James Blake returns to Seattle / photo by Dave Lichterman This week we have a great list of shows to tell you about. Starting the week with 3 great shows at Neptune Theatre with Sparks on Monday night, James Blake on Tuesday night, and Purity Ring o n Wednesday night. Marnie Stern, SISU, and Heavy Petting are also at Barboza. On Thursday, The Thermals, Wimps, and La Luz are at Neumos, Kithkin, Constant Lovers, Pleasure Boaters, and Edie Sedgwick are at Chop Suey, and Rodriguez is [...]
Ring in the new year with Pickwick! / photo by Jim Bennett With Christmas over and the holidays all but wrapped up, there's only one thing left to do: celebrate the New Year! We've got some great choices if you still don't have any New Year's Eve plans. One of KEXP listeners' local favorites, Pickwick , are at Showbox at the Market with Radiation City and Tomten . Fresh Espresso, Grynch, Keyboard Kid, and Metal Chocolates are doing a Lazer Ball NYE at Neptune Theatre. Something different; the Atomic Rodeo: NYE [...]
With a week of awesome weather (not just for Seattle, I mean period .) comes a very back-heavy bevy of both shows to go peruse and enjoy. Hump Day sees Buffalo Death Beam , Yarn , Red Heart Alarm occupying the Tractor; Thursday, Sunset Tavern hosts a set by Ramona Falls , Land of Pines , and Natural Selection while Deadkill , Grenades , Battle Stations , and Strap Straps plays Neumo's. Friday, though, is Hood to Hood 2012 , the festivities of [...]
This Thursday through Saturday, April 19-21, the University of Washington and the U-District communities are celebrating HuskyFest , three days of music, visual arts, literature and theater on the university campus and centered around a large tented pavilion on Red Square. KEXP is proud to sponsor this multicultural event, especially because they're offering lots of free music! Here are the highlights of local artists performing at the pavilion: Thursday: 11:30 AM - Craft Spells 12:30 PM - The Pharmacy 9:00 PM - The Brick Dance w/ The Rapture DJs, DJ [...]
Here's a preview from IAME's upcoming Lame$tream album, "Yeah Huh" produced by Smoke M2D6. Lame$tream is post-swag music for a new day and a new wrong. Produced by Smoke M2D6, this album will make apocalyptic ruins out of dance floors, subwoofers, and all that we hold dear within our popular urban culture. Guests include Sapient, N8 the Gr8 (The CUF), Onry Ozzborn (Grayskul, Dark Time Sunshine), Candidt, Toni Hill, Poeina Suddarth, and DJ Spark of Sandpeople.
Inspectah Deck - The Raw (ft. Saigon & Bekay) Freddie Gibbs - 4 Da Streets (Freestyle #4) Kelis - Brave (Dark Sky Remix) Diamond Messages - Liquid Summer Greyskul - Heaven Is Still Coming.. Snoop Dogg - Boss' Life (ft. Nate Dogg) I went ahead and compiled my latest radio broadcast into a 24-track playlist for all the Mostly Junk Foodies to download. It includes some classic as well as new hip-hop and some incredible [...]
Perfect way to start my morning. This vid is off Onry's new album "Hold On For Dear Life". You can get it now through Fake Four Records website. God I wanna live in Seattle!!!!!!!!!!
Photography: Laura Taylor Have a nice Sunday. Vieon - Alone Aphex Twin - Windowlicker (Grayskull Remix) Ryuichi Sakamoto - Mill Theme (Robotaki Remix) Vieon | Aphex Twin | Grayskull | Ryuichi Sakamoto | Robotaki
First video from the new Onry Ozzborn (of Grayskul / Dark Time Sunshine) album "Hold On For Dear Life" out NOW. Buy: Onry Ozzborn - Hold On For Dear Life
Download : Aphex Twin - Windowlicker (Grayskull Remix) by KEEPREAL Creative Label - Visual & Musical www.keepreal.org Aphex Twin - Windowlicker (Grayskull Remix)
4 White Stallions- Counting Crows Dance The Frantic- Grayskul (ft. Pigeon John) Wrong The Right Way- Sister Hazel The River- Rachael Yamagata Lakefront Property- Astronautalis Little Bit Of Me- Melanie Envisioning- Roma Di Luna So Lost (Demo)- Ryan Adams Pioneer- Joe Purdy [...]
