Donewaiting writer Andrew Patton is at the Rothbury Music Festival this weekend. He’ll have a proper recap of the show when he returns, but for now you can get live updates via his Twitter account. And for extra bonus, donewaiting’s twitter account
J-swift of Fly Union
Fly.Union’s bi-weekly party Whud up Wednesday’s has become one of my favorite events in Columbus. Eye, J Swifa and Giovanny usually DJ mixing hood favorites like Gucci Mane with music from artists like Drake and Kid Cuddi. Jerreau hosts the event. The party’s are always hype, I even saw my most recent girl fight last time I was there.
From The Athens News:
Paszke’s letter asks the residents to cease using their house for what he calls a commercial venue. “It has come to our attention that your residence is being used on a near weekly basis for touring musical groups,” Paszke wrote, adding that this violates the city code’s residential zone permitted uses. He continues that the activity is “clearly in violation of many national fire codes” as well as the city’s business regulations codes.
“Any further operation of these venues located at this site will warrant an immediate response from our department as well as the Athens Police and Fire departments,” Paszke wrote. “Your landlord has been notified as well, whom we have requested to assist us in prohibiting these events.” Paszke said he had the landlord’s support in each of the houses.
The main venue being targeted is Brown Town. Judging from the comments in this article, it seems like Brown Town is an actual positive force in their neighborhood – no drugs, booze, respectful, and even neighboring families with children go to the shows. The same can’t be say for the frat houses in the area…
Official response from Brown Town after the jump. (more…)
Duffy told me that all 50 copies of OH CRAP – VOL.5 sold during the first day of Comfest. Because I was out of town, I didn’t have time to replenish the stock so I’m making the Columbus band compilation available here to download for free.
DOWNLOAD: OH CRAP – VOL.5
“Dirty Power” – The Bom Selleck
“Leave it Tonight” – Josh Fitzwater and The Shambles
“Back to New York” – Keith Jenkins & The Moving Parts
“Hot Boots” – Bird and Flower
“Lonely Bones” – Colin Gawel
“Falls the Shadow” – Hayseed
“Night Crawler” – Bill Kurzenberger
“Conspicuous Consumption” – Vespin
“Record in the Sleeve” – Like Giants
“Metal Hairpiece” – Dr. Robot
“Until it’s Gone” – Paper Airplane
“Echo Wheel” – Woosley Band
“Gravity’s Heart” – Bush League All-Stars
“Sleep Well” – Ryan Smith
“Mystery to Me” – Mike Switzer
“White Water” – Househearts
“Pissed it Away” – The Vague
“Mayqueen” – The Lost Revival
“Lies” – Bookmobile
Post your reviews here.
Confirmed by Los Angeles Times and other sources. Read more.
I figure you’ll be seeing all the hits on other sites, but I wanted to dig up something else. As a kid, I loved Captain EO.
MP3: Revival by Phantods
Phantods, one of the hardest working bands in Columbus, celebrate the release of their new EP “Revival” on July 3rd at Skully’s Music-Diner with Mrs. Fahrenheit and the Loverboys. I feel like Phantods are a band that I don’t go out enough for and if you haven’t caught them, now is your opportunity. Creepy, melodic and super tight, they were kind enough to give me an mp3 to share so download the track “Revival” and tell me it isn’t one of the coolest tracks you’ve heard in a while…dare I say it’s a song I can’t stop listening to?
Some Graffiti writers thought it would be funny to “Turn their Swag On” via writing “Twitter” style status updates on walls this weekend
MP3:Matt & Kim-Yea Yeah (Flosstradamus Remix Final)
Flosstradamus are playing at the Venue(Club Karma/Redzone) Saturday, June 20th along with DJ Detox, and CJ Townsend..
Flosstradamus are a deejay/remix duo from Chicago that has been doing it big for couple years now. They exist in the weird hybrid Electro/Juke whatever the fuck you call it world that has you playing Lollapalooza one day, and a small club date the next.
I spoke to half of them, J2k aka Young Josh aka Kid Sister’s brother on the phone when I was hanging out at the MilkBar a couple days ago. (J2K is the one with the Slingshot) J2k talked about their worst show, working with De La Soul, the backpack vs. hipster dynamic, and his love for midwest crowd.
what’s good with you?
J2K:Just played Los Angeles last night.
How was it ?
It was cool. The crowd was like 1200 people. It was a blast. It was fun.
Is that your usual turn-out on the West Coast?
It varies. We are playing at a club that holds 600 people in San Diego tonight.
What was your wackest deejay experience?
I wouldn’t say it was the wackest…We were at DJ AM’s club LAX. The people were not into it at all. It was a jiggy crowd. After about Ten minutes some girl told us we sucked. We got booted off the tables. Everyone hated us.
Did you still get paid?
Yeah. Of course. We went back 6 months later and killed it.
