Yup, just like the one here, where he performs Sharks at the Pitchfork Festival. Did I mention his set was kinda sorta awesome? Oh yeah, it was.
Tuesday night: Final Fantasy and Cadence Weapon
I’ve had this one circled on the calendar for some time now: Final Fantasy with Cadence Weapon on Tuesday night at Modified. (Nifty opens the show.)
I think most of my friends are eager for Final Fantasy, but I’m especially excited to see Cadence Weapon for the first time. I had the good fortune to interview Cadence Weapon (aka Rollie Pemberton) in advance of the show. You can read the story here. Pemberton said he and Final Fantasy (aka Owen Pallett) likely will pair up for some form of a duet. Hopefully it sounds something like this.
Cadence Weapon with Final Fantasy | Sharks (CBC radio session)(via Nialler 9)
SPEAKING OF Modified … 17 people at the Aqueduct show on Monday night. Really, Phoenix? Really? That’s just frustrating and embarrassing. Thankfully, David Terry and Co. put on a great show regardless, playing for a little more than an hour and taking requests at the end. You can read a story I wrote on Aqueduct here.
Cool Kids: Black Mags download
It’s too late to put too many nouns+verbs together, but music.download.com has a download of the Cool Kids’ Black Mags available. You might remember that I just posted the video.
In related news, Chocolate Industries will release the Bake Sale EP in late January with a full-length to follow in mid-2008.
Stream: Z-Trip remixes Nirvana’s Lounge Act
Fresh off a tour from the release of his All-Pro Soundtrack for All-Pro 2K8, DJ Z-Trip is back in the video-game business. This time, he’s contributed his skills to the EA game Skate. I’ve always been a Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater guy myself, but then I don’t own an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.
One of Z-Trip’s songs on Skate is a remix of Nirvana’s Lounge Act, which Z says on his MySpace page is the first officially licensed Nirvana remix ever. That’s heady stuff, but it’s in good hands with Z-Trip, who maintains the integrity of the original while still stamping it with his own layer of freshness. (Although a friend of mine is convinced Kurt Cobain is rolling in his grave.)
Unfortunately, the remix is not available as an mp3 (at least not anywhere I can find). So you’ll have to peep it at MySpace.
[STREAM]: DJ Z-Trip | Lounge Act (remix)
Grab some ridiculous downloads at Z-Trip’s Web site (including a couple more from All-Pro Soundtrack he’s made available). And if I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times: Grab Uneasy Listening.
One more DJ Shadow post
Forgot to mention this in the last post: DJ Shadow’s MySpace page has a stream of Gabracadabra, which apparently was recorded for The Outsider but didn’t get mixed until after the album dropped. It was made available on a limited 7-inch.
The track features Blackalicious’ Gift of Gab, who is about to drop an EP of his own under the moniker the Mighty Underdogs with Lateef and Headnodic. The EP, The Prelude, can be pre-ordered here and features Shadow, MF Doom and Ladybug Mecca(!). (Pre-orders get immediate access to an MP3 download.)
So, to recap: Stream DJ Shadow’s Gabracadabra, which features Gift of Gab, at his MySpace page.
And you can stream the Mighty Underdogs’ Gunfight (feat. MF Doom) at Gift of Gab’s MySpace page.
That is all.
The DJ Shadow break set
Sole Sides points us in the direction of this gem — a mix of songs sampled by DJ Shadow as used for his own music.
This is another great example of how Shadow has inspired musicians and crate-diggers alike. Check out a previous post on the Shadow Sessions, a live band that performs Endtroducing.
From what I can gather, the guy who put this together, Fraykerbreaks, has been hunting/collecting Shadow’s sample sources for years.
Translated from the site: “Fraykerbreak, in his second collaboration with nachopancho brings us a set full of original samples from the magnificent DJ Shadow.”
Tracklist at nachopancho.net.
Cool Kids: Black Mags video
A friend sent me a link for the video of the Cool Kids’ Black Mags video, and now I’m hooked.
Signed to A-Trak (shameless link) and Catchdubs’ Fool’s Gold label, the Chicago duo waxes nostalgic about their “Dyno with the black mags.”
Obviously, this recalls Lupe Fiasco’s ode to skateboards, Kick Push. We hear so much about people who can’t stand those gosh-darn rappers bragging about cars and rims and whatnot. And here we have guys talkin’ sweet on skateboards and bicycles. Where’s the love??
