Next Month Columbus, Ohio will be celebrating the 6th Annual Daymon Day with a weekend of love driven community activities.

On Daymon Day Eve, September 16th, there will be a show at Skullys Music Diner, Nick Tolford & Co, Envelope & Detox, and Freaky Franz & Cornelius Jackson will perform. Johnny Cashola & True Skillz will play records. The admission is 5 Dollars. The door goes to cover parade costs like permits and renting the required amount of police escorts for the parade. For more info & to RSVP Visit Daymon Day Eve’s Facebook

On Daymon Day, September 17th the parade will leave Tuttle Park promptly at 8pm. There will be a mural painted during the day. So feel free to come earlier. We will be dispersing a 7inch record of Daymon’s local hit song, “Bitch, You Don’t Know Shit” prior to the parade.(Details will be forthcoming). The afterparty will be at the Carabar. Admission is free. It will be special and more announcements will be made in the future. For more details go to the Daymon Day Parade’s event facebook.

Feel free to like Daymon Day on facebook.

Another flyer after the jump.

MP3:Freaky Franz -Whistle While U Smash ft. NickGoDie

New Freaky Franz song with Nick Go Die.

Freaky Franz is playing Embassy Boardshop’s 5 Year Anniversary which is also a Comfest Afterparty, Friday, June 24th.

He will be backed by his deejay Cornelius Jackson

Also on the bill are SECOND CITY RHYTHM (ADULTURE & GHOST of VENICE) & DJ Johnny Cashola.

DOORS: 10
18+
for 21+: $3 before 12/$5 after
for under 21: $6 before/ $8 after

Above is a video of Talib Kweli performing “Palookas” off his album Gutter Rainbows with a live band in San Francisco earlier this month. Talib Kweli will be in Columbus Friday.

He will be signing Gutter Rainbows at a Magnolia Thunderpussy instore from 7-9 before performing with a live band that night at Skully’s. J.Rawls feat Le, Illogic and Illogic Poetic, and the first showcase for the Are You Radio Ready Contest will open.

The Magnolia Thunderpussy instore signing is free.

Ticket info for the Kweli show at Skullys at the Royal Columbus website. And if you want to read about Kweli and I on a panel click here.

MP3: The Receiver – Skin and Bone

This Saturday, Phantods will be hosting a holiday show featuring The Alphabet, Six Gallery and The Receiver. I caught up with Casey Cooper from The Receiver about his thoughts on the holiday season and the coming year.

What can we expect for Saturday night’s show?
This is meant to be a holiday show for The Phantods, with each band invited to play a holiday song or two if they’d like. Phantods asked us to play a little while back. And because we love their music, we were all about playing with them.

Ok, so on a scale of 1-10, how much do you like holiday music?
I’d say overall, about 6. It works for me mostly on Christmas Eve and Day, but that’s about it. I’ve always been a fan of orchestral music, so I can appreciate that aspect of most holiday music played on the radio. The only holiday music that I voluntarily play throughout the span of the season is A Charlie Brown Christmas by Vince Guaraldi Trio. I can listen to that album over and over without getting sick of it.

Continued after the jump

What do you listen to during the cold Ohio months?
I tend to listen to a lot of mellow music during the winter. Anything that comes across as sounding warm I gravitate towards, as I assume most people do during this season. The dark and cold weather make most of us want to stay inside and hibernate, so I think musical tastes generally follow suit.

What 3 albums are you hoping to receive this year?
(three albums I’ve listened to a lot and should already own…but…)
Air “Love 2″
Mew “No More Stories…”
The Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” (Mono Remaster 2009)

Has The Receiver written any holiday songs? If not, and you were to, what would it be about?
We haven’t ever written any holiday songs. But I do remember writing one of our songs “Strength in Numbers” during a blizzard. I was completely snowed in at the studio I was working in for the weekend, and something about the cold weather had a huge inspiration on the final result. I really wanted a sound that was textured, relaxed, and warm, sort of like a blanket. And we even put sleigh bells over the last half of the song to drive the point home. After three days of steady snow and writing, the song was pretty much finished.

(Per the last year:)
What has been the highlight of 2009 for The Receiver?
The highlight was definitely the final recording/mixing/mastering and release of our new record Length of Arms. We put a lot of work into that album, and it’s been a lot of fun touring and sharing it with friends and fans. The studio process is very exciting as a musician, and it’s always a gratifying experience when you can release what you’ve done behind closed doors.

What are you looking forward to in 2010?
I think I’ll be focusing a lot on writing new material for our third record. We’ve been playing a lot over the past 6 months, so it will be nice to get back into a concentrated writing phase. That’s always my favorite part of the entire musical process. But as always, we’ll be playing on weekends here and there, local and regional. So we have that to look forward to as well.

Do you have any ambitious New Year’s resolutions?
I’d like to put at least 3 hours a day into writing music as often as possible. I’ve been a little lazy these past couple months, and I’m hoping that the new year will inspire me to get busy and become way more productive. So if it all goes well and I can be disciplined, I’ll hopefully have a full album’s worth of new material by the end of next year.

Columbus band Six Gallery inked a deal with German label Superball Music (Trail of Dead). The label, along with label InsideOut, recently announced that they will be cooperating with Century Media Records and EMI Music to distribute their artists’ music worldwide. The official press release will be out soon, but I decided to talk to Six Gallery’s singer/guitarist Daniel Francis (former Pirate) first.

How did this deal with Superball come about and how much time has passed since the beginning stage?
The entire record deal probably took about two months worth of conversation. We emailed someone. He was completely disinterested. We kindly asked him if there was anyone he might know who would like it and here we are..

So I understand SG’s record Breakthroughs in Modern Art will be the first record released on the Superball in 2010?
As far as I know, that is correct.

And it will be distributed in Hollister stores in the US and Canada? What are your thoughts on this?
There’s no reason to not distribute your music as widely as possible. I’m too cool for Hollister? No, I’m not too cool. There’s nothing keeping people who shop there from being uneducated in music. People find bands they like in stranger places.

How do you feel about your music being distributed worldwide?
Awesome. I’m 27. I’ve been working toward this for half of my life now. I’m completely stoked. The more you can get your music into people’s ears, the more they can like you. Or hate you. Either way.

I’m sure you’re excited to be label mates with Trail of Dead.
Yea, they’ve been around for a number of years, strongly supporting their albums. I hope at some point I actually get to meet them.

I’ve noticed that SG has been one of the most proactive, self-promoting bands on the Columbus scene in the last year or so. It has obviously worked in your favor. When you all set out with goals for the band, did you anticipate everything happening the way it did?
Absolutely not. You work as hard as you think you should be working. We have all been on the same page and have all worked really hard. First, when you record the music, it’s good enough or it’s not good enough. After it’s all been made, you just need to make it your job to get it out.

We’ve discussed the importance of Columbus bands being proud of the fact that the music they’ve created is in part due to the environment surrounding them. How do you feel being signed will or will not change your creative processes?
There’s no amount of time or distance that being a product of your environment will change. It will always be a part of you. While you’re making music, where you come from will always be a part of what you’re making.

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Six Gallery will play the 2010 SXSW Festival, and in Columbus you can catch them next at the Holiday Show at Skully’s on December 19th with Phantods, The Receiver and The Alphabet.
(Photo by Alysse Gafkjan)