With the Norwegian group RALPH MYERZ!
At Club PRAGUE.
Midnight on Congress Ave.
Look It Up.
Also there's a chance Kurupt will be in the house as well, but me personally, I can't confirm that. But Devin and Kurupt are on the Ralph Myerz song. Gonna be off the chain.
And then of course 1 a.m. - BUN B LIVE AT FUZE on Neches at 6th.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Sunday, March 9, 2008
For it is upon us
We're live in the mix, SXSW www.93.399999999999999999fm102Mhz, dial it in, find it on your internets, let it take you over and bring you down to the field where it's all about to go down.
I mean the street, the 6th street and it's vicinity. Where 1,700+ bands are about to descend and make sure it goes down. You're anticipating you're flight, I'm down here already in it, as if it's already happening, like except the music isn't happening yet it's just all the hustle and the bustle, the last minute hustles and bustles are always the worst. The shit hit's the fan and you're there sitting on the toilet thinking you finally have time to do such a thing, but alas and alak you do not. Cuz once it hits the fan, it's all over the place and you'd better be there to clean it up.
And it's serious, I mean, I thought to myself all week about how on Saturday (yesterdayish) I was going to get my work done and head down south side to the Alamo Theater in the shopping plaza where the Texas Beat offices used to be and see GONZO, the Hunter S. Thompson documentary.
I recently finished reading the recent book of the same name that Rolling Stone published. Now that was a brilliant read. Many of Hunter's friends, family, foes, allies, co-conspirators, etc, talking big about the Father of Gonzo Journalism, so I felt as though I had to see the film. Well once again, book trumps film.
That's not to say that Gonzo is a bad film, it has some really strong moments. The footage of HST is of course very welcome, but to fit the life of a man who lived his so fully into two hours, is almost a futile pursuit. And to waste any minutes of such a film on anyone else, is almost utterly ridiculous. Like for instance, they went pretty much in order, and when they came to Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, they started going real in depth about the politicians and the politicos and the other hacks on the trail and I started thinking to myself how I was no longer learning anything about Hunter (I actually didn't learn much cuz Ive obsessively read pretty much everything he's written and many of the things that have been written about him) but I was just looking at a bunch of politicians.... meanwhile I could be on the computer promoting my SXSW shows on the internets and I started thinking to myself how I just could not justify sitting and staring at a screen for two hours when I have so much to do, so I slid my body underneath the lil table at the Alamo Drafthouse South and slithered out of my seat on to the floor only to sneak out and race home to do what it is I need to do these days.
Promote these shows.
I'll post a full on list of my shit with updates and recommendations tomorrow so tune into AustinSurreal and forward the list onto everyone you know who may be in Austin this week.
We getting a heliplane and some hash pills for the haters. And if they wanna play games, we'll see you at the big chess set on Sunday.
For it's a long road to Buffalo, especially if yer headed east on I-90 through Cleveland and Erie at this particular time of year. There's 20 inches of snow on the ground in my home town and I'm down here whining about 50 degree weather and a little work. It's going to be bright and sunny and warm all week in Austin, TX, I can feel it, you can feel it, we all can have it, when it comes. This Wednesday. See you in Austin. Call me when you get here.
I mean the street, the 6th street and it's vicinity. Where 1,700+ bands are about to descend and make sure it goes down. You're anticipating you're flight, I'm down here already in it, as if it's already happening, like except the music isn't happening yet it's just all the hustle and the bustle, the last minute hustles and bustles are always the worst. The shit hit's the fan and you're there sitting on the toilet thinking you finally have time to do such a thing, but alas and alak you do not. Cuz once it hits the fan, it's all over the place and you'd better be there to clean it up.
And it's serious, I mean, I thought to myself all week about how on Saturday (yesterdayish) I was going to get my work done and head down south side to the Alamo Theater in the shopping plaza where the Texas Beat offices used to be and see GONZO, the Hunter S. Thompson documentary.
I recently finished reading the recent book of the same name that Rolling Stone published. Now that was a brilliant read. Many of Hunter's friends, family, foes, allies, co-conspirators, etc, talking big about the Father of Gonzo Journalism, so I felt as though I had to see the film. Well once again, book trumps film.
That's not to say that Gonzo is a bad film, it has some really strong moments. The footage of HST is of course very welcome, but to fit the life of a man who lived his so fully into two hours, is almost a futile pursuit. And to waste any minutes of such a film on anyone else, is almost utterly ridiculous. Like for instance, they went pretty much in order, and when they came to Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, they started going real in depth about the politicians and the politicos and the other hacks on the trail and I started thinking to myself how I was no longer learning anything about Hunter (I actually didn't learn much cuz Ive obsessively read pretty much everything he's written and many of the things that have been written about him) but I was just looking at a bunch of politicians.... meanwhile I could be on the computer promoting my SXSW shows on the internets and I started thinking to myself how I just could not justify sitting and staring at a screen for two hours when I have so much to do, so I slid my body underneath the lil table at the Alamo Drafthouse South and slithered out of my seat on to the floor only to sneak out and race home to do what it is I need to do these days.
Promote these shows.
I'll post a full on list of my shit with updates and recommendations tomorrow so tune into AustinSurreal and forward the list onto everyone you know who may be in Austin this week.
We getting a heliplane and some hash pills for the haters. And if they wanna play games, we'll see you at the big chess set on Sunday.
For it's a long road to Buffalo, especially if yer headed east on I-90 through Cleveland and Erie at this particular time of year. There's 20 inches of snow on the ground in my home town and I'm down here whining about 50 degree weather and a little work. It's going to be bright and sunny and warm all week in Austin, TX, I can feel it, you can feel it, we all can have it, when it comes. This Wednesday. See you in Austin. Call me when you get here.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Audio from Hot 93 Last Night & Photos by OG Bootleg!
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
I'll Be on Hot 93 in Austin Tonight with Deuce!
Also the SXSW FILM FESTIVAL is about to start. Check my recommendations!
Talking about SXSW and the events at hand!
Check this promo. DL It Now and Play it LOUD in the RIDE!
Yeah so I will be on Hot 93 tonight sometime between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. talking about SXSW, probably closer to 8 p.m. cuz I am old and tired and such.
Word to Deuce, he will be hosting some of the events at Fuze and it's goin' down next week and I need ALL of y'alls support. I look forward to seeing you in Austin!
-------------------------------------------------
Also this week, the SXSW FILM FESTIVAL Starts. You can see the entire schedule here. And below here's a few advance reviews I wrote about some films I am very excited about.
I highly recommend this one:
Don’t Get Me Wrong
DIR: Adina Pintilie
(Romanian with English Subtitles)
Sitting down to watch Don’t Get Me Wrong, a beautiful, slice of life film set in a Romanian Neuropsychiatric Hospital in 2006, one might be easily confused by its premise. And that might just be the point.
Director Adina Pintilie has stated that she went into the facility for eight days, without much of a plan other than to document some of the things she had read in the papers about the people who live behind the stark gray walls that extend seemingly up to Heaven for the people who exist within them, day in, day out, for the bulk of their lives.
What she left with is a story of love.
Not a love story in the traditional sense, there is nothing traditional about Don’t Get Me Wrong, but a love story that mirrors the foibles of the pursuits of love and success in our high octane modern world, with the simpler pursuits of a group of human beings who seem to get by just fine with almost nothing.
Pintilie observes, rather than follows, five patients through their daily lives, one of whom, named Ignat, has spent everyday for the past 40 years in the same spot, moving stones from one side of a plank to the other. The only thing that stops or bothers him is the rain.
Cut to a seemingly never ending conversation between a schizophrenic, obsessive, stair sweeping philosopher with a deep connection to God, and a man who claims to be the only person on Earth who God has given the power to stop the rain, and you begin to realize that the lesson to be learned with this film is much deeper than what appears on the surface.
While the characters in this film are often looked upon as outcasts, without much social worth, the reality may be that these misunderstood eccentrics have a better grasp on what life is really about than 9/10ths of modern society. They know how their actions affect their microcosm of the big picture and in doing what they do, day in, day out, they keep a certain sort of peace for themselves and all who surround them. They find freedom in their confinement, while much of the “free” world works hard to confine themselves. (Matt Sonzala)
Couldn't find an embed link for the Trailer but you can see the trailer HERE.
And this one is a real eye opener as well. The message mathces the strength of the music. Serious, if you make music, see this one and learn something about what it is that you do...
The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee “Scratch” Perry
DIR: Ethan Higbee, Adam Bhala Lough
95 MIN 2008
In the opening scene of this thoughtful documentary on one of reggae music’s earliest innovators and creators, a lone Jamaican Television presenter dressed in a sharp 3-piece suit, stares deeply into the camera and calmly says to his audience, “I’d like you to meet a genius.” He then goes on to laud the accomplishments of his upcoming mystery guest, dropping names of some of the artists he produced in his earliest days – the broadcast is from the late 60’s – and concludes with the statement, “He’s not only a record producer, he’s a songwriter, a poet, a musician, a video expert, and overall, a Rastaman.”
Quick cut to an example of his video/poetic work and you see a shirtless Perry, spinning around in circles outside his Jamaican home, in plaid short, shorts with oversized sunglasses covering his marijuana reddened eyes, and a kufi over his unkempt locks. He is chanting the praises of Jah Rastafari in a language only the deepest Rasta could possibly understand, while flailing his arms and gyrating manically, like a man possessed.
He seems crazy, but as the film progresses, you realize that Lee Perry was never possessed by any sort of devil, not in the traditional sense anyway. But his soul was obviously overtaken by the spirit of rhythm, as his every word, movement and nuance is punctuated by an irrational cadence, wholly unique to him.
A mystery to most of his fans for the bulk of his career, Perry brought reggae music to the masses by providing off kilter rhythms to such greats as Bob Marley, Junior Murvin and Max Romeo, to name but a few. His colorful and creative existence was the subject of many rumors and tales, both wholly true and oft-times understated. This film offers a tell-all explanation of one of music’s most colorful and genre splitting, pace setters, told mostly from his own mouth.
With the wisdom of an elder who saw a genre of music progress from birth to present times, his musical revelations are nothing short of revolutionary, and as the film comes to a close, if you still don’t quite understand the man behind the music, you’ll surely have gained a better understanding of the music that made the man. And helped shape a deep, cultural, renaissance. (Matt Sonzala)
And then of course there's this, which I had been waiting to see for some time. Don't miss out. You have not see this side of Iraq.
Heavy Metal In Baghdad
DIR: Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi
84 MIN 2007
Given what we have seen on the news and been told for many years about Iraq and its neighbors in the Middle East, quite possibly the last thing one might think about coming out of the war torn, heavily religious region could be heavy metal music.
Heavy Metal in Baghdad not only follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda – Latin for “black scorpion” - from the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 to the present day, it gives its viewers an inside look at the human side of modern Iraq. A place where average, everyday people live, work, and try to survive in their war torn world.
Acrassicauda is a four piece band, not unlike any four piece metal band from any town on this side of the world. They play the same riffs, wear the same clothes and want the same things as their worldwide contemporaries. But due to cultural differences and religious standards, they are not fully free to practice and produce their art. Even worse, chicks don’t come out to their gigs!
Bombs drop, gun shots ring out, Military Police question and detain the artists and film makers involved, but still they persist, and from a magnificent struggle comes a dynamic film that delivers a slice of life no other film has produced before it.
The film takes you from the bands peak, just after the toppling of Sadaam Hussein, to three years later when they are living in exile in Syria. The directors – better known as two of the main editors of Vice Magazine – take time out to examine the nuances of the city that produced their subjects, and give a truly well rounded vision of what life in Iraq is really like, through the eyes of its average citizens. It’s nothing like what you have seen on Fox News, but it sure ain’t the Sunset Strip. (Matt Sonzala)
Anyway, go see some films. Celebrate great art for the next couple weeks in Austin, TX. Cuz it's really goin' down...
P.S. I don't think that SXSW Selected this next clip but it is hands down my favorite short film of all time. It says so much in such little time. Sums up EVERYTHING!
BRILLIANT! Now back to work...
Check this promo. DL It Now and Play it LOUD in the RIDE!
Yeah so I will be on Hot 93 tonight sometime between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. talking about SXSW, probably closer to 8 p.m. cuz I am old and tired and such.
Word to Deuce, he will be hosting some of the events at Fuze and it's goin' down next week and I need ALL of y'alls support. I look forward to seeing you in Austin!
-------------------------------------------------
Also this week, the SXSW FILM FESTIVAL Starts. You can see the entire schedule here. And below here's a few advance reviews I wrote about some films I am very excited about.
I highly recommend this one:
Don’t Get Me Wrong
DIR: Adina Pintilie
(Romanian with English Subtitles)
Sitting down to watch Don’t Get Me Wrong, a beautiful, slice of life film set in a Romanian Neuropsychiatric Hospital in 2006, one might be easily confused by its premise. And that might just be the point.
