Category Archives: Wes Flexner

Listen: Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch – Etimasia

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The lutist and filmmaker are dropping  The Mystery of Heaven November 13th on Sacred Bones. Below is the cover.

Listen: Star Slinger – Ladies In The Back (Feat. Teki Latex)

This Star Slinger song is dedicated to the ladies in the back making all the men hawk. Slow and Sexy is the theme here.

You can pre-order Star Slinger’s ep here.

Listen: Tennis Covers Television’s “Guiding Light”

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Tennis on the heels of their pulchritudinous Patrick Carney produced album Young & Old  recently covered Television’s “Guiding Light”. This coincides with the announcement of tourdates via facebook.

Video: Lil Wayne Ignores And Threatens Lawyer

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Lil Wayne is suing Quincy Jones’ son QDIII over a documentary Mr. Jones’s son made about him. Above is a video of QDIII’s lawyer questioning Lil Wayne. Lil blows off a majority of the  lawyer’s questions and then seemingly threatens him.

Listen: Blueprint- “Never Grow Old” (featuring Angelic Lee)

MP3:Never Grow Old featuring Angelica Lee

“Never Grow Old” from the upcoming Blueprint album, Deleted Scenes, available Oct 16th. Pre-order Deleted Scenes at http://printmatic.net
Release party on October 19th at Carabar. More info here.

 

Video- Gunplay – “Criminology”

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Gunplay goes in on Rae & Ghost’s “Criminology” beat nicely.  This is off  Gunplay’s “601 & Snort”. If you like Waka Flocka’s message but he isn’t lyrical enough for you than Gunplay is your man. If you like Meek Mill but would rather do drugs than sell them then you should listen to Gunplay. If you haven’t liked any rappers in your life but Trick Daddy and ODB you should listen to Gunplay.

Video: Keilyn- “Flight 89”

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Youngstown emcee KeilyN’s above video has the Ohio rapper reflecting on life and asking you to take a walk in his shoes  over a smooth beat. If you like peep his website. This video was directed by Walter Nini.

 

Listen: Cold Showers – “Violent Cries”

Broody Los Angeles Post-Punk band Cold Showers will play Cafe Bourbon Street September 30th in Columbus. Above is a new song by them from the upcoming album Love and Regret on Dais.

After the jump more tourdates.

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Video: the MHz Legacy – “Gone”

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the MHz were a group that consisted of Copywrite, Jakki, Tage, RJD2, and the late Camu Tao.the MHz along with Blueprint, and J-Rawls put Columbus on the international indie rap map during the late 90’s.  The surviving members of the MHz are back 15 years later with a new self-titled album on Man Bites Dog Records.  There are Camu verses on the album. The album  is alot like something that would’ve come out on Eastern Conference records as it has a buttload of features from the likes of Danny Brown, Oh No, ILL BILL, Slaine, Blu, Slug, along with some outside production from Harry Fraud, !llmind, Stu Bangas and Marco Polo.

The above video was directed by R.M.L. The above song is produced by Surok.

Listen: DJ Drama Ft. Tyler, the Creator, Waka Flocka Flame & Debo “I’m a Hata”

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Well, when I interviewed Waka Flocka Flame  awhile back he said Tyler, the Creator was gonna be on the Triple F Life album. Obviously that didn’t happen. But here we are with Tyler and Waka espousing hate  along with Debo over a DJ Drama beat

This is off DJ Drama’s upcoming Quality Street Music Album.