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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Watch: Cute Kids Have A TV Party To Black Flag
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Video: Divine Fits – “Flaggin a Ride” from secret show in Austin, plus some band origin details
Last night Britt Daniel, Dan Boeckner and Sam Brown showed up at the Continental Club in Austin billed as “The Hot Skull,” then played their first ever Divine Fits set, pulling off a 12-song secret show that actually remained pretty secret until just a few minutes before the band took the stage.
Here’s a not-too-shabby live video of “Flaggin a Ride” (via CoS), track 2 on A Thing Called Divine Fits, out Aug. 28 on Merge. Boeckner told me recently that writing and rehearsing “Flaggin” was one of those moments where everything clicked, and he realized this band is a real band — a real and awesome band:
“We did this super-early version of it, which is pretty much what ended up on the record, minus some overdubs. The bass just stays the same through the verses, and the guitar was just this weird, clicky, rhythmic, one-note thing that would shift every now and then. We were writing it and just kept stripping away guitar parts until there are actually no chords. I don’t think I play many chords on any of the songs [on the album], except maybe “Civilian Stripes.” Anyway, we kept stripping “Flaggin a Ride” back and back and back. Finally, it was like, this sounds fucking great. I was really excited about it. There’s no guitar chords in that song. It’s all implied. That made me really happy. When we could play that song all the way through, that was when I was like, yeah…”
In Columbus, the question people have been asking is, how did this band come about, and how did Sam Brown — a guy everyone in the Columbus scene knows is one of the best drummers around — get hooked up with the frontmen of Spoon and Wolf Parade/Handsome Furs?
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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
Kids interview JD McPherson
Earlier this year my friend Wes was trying to find JD McPherson a show in Columbus and asked for my help. That didn’t work out (JD wound up playing at MOTR in Cincinnati) but what it did do was introduce me (and the family) to JD’s music. The Oklahoma native’s style of music is a throwback to the ’50s where Chicago blues served as a foundation for bands who played at high school Sock Hops. It’s the sound of early rock n’ roll. It’s a sound that resonates with 11-year-olds as much as it does with 70-year-olds (and every age in between).
Connie and Olivia, fresh off their Bunbury Festival experience, grabbed a few minutes of JD’s time a few hours before he played to a packed house at Woodlands Tavern.
JD’s got a few tour dates coming up at the end of August before heading overseas.
Aug 24 – Downtown Springfield, Inc – Springfield, IL
Aug 25 – Orton Park Festival – Madison, WI
Aug 26 – Bash on Wabash – Chicago, IL
Aug 27 – Minnesota State Fair (Heritage at Sundown) – St Paul, MN
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Video: Gucci Mane – “Supercocky”
The GUCCI MANE has a video for “Supercocky”. He also has a bandcamp where you can download his newest mixtape “I’m Up” for free.
It feels weird not having remember if my datpiff handle is Dipset69 or TrapSex420 but a pleasent experience none- the- less to get Gucci Mane’s music from a bandcamp and not a mixtape website.
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Watch: Waka Flocka Talks About Peeing In His Sneakers While Drunk
Vice’s Party Legends Series has Waka Flocka Flame talks about getting so drunk that he took a wiz in his shoes.
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Watch: SubSurface 2012 Graffiti Jam Trailer
SubSurface Graffiti Jam & Hip Hop Expo is entering it’s 10th year. The annual Indianapolis Jam is being held August 31st to September 2nd. The above trailer showcases some of the work and discusses what the jam is about. For more info click here.
For Flicks of Every Year’s Jam Click Here.
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Video: New Lydia Loveless song “Chris Isaak” on Sound Opinions
Last winter when I interviewed Lydia Loveless for Columbus Monthly, she was already thinking about her next album, saying, “I was thinking like a Chris Isaak-type album…. I have this plot to get [guitarist] James Wilsey. He did all the Wicked Game guitar parts. Now he just plays weird, instrumental desert music. I think that would be pretty awesome.”
Well, guitarist Todd May (Lilybandits, Mooncussers) is still in tow, but apparently Loveless still has Isaak on the brain. Here’s a new tune she and her band have been road-testing. This performance comes from a Sound Opinions session on Chicago’s WBEZ. And unlike “Steve Earle,” “Chris Isaak” isn’t a tongue-in-cheek stalker song. Give it a listen.
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Tagged Chris Isaak, James Wilsey, lydia loveless, Sound Opinions, Todd May, WBEZ
Video: Connections – “Stuck Lung”
Check the first video from Columbus band Connections, featuring members of Times New Viking, 84 Nash and El Jesus de Magico. Directed and edited by Roly Chamber, the video was shot on location in Montevideo, Uruguay. It’s short, sweet and a little bloody.
You’ll find “Stuck Lung” on the band’s debut album, Private Airplane, due in October. If you happened to get the early jump on tickets, you can catch Connections opening a sold-out show with Divine Fits at Ace of Cups on Aug. 6
Doin’ It Wrong – “Goin’ Ham” Starring Tom Lax & Dave Shannon
Rich & Ben are back with another installment of their comedy series Doin’ It Wrong. This episode entitled “Goin’ Ham” has Siltbreeze proprietor Tom Lax teaching the Cheater Slick’s Dave Shannon about childcare. Some dude from the Axemen is in this episode too.
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