These two songs popped up on the internets over the last few days and wanted to make sure you heard them..
MP3: Periodically Double or Triple from Yo La Tengo’s upcoming album, Popular Songs, due September 8. More details here.
MP3: Where Was My Brain (demo) by Ted Leo from upcoming album (release date/name unknown)
MP3: Willis the Fireman by Flotation Walls
Flotation Walls, lead in one version or another by Carlos Avendaño, have been haunting the Columbus music scene for what seems like nearly a decade. During those years there have been flourishes of activity and long periods of apparent dormancy. But one thing we’ve been missing throughout is a proper full length from these guys. So to say that the release of the Nature LP tomorrow at Skully’s has been a long time coming is no exaggeration.
I mean, with all the talk and speculation and legitimate anticipation surrounding a release date and the subsequent passage of those dates, this record is pretty much Columbus’s Chinese Democracy. Really- after the release of a nugget or two in 2003, people were pissed when this thing was delayed until December of 2004. The Chinese Democracy comparison is mostly for the sake of humor, but it has its utility too. In both cases, the elapsed time between conception and delivery was used by the respective captains to tweak, add to, and retool the contents and production in an effort to produce a grandiose master work. To a degree both Carlos and Axl have, in striving for an epic album, managed a certain amount of success and at times to overdo it as well. The analogy begins to break down when looking at the final product though, as the triumph versus try-too-hard ratio clearly favors the Flotation Walls. (more…)
DJ Detox of Get Right,and Channing/Carley/Raina’s house party fame created a mix of the Manchester Post-Punk group’s music for today’s Joy Divisions Art Show .
The art show is in the front the Columbus Metropolitian today from 2-7:30 pm. (Downtown)
Joy Divisions curated by Eva Ball is inspired by pretty much any angle you can take on Joy Division. From Nazi sex slave camps to song interptations to abstracted word associations.
(Ask yourself, Whats a Joy Division? The 2010 pick-up line)
It’s a pretty thought provoking vechile.
There is a new monthly publication available at The Wexner Center, Milk Bar, & Ladybird that was conceived and created by Big Marty and Shawn aka dem Weedsteeler boys aka the same people who brought you Vomitrocity, divisive internet behaviour, Hipsters & YP’s liking Gucci Mane & Dipset, influential flyer design, and I got most of my friends real jobs.
Duffy says: The best man to my wedding, Steve Kazimir, sometimes e-mails me about shows he goes to in NJ. He went to see The Bangles last night at The Wellmont Theater in Montclair, NJ. To many of you this is a cool new venue run by the Bowery Ballroom people, but growing up it was a movie theater where me and Steve saw a bunch of films, good and bad. Here’s what he wrote me:
So when I bought tickets for the bangles show at wellmont a while back it wasn’t because I’m a die hard bangles fan. I thought, “hey, it’s a harmless show I could take the wife to, it’s where I saw lawrence of arabia for the first time, what the hell?”
So I went to the show to say I went to the show. I went for those ironic, kitschy, 80s nostalgic reasons. I went to the place where I sat through 4 hours of kenneth branagh’s Hamlet (TWICE) to earn my “I’m making fun of myself for doing this while I’m doing it” merit badge.
I mean, walk like an egyptian for chrissakes, right?
Rob, please explain to me why, if this is so, the Bangles rocked my face off last night. You don’t return to the place where you saw Charlize Theron’s Oscar-winning turn in “Monster”, or where Johnny Depp had to outmaneuver Christopher Walken in real time just to be rocked like that on a Sunday night. It was quite an unexpected rocking. I certainly didn’t rock that hard when I saw “The Daytrippers” there. Although in retrospect, back in 1996, when I went there and Sean Connery “Welcome(d me to) the Rock” I guess that’s what he meant. That’s what he meant all along. The Bangles. They rocked.
Yesterday was the one year anniversary of Camu Tao’s death. Memorial day BBQ’s in Columbus poured out a little liquor and T.R.O.Yed the fallen Columbus Hip Hop supernova.
Pos 2 posted on an unreleased S.A. Smash song on the Weightless message board with this description:
…it’s an unreleased sa smash track from smashy trashy. to my knowledge this was one of the 1st recordings for the lp. przm gave me a tape so we could listen to it in the car of some of the songs they had recorded. it was fuck you 2, jerezyed out, and last night…the one with the led zepplin sample. not sure why it did not make the cut, but it’s a great track.
the quality isn’t the best. the highs are a little low. and you can here pops from time to time to where i am guessing when przm taped this, he just had it recorded to high
When Jay Bennett posted a comment on donewaiting.com a few months ago, I thought it was one of the coolest things ever. He’ll be missed.
Via Undertow Music:
We are profoundly saddened to report that our friend died in his sleep last night. Jay was a beautiful human being who will be missed.
