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Listen to BIM THOMAS Rap on Obnox- “Cash Weed Green”

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Wes Flexner | Comments Off

Well, as punk as all the rappers are trying to get they will never be Lamont “Bim” Thomas. Bim played in the Bassholes, and This Moment in Black History. He currently does a lot in Obnox & plays drums for the Unholy Two.. For those that don’t know. These are all hella crucial Ohio garage and scuzz punk bands.

Well, on the above Obnox song, Bim RAPS about how he has been the man forever. My mind is kinda blown. He isn’t the dopest emcee but the backing music is good and you can’t argue with what he is saying. Everyone give Bim some money when you run into him please.

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MP3: Willie the Kid – “Goodness Gracious” Ft. Smoke DZA (Prod. By the Audio Unit)

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Wes Flexner | Comments Off

(smoking section)
MP3: Willie The Kid – Goodness Gracious (Prod By the Audio Unit)

Willie the Kid & Smoke Dza go in over an a beat by COlumbus, Ohio producer the Audio Unit.

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Way Yes to Play Lefse Records CMJ Showcase

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Wes Flexner | Comments Off

Columbus, Ohio’s Way Yes is playing their Record Label’s Lefse CMJ Showcase @ Pianos in New York City on October 16th. Cost is $8 at the door, and the first 100 attendees receive a free Lefse Records beer coozy.Line-up on the flyer. For more info click here.

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MP3: Stalley “Loud Motors” / King Vada “Grind’N Time’N” /

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Wes Flexner | Comments Off

Stalley is on the BET Music Matters Tour with Fly Union, Kendrick Lamar, Ab Soul and Jay- Rock. Above is a tour vlog where the Blue Collar Gang capo breaks down to Lupe Fiasco how rapping came to the forefront of his life after the A-Life store he worked at went out of business forcing him have to get on unemployment. Here are a couple joints. One has Stalley produced by Columbus, Ohio’s Rashad. The second has Stalley’s Columbus, Ohio friend King Vada over a Pharrell beat.

MP3: Stalley – Loud Motors (Prod. Rashad)

MP3: King Vada- GRIND’N x TIME’N

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MP3: the MHz Legacy – “Spaceship” Ft. Danny Brown (Prod. By Harry Fraud)

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Wes Flexner | 0 Comments

MP3: the Mhz Legacy “Spaceship” Ft. Danny Brown (Prod. By Harry Fraud)

The Fader premiered this MHz Legacy song called “Spaceship” . I can say that if you were around in the late 90’s/early 2000’s Columbus Hip Hop scene, listening to this verse by the late Camu Tao from “U R What U Eat” that he used to kick outside of Bernies on High Street in Columbus all the time followed-up by a Danny Brown verse over a Harry Fraud beat, on a smart phone while sitting in the front seat of your shitty car in 2012 is a futuristic,and ghostly experience.

The Mhz were a Columbus rap group consisting of RJD2, Cama Tao, Copywrite, Jakki, and Tage. Camu died of cancer in 2008. The remaining Mhz are putting out an album called the MHz Legacy which this song is on. The album drops October 30th on Man Bites Dog Records.

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2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductions Include Kraftwerk, Public Enemy, N.W.A.

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Robert Duffy | Comments Off

Seems like a good reason for another season of Flavor of Love. Here’s the full nominee list:

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Chic
Deep Purple
Heart
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Albert King
Kraftwerk
The Marvelettes
The Meters
Randy Newman
N.W.A
Procol Harum
Public Enemy
Rush
Donna Summer

To be eligible for nomination, an individual artist or band must have released its first single or album at least 25 years prior to the year of nomination. The 2013 Nominees had to release their first recording no later than 1987.

Ballots will be sent to an international voting body of more than 600 artists, historians and members of the music industry.

All inductees are ultimately represented in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, the nonprofit organization that exists to educate its audiences on the global impact of the rock and roll art form via the museum, as well as its education programs and library and archives.

The 28th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be held in Los Angeles at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on Thursday, April 18, 2013. The show will be broadcast on HBO at a later date.

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Video: Killer Mike – “Reagan”

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Wes Flexner | Comments Off

(egotripland)

C.I.A? See Killer Mike ain’t kidding. Well I don’t agree with his dissmissing of Obama; this new video for his Reagan song makes some good points about Iran-Contra.

Killer Mike will be in Columbus, November 9th @ Ace of Cups.

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Tonight in Columbus: People of Color Zine Fest @ Skylab

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Wes Flexner | Comments Off

Before the Debates head up to Skylab to check out the People of Color Zine Fest @ 8:00pm. This is a project to make zines by people of color easy to find, distribute and share. Community and activism through materiality.

Readings by:
Anna Vo – “Fix My Head” zine
Cristy Road – “Greenzine” & Indestructible
Mariam Bastani – Maximum RockNRoll
Mimi Nguyen – “Race Riot” zine, Punk Planet, Maximum RockNRoll
Daniela Capistrano – POC Zine Project

Collage style experimental shorts/a music video by:
Alexis McCrimmon
Music by:
Nerve Wracking

Skylab Gallery
57 East Gay Street, 5th Floor, Columbus, Ohio 43215
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Watch: Gunplay Goes Fishing

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Wes Flexner | Comments Off

(illroots)

MMG’s Gunplay recently got into a fistight with members of G-Unit at the BET Awards and told TMZ he wants to kill 50 Cent. Besides threatening Curtis Jackson with death Gunplay also enjoys to fish while listening to Country Music.

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Sufjan Stevens announces new Christmas CD/LP boxset “Silver & Gold”

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Joel Oliphint | Comments Off

<a href="http://music.sufjan.com/album/silver-gold">Silver & Gold by Sufjan Stevens</a>

Great news from Asthmatic Kitty. Apparently all those Christmas teaser videos were a harbinger after all. (And no, it’s never too early for Christmas music.) Details:

“Happy Holidays! On November 13, 2012, Asthmatic Kitty Records will release (another!) Christmas box-set extravaganza by the implacable singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens—Silver & Gold: Songs for Christmas, Vols. 6-10, a compilation of 5 EPs recorded between 2006 and 2010.

Expanding on the tradition of the first box-set (Songs for Christmas, Vols. 1-5 from 2006), Silver & Gold is a generous document of five more years of holly-jolly jubilee — Christmas caroling, sleigh-bell-ringing, collaborative songwriting — undertaken by Sufjan and his various musical cohorts. Originally intended as gifts for family and friends, these musical snapshots have been re-mixed and re-assembled for the public in an exquisitely-designed gift box containing all the Yuletide pleasures money can buy: Christmas stickers, temporary tattoos, lyric sheets and chord charts, a paper ornament, an apocalyptic pull-out poster, photos, illustrations, and extensive liner notes—a veritable Christmas feast for the eyes and ears.
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