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Author Archives: Wes Flexner
Watch: Rapsody – “Believe Me” (Produced By 9th Wonder)
Rapsody’s debut LP The Idea Of Beautiful will be released on 8-28-2012 via Jamla Records. Here is the first video from the forthcoming project “ Believe Me. ”
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Listen: J. Osceola – I’m Just Saying (Produced by Iyeball)
MP3: I’m Just Sayin [Prod. iyeball of Fly.Union] (mp3)
Awhile back, Columbus emcee J. Osceola gained a little worldwide recognition for having one of his songs placed in a Vietnamese film. The North-Side representative returns with “I’m Just Sayin”. There is a funny lyric on here about people coming up to him and speaking Spanish.
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Gallery Hop: “Fibers of America” – Photographic work of Cory Piehowicz
You may have seen Cory Piehowicz’s photos on RJD2’s DeadRinger, and both Soul Position full-lengths. Well, at Gallery Hop in Columbus tonight, Piehowicz’s continues his legacy of memorable images with an opening (7-10pm)of a month-long exhibit entitled Fibers of America. The Columbus-based photographer’s exhibit at the Rivet Gallery displays photos and found objects from Piehowicz’s explorations of old mines located in California deserts in search of denim worn by early 20th- century workers.
From the Other Paper:
The show reveals that the denim hunt was hardly a walk in the park.
“Mike and Charla Harris, Charla’s dad, Russ, and I went on a huge hike to one of the hardest ghost towns to get to in the West,” Piehowicz said, describing an expedition to Death Valley. “It took us 14 hours to get there, straight one day, (in) 120-degree weather. We ran out of water. It was not looking good.”
“About 12 hours in, on the way back, that’s when Russ and Charla went into heat exhaustion after we ran out of water. You will see pictures of Russ at the show.”
The photograph depicts a man who is both weary and covered with black spots all over his face where bugs have bitten him.
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Tagged cory piehowicz, gallery hop, RJD2, soul position
Listen: Pusha T – Pies (Produced By Fly Union)
Pusha T over A Fly Union Beat off the Meel’s mixtape available on LebronJames.com
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Watch: Cute Kids Have A TV Party To Black Flag
Vice’s music channel Noisey does this series where they get kids reaction to music. They wanted me to share their best segment yet. They give kids “beer” and get the kids reaction. The kids are British so it is extra cute.
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Tagged black flag, Vice
Review: Some Musings About the 2012 Pitchfork Music Festival
Danny Brown (pictured above) asked the crowd Saturday if Pitchfork was the first thing they check when they get on a computer. I mean, I don’t give a fuck who you are, or what you are into; It prolly goes Facebook, Twitter, Vice.com, and P4k. That rhetorical question had a point. So with that said, the reason this review is mad late is because I didn’t think I had much news compared to their own coverage. Lady Gaga did watch Kendrick Lamar. If you care you already know that. I figure at this point you can read this after you have run out of things to look at on the internet. I do have a yelp about the Megabus, a liking of Liturgy and a suggestion on how to fix all rap performances.
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Tagged a$ap rocky, big k.r.i.t., brad bass flamingo, Carabar, danny brown, liturgy, megabus, pitchfork music festival
Listen: Cult of Youth – “Garden of Delights” / Tour Dates
Cult of Youth have a new album coming out September 4th on Sacred Bones called Love Will Prevail . It was recorded in Sean Ragoon’s studio in the back of his record store Heaven’s Street Records. This album is said to add lush atmosphere’s similar to Novy Svet or lates 60’s Miles Davis to Cult of Youth’s psychedelic neo-folk roots. Tour-dates after the jump/
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Interview: Juiceboxxx Talks Energy Drinks, Milwaukee Rap, Jeff the Brotherhood & Public Enemy
Juiceboxxx is a rapper from Milwaukee. He is touring with Jeff the Brotherhood. They are playing the Basement tonight in Columbus, Ohio..
Juiceboxxx and I have a mutual friend here in Columbus so after an exchange of emails this interview commenced. We discussed his DIY energy drink that has been covered by Forbes Magazine, and Vice. We discussed Milwaukee rap. We talked about Juiceboxx’s tour with Public Enemy. People often reject my email interviews because my questions are fairly stupid. So cheers to Juiceboxx for being a good sport.
What’s the status on Thunderzone Energy Drink?
THE DRINKS WILL BE READY FOR MY UPCOMING TOUR WITH JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD!
How the fuck did you get Forbes Magazine to write about your energy drink?
MOGULS RECOGNIZE MOGULS. JUST TRYING TO KEEP IT MOVING, I’VE BEEN RAPPING SINCE I WAS 14.
You’ve been written about in Vice. You are down with the Jeff the Brotherhood. You put out a G-Side 7 inch.
Seems like you are very brandable. Any thoughts of having RedBull sponsor your energy drink?
NAH MAN RESPECT TO RED BULL FOR BEING LEGENDS OF THE GAME BUT I’M TRYING TO DO MY OWN THING. FUCK MONSTER ENERGY DRINK! THUNDER ZONE IS FOR ALL THE KIDS OUT THERE, THIS IS OUR ENERGY DRINK!
Listen: Trap Jesus & TayGod – “#TRILLSTEW” (Produced by P.Blackk)
Whatever new groups think they doing something. NO. You don’t matter. Trap Jesus & TayGod are here to cook-up the #TRILLSTEW. No seriously. P.Blackk on the boards shows you that you already didn’t get it along time ago.
You think rap music is about being fly, fucking models, drinking designer water and not being a lame. #absolutley.
You sissies.
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Tagged #stillnumber1, bruni, dj bruni, p blackk, Taylor Nawrocki