For the record, I used to rock a Schwinn Predator … and, yeah, I put them pegs on, so what?
Girl Talk delivers a facial
At about the midpoint of his “holy crap”-inducing set at Saturday’s SoCo Music Experience, Girl Talk (aka Gregg Gillis) grabbed the microphone to chat with all of his new favorite fans.
“What’s up, Arizona? Man, I haven’t been in Arizona since two years ago at Modified.” Pause. Cheers. “None of you motherfuckers were there! Put down your hands!” Ooooooh, snap. Delivery: 10. Timing: 10. Relevance: 10. The Hurley hat-wearing dudes never knew what hit ’em.
In any event, Girl Talk’s set was by far the highlight of the event. It’s absolutely mind-boggling that he went on at 7:30 instead of closing the night down. No offense to headliner Cold War Kids, who were great. But Girl Talk blew just about everyone’s minds, mixing literally hundreds of songs.
Other highlights:
Entrance: Free for all!
Friend, on Cold War Kids bassist Matt Maust and his twitchy on-stage antics: “That bassist is on meth.”
Another friend, on Cold War Kids drummer Matt Aveiro, whose body — or at least his shoulders — I’ve previously compared to a coat hanger: “Why don’t they feed their drummer?”
Girl Talk eating a huge bag of Cool Ranch Doritos in VIP area after his set.
Member of Architecture in Helsinki (or, according to lame-brain host of event, Architecture FROM Helsinki) wearing J Dilla Donuts T-shirt.
Me asking Girl Talk if he’d write an I Used to Love H.E.R. contribution. Girl Talk saying he would. Stay tuned.
Cold War Kids playing Hospital Beds. That song never gets old.
Complimentary booze in VIP area.
Complimentary shrimp in VIP area. We eat so many shrimp.
In-N-Out Burger afterward at 12:30 a.m.
Saturday: SoCo Music Experience in Tempe
For an event sponsored by a liquor company, there’s a surprising dearth of information about Saturday’s SoCo Music Experience floating around the Internets. The SoCo site says the Phoenix (actually, Tempe) event is “coming soon.” Um, yeah, like tomorrow.
Nevertheless, we put together a preview at azcentral.com on three of the artists: Cold War Kids (thanks, Weiss), Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Girl Talk.
It’s an impressive indie lineup (with local bands littered in between) for such a corporate-tized event. Entrance is free and 21 and over (naturally), so I’m curious what the crowd will look like. If SoCo fliered up nearby Arizona State University, like it should have, my guess is we’ll be seeing lots of Hollister shirts and cargo shorts. Set times below.
2 pm: Doors open
2:30-3 pm: TBD
3-4 pm: William Reed
4-4:30 pm: Faucet
4:30-5:30 pm: Architecture in Helsinki (MP3: Heart it Races)
5:30-6 pm: Army of Robots
6:00-7 pm: Sick Puppies
7-7:30 pm: The Loveblisters
7:30-8:30 pm: Girl Talk (MP3: Bounce That)
8:30-9 pm: Awake and Alert
9-10 pm: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (MP3: Over and Over Again (Lost & Found) )
10-10:30 pm: Violet Wild
10:30-11:30 pm: Cold War Kids (MP3: Heavy Boots)
Gray Kid offers free download of Happy Feet
For as much as I’ve talked about the Gray Kid before, I’m remiss in that I’ve neglected to mention his latest release, Vultures, released earlier this summer.
The album was inspired by the Kid reading Phaedra’s Love, a play by Sarah Kane. What I really wanted to do was read the play before I posted about the album (available at iTunes). But then I couldn’t find a copy at any of my local big-box bookstores. Then I started reading other stuff (namely, Into the Wild).
Nevertheless, that hasn’t prevented me from enjoying Vultures, an album rich in narrative and instrumental texture. You would swear this isn’t the same guy who’s happy to let you know about his, um, junk (Like a Comet) on … 5, 6, 7, 8. That’s versatility, friends.
The Gray Kid is offering up one of the albums tracks, Happy Feet (feat. Chris Garneau), as a free download at his MySpace page until Monday, at which point, he says, he will provide another track.
If you’re wondering, the mp3 is a 192 kbps file. Go get it.