Live Dates section for a show I will be doing this Friday in Danbury CT for a great cause (I am donating more than my $5, you should too), the Bisco Smith interview (click the link to download) I posted yesterday aaaaand the updated Six Feet Deep & Morning Show pages.
Ha-lo, ha-lo, ha-lo…how was the weekend??? Swellmaticalicious??? I hope soooo…Today I don’t have a music project for you, buuut it is a very well produced interview I got from the homie Bisco Smith @ SXSW and is the first part of a Series I will be posting here as well as broadcasting on my Morning Show on WPKN. I call it “SXSW; collected interviews from the Dirty Dirty”. I will be posting them regularly on Wednesdays, buuuut since I didn’t have any production stuff to post this week…here we are 2 days early for the first segment. I am a poor planner, what can I say…simply click the photo below or the link HERE to download.
Interview Comes Chok-A-Blok with goodies; copy of the interview, two tracks off ‘The Broadcast’ (Freshwater & Morning Breath LeParisite Rmx), JPEGs of the visual art associated with ‘The Broadcast’ aaaaand a picture of my ugly mug interviewing Bisco. All…FO’ FREE!!! It that doesn’t get you excited, I suggest you check you pulse…you may be deceased. Also!!! Peep one of the videos (Morning Breath) that are posted on the front page of Bisco’s Site, it was shot on location @ WPKN for much of it and produced by the good homies @ Lasek X Video Production…Peep Game…
Lastly, I have updated the Six Feet Deep and Morning Show pages with easily digestible 50-60 min segments of both shows for all of April and the first week of May. Peep a few random segments for you download pleasure, simply click the link and you’re off and running!!! Again, it’s all FOR FREE so take a chance and hear something amazing…it could change your life (seriously, I am not kidding about that).
Sup, Sup, SUUUUUPPPP!!! Yeah, so I am super freaking amped about three things today 1) the amazing Subways & Sidewalks Podcast that I made with godAwful yesterday, 2) Rocking in Boston tonight @ Good Life Bar and finally 3) taking my new MacBook Pro Laptop out for it’s club debut (it’s gonna be tiiiiiightsauce to the maxxx). I got a full day planned today so I don’t really have much time to gabbb it up with ya (well damn, I had no idea it meant that much to you…tomorrow I swear. Cool??? Great!!). Without further pomp and circumstance here’s the Brand New SUBWAYS & SIDEWALKS Podcast ft. godAwful…Click the cover art below or the link to download…
Holy Snap Cakes!!! Just wrapped the new Subways & Sidewalks podcast with godAwful and it is BANGIN’!!! No lie, I am really excited about this one…damn I need to do it more often. Whew!!! I was feeling like warmed over dag (if your of the piker persuasion) doo, but had some Crunk Juice (thank you sponsors!!!) started rocking the 1′s and 2′s and feel FANTASTIC now…so amped! Anyhow, the podcast will post tomorrow in my podcasts page, so be on the looks for that. ALSO tomorrow I am taking over Good Life Bar in Boston, MA for ‘Kitchen Sink’ to blow out eardrums and make heads dance till they get sweaty…check the flyer for details, if you are in the Boston area I STRONGLY recommend attending this hump day spectacular (and not just cause i am the DJ) there will be live art from Auks One upstairs, a crazy drink menu and tons of good times had by all.
Click the Flyer to peep the FB invite!!!
Now, onward and upward with this week’s edition of Artist of the Week, so thoughtfully provided by the good folks over at Adam’s World Blog…This week features none other thaaaaannnn, Ukulele playing rapper Jon Braman…aaawwww snap!!!
A couple months ago I was at an event in the city when a friend of a friend started telling me about Jon Braman. Now, bear in mind, I hear a lot of people telling me about a lot of artists, so it takes something really interesting to get my attention. As soon as she said Braman was a rapper who played the ukulele, getting my attention was no longer an issue. After what seemed like dozens of missed opportunities to check out Braman’s work, his album, Climatastrophunk, finally arrived in my mailbox. Really interested in knowing if combining the ukulele and hip-hop could work, I put it on. It was an oddly perfect marriage, at least with Braman at the helm. His lyrics are meaningful, and at times downright beautiful, and his vibe matches those qualities perfectly. Braman describes some of the inspiration behind his music, saying “being able to sing out your fears as well as your hopes and dreams is a pretty good feeling.” This week I caught up with Jon Braman to find out more about the man, his music, and what exactly a Climatastrophunk is.
Hey Hey!!! Hope you had a great weekend, mine was all about…STUFF (ahhh, got ya! think I was gonna give details…not likely). I any case, the STUFF was glorious and good times were had by all. This Monday is a HUGE post of new material I have been working on recently (well it’s only 3 tracks, but still) and an interview with J-Zone!!! Now I will just sit back and wait for the letters to pour in about how I changed your life…in the meantime, peep game below. Click the cover art or link above to download…
Just messing around with remixing some accapellas I had lying around and this one came out particularly well, so now you must be subjected to it…fair enough??? Maaaan do I loooove grime rappers!!!
