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For those planning on attending SXSW this year (or for those just curious about who will be there), I’ve been sifting through the extensive list as something of a countdown until the festival.

Today’s video is from Los Angeles-based Local Natives, who will be releasing their record Gorilla Manor on Frenchkiss February 16th.

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.

Just a bit of history and a Happy reminder.

RJD2 is playing the Donewaiting.com 7 Year Anniversary Friday in Columbus.

RJD2 has always had great video collaborators, for both his live show and for short films about his songs. The Horror is still my favorite (below).

More RJD2 videos after the jump. (more…)

Words Are Stupid is out 4/27 on St. Ives/Secretly Canadian. Columbus release show 4/3 at Rumba with Mike Shiflet.

The psych rock tour de force that is The Entrance Band brings its brand of dirty, loud psychedelia to The Summit on Wednesday night (yes, that’s A Perfect Circle’s Paz Lenchantin on the far right). Brooklyn band Lights(they make me think of a psychedelic School of Seven Bells) and local dudes Brainbow open.

The Entrance Band killed last time they were through. What else is there to do on a Wednesday night?

EARLY SHOW ALERT

8pm doors
Brainbow 9pm
Lights 10pm
The Entrance Band 11pm

Check out The Entrance Band’s video for “Lookout” after the thingie (more…)

MP3: Sailor Song

As a follow up to their EP Drunken Trees, Swedish duo First Aid Kit released their full length album yesterday on London-based Wichita Recordings. The Big Black and the Blue is an enchantingly beautiful continuation from the first time I heard them cover “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song” on YouTube. The raw talent is undeniable in these girls’ voices and appreciation for it can only be heightened by seeing them in person. Even more impressive is that sisters Klara & Johanna Söderberg (born in 90 and 93) have been writing and composing material since adolescence. In a post-show conversation with them during the fall, they commented on the fact that it was Conor Oberst who really inspired them to make music. Since then their creative storm has blown their music all over Europe and it’s slowly trickling its way to the Americas. Similar to Oberst, they seem to write on subjects wise beyond their teenage years. I envision a sizable demographic of desperate housewives all over Sweden blowing out their speakers on songs like “You’re Not Coming Home Tonight.”

Both releases are now available stateside, and they’ll be touring on this album in the spring.

Egotrip’s Brent Rollins who also designed classic movie Boyz N The Hood’s logo laced the upcoming Rhymesayer release by Freeway and Jake One’s Stimulas Package, packaging.

I’ve not seen Gil Mantera’s Party Dream in awhile. I MISS U DUDES.

Jay Elect’s buzz is reaching Nas pre-Illmatic levels…In the above video Jay brings Mos Def and Puff Daddy onstage to “civilize an 85er”.

Still buggs me out how he tied the F.O.I, Nicholas Telsa and Mgmt together.

Actually, the most bugged out thing is that Jay Electronica puts a Ancient Moorish Science Fez on Diddy’s head.

You gotta feel the “We Love Haiti” chants before Jay sets it off.

MP3: Doubting Comforts

While perusing the SXSW 2010 band list (yet again), I was reminded that Blue Roses will be playing. This is the project of singer/musician Laura Groves from Shipley, Yorkshire whose influences range from Tears For Fears to Debussy. Combining years of practice on the piano and guitar with days of interest on other instruments, she’s managed to compose some heartbreakingly darling folk tunes. “I like writing songs for instruments I can’t play yet and making choirs out of my voice” says Groves. She released her full-length Blue Roses last July and EP Does Anyone Love Me Now in December, both on XL.

I am not gonna pretend to be interested in battle rapping on the most part. It usually comes off like a bunch of Hip Hop comic book nerds on some Marcon meets dooded playing Mortal Kombat with 15 friends in dirtweed basement on Friday Night.

 But Columbus rapper Zerostar battled St. Louis rapper Remyd in Chicago. From my understanding this Grindtime  battle league is a big deal. Remyd takes it, but I feel like Zero proves why Columbus is better than most places cause the hip hop scene isn’t a bunch of corny nerds.

Remyd best verse is his third where he basically calls Zero a hipster by referencing Drake and Jay-z. Which is funny cause Zero is backpacking  a mfer, that just happens  to live in a city that isn”t redundant. Almost blame the MilkBar on that one and having unique rappers like Jakki in our cities history.

Anyway, Look at the fat whitedood who looks like he is getting an erection everytime Remyd raps.

Just peeped this on the Weightless Message Board. Justin Timberlake beatboxing for Brother Ali in Wyoming at a bar called the Million Dollar Cowboy in fucking Wyoming.

For sure dood. Rap is out of control..

Prefuse 73

Continuing our promotions of critically acclaimed trip-hop, glitch are whatever one calls it these days, Donewaiting graciously presents along with Benco, Prefuse 73 at the Summit, Jan 22nd. I saw Prefuse a few years ago at Wexner Center when he played there with Edan. He had two drummers and it was pretty intense. Anyway the above is video of one of Prefuse’s “hits” Perverted Undertones.

While its pretty rad that Prefuse is playing in town, I’m dumb excited about seeing the Muthafuckin Gaslamp Killer. A producer/dj from LA that goes everywhere from dubstep, to psychedelic breakbeats. And does it all in fun. Dood keeps company with Andy Votel’s B-Music company, and Flying Lotus.

Flying Lotus had Gaslamp do a best of Lotus mix last month. You can download it on Flying Lotus’ website, Brainfeeder. And Votel had Gaslamp do a mix for Finder’s Keepers.

On some record digger, dj and glitch producer tip, thats pretty much royalty co-signs.

Watch the trailer for “My Troubled Mind” below.

Gaslamp Killer

Voices Voices is also on the bill.