Director Adina Pintilie has stated that she went into the facility for eight days, without much of a plan other than to document some of the things she had read in the papers about the people who live behind the stark gray walls that extend seemingly up to Heaven for the people who exist within them, day in, day out, for the bulk of their lives.
What she left with is a story of love.
Not a love story in the traditional sense, there is nothing traditional about Don’t Get Me Wrong, but a love story that mirrors the foibles of the pursuits of love and success in our high octane modern world, with the simpler pursuits of a group of human beings who seem to get by just fine with almost nothing.
Pintilie observes, rather than follows, five patients through their daily lives, one of whom, named Ignat, has spent everyday for the past 40 years in the same spot, moving stones from one side of a plank to the other. The only thing that stops or bothers him is the rain.
Cut to a seemingly never ending conversation between a schizophrenic, obsessive, stair sweeping philosopher with a deep connection to God, and a man who claims to be the only person on Earth who God has given the power to stop the rain, and you begin to realize that the lesson to be learned with this film is much deeper than what appears on the surface.
While the characters in this film are often looked upon as outcasts, without much social worth, the reality may be that these misunderstood eccentrics have a better grasp on what life is really about than 9/10ths of modern society. They know how their actions affect their microcosm of the big picture and in doing what they do, day in, day out, they keep a certain sort of peace for themselves and all who surround them. They find freedom in their confinement, while much of the “free” world works hard to confine themselves. (Matt Sonzala)
Couldn't find an embed link for the Trailer but you can see the trailer HERE.
And this one is a real eye opener as well. The message mathces the strength of the music. Serious, if you make music, see this one and learn something about what it is that you do...
The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee “Scratch” Perry
DIR: Ethan Higbee, Adam Bhala Lough
95 MIN 2008
In the opening scene of this thoughtful documentary on one of reggae music’s earliest innovators and creators, a lone Jamaican Television presenter dressed in a sharp 3-piece suit, stares deeply into the camera and calmly says to his audience, “I’d like you to meet a genius.” He then goes on to laud the accomplishments of his upcoming mystery guest, dropping names of some of the artists he produced in his earliest days – the broadcast is from the late 60’s – and concludes with the statement, “He’s not only a record producer, he’s a songwriter, a poet, a musician, a video expert, and overall, a Rastaman.”
Quick cut to an example of his video/poetic work and you see a shirtless Perry, spinning around in circles outside his Jamaican home, in plaid short, shorts with oversized sunglasses covering his marijuana reddened eyes, and a kufi over his unkempt locks. He is chanting the praises of Jah Rastafari in a language only the deepest Rasta could possibly understand, while flailing his arms and gyrating manically, like a man possessed.
He seems crazy, but as the film progresses, you realize that Lee Perry was never possessed by any sort of devil, not in the traditional sense anyway. But his soul was obviously overtaken by the spirit of rhythm, as his every word, movement and nuance is punctuated by an irrational cadence, wholly unique to him.
A mystery to most of his fans for the bulk of his career, Perry brought reggae music to the masses by providing off kilter rhythms to such greats as Bob Marley, Junior Murvin and Max Romeo, to name but a few. His colorful and creative existence was the subject of many rumors and tales, both wholly true and oft-times understated. This film offers a tell-all explanation of one of music’s most colorful and genre splitting, pace setters, told mostly from his own mouth.
With the wisdom of an elder who saw a genre of music progress from birth to present times, his musical revelations are nothing short of revolutionary, and as the film comes to a close, if you still don’t quite understand the man behind the music, you’ll surely have gained a better understanding of the music that made the man. And helped shape a deep, cultural, renaissance. (Matt Sonzala)
And then of course there's this, which I had been waiting to see for some time. Don't miss out. You have not see this side of Iraq.
Heavy Metal In Baghdad
DIR: Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi
84 MIN 2007
Given what we have seen on the news and been told for many years about Iraq and its neighbors in the Middle East, quite possibly the last thing one might think about coming out of the war torn, heavily religious region could be heavy metal music.
Heavy Metal in Baghdad not only follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda – Latin for “black scorpion” - from the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 to the present day, it gives its viewers an inside look at the human side of modern Iraq. A place where average, everyday people live, work, and try to survive in their war torn world.
Acrassicauda is a four piece band, not unlike any four piece metal band from any town on this side of the world. They play the same riffs, wear the same clothes and want the same things as their worldwide contemporaries. But due to cultural differences and religious standards, they are not fully free to practice and produce their art. Even worse, chicks don’t come out to their gigs!
Bombs drop, gun shots ring out, Military Police question and detain the artists and film makers involved, but still they persist, and from a magnificent struggle comes a dynamic film that delivers a slice of life no other film has produced before it.
The film takes you from the bands peak, just after the toppling of Sadaam Hussein, to three years later when they are living in exile in Syria. The directors – better known as two of the main editors of Vice Magazine – take time out to examine the nuances of the city that produced their subjects, and give a truly well rounded vision of what life in Iraq is really like, through the eyes of its average citizens. It’s nothing like what you have seen on Fox News, but it sure ain’t the Sunset Strip. (Matt Sonzala)
Anyway, go see some films. Celebrate great art for the next couple weeks in Austin, TX. Cuz it's really goin' down...
P.S. I don't think that SXSW Selected this next clip but it is hands down my favorite short film of all time. It says so much in such little time. Sums up EVERYTHING!
BRILLIANT! Now back to work...
Saturday, March 1, 2008
March 12-16 - You come to Austin
Or miss all this...
Man seriously, if you're not in Austin in these next couple of weeks, you're missing out. We got more hip hop music, more hip hop press, more hip hop industry, more hip hop presence than ever this year. It's growing and growing and growing and growing and such... And I'm stoked. March 12th, we ready.
Anyway what follows is the schedule for hip hop and things that I may have had a hand in. I didn't book all the hip hop, some came in via agents and sponsors and my dudes up to the job reeled all that in, but this year, it's exponentially goin' down.
Wednesday March 12th
SESAC Day Stage Cafe Austin Convention Center - 500 E Cesar Chavez St.
5:30 p.m. - Saul Williams (Los Angeles, CA)
2:30 p.m. - Mala Rodriguez (Cadiz, Spain)
12:00 noon - Bisc 1 (Queens, NY)
Fuze – 505 Neches St.
1:15 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Bun B (Port Arthur, TX)
1:00 a.m. – 1:15 a.m. - MDDL FNGZ (Houston, TX)
Cory Mo (Houston, TX)
12:45 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. – Vicious (Lake Charles, LA)
12:30 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Hezeleo & Big Bubb (Port Arthur, TX)
12:10 a.m. – 12:25 a.m. XVII (Pass Christian, MS)
11:50 p.m. – 12:05 a.m. - B Do & T.O.E. (Port Arthur, TX)
11:30 p.m. – 11:45 p.m. - Bankroll Jones (Houston, TX)
----------
11:00 p.m. – 11:20 p.m. - Chalie Boy (Hearne/Calvert, TX)
10:30 p.m. – 10:50 p.m. - Gerald G (Austin, TX)
10:00 p.m. – 10:20 p.m. - Public Offenders (Austin, TX)
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. – Slykat (San Antonio, TX)
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Circle G’z (Houston, TX)
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. – DJ Rapid Ric (Austin, TX)
Habana Backyard – 708 E. 6th St. - Stones Throw/Duck Down
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – Buckshot (Brooklyn, NY)
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Sean Price (Brooklyn, NY)
11:40 p.m. – 12:10 p.m. - Guilty Simpson (Detroit, MI)
11:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. - Percee P (Bronx, NY)
10:15 p.m. – 10:45 p.m. - Kidz In The Hall (Chicago, IL)
9:45 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. - DJ Rhettmatic (Long Beach, CA)
9:00 p.m. – 9:45 p.m. - DJ Chicken George (Austin, TX)
Molotov – 719 W. 6th St. – SXSW SOUL Presented by The Bloom Effect/Smooth
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – HEAVy (Queens, NY)
12:00 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - Karina Nistal (Houston, TX)
11:00 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. - IB3 (Houston, TX)
10:25 p.m. – 10:45 p.m. - The Bamaz (Montgomery, AL)
10:05 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. - Lady Lux (Houston, TX)
9:20 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. – Jennifer Johns (Oakland, CA)
8:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. – Choklate (Seattle, WA)
Thursday March 13th
SESAC Day Stage Cafe Austin Convention Center - 500 E Cesar Chavez St.
4:40 p.m. - Cool Kids (Chicago, IL)
3:30 p.m. - Murs (Los Angeles, CA)
3:00 p.m. - Billy Bragg (London, UK)
2:30 p.m. - Cadence Weapon (Edmonton, AB)
Auditorium Shores Stage at Lady Bird Lake
7:00 p.m. - Del the Funky Homosapien (Oakland, CA)
6:00 p.m. - Grupo Fantasma (Austin, TX)
18th Floor at Hilton Garden Inn - 500 N IH 35
8:00 p.m. - Rufus Cappadocia (New York, NY - Fonkiest cello player ever)
Barcelona - 209 E 6th St.
11:10 p.m. - Diplo (Philadelphia, PA)
8:00 p.m. - Shepherd Fairey (Los Angeles, CA
Beauty Bar - 617 E 7th St.
9:00 p.m. - Juiceboxxx/Roxy Cottontail (Detroit/NY)
Buffalo Billiards - 201 E 6th St.
12:30 a.m. - Tommy Guerrero (San Francisco, CA)
11:45 p.m. - Curumin (Sao Paolo, Brazil)
10:45 p.m. - Money Mark (Los Angeles, CA)
10:00 p.m. - Pigeon John (Los Angeles, CA)
9:25 p.m. - Taylor McFerrin (Brooklyn, NY)
8:45 p.m. - Dokkebi Q (Ainu Tribe, Japan)
8:00 p.m. - DJ Jester the Filipino Fist (San Antonio, TX)
Elysium - 705 Red River St.
12:30 a.m. - Ghislain Poirer (Montreal, QC)
9:30 p.m. - Yppah (Houston, TX)
Flamingo Cantina - 515 E 6th St.
1:00 a.m. - Mala Rodriguez (Cadiz, Spain)
Fuze – 505 Neches St.
1:15 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – M1 of Dead Prez (Brooklyn, NY)
12:40 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. - Ryno and Slim Gutta (Austin, TX)
12:15 a.m. – 12:35 a.m. – Drojo (Corpus Christi, TX)
11:45 p.m. – 12:05 a.m. - SouthBound (Austin, TX)
--------
International Hip Hop
11:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Akala (London, UK)
10:20 p.m. – 10:50 p.m. – Killa Kela (London, UK)
9:50 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. – Lars Vaular (Bergen, Norway)
9:20 p.m. – 9:40 p.m. – A-Laget (Bergen, Norway)
8:45 p.m. – 9:15 p.m. – Dok Holiday (Austin, TX)
8:15 p.m. – 8:40 p.m. – PLA (Austin, TX)
Karma – 119 W. 8th St. – DJ’s Who Kill It
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Skratch Bastid (Montreal, QC)
12:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. - Smalltown DJ’s (Calgary, AB)
11:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. – Witnes (Houston, TX)
10:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. - Four Color Zack & Pretty Titty (Seattle, WA)
9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. - Squincy Jones (Houston, TX)
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. – NaNaChill (Houston, TX)
Momo's - 618 W 6th St. - All Music Is World Music
1:00 a.m. - Marcelo D2 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Prague – 422 B Congress Ave.
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - J-Davey (Los Angeles, CA)
12:00 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - Aloe Blacc (Los Angeles, CA)
11:00 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. - Yahzarah – Purple St. James (New York, NY)
10:00 p.m. – 10:40 p.m. – Neckbone (Austin, TX)
9:00 p.m. – 9:40 p.m. – Kam (Houston, TX)
Scoot Inn – 1308 E. 4th St. – Def Jux
1:15 - 2:00 - Dizzee Rascal (London, UK)
1:00 - 1:10 - Newham Generals (London, UK)
12:45- 12:55 – Jammer (London, UK)
11:45 - 12:30 - El-P (New York, NY)
10:45 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Del the Funkee Homosapien (Oakland, CA)
9:50 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. – Devin the Dude & The Coughee Brothaz (Houston, TX)
9:00 - 9:40 – Bisc1 (New York, NY)
8:15- 8:40 – Perseph1 (Houston, TX)
Tap Room – 117 W. 4th St. – Houston Press Presents
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Million Year Dance (Houston, TX)
12:00 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - Peekaboo Theory (Houston, TX)
11:00 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. - Studemont Project (Houston, TX)
10:00 p.m. – 10:40 p.m. - The Tontons (Houston, TX)
9:00 p.m. – 9:40 p.m. The Dimes (Houston, TX)
8:00 p.m. – 8:40 p.m. - Linus Pauling Quartet (Houston, TX)
Volume – 614 E. 6th St. – Kork Hip Hop
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Living Legends (Los Angeles, CA)
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Zion I (Oakland, CA)
11:30 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. – Luckyiam (Los Angeles, CA)
--------
10:45 p.m. – 11:15 p.m. - C-Rayz Wallz & Kosha Dillz (Edison, NJ)
10:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. – Sleep (Portland, OR)
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. – Zeale 32 (Austin, TX)
9:05 p.m. – 9:25 p.m. – Phranchyze (Austin, TX)
8:40 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. – Nosaprise (Houston, TX)
Friday March 14th
SXSW Live at The Bat Bar - Austin Convention Center - 500 E Cesar Chavez St.
