Rap-up.com is reporting that Drake is doing a college tour to promote a green lifestyle.
and looks like there is a Columbus Date, April 7.
“The Away From Home Tour” Dates
April 6 – Charleston, IL – Eastern Illinois University
April 7 – Columbus, OH – Private Location
April 9 – State College, PA – Penn State University
April 10 – Boston, MA – Private Location
April 11 – Lock Haven, PA – Private Location
April 14 – East Lansing, MI – Michigan State University
April 15 – Rochester Hills, MI – Oakland University
April 16 – Morgantown, WV – West Virginia University
April 21 – Orlando, FL – University Central Florida
April 22 – Greenville, SC – Furman University
April 23 – TBA
April 24 – New Orleans, LA – New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
April 26 – New Orleans, LA – University of Missouri-Kansas City
April 27 – Lexington, KY – University of Kentucky
April 29 – Lowell, MA – University Mass Lowell
April 30 – Syracuse, NY – Private Location
May 1 – Boston, MA – Private Location
May 4 – East Rutherford, NJ – Bamboozle Festival
May 5 – Towson, MD – Holy Cross
May 6 – Cheney, PA – Towson University
May 7 – Ithaca, NY – Private Location
May 8 – Plymouth, NH – Private Location
San Francisco’s premier indie music source The Bay Bridged is proud to announce the details for the 2010 Bay Area Takeover, our third annual free day party during the 2010 South by Southwest Music Festival. The party’s happening on Thursday, March 18th, 2010 from 11:30am to 6pm at Austin’s Beauty Bar.
Following in the tradition of two years of acclaimed events, BATO 2010 features our best lineup yet, with performances by fifteen of the San Francisco Bay Area’s hottest artists, who represent a broad cross-section of the Bay’s fertile indie music scene. Highlights include psych-rockers Sleepy Sun (ATP Recordings), the raw rock and roll of Ty Segall (Goner Records), and, back by popular demand, a set of magnetic electro-R&B from Wallpaper. (Eenie Meenie).
The full list of terrific acts includes:
With DJ sets from Bagel Ted (Bagel Radio) throughout the day.
More information about the party can be found at TheBayAreaTakeover.com. The party is FREE, but you should RSVP at our web site to receive priority admission.
Says Branden: “It’s about a friend that i grew up with in Kentucky. We lost touch completely for years. The song is about losing touch and having to invent an imaginary life for someone who you no longer have a clue about. Still one of my favorite people in this world even though we don’t talk much. I heard through someone that she had a pretty bad breakup a while back and i really didn’t know how to help given our estrangement. I suppose this song is my misguided effort.”
Lydia Loveless celebrates the release of The Only Man on Saturday night at Rumba Cafe. Micah Schnabel (Two Cow Garage), Todd May, and Akillis Green will also perform.
It’s about time – along with a good contingent of Columbus music fans, I’ve been waiting on this debut by spitfire country-punk Lydia Loveless for what seems like years. And, as cliche as it sounds, the wait was worth it as The Only Man (Peloton Records) is a timeless collection of heart-weary tracks written by a 19-year-old well beyond her years.
Since the dawn of time, songwriters have been afforded the luxury of straddling the line between truth and fiction and it’s hard to tell just how much of Loveless’s real life she brings into her lyrics. If these songs are all true life testimonials, it’s a wonder Loveless isn’t in a mental institution or, worse, jail – maybe it’s the gift of song that is saving her soul. More →
Today, this little website is seven years old. When I let that sink in for a minute or two, it always sort of freaks me out. If this website was a kid, it might be in like 1st or 2nd grade by now… Well, maybe 4th grade because the site skipped a few grades for being a child prodigy.
Thanks everyone for keeping the site going! To the writers, bands, readers, commenters, blackmailers, lawyers, ballers, and everyone in between. Hopefully we’ll see some of you tonight at the anniversary show in Columbus.
Had a conference call last night about adding some new features to the site in the coming year.. Things continue to look great…
For the briefest of brief moments back in 2007, I held out hope that Led Zeppelin’s one-off reunion show in London may be the spark to ignite a full-scale reunion tour. But Robert Plant’s surprisingly successful partnership with Alison Krauss has most likely killed any chance of a Zeppelin reunion.
With that in mind, the next best thing out there is ZOSO, the premiere Led Zeppelin tribute band that has been honoring the godfathers of heavy metal since 1995.
Seeing a band that looks like the original in it’s prime for $12 in a smaller venue is probably a better experience than seeing the real band in 2010 and paying $100 for a seat in the upper deck at the back of a stadium.
I talked to Matt Jernigan, who plays the role of Robert Plant, earlier this week. If there’s one quote to take away from the whole interview, it’s this one: “You know what the beauty of this gig is? We don’t ever do a bad song.”