Though I've always had a loose policy to listen to everything that gets sent to me (so long as an artist is not a Little or a Young, or any variation of the two), it's getting harder and harder. I get at least ten songs a day, while more than a few artists are literally dropping more than one track a week. With that said - I had some time to filter out the trash and bring you the best joints that my in-box had to offer. This is kind of a grab bag, which I suppose kind [...]
The video above features JFK explaining the link between Olddominion and seducing mermaids. Don't believe me? Check the video. Seattle based Rhymesayer MC JFK presents the first street release "On the Regular" from his debut album "Building Wings on the Way Down," out June 1st on Portland, OR based record label, Taxidermy Records. Produced by one of Seattle's finest, Bean One (The Roots, Jurassic 5, Black Sheep, etc), "On the Regular" describes how JFK kicks it at home when he's chilling and not on the road. An MC of Filipino [...]
JFK (From Grayskul) "On the Regular" Ft. DJ Rise Seattle based Rhymesayer MC JFK presents the first street release "On the Regular" from his debut album "Building Wings on the Way Down," out June 1st on Portland, OR based record label, Taxidermy Records. Produced by one of Seattle's finest, Bean One (The Roots, Jurassic 5, Black Sheep, etc), "On the Regular" describes how JFK kicks it at home when he's chilling and not on the road. An MC of Filipino decent from the huge NW based supercrew Oldominion, JFK maybe [...]
Although highly conceptual and even tedious at times, this new adventure from Grayskul’s Onry Ozzborn and Portland (Oregon) producer Zavala does not belong in the Emperor’s New Closet with so many comparable alt-rap projects. Rather than a mess of awful noises that sound as if cats were testing fans to see whether they’d embrace naked nonsense, here we get æsthetics that ring somewhere between those of an unapologetically inaccessible Bazooka Tooth –era Aesop Rock (who appears on “Primor”) and the complicated yet melodic work of Chicago rhyme genius Qwel (who drops [...]
At the end of the month, Connecticut-based independent hip hop label Fake Four Inc. will bring their spring tour to The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn. The line-up consists of Sole & The Skyrider Band, Dark Time Sunshine (the new project from Onry Ozzborn and Grayskul) and Fake Four Inc. founder Ceschi Ramos, all of whom are pushing the envelope and expanding the hip hop genre we know today. CLICK HERE to download BELIEVEYOUME , the free LP from Dark Time Sunshine. They will also release a new EP through Fake Four Inc. next month. [...]
It's true that over familiarity has led to a touch of contempt when it comes to Ke$ha , but for Grayskull it's become close to mysoginistic murderation. It's a good thing he's a don on the old digital beats and has filled them with all his excess aggression or else we'd be worried about him getting all Chris Brown on her. Instead he's stomped all over her tune with big phat bass boots and glitched all over her voice, turning this flirty little pop rap into a filthy [...]
Grayskul feat. Blueprint “Blueskul” In 2005, shortly after my album 1988 came out, i was on the Scribble Jam tour with my dude DJ Raregroove, Mr. Dibbs, and Glue. The tour ended in Portland, OR but instead of driving back with everybody else, me and raregroove decided to spend a few days in Portland kicking it and then fly back to Ohio later that week. Considering everybody else on the tour was gonna be trapped in a bus for 2 or 3 days in route to Ohio, getting drunk everyday [...]
Graymaker (Grayskul x Maker) – Crazy Talk Rhymesayers/Oldominion hip-hop duo Grayskul hooks up with producer Maker for a new project. Sounds dope! More info can be found here . +++ The homie Toki Wright hooks up the fans with a nice behind the scenes look at the Fresh Air Tour’s most recent tour stop in NYC. Dope stuff! Fresh Air Tour featuring Brother Ali, Evidence, Toki Wright and Bk-One stops through Chicago November 18th. Toki Wright X PWELBS [...]
5/5 Hesitation Wounds is out on Sleep's new home Strange Famous . A big step for Sleep and a huge win for a great label with a tight roster.(2MEX,Buck 65,Cecil Otter, Sage Francis!) To be honest I didn't have any doubt Sleep would release another solid album. Continuing where Christopher left off Hesitation Wounds shows an advancing Sleep getting faster without losing any meaning. All substance and no filler. You're not going to hear the same repeating line "You're a [...]
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