4:00 p.m. - Dizzee Rascal (London, UK)
Emo's Main Room - 603 Red River St.
1:00 a.m. - Clipse (Virginia Beach, VA)
12:00 a.m. - Kid Sister (Chicago, IL)
11:00 p.m. - Cool Kids (Chicago, IL)
10:00 p.m. - A-Trak (Montreal, QC)
Fuze – 505 Neches St.
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Chingo Bling (Houston, TX)
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Mr. Capone-E (Los Angeles, CA)
11:40 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. - Lil J da Mex Connect (Houston, TX)
11:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Lucky (Houston, TX)
10:30 p.m. – 10:50 p.m. - J. Kapone (Austin, TX)
10:10 p.m. – 10:25 p.m. – Jezufavio (Houston, TX)
9:40 – 10:00 p.m. – Coast (Houston, TX)
9:10 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. – Stunta (Houston, TX)
8:40 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. - Da C.O.D. (Austin, TX)
8:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. - Da Wetbacks (Houston, TX)
Karma - 119 W. 8th St. – AmsterDAMN! Night
10:00 p.m. – 10:40 p.m. – Adept (Groningen, Netherlands)
11:00 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. - Aux Raus (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
12:00 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. – Postman (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - C-Mon & Kypski (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Molotov - 719 W. 6th St.
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – Sway (London, UK)
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - The Knux (New Orleans, LA)
11:30 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. - Doujah Raze (Brooklyn, NY)
11:00 p.m. – 11:20 p.m. – Scavone (New York, NY)
10:20 p.m. – 10:50 p.m. - A-Alikes (New York, NY)
9:45 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. - Super Chron Flight Brothers (Brooklyn, NY)
9:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. – Doomtree (Minneapolis, MN)
8:30 p.m. – 8:50 p.m. - Thurogood Wordsmith (Houston, TX)
8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. - Superstar DJ’s (& between acts) (Austin, TX)
Volume - 614 E. 6th St. – Strange Music
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Tech N9ne (Kansas City, KS)
12:45 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. - Krizz Kalico & Kutt Calhoun (Kansas City, KS)
12:30 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. – Prozak (Kansas City, KS)
12:15 a.m. – 12:30 a.m. - Skatterman & Snug Brim (Kansas City, KS)
11:15 p.m. – 11:55 p.m. Dirty Wormz (Austin, TX)
10:45 p.m. – 11:05 p.m. - KB da Kidnappa (Houston, TX)
10:05 p.m. – 10:35 p.m. - Mac Lethal (Kansas City, KS)
9:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. – Grayskul (Seattle, WA)
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. – Intrinzik (Phoenix, AZ)
8:30 p.m. – 8:50 p.m. – The Kriminalz (Austin, TX)
8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. - Dollaz N’ Since – DJ Grip, DJ Young Spinna, DJ Since (& between acts) (Austin, TX)
Wave - 408 E 6th St.
11:00 p.m. - PPT (Dallas, TX)
Saturday March 15th – Day Time
SXSW at the Carver Museum - 1165 Angelina St
512-974-4926
www.cityofaustin.org/carver
11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
11:00 a.m. – Film Screening – I Love Hip Hop In Morocco
1:00 p.m. – Film Screening – Sling Shot Hip Hop (Palestine)
3:00 p.m. – Performance – World Trade (Bavu Blakes & Element 7D) (Austin, TX)
3:45 p.m. – Panel Discussion
Hip-Hop, Politics & The Politics of the Music Business
Chuck D once called Hip-Hop “Black people’s CNN.” Is it still today? Do today’s rap artists feel as though their hands are tied when it comes to speaking on social issues? Is it only about the party in 2008? Does the music business actively try to stifle the potential message? Are politics relevant in music? Do you care?
Speakers:
David Banner – (Jackson, MS)
Salih Williams – (Austin, TX)
Chingo Bling – (Houston, TX)
Jean Grae – (Brooklyn, NY)
Tech N9ne – (Kansas City, KC)
M-1 of dead prez – (New York, NY)
Davey D – (Oakland, CA)
Soren Baker – Editor of Source Magazine – Moderator (Los Angeles, CA)
5:30 p.m. – Performance – Mookie Jones – son of Oran “Juice” Jones (Houston, TX)
Auditorium Shores Stage at Lady Bird Lake – Riverside Dr. & S. 1st
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.mish - Ice Cube (Los Angeles, CA)
7:00 pm. – 7:40 p.m. - Talib Kweli (Brooklyn, NY)
6:00 p.m. – 6:40 p.m. - Jean Grae (Brooklyn, NY)
5:30 p.m. – 5:50 p.m. – Strong Arm Steady (Los Angeles, CA)
4:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. - Lyrics Born (Oakland, CA)
Saturday March 15th – Night Time
Austin Music Hall - 208 Nueces St.
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - David Banner (Jackson, MS)
12:30 a.m. – 12:50 a.m. - Rob G. (Houston, TX)
11:50 p.m. – 12:20 p.m. - Wale (Washington, DC)
11:15 p.m. – 11:45 p.m. - M1 of dead prez (Brooklyn, NY)
10:40 p.m. – 11:10 p.m. – Murs (Oakland, CA)
9:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. - Wiz Khalifa (Pittsburgh, PA)
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Question (San Antonio, TX)
8:15 p.m. – 8:55 p.m. - Paper Route Records (Birmingham, Alabama)
Club DeVille
9:45 p.m. Ohmega Watts
Flamingo Cantina – 515 E. 6th St.
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – Rootz Underground (Jamaica)
12:00 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - Grimy Styles (Austin, TX)
11:00 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. - Dokkebi Q (London, Korea, Japan)
10:00 p.m. – 10:40 p.m. - Cherine Anderson (Jamiaca)
9:00 p.m. – 9:40 p.m. – Katchafire (New Zealand)
8:00 p.m. – 8:40 p.m. – Mau Mau Chaplains (Austin, TX)
DJ QUEEN MAJESTY ALL NIGHT
Friends – 208 E. 6th St. – Flamin’ Hotz Night
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Scottie B (Baltimore, MD)
12:00 a.m. – 12:50 a.m. – Low B (Philadelphia, PA)
11:00 p.m. – 11:50 p.m. - White T’s White Belts (Philadelphia, PA)
10:10 p.m. – 10:50 p.m. - Curtis Vodka (Ankorage, AK)
9:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. – Todosantos (New York, NY)
8:40 p.m. - 9:20 p.m. - Cobra Krames (New York, NY)
8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. - Bird Petersen (Austin, TX)
Fuze – 505 Neches St.
1:15 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Mr. Pookie & Mr. Lucci (Dallas, TX)
12:50 a.m. – 1:10 a.m. - Kottonmouf Jesse (Dallas, TX)
12:20 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - MC Fatal (Austin, TX)
11:50 p.m. – 12:10 a.m. – Grit Boys (Houston, TX)
11:20 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. - Mr. Mike of South Circle (Corpus Christi, TX)
10:45 p.m. – 11:15 p.m. - K-Rino & South Park Coalition (Houston, TX)
10:30 p.m. – 10:45 p.m. - Klondike Kat (Houston, TX)
10:15 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. - Point Blank (Houston, TX)
10:00 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. -144 Elite (Houston, TX)
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. - Papa Chuk (Austin, TX)
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Basswood Lane (Austin, TX)
8:30 p.m. – 8:50 p.m. - Lumba (Dallas, TX)
8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. – DJ Wrecka (Waco, TX)
Light Bar – 408 Congress Ave.
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Lower Life Form (Houston, TX)
12:00 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - Black Mike & Chemistry (Austin, TX)
11:15 p.m. – 11:45 p.m. – Spear of the Nation (Oakland, CA)
10:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. – Megaphone (Boston, MA)
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. - D.O.S. (Austin, TX)
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Fat Tony & Dee Rail (Houston, TX)
8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. – Flynn D (Austin, TX)
Ninety Proof – 333 E. 2nd St.
12:45 a.m. – 1:30 a.m. - Roxy Cottontail (New York, NY)
11:45 p.m. – 12:30 a.m. – V.I.P. (Philadelphia, PA)
10:45 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Lord T. & Eloise (Memphis, TN)
10:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. – Team Facelift (New York, NY)
9:15 p.m. – 9:45 p.m. – Shina Rae (Houston, TX)
8:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. - Terp 2 It (Austin, TX)
DJ’s?
Prague – 422 B Congress Ave.
1:10 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – Cunninlinguists (Lexington, KY)
12:30 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. – Grand Analog (Winnipeg, MB)
11:45 p.m. – 12:15 a.m. - Blue Scholars (Seattle, WA)
11:05 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Now On (Detroit, MI)
10:35 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. – Buff 1 (Detroit, MI)
10:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. – Scarub (Los Angeles, CA)
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. - H.I.S.D. (Houston, TX)
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Cap D. (Chicago, IL)
8:15 p.m. – 8:45 p.m. - Tee Double (Austin, TX)
Spiro's
8:00 p.m. - Astronautalis - DJing all night between sets (Jacksonville, FL)
Victorian Room at the Driskill – 604 Brazos St.
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Russell Taylor (New York, NY)
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Melissa Young (Atlanta, GA)
11:30 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. - Miz Metro (New York, NY)
10:30 p.m. – 11:15 p.m. - Bavu Blakes & the Extra Plairs (Austin, TX)
9:40 p.m. – 10:10 p.m. – Maya Azucena (Brooklyn, NY)
8:50 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Renee Sebastian (San Francisco, CA)
8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. - Rachel Brown (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
Vice
12:00 a.m. - Z-Trip
Volume - 614 E 6th St.
Fool's Gold/Matrix
1:00 a.m. - Chromeo (New York, NY)
12:00 a.m. - A-Trak (Montreal, QC)
11:20 p.m. - Kid Sister (Chicago, IL)
10:30 p.m. - Flosstradamus (Chicago, IL)
9:40 p.m. - Kid Cudi (Brooklyn, NY)
8:50 p.m. - Jokers of the Scene (Ottawa, ON)
8:00 p.m. - Nick Catchdubs (Brooklyn, NY)
Sunday March 16th
Emo’s Jr. – 603 Red River St.
DJ Jester (San Antonio, TX)
Team Facelift
Looptroop (Sweden)
Timbuktu (Sweden)
Chords (Sweden)
Anyway what follows is the schedule for hip hop and things that I may have had a hand in. I didn't book all the hip hop, some came in via agents and sponsors and my dudes up to the job reeled all that in, but this year, it's exponentially goin' down.
Wednesday March 12th
SESAC Day Stage Cafe Austin Convention Center - 500 E Cesar Chavez St.
5:30 p.m. - Saul Williams (Los Angeles, CA)
2:30 p.m. - Mala Rodriguez (Cadiz, Spain)
12:00 noon - Bisc 1 (Queens, NY)
Fuze – 505 Neches St.
1:15 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Bun B (Port Arthur, TX)
1:00 a.m. – 1:15 a.m. - MDDL FNGZ (Houston, TX)
Cory Mo (Houston, TX)
12:45 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. – Vicious (Lake Charles, LA)
12:30 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Hezeleo & Big Bubb (Port Arthur, TX)
12:10 a.m. – 12:25 a.m. XVII (Pass Christian, MS)
11:50 p.m. – 12:05 a.m. - B Do & T.O.E. (Port Arthur, TX)
11:30 p.m. – 11:45 p.m. - Bankroll Jones (Houston, TX)
----------
11:00 p.m. – 11:20 p.m. - Chalie Boy (Hearne/Calvert, TX)
10:30 p.m. – 10:50 p.m. - Gerald G (Austin, TX)
10:00 p.m. – 10:20 p.m. - Public Offenders (Austin, TX)
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. – Slykat (San Antonio, TX)
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Circle G’z (Houston, TX)
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. – DJ Rapid Ric (Austin, TX)
Habana Backyard – 708 E. 6th St. - Stones Throw/Duck Down
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – Buckshot (Brooklyn, NY)
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Sean Price (Brooklyn, NY)
11:40 p.m. – 12:10 p.m. - Guilty Simpson (Detroit, MI)
11:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. - Percee P (Bronx, NY)
10:15 p.m. – 10:45 p.m. - Kidz In The Hall (Chicago, IL)
9:45 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. - DJ Rhettmatic (Long Beach, CA)
9:00 p.m. – 9:45 p.m. - DJ Chicken George (Austin, TX)
Molotov – 719 W. 6th St. – SXSW SOUL Presented by The Bloom Effect/Smooth
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – HEAVy (Queens, NY)
12:00 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - Karina Nistal (Houston, TX)
11:00 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. - IB3 (Houston, TX)
10:25 p.m. – 10:45 p.m. - The Bamaz (Montgomery, AL)
10:05 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. - Lady Lux (Houston, TX)
9:20 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. – Jennifer Johns (Oakland, CA)
8:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. – Choklate (Seattle, WA)
Thursday March 13th
SESAC Day Stage Cafe Austin Convention Center - 500 E Cesar Chavez St.