We knew Elizabeth Lessner, she who has brought Columbus my favorite restaurants: Surly Girl Saloon and Dirty Frank’s (to name a few), went way back with RJD2. We asked if she wanted to share anything for the site in prep for tomorrow’s anniversary show and here’s what she wrote:
In the early 90’s, Rj and I became surrogate siblings living out west in San Francisco. On weekend mornings we’d eat breakfast at a place called Spaghetti Western (an early inspiration for Surly Girl Saloon) then go shopping for records on Haight Street or over in Oakland. On nights when we could afford it, we frequented a small, dingy nightclub called Club Deco in San Francisco or a place called Your Mama’s Cafe, a nightclub/coffeehouse in Oakland. We were always on the lookout for DJ Shadow or members of Digital Underground family. The music scene in San Francisco and Oakland at that time was quirky, fun and incredibly accessible.
In those days we both worked a minimum of three jobs at any given time due to the high cost of living and working low wage jobs. Our outlets were record shopping, eating breakfast, dreaming and frequenting our favorite local dives. Since then, I don’t know much has changed for either of us.
Show update: Online presale is sold out but tickets are still available at Magnolia’s and Roots as well as some tix available @ the door.
As we have said repeatedly on this website. RJD2 is headlining our 7-Year Anniversary at Skullys this Friday Feb 5th. Ticket info and line-up here
RJ is an old friend of mine, so in this informal interview we chopped it up about his brief graffiti career,walking the tracks near the Ohio State Fairgrounds, the passing of Howard Zinn, RJ’s new album The Colossus and his theme song for TV’s Mad Men.
I remember when I first heard your name in Hip Hop discussions around town, graff writers were like…thats RJD2 blah blah he is down with A-Team? A-Team had pieces at the convention center and CAP that hit you up… This question is more for the graffiti dorks but…?
so i moved to the bay area after dropping out of college. i had my records and turntables and stuff, and one of the dudes who i stayed with shortly was down with the a-team guys, this dude cliff. he was the only guy i knew in the city at a point, and then he left too. so the only people i knew in SF were cram, esa, this kid beaver who i cant remember what he wrote, but he would do these “god is love” pieces all over the city, and a few other guys. so they sorta inducted me in as the unofficial a-team dj or whatever. those were the only kids i knew in the city, really. so i’d hang with them, maybe go out a little here and there with em while they painted, but not too much. i later found out that esa had a columbus connection. and then cram moved to philly after i’d been here a while. small world, basically. and my friend cliff lived near and was friends with mike giant, and looked up to him-in 95 SF graff world, he was a really big deal, up there with twist and amaze and the like upper echelon of bay writers, so i met mike thru him. esa later moved to LA, and i think she was doing fine art or something. cram actually was doing public murals for a living for a long time. i guess mike giant got involved in tattoos, but i havent spoken to him in a loooooong time. but in short, all the a-team guys were just cool people, no ego shit, just real friendly folks.
Let’s not forget that Columbus’ Happy Chichester is one of the openers for Friday’s RJD2/Donewaiting.com 7-year Anniversary show. If you’re not hip to Happy (for shame!), he was in Columbus rock/funk act Royal Crescent Mob in the ’80s and early ’90s, fronted Howlin’ Maggie til around 2002, was an original member of The Twilight Singers and also played often with Greg Dulli in The Afghan Whigs. So the dude has a pedigree.
Happy does the solo thing now. His last release was 2007’s Lovers Come Back, but he’s kept busy doing solo gigs and playing as part of RJ’s touring band, which also includes multi-instrumentalist Derek DiCenzo and Sam Brown (You’re So Bossy, The Sun, Gaunt, New Bomb Turks.) In Friday’s incarnation, you’ll usually find Chichester on keys, DiCenzo on percussion & knob-twiddling and Brown on drums.
This year, a decade after starting DEF JUX and after overseeing the releases of some incredible albums including the forthcoming release of my dear late and great friend Camu Tao’s brilliant “KING OF HEARTS” LP, I’m stepping away from my duties as artistic director for the label to concentrate on what I love most: being a producer and an artist full time. This is something I’ve been contemplating for a few years now, and can’t think of a better time or, with the eventual release of Camu’s record, a more poetic way to transition into a new direction.
This means change for JUX. Of course we’ll still have our website, we will still sell our catalog, merch and more as well as bring you news and updates on all our projects and artists. We will be releasing “KING OF HEARTS”, a DEF JUX remix compilation, a 10 year anniversary retrospective and some other goodies. But then as a traditional record label DEF JUX will effectively be put on hiatus. We are not closing, but we are changing. The process is already underway, and the last several months (for those wondering what the hell we’ve been up to) have been spent dealing with the technical aspects of wrapping up the label in it’s current form and re-imagining our collective and individual futures.
If you watched the Vast Aire vs Def Jux beef that brewed from May to Mid August this year then you prolly knew change was in the air.
Def Jux closing down?
by Kyle Ryan February 2, 2010
More ominous rumors that are likely true: Shabooty.com reports that cool indie hip-hop label Definitive Jux is closing. Although it’s not confirmed—leader El-P won’t say until an official statement is ready—Shabooty analyzes the writing that has been on the wall, including statements from former Def Jux artists.
The label has been home to a who’s who of indie-rap notables—such as Mr. Lif, Murs, Dizzee Rascal, The Perceptionists, and, of course, El-P himself—but the label has been quiet lately, as fellow indie label Rhymesayers has grown more prominent.
