There is a fantastic local lineup at The Independent next Friday, December 11, and The Bay Bridged wants you and a friend to go! Oakland's Subtle is headlining, and will be joined by Yoni Wolf (of Why? ) and Forrest Day . Download audio file (subtle_-_the_long_vein_of_the _law.mp3) Subtle - "The Long Vein of the Law" Subtle's unique brand of rap/rock, fronted by the amazing doseone, includes appearances by lots of [...]
Ten years in the making and hot on the heels of the impending closing and relocating of The Knitting Factory , the dudes at Anticon are bringing a bunch of awesomeness to the stage on December 18, including appearances from Pedestrian, Jel , Odd Nosdam , Alias , Yoni Wolf of Why? performing by himself and Buck 65, alongside a few others. Should make for an interesting, if not soul-shaking, experience. Click the flyer above for tickets. (mp3) Why? - The Hollows (mp3) [...]
"I only played chess once in my life and I lost" ALBUM: WHY? - ALOPECIA words: Jamie Milton The clocks had just struck past four o'clock today, the street lights were changing their on-times to conform to the darker afternoons and it was occurring to me that I hadn't yet scrolled anything on my favourite album of the year. And it's funny that it took so long because when playing 'Alopecia' all you think about is yourself and what's around you. You don't look back incase some nasty [...]
being a personal essay and photos about the band Why? that was supposed to be a show review by Benjamin "Benny" Burwell St. Maur. I've received a lot of great advice directly from Why?'s songwriter Yoni Wolf over the last few months. I mean, when I say "directly," I mean, obviously, "indirectly"—through his songs—but directly in the sense that those songs have been broadcasting directly into my head pretty much non-stop for the last six months. And, okay, I guess [...]
Why? stands as the most blogged about band here on Taking Tiger Mountain in its short little life, but I do unabashedly love them. Yoni is one of few people I've had the pleasure of doing an in-person interview with back in '06; I talked with him at Chicago's Double Door before their opening slot for The Silver Jews. I've seen them quite a bit in my free time and also reviewed their shows on more than one occasion ( The Double Door show and later opening for Yo La Tengo at Chicago's [...]
Alias, Resurgam (Anticon, 2008) MP3 : "Well Water Black" Young Brendon Whitney - aka Alias - cut his teeth musically on hip-hop. The tough part about that, especially when you're from a backwoods/hillbilly fuck-town in Maine, is that all you're doing is lining yourself up against the likes of Wu-Tang, KRS-One, Run-DMC, etc. Those are some tough shoes to fill. Had Alias been able to fast-forward eight years (thus skipping some fairly uninteresting attempts as a white [...]
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