4:40 p.m. - Cool Kids (Chicago, IL)
3:30 p.m. - Murs (Los Angeles, CA)
3:00 p.m. - Billy Bragg (London, UK)
2:30 p.m. - Cadence Weapon (Edmonton, AB)
Auditorium Shores Stage at Lady Bird Lake
7:00 p.m. - Del the Funky Homosapien (Oakland, CA)
6:00 p.m. - Grupo Fantasma (Austin, TX)
18th Floor at Hilton Garden Inn - 500 N IH 35
8:00 p.m. - Rufus Cappadocia (New York, NY - Fonkiest cello player ever)
Barcelona - 209 E 6th St.
11:10 p.m. - Diplo (Philadelphia, PA)
8:00 p.m. - Shepherd Fairey (Los Angeles, CA
Beauty Bar - 617 E 7th St.
9:00 p.m. - Juiceboxxx/Roxy Cottontail (Detroit/NY)
Buffalo Billiards - 201 E 6th St.
12:30 a.m. - Tommy Guerrero (San Francisco, CA)
11:45 p.m. - Curumin (Sao Paolo, Brazil)
10:45 p.m. - Money Mark (Los Angeles, CA)
10:00 p.m. - Pigeon John (Los Angeles, CA)
9:25 p.m. - Taylor McFerrin (Brooklyn, NY)
8:45 p.m. - Dokkebi Q (Ainu Tribe, Japan)
8:00 p.m. - DJ Jester the Filipino Fist (San Antonio, TX)
Elysium - 705 Red River St.
12:30 a.m. - Ghislain Poirer (Montreal, QC)
9:30 p.m. - Yppah (Houston, TX)
Flamingo Cantina - 515 E 6th St.
1:00 a.m. - Mala Rodriguez (Cadiz, Spain)
Fuze – 505 Neches St.
1:15 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – M1 of Dead Prez (Brooklyn, NY)
12:40 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. - Ryno and Slim Gutta (Austin, TX)
12:15 a.m. – 12:35 a.m. – Drojo (Corpus Christi, TX)
11:45 p.m. – 12:05 a.m. - SouthBound (Austin, TX)
--------
International Hip Hop
11:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Akala (London, UK)
10:20 p.m. – 10:50 p.m. – Killa Kela (London, UK)
9:50 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. – Lars Vaular (Bergen, Norway)
9:20 p.m. – 9:40 p.m. – A-Laget (Bergen, Norway)
8:45 p.m. – 9:15 p.m. – Dok Holiday (Austin, TX)
8:15 p.m. – 8:40 p.m. – PLA (Austin, TX)
Karma – 119 W. 8th St. – DJ’s Who Kill It
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Skratch Bastid (Montreal, QC)
12:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. - Smalltown DJ’s (Calgary, AB)
11:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. – Witnes (Houston, TX)
10:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. - Four Color Zack & Pretty Titty (Seattle, WA)
9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. - Squincy Jones (Houston, TX)
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. – NaNaChill (Houston, TX)
Momo's - 618 W 6th St. - All Music Is World Music
1:00 a.m. - Marcelo D2 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Prague – 422 B Congress Ave.
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - J-Davey (Los Angeles, CA)
12:00 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - Aloe Blacc (Los Angeles, CA)
11:00 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. - Yahzarah – Purple St. James (New York, NY)
10:00 p.m. – 10:40 p.m. – Neckbone (Austin, TX)
9:00 p.m. – 9:40 p.m. – Kam (Houston, TX)
Scoot Inn – 1308 E. 4th St. – Def Jux
1:15 - 2:00 - Dizzee Rascal (London, UK)
1:00 - 1:10 - Newham Generals (London, UK)
12:45- 12:55 – Jammer (London, UK)
11:45 - 12:30 - El-P (New York, NY)
10:45 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Del the Funkee Homosapien (Oakland, CA)
9:50 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. – Devin the Dude & The Coughee Brothaz (Houston, TX)
9:00 - 9:40 – Bisc1 (New York, NY)
8:15- 8:40 – Perseph1 (Houston, TX)
Tap Room – 117 W. 4th St. – Houston Press Presents
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Million Year Dance (Houston, TX)
12:00 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - Peekaboo Theory (Houston, TX)
11:00 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. - Studemont Project (Houston, TX)
10:00 p.m. – 10:40 p.m. - The Tontons (Houston, TX)
9:00 p.m. – 9:40 p.m. The Dimes (Houston, TX)
8:00 p.m. – 8:40 p.m. - Linus Pauling Quartet (Houston, TX)
Volume – 614 E. 6th St. – Kork Hip Hop
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Living Legends (Los Angeles, CA)
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Zion I (Oakland, CA)
11:30 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. – Luckyiam (Los Angeles, CA)
--------
10:45 p.m. – 11:15 p.m. - C-Rayz Wallz & Kosha Dillz (Edison, NJ)
10:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. – Sleep (Portland, OR)
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. – Zeale 32 (Austin, TX)
9:05 p.m. – 9:25 p.m. – Phranchyze (Austin, TX)
8:40 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. – Nosaprise (Houston, TX)
Friday March 14th
SXSW Live at The Bat Bar - Austin Convention Center - 500 E Cesar Chavez St.
4:00 p.m. - Dizzee Rascal (London, UK)
Emo's Main Room - 603 Red River St.
1:00 a.m. - Clipse (Virginia Beach, VA)
12:00 a.m. - Kid Sister (Chicago, IL)
11:00 p.m. - Cool Kids (Chicago, IL)
10:00 p.m. - A-Trak (Montreal, QC)
Fuze – 505 Neches St.
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Chingo Bling (Houston, TX)
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Mr. Capone-E (Los Angeles, CA)
11:40 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. - Lil J da Mex Connect (Houston, TX)
11:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Lucky (Houston, TX)
10:30 p.m. – 10:50 p.m. - J. Kapone (Austin, TX)
10:10 p.m. – 10:25 p.m. – Jezufavio (Houston, TX)
9:40 – 10:00 p.m. – Coast (Houston, TX)
9:10 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. – Stunta (Houston, TX)
8:40 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. - Da C.O.D. (Austin, TX)
8:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. - Da Wetbacks (Houston, TX)
Karma - 119 W. 8th St. – AmsterDAMN! Night
10:00 p.m. – 10:40 p.m. – Adept (Groningen, Netherlands)
11:00 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. - Aux Raus (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
12:00 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. – Postman (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - C-Mon & Kypski (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Molotov - 719 W. 6th St.
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – Sway (London, UK)
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - The Knux (New Orleans, LA)
11:30 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. - Doujah Raze (Brooklyn, NY)
11:00 p.m. – 11:20 p.m. – Scavone (New York, NY)
10:20 p.m. – 10:50 p.m. - A-Alikes (New York, NY)
9:45 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. - Super Chron Flight Brothers (Brooklyn, NY)
9:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. – Doomtree (Minneapolis, MN)
8:30 p.m. – 8:50 p.m. - Thurogood Wordsmith (Houston, TX)
8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. - Superstar DJ’s (& between acts) (Austin, TX)
Volume - 614 E. 6th St. – Strange Music
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Tech N9ne (Kansas City, KS)
12:45 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. - Krizz Kalico & Kutt Calhoun (Kansas City, KS)
12:30 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. – Prozak (Kansas City, KS)
12:15 a.m. – 12:30 a.m. - Skatterman & Snug Brim (Kansas City, KS)
11:15 p.m. – 11:55 p.m. Dirty Wormz (Austin, TX)
10:45 p.m. – 11:05 p.m. - KB da Kidnappa (Houston, TX)
10:05 p.m. – 10:35 p.m. - Mac Lethal (Kansas City, KS)
9:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. – Grayskul (Seattle, WA)
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. – Intrinzik (Phoenix, AZ)
8:30 p.m. – 8:50 p.m. – The Kriminalz (Austin, TX)
8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. - Dollaz N’ Since – DJ Grip, DJ Young Spinna, DJ Since (& between acts) (Austin, TX)
Wave - 408 E 6th St.
11:00 p.m. - PPT (Dallas, TX)
Saturday March 15th – Day Time
SXSW at the Carver Museum - 1165 Angelina St
512-974-4926
www.cityofaustin.org/carver
11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
11:00 a.m. – Film Screening – I Love Hip Hop In Morocco
1:00 p.m. – Film Screening – Sling Shot Hip Hop (Palestine)
3:00 p.m. – Performance – World Trade (Bavu Blakes & Element 7D) (Austin, TX)
3:45 p.m. – Panel Discussion
Hip-Hop, Politics & The Politics of the Music Business
Chuck D once called Hip-Hop “Black people’s CNN.” Is it still today? Do today’s rap artists feel as though their hands are tied when it comes to speaking on social issues? Is it only about the party in 2008? Does the music business actively try to stifle the potential message? Are politics relevant in music? Do you care?
Speakers:
David Banner – (Jackson, MS)
Salih Williams – (Austin, TX)
Chingo Bling – (Houston, TX)
Jean Grae – (Brooklyn, NY)
Tech N9ne – (Kansas City, KC)
M-1 of dead prez – (New York, NY)
Davey D – (Oakland, CA)
Soren Baker – Editor of Source Magazine – Moderator (Los Angeles, CA)
5:30 p.m. – Performance – Mookie Jones – son of Oran “Juice” Jones (Houston, TX)
Auditorium Shores Stage at Lady Bird Lake – Riverside Dr. & S. 1st
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.mish - Ice Cube (Los Angeles, CA)
7:00 pm. – 7:40 p.m. - Talib Kweli (Brooklyn, NY)
6:00 p.m. – 6:40 p.m. - Jean Grae (Brooklyn, NY)
5:30 p.m. – 5:50 p.m. – Strong Arm Steady (Los Angeles, CA)
4:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. - Lyrics Born (Oakland, CA)
Saturday March 15th – Night Time
Austin Music Hall - 208 Nueces St.
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - David Banner (Jackson, MS)
12:30 a.m. – 12:50 a.m. - Rob G. (Houston, TX)
11:50 p.m. – 12:20 p.m. - Wale (Washington, DC)
11:15 p.m. – 11:45 p.m. - M1 of dead prez (Brooklyn, NY)
10:40 p.m. – 11:10 p.m. – Murs (Oakland, CA)
9:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. - Wiz Khalifa (Pittsburgh, PA)
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Question (San Antonio, TX)
8:15 p.m. – 8:55 p.m. - Paper Route Records (Birmingham, Alabama)
Club DeVille
9:45 p.m. Ohmega Watts
Flamingo Cantina – 515 E. 6th St.
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – Rootz Underground (Jamaica)
12:00 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - Grimy Styles (Austin, TX)
11:00 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. - Dokkebi Q (London, Korea, Japan)
10:00 p.m. – 10:40 p.m. - Cherine Anderson (Jamiaca)
9:00 p.m. – 9:40 p.m. – Katchafire (New Zealand)
8:00 p.m. – 8:40 p.m. – Mau Mau Chaplains (Austin, TX)
DJ QUEEN MAJESTY ALL NIGHT
Friends – 208 E. 6th St. – Flamin’ Hotz Night
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Scottie B (Baltimore, MD)
12:00 a.m. – 12:50 a.m. – Low B (Philadelphia, PA)
11:00 p.m. – 11:50 p.m. - White T’s White Belts (Philadelphia, PA)
10:10 p.m. – 10:50 p.m. - Curtis Vodka (Ankorage, AK)
9:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. – Todosantos (New York, NY)
8:40 p.m. - 9:20 p.m. - Cobra Krames (New York, NY)
8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. - Bird Petersen (Austin, TX)
Fuze – 505 Neches St.
1:15 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Mr. Pookie & Mr. Lucci (Dallas, TX)
12:50 a.m. – 1:10 a.m. - Kottonmouf Jesse (Dallas, TX)
12:20 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - MC Fatal (Austin, TX)
11:50 p.m. – 12:10 a.m. – Grit Boys (Houston, TX)
11:20 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. - Mr. Mike of South Circle (Corpus Christi, TX)
10:45 p.m. – 11:15 p.m. - K-Rino & South Park Coalition (Houston, TX)
10:30 p.m. – 10:45 p.m. - Klondike Kat (Houston, TX)
10:15 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. - Point Blank (Houston, TX)
10:00 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. -144 Elite (Houston, TX)
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. - Papa Chuk (Austin, TX)
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Basswood Lane (Austin, TX)
8:30 p.m. – 8:50 p.m. - Lumba (Dallas, TX)
8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. – DJ Wrecka (Waco, TX)
Light Bar – 408 Congress Ave.
