Finally back from LA. Went out West to look for a place. Found out it was waaaay too early to be looking. You would think landlords would find a tenant when the previous tenant tells them they’re moving out. Not so much. Apparently they wait until someone needs to move in tomorrow. They were on some, you can pay us a month’s rent to hold it for you, I’m like yeaaah, I’m totally doing that.
Ran into the 5signs crew from Anodyne Electric. We did the 9th episode of their podcast. Also played a show at the Grand Star, did a photoshoot with Signals and Blood Is The New Black, and got it in with Frosti and Levi.
More audio, footage and images of all of that coming soon.
It’s that time again. February is fast approaching. Between planning for Costa Rica, LA, and Austin, I’m going to somehow fit in making an album in the month of Feb.
The Rules:
Record an album in February 2009 that’s 10 songs or 35 minutes long
* Recording can only be done in the month of February – no prerecorded songs.
* All material must be previously unreleased, and we encourage you to write the material during
February too.
Read all about it here.
If you remember, RPM 2008 was the beast that spawned this project:
In The Meantime
Pitchfork raved about it, people downloaded it way more than I ever expected (over 5,000 unique downloads), and it turned out to be a pretty decent undertaking.
So let’s do it again.
Keep an eye out.
The Throwdown is coming gentlemen. I was lucky enough to play for you guys last year and this year I hope to do it again. A couple people have asked that I play certain songs this year and I think that method of deciding the playlist is a really good idea. So here we go.
These are the suggestions I’ve gotten so far. If you want a song not on the list, feel free to write it in.
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What songs would you like to hear at the Whiskerino Throwdown?
METAL POSTCARD is doing big once again, putting out this delicious piece of musicality from Yea Big + Kid Static. The Future’s Looking Grim FULL EL-P. Get it!
Hopie is one of the homies from the bay, you know her from the Hopie/Del/Kid Static collab. She’s been working hard to bring you some hot new visual material. Keep an eye out, her new video Yummy is about to hit.
Jose Garibaldi over at Little Brown Heart sketches out what to hit up this weekend in Chicago. Dope.
iTunes finally updated. You can cop the new record where Apple rules the world.
YB+KS’ brand new album “The Future’s Looking Grim” is hot off the trucks. We just got it in our hands and want to give the fans the opportunity to pick it up before it leaves for the stores. For the next two weeks, we’re letting you guys buy it directly from us pre-retail on our myspace page. Pick it up now or you have to wait until June. JUNE! That’s a long ways away. I mean you could just get it digitally but ITS NOT THE SAME!
Static Out!
from TREAL:
That captured pirate hits the states…
… and he’s COLD CHILLIN’! That smiles just says, “yes, I have lived a wild fucking life, I am 19, I am a pirate, I sail ships and rob people, I have fired cannons and swashbuckled and shivered ye timbers and stabbed scurvy dogs and squeezed big wench tittays and laughed so much, much more than you Navy Gravy Under Seige fools ever will. P.S. you have just made the biggest mistake ever, I’m about to take over the U.S. prisons like pirate Miklo! Did I mention I just got a free ticket to America!? Big Mac!” This motherfucker is a modern day Jolly Roger! Straight up, if he is not in the next Pirates of the Carribean (as well as Miklo, for that matter, his career has gone nowhere since Chicano Blood), I will eat ten scorpions and buy a 900″ TV from Sever for six dollars and a coupon.
Even though they got our name wrong every time they mentioned it, Its a really good review.
http://www.skyscrapermagazine.com
THE MAE SHI VS YEA KID AND BIG STATIC
HLLL YEA CDEP – Mophonics / Team Shi
Though the Mae Shi released one of the strongest records of 2008, the L.A. band has garnered perhaps their most universal spotlight through a viral remix of Christian Bale’s now infamous “Are you professional?!” freakout. (“R U Professional” is worth the YouTube visit, trust me.) This quirky, outrageous sense of humor is what’s so markedly Mae Shi, and what’s spawned the band’s most recent project, a remix of last year’s HLLLYH. Teaming up with Chicago indie hip-hoppers Yea Kid + Big Static, HLLL YEA picks out elements from nearly every track of the band’s LP and fuses Mae Shi’s army of digital bleeps and vocal yelps with Yeah Kid + Big Static’s cheeky rhymes. The track that smashes all others is “Party Steady” (go figure) with its relentless “Can’t slow down” attitude. Sample fragments and beats are pieced together intelligently and seamlessly, and the record feels less like a mashup and more like a serendipitous collaboration. As a supplement to HLLLYH, it’s a delightful and completely unexpected surprise. Understanding the band’s weird exploits come with the territory of being a fan, so suit up for the ride. If nothing else, it’s completely hilarious.
(Meredith Turits)
mae-shi.com