The original source for this was not an accapella per se, but a really cool spoken word piece from Sabac’s album ‘Sabacolypse’ and it’s all about my favorite thing in the world…sorry ladies, but it’s Vinyl Records. I threw in the Fight Club speech just because it seemed like a fitting end to an otherwise short production. You be the judge…
Not gonna lie, this production is kind of a mess…but there is a interesting beauty in its chaos…Won’t be the last you hear of this one, but I wanted to post it to the peanut gallery anyway. What’s the worst that could happen; you stop checking the site, boycott my shows, put flaming bags of dookie on my porch (hey! I’m from KY, we love porches)??? Weeeelll, I’m willing to take that risk…
I had a chance to sit down with J-Zone to talk about his record “To Love a Hooker” back when it came out (I actually was talking about the BITCH MAGNET shirts the other day…) and we talk about this, that and the other. The usual meandering Halo interview…Zip comes with album art and two of my fav J-Zone tracks!!! Click the covert art or link to download.
Well that’s all for my HUGE Ruff Mix Monday edition…I will be posting new podcast episodes (ft. Gawd awFul), Artist of the Week and other etceteras as they crystallize in my mind for a post over the course of the week.
Yaaarrrr!!! What is good? Yes…sunshine is good, so is kittens…damn I didn’t expect sooo many actual answers. It’s just a figure of speech…So I have a round up of some stuff to keep you going for the weekend until this week’s Ruff Mix Monday (which is gonna BANG btw!!!). So check the run down….have a great weekend aaaand if you are in the NYC area, don’t forget to check HOLLA!!! (downstairs @ Karma Lounge NYC) tonight 10p-4a with special late night happy hour $3 Pints 12-1 (word!).
These tracks are just some dub-steppy joints I have been feeling lately, I think I will start posting more videos as there is just sooo much good stuff out there….Enjoy!!!
Up next on the docket is two albums brought to you by the maniacs at FreeIceCream.net; one is the newest release by them and the other some how slipped under my radar (I dunno how, cause it’s Super Rocking & or Kick Ass…). Btw these album are all available for FREE (yes FREE) download from the mothership site, which you can get to by clicking the album art below….Enjoy!!!
Have you ever wondered what Flaming Lips backing the the raw rap stylings of The Clipse would sound like??? Well wonder no more!!! Biggup to the homie Domer for pulling off a really incredible Mash-up album!!!
A glitchy instrumental album of just really cool music!!! Take a listen and tell me it doesn’t rock like cocaine and baking soda (not that that combination rocks in the ‘this is awesome’ sense…well maybe for some…OK I’m getting sidetracked with semantics here)!!!
AAANNND last but certainly not least is an essay from the good peoples @ Adam’s World Blog about the myth of the ‘golden era’ of hip-hop (commonly referred to as the time spanning ’89-’94) which should shed a little light on the phrase ‘hindsight is always 20/20′. Really informative and thoughtful piece here, that is sure to enrich your life (once again!!! with all this enriching why should you go anywhere else???). Peep Game…
The other day I was having an in-depth discussion with a group of people regarding arts and entertainment and one prevailing conclusion that we all came to regarding “the good old days” of anything, whether entertainment related or not, is that reminiscing is almost always done through rose colored glasses. In other words, everything looks better in the rearview mirror. With this in mind I started thinking about the supposed Golden Era, or Golden Age, of hip-hop. The conclusion I came to is that regardless of what years one has falling under that distinction, The Golden Era, as we consider it now, is more of a myth than a reality. For full article check Adam’s World Blog or click the link HERE….
Whattup, Whattup!!! So I have updated all the pages except my show archive pages which will get done for the weekend fo’ sho’…Been making alot of remixes lately as well, so be on the looks for a stellar Ruff Mix Monday this coming week. Awww Snap!!! So on tap today is two interviews I got a waaaaays back in my radio career; DJ Dust of Mars Ill and Prevail of Swollen Members…Enjoy!!!
I got this interview waaay back on 2006 when they were releasing the album ‘Pro Pain’ (fantaaaastic record btw) includes co host Adam B of Adam’s World Blog and conversations about everything from the Atlanta hip-hop scene to midget pit fighting…good fun for the whole family if you ask me (shut up I know you didn’t ask me…Monkey!!! Attacka Da Face!!!) Click the link or cover art above to download…
I got this interview on their tour bus before the Harper’s Ferry date in Boston back in 2007, when I happened to be up there that week for a librarian convention (maaaan those librarians are wild once you get some drinks in them…no lie, stoooorieeesss) that same week. We chatted about the new album (Black Magic), the recent death of J Dilla, and more!!! Click the link or cover art above to download…