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Lower Life Form (Houston, TX)
12:00 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - Black Mike & Chemistry (Austin, TX)
11:15 p.m. – 11:45 p.m. – Spear of the Nation (Oakland, CA)
10:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. – Megaphone (Boston, MA)
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. - D.O.S. (Austin, TX)
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Fat Tony & Dee Rail (Houston, TX)
8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. – Flynn D (Austin, TX)
Ninety Proof – 333 E. 2nd St.
12:45 a.m. – 1:30 a.m. - Roxy Cottontail (New York, NY)
11:45 p.m. – 12:30 a.m. – V.I.P. (Philadelphia, PA)
10:45 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Lord T. & Eloise (Memphis, TN)
10:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. – Team Facelift (New York, NY)
9:15 p.m. – 9:45 p.m. – Shina Rae (Houston, TX)
8:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. - Terp 2 It (Austin, TX)
DJ’s?
Prague – 422 B Congress Ave.
1:10 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – Cunninlinguists (Lexington, KY)
12:30 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. – Grand Analog (Winnipeg, MB)
11:45 p.m. – 12:15 a.m. - Blue Scholars (Seattle, WA)
11:05 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Now On (Detroit, MI)
10:35 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. – Buff 1 (Detroit, MI)
10:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. – Scarub (Los Angeles, CA)
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. - H.I.S.D. (Houston, TX)
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Cap D. (Chicago, IL)
8:15 p.m. – 8:45 p.m. - Tee Double (Austin, TX)
Spiro's
8:00 p.m. - Astronautalis - DJing all night between sets (Jacksonville, FL)
Victorian Room at the Driskill – 604 Brazos St.
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Russell Taylor (New York, NY)
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Melissa Young (Atlanta, GA)
11:30 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. - Miz Metro (New York, NY)
10:30 p.m. – 11:15 p.m. - Bavu Blakes & the Extra Plairs (Austin, TX)
9:40 p.m. – 10:10 p.m. – Maya Azucena (Brooklyn, NY)
8:50 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Renee Sebastian (San Francisco, CA)
8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. - Rachel Brown (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
Vice
12:00 a.m. - Z-Trip
Volume - 614 E 6th St.
Fool's Gold/Matrix
1:00 a.m. - Chromeo (New York, NY)
12:00 a.m. - A-Trak (Montreal, QC)
11:20 p.m. - Kid Sister (Chicago, IL)
10:30 p.m. - Flosstradamus (Chicago, IL)
9:40 p.m. - Kid Cudi (Brooklyn, NY)
8:50 p.m. - Jokers of the Scene (Ottawa, ON)
8:00 p.m. - Nick Catchdubs (Brooklyn, NY)
Sunday March 16th
Emo’s Jr. – 603 Red River St.
DJ Jester (San Antonio, TX)
Team Facelift
Looptroop (Sweden)
Timbuktu (Sweden)
Chords (Sweden)
Friday, February 29, 2008
SXSW Announcement
Legends of Texas Rap
Fuze - Saturday March 15th - SXSW
1:15 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Mr. Pookie & Mr. Lucci & the Stoney Crook Family (Dallas, TX)
12:50 a.m. – 1:10 a.m. - Kottonmouth Jesse (Dallas, TX)
12:20 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - MC Fatal (Austin, TX)
11:50 p.m. – 12:10 a.m. – Grit Boys (Houston, TX)
11:20 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. - Mr. Mike of South Circle (Corpus Christi, TX)
10:45 p.m. – 11:15 p.m. - K-Rino & South Park Coalition (Houston, TX)
10:30 p.m. – 10:45 p.m. - Klondike Kat (Houston, TX)
10:15 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. - Point Blank (Houston, TX)
10:00 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. -144 Elite (Houston, TX)
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. - Papa Chuk (Austin, TX)
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Basswood Lane (Austin, TX)
8:30 p.m. – 8:50 p.m. - Lumba (Dallas, TX)
DJ for the night - DJ Wrecka (Waco, TX)
Another Two Serious Announcements coming tomorrow when we get a couple things sorted. But David Banner, GZA, Wale, B.O.B., a lot more gonna fall into place.
Also Clipse Friday night Emo's at the Biz 3 Showcase. Kid Sister, A Trak, Cool Kids and more.
Also Chromeo, Flosstradamus, Catchdubs and more at the Fools Gold Showcase Saturday at Volume formely Visions formerly Caribbean Lights.
It's goin' down. March 12th - 16th. Austin, TX.
1:15 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Mr. Pookie & Mr. Lucci & the Stoney Crook Family (Dallas, TX)
12:50 a.m. – 1:10 a.m. - Kottonmouth Jesse (Dallas, TX)
12:20 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - MC Fatal (Austin, TX)
11:50 p.m. – 12:10 a.m. – Grit Boys (Houston, TX)
11:20 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. - Mr. Mike of South Circle (Corpus Christi, TX)
10:45 p.m. – 11:15 p.m. - K-Rino & South Park Coalition (Houston, TX)
10:30 p.m. – 10:45 p.m. - Klondike Kat (Houston, TX)
10:15 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. - Point Blank (Houston, TX)
10:00 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. -144 Elite (Houston, TX)
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. - Papa Chuk (Austin, TX)
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Basswood Lane (Austin, TX)
8:30 p.m. – 8:50 p.m. - Lumba (Dallas, TX)
DJ for the night - DJ Wrecka (Waco, TX)
Another Two Serious Announcements coming tomorrow when we get a couple things sorted. But David Banner, GZA, Wale, B.O.B., a lot more gonna fall into place.
Also Clipse Friday night Emo's at the Biz 3 Showcase. Kid Sister, A Trak, Cool Kids and more.
Also Chromeo, Flosstradamus, Catchdubs and more at the Fools Gold Showcase Saturday at Volume formely Visions formerly Caribbean Lights.
It's goin' down. March 12th - 16th. Austin, TX.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
SXSW Initial Hip Hop Line Up (Subject to Change)
THERES WAY MORE TOO JUST WAIT I HAVE MORE! Fools Gold, Urb, lots of folks bringing that good this year...
This is not the final list. It's pretty complete but I have to add a lot of info like cities for a lot of these folks and some info and presenters and such. I'll also add addresses and all that to the next post and such, but for now take a look at this.
Also theres a couple more things in the works, and Saturday there's going to be two huge shows that I can't announce here. Yet. Not today but I'll change that and you'll have all the information at your disposal, but Saturday is going to be insane. Wait till you see. Anyway, here's where we are so far. Saturday night BIG shows about to be added.
Wednesday March 12th
Fuze – Bun B & The UGK Family Tribute to Pimp C
1:15 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Bun B (Port Arthur, TX)
1:00 a.m. – 1:15 a.m. - MDDL FNGZ (Houston, TX)
12:45 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. - Vicious
12:30 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Hezeleo & Big Bubb
12:10 a.m. – 12:25 a.m. 17
11:50 p.m. – 12:05 a.m. - Bido & Toe
11:30 p.m. – 11:45 p.m. - Bankroll Jones
----------
11:00 p.m. – 11:20 p.m. - Chalie Boy (Hearne/Calvert, TX)
10:30 p.m. – 10:50 p.m. - Gerald G (Austin, TX)
10:00 p.m. – 10:20 p.m. - Public Offenders (Austin, TX)
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. – Slykat (San Antonio, TX)
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Circle G’z (Houston, TX)
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. and between sets – DJ Rapid Ric of Hot 93 (Austin, TX)
Habana Backyard – Stones Throw/Duck Down
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – Buckshot (Brooklyn, NY – Black Moon)
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Sean Price (Brooklyn, NY)
11:40 p.m. – 12:10 p.m. - Guilty Simpson
11:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. - Percee P
10:15 p.m. – 10:45 p.m. - Kidz In The Hall (Chicago, IL)
9:45 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. - Rhettmatic (Replaces J-Rocc)
9:00 p.m. – 9:45 p.m. - DJ Logic
Molotov – R&B – The Bloom Effect, Smooth, Music World
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - HEAVy
12:00 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - Karina Nistal (Houston, TX)
11:00 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. - IB3 (Houston, TX – Music World)
10:25 p.m. – 10:45 p.m. - The Bamaz (Birmingham, AL – Music World)
10:05 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. - Lady Lux (Houston, TX – Music World)
9:20 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. – Jennifer Johns
8:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. - Choklate
Thursday March 13th
Buffalo Billiards
1:20 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - J-Davey
12:30 a.m. – 1:10 a.m. - Aloe Blacc
11:45 p.m. – 12:15 p.m. - Yazarah – Purple St. James
11:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Kam (Houston, TX)
Fuze
1:15 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – M-1 of Dead Prez
12:40 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. - Ryno and Slim Gutta (Austin, TX)
12:15 a.m. – 12:35 a.m. – Drojo (Corpus Christi, TX)
11:45 p.m. – 12:05 a.m. - South Bound (Austin, TX)
--------
International Hip Hop
11:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Akala (London, UK)
10:20 p.m. – 10:50 p.m. – Killa Kela (London, UK)
9:50 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. – Lars Vaular (Bergen, Norway)
9:20 p.m. – 9:40 p.m. – A-Laget (Bergen, Norway)
8:45 p.m. – 9:15 p.m. – Dok Holiday (Austin, TX)
8:15 p.m. – 8:40 p.m. – PLA (Austin, TX)
8:00 p.m. & Between Set DJ Kurupt of Hot 93
Karma
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Skratch Bastid (Montreal, Canada)
12:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. - Smalltown DJ’s
11:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. – Witnes (Houston, TX)
10:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. - Fourcolor Zack and Pretty Titty (Seattle, WA)
9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. - Squincy Jones (Houston, TX)
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. – NaNaChill (Houston, TX)
Prague – Quannum
1:15 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. - Finale
12:30 a.m. - 1:00 a.m. - Tommy Guerrero
11:45 p.m. - 12:15 a.m. - Pigeon John
11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m. - Lifesavas
10:15 p.m. - 11:45 p.m. - Honeycut
9:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. - Curumin
8:45 p.m. - 9:15 p.m. - Bing Ji Ling
8:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - ApSci
Scoot Inn – Def Jux
1:15 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. - Dizzee Rascal (London, UK)
1:00 a.m. - 1:10 a.m. - Newham Generals (London, UK)
12:45 a.m. - 12:55 a.m. – Jammer (London, UK)
11:45 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. - El-P (Brooklyn, NY)
10:45 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Del the Funkee Homosapien (Oakland, CA)
9:50 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. – Devin the Dude & The Coughee Brothaz (Houston, TX)
9:00 p.m. - 9:40 p.m. – Bisc1 (NY)
8:20 p.m. - 8:50 p.m. – Perseph1 (Houston, TX)
Volume – Kork Hip Hop
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Living Legends
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Zion I
11:30 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. - Luckyiam
--------
10:45 p.m. – 11:15 p.m. - C-Rayz Wallz & Kosha Dillz
10:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. - Sleep
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. – Zeale 32
9:05 p.m. – 9:25 p.m. – Phranchyze
8:40 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. - Nosaprise
Friday March 14th
Fuze
1:15 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Chingo Bling
12:30 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. - Mr. Capone-E
12:00 a.m. – 12:20 a.m. - Lil J da Mex Connect
11:30 p.m. – 11:50 p.m. - Lucky
11:00 p.m. – 11:20 p.m. – J. Kapone
10:40 p.m. – 10:55 p.m. - Jezufavio
10:20 p.m. – 10:35 p.m. - Stunta
10:00 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. - Coast
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. – Reyez
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. – Da C.O.D.
Molotov
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – Sway (London, UK)
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - The Knux
11:30 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. - Doujah Raze
11:00 p.m. – 11:20 p.m. - Scavone
10:20 p.m. – 10:50 p.m. - A-Alikes
9:45 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. - Super Chron Flight Brothers
9:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. - Doomtree
8:30 p.m. – 8:50 p.m. - Thurogood Wordsmith
DJ’s for the Night – Superstar DJ’s
Volume – Strange Music
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Tech N9ne
12:45 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. - Krizz Kalico & Kutt Calhoun
12:30 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Prozak
12:15 a.m. – 12:30 a.m. - Skatterman & Snug Brim
11:15 p.m. – 11:55 p.m. Dirty Wormz
10:45 p.m. – 11:05 p.m. - KB da Kidnappa
10:05 p.m. – 10:35 p.m. - Mac Lethal
9:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. - Grayskul
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Intrinzik
8:30 p.m. – 8:50 p.m. - ATX Kriminalz
Saturday March 15th
SXSW at the Carver Museum
1165 Angelina St
Austin, TX 78702
512-974-4926
www.cityofaustin.org/carver
11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
11:00 a.m. – Film Screening – I Love Hip Hop In Morocco
1:00 p.m. – Film Screening – Sling Shot Hip Hop (Palestine)
3:00 p.m. – Performance – World Trade (Bavu Blakes & Element 7D)
3:45 p.m. – Panel Discussion
Hip-Hop, Politics & The Politics of the Music Business
Chuck D once called Hip-Hop “Black people’s CNN.” Is it still today? Do today’s rap artists feel as though their hands are tied when it comes to speaking on social issues? Is it only about the party in 2008? Does the music business actively try to stifle the potential message? Are politics relevant in music? Do you care?
Speakers:
David Banner – Jackson, MS
Salih Williams – Austin, TX
Chingo Bling – Houston, TX
Jean Grae – Brooklyn, NY
Tech N9ne – Kansas City, KC
M-1 of dead prez New York, NY
Davey D – Oakland, CA
Soren Baker – Editor of Source Magazine - Moderator
5:30 p.m. – Performance –
Friends – Flamin’ Hotz Night
Scottie B
White T’s White Belts
Curtis Vodka
Todosantos
Cobra Krames
Bird Petersen
Lady Bird Lake Stage
4:00 p.m.
Ice Cube
Talib Kweli
Jean Grae
Strong Arm Steady
Lyrics Born
Light Bar
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Lower Life Form
12:00 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - Black Mike & Chemistry
11:15 p.m. – 11:45 p.m. – Spear of the Nation
10:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. - Megaphone
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. - D.O.S.
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Fat Tony & Dee Rail
Ninety Proof
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Roxy Cottontail
12:00 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. – Team Facelift
11:00 p.m. – 11:45 p.m. – Lord T. & Eloise
10:15 p.m. – 10:45 p.m. – Josh Martinez
9:15 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. - Terp 2 It
8:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. – Shina Rae
Prague
1:10 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Cunninlinguists
12:30 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. - Camp Lo
11:45 p.m. – 12:15 a.m. - Blue Scholars
11:05 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Now On
10:35 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. – Buff 1
10:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. – Scarub
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. - H.I.S.D.
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Cap D.
8:15 p.m. – 8:45 p.m. - Tee Double
Victorian Room at the Driskill
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Russell Taylor
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Melissa Young
11:30 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. - Miz Metro
10:30 p.m. – 11:15 p.m. - Bavu Blakes & the Extra Plairs
9:40 p.m. – 10:10 p.m. – Maya Azucena
8:50 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Renee Sebastian
8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. - Rachel Brown
Sunday March 16th
Emo’s
DJ Jester (San Antonio, TX)
Looptroop (Sweden)
Timbuktu (Sweden)
Chords (Sweden)
+ MORE!!!!
This is not the final list. It's pretty complete but I have to add a lot of info like cities for a lot of these folks and some info and presenters and such. I'll also add addresses and all that to the next post and such, but for now take a look at this.
Also theres a couple more things in the works, and Saturday there's going to be two huge shows that I can't announce here. Yet. Not today but I'll change that and you'll have all the information at your disposal, but Saturday is going to be insane. Wait till you see. Anyway, here's where we are so far. Saturday night BIG shows about to be added.
Wednesday March 12th
Fuze – Bun B & The UGK Family Tribute to Pimp C
1:15 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Bun B (Port Arthur, TX)
1:00 a.m. – 1:15 a.m. - MDDL FNGZ (Houston, TX)
12:45 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. - Vicious
12:30 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Hezeleo & Big Bubb
12:10 a.m. – 12:25 a.m. 17
11:50 p.m. – 12:05 a.m. - Bido & Toe
11:30 p.m. – 11:45 p.m. - Bankroll Jones
----------
11:00 p.m. – 11:20 p.m. - Chalie Boy (Hearne/Calvert, TX)
10:30 p.m. – 10:50 p.m. - Gerald G (Austin, TX)
10:00 p.m. – 10:20 p.m. - Public Offenders (Austin, TX)
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. – Slykat (San Antonio, TX)
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Circle G’z (Houston, TX)
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. and between sets – DJ Rapid Ric of Hot 93 (Austin, TX)
Habana Backyard – Stones Throw/Duck Down
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – Buckshot (Brooklyn, NY – Black Moon)
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Sean Price (Brooklyn, NY)
11:40 p.m. – 12:10 p.m. - Guilty Simpson
11:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. - Percee P
10:15 p.m. – 10:45 p.m. - Kidz In The Hall (Chicago, IL)
9:45 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. - Rhettmatic (Replaces J-Rocc)
9:00 p.m. – 9:45 p.m. - DJ Logic
Molotov – R&B – The Bloom Effect, Smooth, Music World
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - HEAVy
12:00 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - Karina Nistal (Houston, TX)
11:00 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. - IB3 (Houston, TX – Music World)
10:25 p.m. – 10:45 p.m. - The Bamaz (Birmingham, AL – Music World)
10:05 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. - Lady Lux (Houston, TX – Music World)
9:20 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. – Jennifer Johns
8:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. - Choklate
Thursday March 13th
Buffalo Billiards
1:20 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - J-Davey
12:30 a.m. – 1:10 a.m. - Aloe Blacc
11:45 p.m. – 12:15 p.m. - Yazarah – Purple St. James
11:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Kam (Houston, TX)
Fuze
1:15 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – M-1 of Dead Prez
12:40 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. - Ryno and Slim Gutta (Austin, TX)
12:15 a.m. – 12:35 a.m. – Drojo (Corpus Christi, TX)
11:45 p.m. – 12:05 a.m. - South Bound (Austin, TX)
--------
International Hip Hop
11:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Akala (London, UK)
10:20 p.m. – 10:50 p.m. – Killa Kela (London, UK)
9:50 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. – Lars Vaular (Bergen, Norway)
9:20 p.m. – 9:40 p.m. – A-Laget (Bergen, Norway)
8:45 p.m. – 9:15 p.m. – Dok Holiday (Austin, TX)
8:15 p.m. – 8:40 p.m. – PLA (Austin, TX)
8:00 p.m. & Between Set DJ Kurupt of Hot 93
Karma
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Skratch Bastid (Montreal, Canada)
12:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. - Smalltown DJ’s
11:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. – Witnes (Houston, TX)
10:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. - Fourcolor Zack and Pretty Titty (Seattle, WA)
9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. - Squincy Jones (Houston, TX)
8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. – NaNaChill (Houston, TX)
Prague – Quannum
1:15 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. - Finale
12:30 a.m. - 1:00 a.m. - Tommy Guerrero
11:45 p.m. - 12:15 a.m. - Pigeon John
11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m. - Lifesavas
10:15 p.m. - 11:45 p.m. - Honeycut
9:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. - Curumin
8:45 p.m. - 9:15 p.m. - Bing Ji Ling
8:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - ApSci
Scoot Inn – Def Jux
1:15 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. - Dizzee Rascal (London, UK)
1:00 a.m. - 1:10 a.m. - Newham Generals (London, UK)
12:45 a.m. - 12:55 a.m. – Jammer (London, UK)
11:45 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. - El-P (Brooklyn, NY)
10:45 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Del the Funkee Homosapien (Oakland, CA)
9:50 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. – Devin the Dude & The Coughee Brothaz (Houston, TX)
9:00 p.m. - 9:40 p.m. – Bisc1 (NY)
8:20 p.m. - 8:50 p.m. – Perseph1 (Houston, TX)
Volume – Kork Hip Hop
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Living Legends
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Zion I
11:30 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. - Luckyiam
--------
10:45 p.m. – 11:15 p.m. - C-Rayz Wallz & Kosha Dillz
10:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. - Sleep
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. – Zeale 32
9:05 p.m. – 9:25 p.m. – Phranchyze
8:40 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. - Nosaprise
Friday March 14th
Fuze
1:15 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Chingo Bling
12:30 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. - Mr. Capone-E
12:00 a.m. – 12:20 a.m. - Lil J da Mex Connect
11:30 p.m. – 11:50 p.m. - Lucky
11:00 p.m. – 11:20 p.m. – J. Kapone
10:40 p.m. – 10:55 p.m. - Jezufavio
10:20 p.m. – 10:35 p.m. - Stunta
10:00 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. - Coast
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. – Reyez
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. – Da C.O.D.
Molotov
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – Sway (London, UK)
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - The Knux
11:30 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. - Doujah Raze
11:00 p.m. – 11:20 p.m. - Scavone
10:20 p.m. – 10:50 p.m. - A-Alikes
9:45 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. - Super Chron Flight Brothers
9:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. - Doomtree
8:30 p.m. – 8:50 p.m. - Thurogood Wordsmith
DJ’s for the Night – Superstar DJ’s
Volume – Strange Music
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Tech N9ne
12:45 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. - Krizz Kalico & Kutt Calhoun
12:30 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Prozak
12:15 a.m. – 12:30 a.m. - Skatterman & Snug Brim
11:15 p.m. – 11:55 p.m. Dirty Wormz
10:45 p.m. – 11:05 p.m. - KB da Kidnappa
10:05 p.m. – 10:35 p.m. - Mac Lethal
9:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. - Grayskul
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Intrinzik
8:30 p.m. – 8:50 p.m. - ATX Kriminalz
Saturday March 15th
SXSW at the Carver Museum
1165 Angelina St
Austin, TX 78702
512-974-4926
www.cityofaustin.org/carver
11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
11:00 a.m. – Film Screening – I Love Hip Hop In Morocco
1:00 p.m. – Film Screening – Sling Shot Hip Hop (Palestine)
3:00 p.m. – Performance – World Trade (Bavu Blakes & Element 7D)
3:45 p.m. – Panel Discussion
Hip-Hop, Politics & The Politics of the Music Business
Chuck D once called Hip-Hop “Black people’s CNN.” Is it still today? Do today’s rap artists feel as though their hands are tied when it comes to speaking on social issues? Is it only about the party in 2008? Does the music business actively try to stifle the potential message? Are politics relevant in music? Do you care?
Speakers:
David Banner – Jackson, MS
Salih Williams – Austin, TX
Chingo Bling – Houston, TX
Jean Grae – Brooklyn, NY
Tech N9ne – Kansas City, KC
M-1 of dead prez New York, NY
Davey D – Oakland, CA
Soren Baker – Editor of Source Magazine - Moderator
5:30 p.m. – Performance –
Friends – Flamin’ Hotz Night
Scottie B
White T’s White Belts
Curtis Vodka
Todosantos
Cobra Krames
Bird Petersen
Lady Bird Lake Stage
4:00 p.m.
Ice Cube
Talib Kweli
Jean Grae
Strong Arm Steady
Lyrics Born
Light Bar
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Lower Life Form
12:00 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. - Black Mike & Chemistry
11:15 p.m. – 11:45 p.m. – Spear of the Nation
10:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. - Megaphone
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. - D.O.S.
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Fat Tony & Dee Rail
Ninety Proof
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Roxy Cottontail
12:00 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. – Team Facelift
11:00 p.m. – 11:45 p.m. – Lord T. & Eloise
10:15 p.m. – 10:45 p.m. – Josh Martinez
9:15 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. - Terp 2 It
8:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. – Shina Rae
Prague
1:10 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Cunninlinguists
12:30 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. - Camp Lo
11:45 p.m. – 12:15 a.m. - Blue Scholars
11:05 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Now On
10:35 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. – Buff 1
10:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. – Scarub
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. - H.I.S.D.
9:00 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Cap D.
8:15 p.m. – 8:45 p.m. - Tee Double
Victorian Room at the Driskill
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. - Russell Taylor
12:15 a.m. – 12:45 a.m. - Melissa Young
11:30 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. - Miz Metro
10:30 p.m. – 11:15 p.m. - Bavu Blakes & the Extra Plairs
9:40 p.m. – 10:10 p.m. – Maya Azucena
8:50 p.m. – 9:20 p.m. - Renee Sebastian
8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. - Rachel Brown
Sunday March 16th
Emo’s
DJ Jester (San Antonio, TX)
Looptroop (Sweden)
Timbuktu (Sweden)
Chords (Sweden)
+ MORE!!!!
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Got Drank???
Cuz I do...
It's the world's first anti-energy drink! Combining Rose Hips, Melatonin and Valerian Root with a great tasting beverage to um, well, create the world's first anti-energy drink.
I'm a lil scared, but not as scared as I am of the actual energy drinks. See, I need to "slow my roll," cuz I'm a total maniac inside. Energy drinks just jazz me the fuck up. It's also why I don't do cocaine (also, I'm not a squirrel).
Anyway, yeah I got that DRANK, what you need?
(P.S. Note the prescription bottle in the logo. The promo materials, which I will have on Monday, don't have the bottle on them.)
It's the world's first anti-energy drink! Combining Rose Hips, Melatonin and Valerian Root with a great tasting beverage to um, well, create the world's first anti-energy drink.
I'm a lil scared, but not as scared as I am of the actual energy drinks. See, I need to "slow my roll," cuz I'm a total maniac inside. Energy drinks just jazz me the fuck up. It's also why I don't do cocaine (also, I'm not a squirrel).
Anyway, yeah I got that DRANK, what you need?
(P.S. Note the prescription bottle in the logo. The promo materials, which I will have on Monday, don't have the bottle on them.)
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
My First SXSW
(As most of y'all know, I recently moved to Austin to work full on for SXSW. I've been coming to SXSW and enjoying the fruits of its loins since 1991 I think, and I recently decided that I'll reflect on some of the finer times I have had at said conference and in the end possibly tie it in with a good report of what it's like to work here behind the scenes after 17 years of revelry. And such. I don't know, you might hate this story. But I don't so here it is. And it's all 100% true.)
-----------------
It was 1991 and I had just moved to Houston from Erie, Pennsylvania a year and six months previous. I was 19 years old and booking tours for small punk rock bands, thinking I was on a path to a whirlwind life in the music business. Round about the first of the year, one of my good friends from my hometown decided that he was going to hop freight trains and travel around the country for a year or so, and asked if I would meet him in New Orleans for Mardi Gras. I said sure, and not really knowing what Mardi Gras was at the time, I showed up in town two weeks prior and crashed with a promoter friend of mine, Deborah Toscano from Devil Dolls (who incidentally is presenting a showcase at SXSW this year).
Deborah’s grandfather had left her a huge house when he passed, and said house became a flophouse for wayward punk rockers like myself. In fact I think by the time Fat Tuesday came around, there were about thirty of us there. But at the moment it was just me, my boy Mike, Jason - a roadie for NOFX, and Deborah and a bunch of her hot girlfriends. (Who would grow to hate us fairly quickly. Well, not Jason, anyway.)
You’ll see where this all ties in, in a minute.
So over the course of two weeks in New Orleans, we met a lot of people, including another promoter named Mary X. When we first met she told us about her HUGE Fat Tuesday event she was preparing for with headliners, L-7 and a few local bands. One of her openers had just canceled and in a drunken stupor I informed her that Mike and I had a band, and we would love to open up. Not sure where the name came from, but we told her we were called the Magnum 440 Honeybuns and we would be glad to open up.
For some reason she let us, I’m still not sure why.
By the time Fat Tuesday came around, we had recruited a bass player and a drummer, wrote a song about a homeless dude named Red and his old lady Catherine, who we had spent a couple days with down to the Quarter, and raided all the girls closets for things to wear on stage. Somehow we convinced the second band of the night to let us use their equipment and we got on stage dressed like homeless transsexuals. I remember that I had a pink bra on under a ripped Public Enemy t-shirt, a fishing hat and some stretchy pink and purple leggings on. Yeah, I was New York hipster dude fifteen years early, I know.
Mike had on some crushed velvet pants and no shirt or shoes and when the lights came on the stage he ripped into a raging version of “Smoke on the Water,” whilst our rhythm section just plodded away in some sort of 4/6 time or some shit and I rolled on the floor thinking I was Nick Cave.
All this lasted about 8 minutes. I fell off the stage, Jason NOFX dude started a pit, about half the crowd went outside to smoke, we said Thank You, Good Night and went off to find Donita Sparks to see if she thought we rocked. (Donita Sparks will be performing at SXSW this year as well, though I am sure her memories of this particular evening are not as vivid as mine).
O.K. Enough about New Orleans, this is about SXSW.
So we leave New Orleans and go back to Houston where we are informed of a huge music festival going down in Austin just a week or so later. Mike decided to stay in Houston and on Day one of SXSW 1990, we got back in my small Toyota Station Wagon and headed for Austin.
At the time, I had no idea what SXSW was. I had no idea what 6th Street was. I didn’t know there was a University called “Texas,” all I knew was that it was going down and we were going to be there.
It was like Mardi Gras all over again. The streets were packed, I think back then you maybe even could drink on the streets (I know we did), and to me SXSW was like the ultimate playground. We somehow found a schedule and decided that our first show would be the hip-hop showcase at what I think at the time was called The Sanitarium, though maybe it was Hip-Hop City, now known as Elysium.
We walked in at probably 7:55 p.m. with the first act going on promptly at 8:00. I’ll never forget this moment as it was quite possibly the worst show I had ever seen (save for the one we had just done ourselves a week or two prior in New Orleans).
It was a white rapper from Houston named Jeff Romeo. I had never heard of the dude, almost couldn’t believe he existed. He came out in a bright green and white parachute OUTFIT with a fluorescent green biker cap with the bill flipped up and proceeded to kick his ultra nasal raps while three black dudes danced behind him. Yes, dudes.
At one point he said to the crowd – that consisted of me, Mike, my friend Rich, the stage manager, sound man, and possibly his parents – “Y’all know this white boy can ROCK too right?” And of course we yelled “HELL YEAH!” At this point, the dancers had run backstage behind the curtain for a costume change. As the opening, sampled, guitar riffs kicked in, the trio of dancers emerged from behind the curtain in Bon Jovi wigs, strumming little plastic ukulele’s and banging their heads in unison.
It was then that we decided to walk outside and smoke a joint in front of the police station. After that we went back into the club and saw MC Overlord who I think also had male dancers, but killed it, and later that night I fell in love with the Cooley Girls.
Also later that night we realized that we had no place to stay, so we headed out some road, possibly 290, pulled over and slept in the car.
The next morning, like 7 am-ish, we were awoken by the police, who searched our car but didn’t find the dime bag or so of schwag we had stashed, and we went to some overcrowded breakfast spot and sat for a few hours.
That night we hit up the Cannibal Club and saw Happy Flowers play to a bunch of people I would later learn were quite “famous” on the Austin scene. There was the chunky girl with long black hair and tattoos who would go to shows in her lingerie. I saw Gibby Haynes pass by, caught my first glimpse of Tim Kerr in person, and wondered aloud why there were so many shirtless, white boy funkateers in this town? Could it be something they put in the water?
I want to say that later that night we saw Tripping Daisy (after Happy Flowers, how ironic), who I always thought sucked, and then went out onto the street to figure out what we were going to do for a crash spot. See, we had no money and once again made no effort to find a place to stay. I remember standing on the corner of 6th and Neches, feeling a lil run down and mopey, Mike was straight up angry at the prospect of sleeping in the car again, and I was basically informing him that we really weren’t going to have much of a choice.
Then all of a sudden a girl walks up to me and says “HEY! Didn’t I see your band in New Orleans? Didn’t y’all open for L-7?” I said “Yeah, hell yeah that was us!”
We chatted for a minute about how awesome our performance was and how most of the people there probably just didn’t “get it” and she then asked me what we were doing for the rest of the night.
“Why we’re coming with you of course,” was my reply.
She knew of a party up by campus, so we followed her there and saw some band who was a little bit too influenced by the Butthole Surfers. It was late and we were in a residential neighborhood, so of course the cops came. They didn’t just come, they barreled in 20 deep shining flashlights and causing a ruckus. Not sure how, but we all made it out the backdoor and down the street to the girls apartment and she graciously allowed us to stay on her living room floor, as the band The Buck Pets were actually staying on her couches and in her room.
Got up the next morning and basically did the whole SXSW thing again. Drink for breakfast and keep the party moving till it stops itself. That night we came back to the apartment where the girl, a couple of her girlfriends and the Buck Pets were playing cards. We lit up a bunch of joints, and basically passed out with our local friends having a drunken, screaming argument about abortion rights (seriously).
This went on into the wee hours and obviously pissed off her downstairs neighbors because at 7 a.m. said neighbor turned her music on full blast and started bashing the ceiling hard with a broomstick. That actually didn’t wake me up, what roused me was the sound of our hostess exploding from her bedroom screaming “YOU BITCH!” She then ran downstairs, yanked a metal fence post from the ground and began smashing out all of her neighbors windows. Of course the police were called, and again we made our exit before having to deal with them.
SXSW was over and we headed back to Houston with a story to last a lifetime.
(Coming soon, why I'll always have love for Jim Testa, my favorite rock critic/writer dude/guitar GOD).
-----------------
It was 1991 and I had just moved to Houston from Erie, Pennsylvania a year and six months previous. I was 19 years old and booking tours for small punk rock bands, thinking I was on a path to a whirlwind life in the music business. Round about the first of the year, one of my good friends from my hometown decided that he was going to hop freight trains and travel around the country for a year or so, and asked if I would meet him in New Orleans for Mardi Gras. I said sure, and not really knowing what Mardi Gras was at the time, I showed up in town two weeks prior and crashed with a promoter friend of mine, Deborah Toscano from Devil Dolls (who incidentally is presenting a showcase at SXSW this year).
Deborah’s grandfather had left her a huge house when he passed, and said house became a flophouse for wayward punk rockers like myself. In fact I think by the time Fat Tuesday came around, there were about thirty of us there. But at the moment it was just me, my boy Mike, Jason - a roadie for NOFX, and Deborah and a bunch of her hot girlfriends. (Who would grow to hate us fairly quickly. Well, not Jason, anyway.)
You’ll see where this all ties in, in a minute.
So over the course of two weeks in New Orleans, we met a lot of people, including another promoter named Mary X. When we first met she told us about her HUGE Fat Tuesday event she was preparing for with headliners, L-7 and a few local bands. One of her openers had just canceled and in a drunken stupor I informed her that Mike and I had a band, and we would love to open up. Not sure where the name came from, but we told her we were called the Magnum 440 Honeybuns and we would be glad to open up.
For some reason she let us, I’m still not sure why.
By the time Fat Tuesday came around, we had recruited a bass player and a drummer, wrote a song about a homeless dude named Red and his old lady Catherine, who we had spent a couple days with down to the Quarter, and raided all the girls closets for things to wear on stage. Somehow we convinced the second band of the night to let us use their equipment and we got on stage dressed like homeless transsexuals. I remember that I had a pink bra on under a ripped Public Enemy t-shirt, a fishing hat and some stretchy pink and purple leggings on. Yeah, I was New York hipster dude fifteen years early, I know.
Mike had on some crushed velvet pants and no shirt or shoes and when the lights came on the stage he ripped into a raging version of “Smoke on the Water,” whilst our rhythm section just plodded away in some sort of 4/6 time or some shit and I rolled on the floor thinking I was Nick Cave.
All this lasted about 8 minutes. I fell off the stage, Jason NOFX dude started a pit, about half the crowd went outside to smoke, we said Thank You, Good Night and went off to find Donita Sparks to see if she thought we rocked. (Donita Sparks will be performing at SXSW this year as well, though I am sure her memories of this particular evening are not as vivid as mine).
O.K. Enough about New Orleans, this is about SXSW.
So we leave New Orleans and go back to Houston where we are informed of a huge music festival going down in Austin just a week or so later. Mike decided to stay in Houston and on Day one of SXSW 1990, we got back in my small Toyota Station Wagon and headed for Austin.
At the time, I had no idea what SXSW was. I had no idea what 6th Street was. I didn’t know there was a University called “Texas,” all I knew was that it was going down and we were going to be there.
It was like Mardi Gras all over again. The streets were packed, I think back then you maybe even could drink on the streets (I know we did), and to me SXSW was like the ultimate playground. We somehow found a schedule and decided that our first show would be the hip-hop showcase at what I think at the time was called The Sanitarium, though maybe it was Hip-Hop City, now known as Elysium.
We walked in at probably 7:55 p.m. with the first act going on promptly at 8:00. I’ll never forget this moment as it was quite possibly the worst show I had ever seen (save for the one we had just done ourselves a week or two prior in New Orleans).
It was a white rapper from Houston named Jeff Romeo. I had never heard of the dude, almost couldn’t believe he existed. He came out in a bright green and white parachute OUTFIT with a fluorescent green biker cap with the bill flipped up and proceeded to kick his ultra nasal raps while three black dudes danced behind him. Yes, dudes.
At one point he said to the crowd – that consisted of me, Mike, my friend Rich, the stage manager, sound man, and possibly his parents – “Y’all know this white boy can ROCK too right?” And of course we yelled “HELL YEAH!” At this point, the dancers had run backstage behind the curtain for a costume change. As the opening, sampled, guitar riffs kicked in, the trio of dancers emerged from behind the curtain in Bon Jovi wigs, strumming little plastic ukulele’s and banging their heads in unison.
It was then that we decided to walk outside and smoke a joint in front of the police station. After that we went back into the club and saw MC Overlord who I think also had male dancers, but killed it, and later that night I fell in love with the Cooley Girls.
Also later that night we realized that we had no place to stay, so we headed out some road, possibly 290, pulled over and slept in the car.
The next morning, like 7 am-ish, we were awoken by the police, who searched our car but didn’t find the dime bag or so of schwag we had stashed, and we went to some overcrowded breakfast spot and sat for a few hours.
That night we hit up the Cannibal Club and saw Happy Flowers play to a bunch of people I would later learn were quite “famous” on the Austin scene. There was the chunky girl with long black hair and tattoos who would go to shows in her lingerie. I saw Gibby Haynes pass by, caught my first glimpse of Tim Kerr in person, and wondered aloud why there were so many shirtless, white boy funkateers in this town? Could it be something they put in the water?
I want to say that later that night we saw Tripping Daisy (after Happy Flowers, how ironic), who I always thought sucked, and then went out onto the street to figure out what we were going to do for a crash spot. See, we had no money and once again made no effort to find a place to stay. I remember standing on the corner of 6th and Neches, feeling a lil run down and mopey, Mike was straight up angry at the prospect of sleeping in the car again, and I was basically informing him that we really weren’t going to have much of a choice.
Then all of a sudden a girl walks up to me and says “HEY! Didn’t I see your band in New Orleans? Didn’t y’all open for L-7?” I said “Yeah, hell yeah that was us!”
We chatted for a minute about how awesome our performance was and how most of the people there probably just didn’t “get it” and she then asked me what we were doing for the rest of the night.
“Why we’re coming with you of course,” was my reply.
She knew of a party up by campus, so we followed her there and saw some band who was a little bit too influenced by the Butthole Surfers. It was late and we were in a residential neighborhood, so of course the cops came. They didn’t just come, they barreled in 20 deep shining flashlights and causing a ruckus. Not sure how, but we all made it out the backdoor and down the street to the girls apartment and she graciously allowed us to stay on her living room floor, as the band The Buck Pets were actually staying on her couches and in her room.
Got up the next morning and basically did the whole SXSW thing again. Drink for breakfast and keep the party moving till it stops itself. That night we came back to the apartment where the girl, a couple of her girlfriends and the Buck Pets were playing cards. We lit up a bunch of joints, and basically passed out with our local friends having a drunken, screaming argument about abortion rights (seriously).
This went on into the wee hours and obviously pissed off her downstairs neighbors because at 7 a.m. said neighbor turned her music on full blast and started bashing the ceiling hard with a broomstick. That actually didn’t wake me up, what roused me was the sound of our hostess exploding from her bedroom screaming “YOU BITCH!” She then ran downstairs, yanked a metal fence post from the ground and began smashing out all of her neighbors windows. Of course the police were called, and again we made our exit before having to deal with them.
SXSW was over and we headed back to Houston with a story to last a lifetime.
(Coming soon, why I'll always have love for Jim Testa, my favorite rock critic/writer dude/guitar GOD).
Friday, February 15, 2008
Story on Celebstoner.com
My first piece on CelebStoner.com!
Word to Steve Bloom.
And yes I think it's a conspiracy. Or a cover up. Or well, let not pull any punches here, I think it's murder.
Word to Steve Bloom.
And yes I think it's a conspiracy. Or a cover up. Or well, let not pull any punches here, I think it's murder.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
I've got a question
Why the fuck is congress dealing with rap music and steroid use in baseball? They should be working to legalize marijuana and finding new ways to give welfare and health care to 30-something slacker dudes who need it such as myself.
But no, they are talking about baseball. A gazillion dollar industry that in reality has nothing to do with whats really important in our world.
They some fools to me. I say let all athletes do all the drugs they want. Extend the baseball field to 10,000 feet from the plate to the home run wall. Give us something to watch, and quit worrying about who's who and what's what. Just stop.
You're wasting my time and tax dollars. Free Roger Clemens. Free us all. Legalize steroids. Fuck it.
But no, they are talking about baseball. A gazillion dollar industry that in reality has nothing to do with whats really important in our world.
They some fools to me. I say let all athletes do all the drugs they want. Extend the baseball field to 10,000 feet from the plate to the home run wall. Give us something to watch, and quit worrying about who's who and what's what. Just stop.
You're wasting my time and tax dollars. Free Roger Clemens. Free us all. Legalize steroids. Fuck it.
Monday, February 11, 2008
FREE K-PAUL: THE EVENT!
Dude got picked up on some shit from his youth. I know the dude personally and he's a decent dude. Works hard on this music shit and has vision.
Not sure what the hell the deal is, but sounds like they're trying to railroad his ass. Surprise, surprise. If you got love for the dude, or for rap music in this city, come out and help with this dudes legal fees. It's not a game.
Not sure what the hell the deal is, but sounds like they're trying to railroad his ass. Surprise, surprise. If you got love for the dude, or for rap music in this city, come out and help with this dudes legal fees. It's not a game.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
From HoustonSoReal
BUN B RETURNS TO THE STAGE!
And real talk, the people really came out for him, and of course Pimp.
I ran out the back door at work round about 3:30 and hit the road to Houston. I expected the show to be big, but when I called Jeff Messina and he told me that the show had pre-sold more tickets than any hip-hop show ever at Warehouse Live, I knew shit was gonna get crazy.
Bun was in fine form. After short sets from a nice slice of the UGK Family - Cory Mo, MDDL FNGZ, Hezeleo, 17, etc - Bun B BLASTED onto a crowded stage and proceeded to rip through what seemed like every hit and feature he ever did in the past 15 years.
It's crazy cuz when you see the scene on stage (literally 250 people up there behind Bun) you'd think it would have been total chaos, but it wasn't. Everyone up there was there to hold down Bun, not just to be seen. Most of the folks up there were some of Houston's biggest and best artists, and I think every one of them got on the mic at one point or another.
The people really got their moneys worth. Trust.
Mama Wes - Pimp C's mother - was in the house. I can't imagine how she must feel, cuz while I thoroughly enjoyed every second of this show, one thing I kept thinking, and honestly getting a little angry about (I can't help this) was "Man, what if Pimp was up here on this stage too?"
It's still a mystery to me as to why UGK did so few shows. It's a moot point now and I am happy to say that I am one of the few people who got to see them multiple times. I should do a post someday about all the times I went to see UGK over the years. Like the time they played TSU in 1994 with Brand Nubian, The Odd Squad and Seeds of Soul. Or like when I went to see them in Baytown but the parking lot got shot up before the show could ever begin and I ended up ducking down the side of a bayou wall to keep out of range of all the bullets. That was probably 1993 or so.
Bandit of MDDL FNGZ
Know'm talm bout?
E Rock of the 5th Ward Boyz has a new project on the way, seen here with Z-RO!
ESG got up and freestyled and did Swang and Bang.
Slim Thug came out and killed it. They actually were a really great duo on that stage.
As evidenced by these photos
Kid Styles and GU
Chris Ward and Kyleon
Julia Beverly of Ozone Magazine in the house
Mike Jones came out and ripped it as well
Super photographer Jack Thompson in the house!
Zin and Melesa
Allison Pember - one of the founders of Flavor Magazine, now with Microsoft Zune. Is Bun B gonna teach you how to use your Zune Player? Stay tuned.
DEZ! Check this y'all. Dez - one of our local graf/design legends - designed a new bottle for Mountain Dew. Reception happening for the man Feb. 20th, location TBA.
But here's the info. No, this blog IS NOT brought to you by Mountain Dew, but I'm proud of the man so lets take this quick pause for his cause. You don't have to like it, but you gotta respect it. (It's like Pimp C is speaking through me now! I say that a lot these days.)
Honestly the commercial is pretty bad ass. Hats off to the man DEZ!
Now back to our program.
Brother J from X-CLAN WAS IN THE HOUSE! He's recording the new X-Clan album in Houston right now with my man Zin.
Gangsta Legends Willie D and Z-Ro
MDDL FNGZ!!!!
Oakclif gets the thowededed shirt award!
Who?
TJ Chapman
Wille D, C-Lean and Friends
MC Beauty
Mama and Big Monsta!
KB da Kidnappa
Beze!
ESG MAYNE!
Cory Mo and Friend
Hezeleo
J. Prince and his son with International Red in the back
KG Mosely and Friend
Coughee Brotha KB!
E-Rock and Jugg Mugg
Nore
This is a photo of Pimp C, DJ Screw and someone else. Can't see it all that well.
But I tried
And then these dudes
Stopped traffic.
Whew, what a night. The vibes were so right, the energy was electric, the sound was flawless, the flow was uninterrupted by any bullshit. It just went perfect and I hope Bun takes this show on the road. You should too.
Ever wonder why when Houston was at its peak there was never a Houston tour? I bet some of the big head motherfuckers who fucked that up two years ago would love to go do that now. Watch.
Anyway, Rest in Peace Pimp C. I don't personally believe the coroners report. I don't believe in Hollywood. I don't believe a lot of the shit that happens in this world. All I can say at this point is Rest in Peace Pimp, and Bun, I wanna watch you walk across that stage at the Grammy's tonight - hopefully early in the show so I don't have to watch all that other bullshit. But I already know how they do. Do they even show the rap award? I'll be watching.
I ran out the back door at work round about 3:30 and hit the road to Houston. I expected the show to be big, but when I called Jeff Messina and he told me that the show had pre-sold more tickets than any hip-hop show ever at Warehouse Live, I knew shit was gonna get crazy.
Bun was in fine form. After short sets from a nice slice of the UGK Family - Cory Mo, MDDL FNGZ, Hezeleo, 17, etc - Bun B BLASTED onto a crowded stage and proceeded to rip through what seemed like every hit and feature he ever did in the past 15 years.
It's crazy cuz when you see the scene on stage (literally 250 people up there behind Bun) you'd think it would have been total chaos, but it wasn't. Everyone up there was there to hold down Bun, not just to be seen. Most of the folks up there were some of Houston's biggest and best artists, and I think every one of them got on the mic at one point or another.
The people really got their moneys worth. Trust.
Mama Wes - Pimp C's mother - was in the house. I can't imagine how she must feel, cuz while I thoroughly enjoyed every second of this show, one thing I kept thinking, and honestly getting a little angry about (I can't help this) was "Man, what if Pimp was up here on this stage too?"
It's still a mystery to me as to why UGK did so few shows. It's a moot point now and I am happy to say that I am one of the few people who got to see them multiple times. I should do a post someday about all the times I went to see UGK over the years. Like the time they played TSU in 1994 with Brand Nubian, The Odd Squad and Seeds of Soul. Or like when I went to see them in Baytown but the parking lot got shot up before the show could ever begin and I ended up ducking down the side of a bayou wall to keep out of range of all the bullets. That was probably 1993 or so.
Bandit of MDDL FNGZ
Know'm talm bout?
E Rock of the 5th Ward Boyz has a new project on the way, seen here with Z-RO!
ESG got up and freestyled and did Swang and Bang.
Slim Thug came out and killed it. They actually were a really great duo on that stage.
As evidenced by these photos
Kid Styles and GU
Chris Ward and Kyleon
Julia Beverly of Ozone Magazine in the house
Mike Jones came out and ripped it as well
Super photographer Jack Thompson in the house!
Zin and Melesa
Allison Pember - one of the founders of Flavor Magazine, now with Microsoft Zune. Is Bun B gonna teach you how to use your Zune Player? Stay tuned.
DEZ! Check this y'all. Dez - one of our local graf/design legends - designed a new bottle for Mountain Dew. Reception happening for the man Feb. 20th, location TBA.
But here's the info. No, this blog IS NOT brought to you by Mountain Dew, but I'm proud of the man so lets take this quick pause for his cause. You don't have to like it, but you gotta respect it. (It's like Pimp C is speaking through me now! I say that a lot these days.)
Honestly the commercial is pretty bad ass. Hats off to the man DEZ!
Now back to our program.
Brother J from X-CLAN WAS IN THE HOUSE! He's recording the new X-Clan album in Houston right now with my man Zin.
Gangsta Legends Willie D and Z-Ro
MDDL FNGZ!!!!
Oakclif gets the thowededed shirt award!
Who?
TJ Chapman
Wille D, C-Lean and Friends
MC Beauty
Mama and Big Monsta!
KB da Kidnappa
Beze!
ESG MAYNE!
Cory Mo and Friend
Hezeleo
J. Prince and his son with International Red in the back
KG Mosely and Friend
Coughee Brotha KB!
E-Rock and Jugg Mugg
Nore
This is a photo of Pimp C, DJ Screw and someone else. Can't see it all that well.
But I tried
And then these dudes
Stopped traffic.
Whew, what a night. The vibes were so right, the energy was electric, the sound was flawless, the flow was uninterrupted by any bullshit. It just went perfect and I hope Bun takes this show on the road. You should too.
Ever wonder why when Houston was at its peak there was never a Houston tour? I bet some of the big head motherfuckers who fucked that up two years ago would love to go do that now. Watch.
Anyway, Rest in Peace Pimp C. I don't personally believe the coroners report. I don't believe in Hollywood. I don't believe a lot of the shit that happens in this world. All I can say at this point is Rest in Peace Pimp, and Bun, I wanna watch you walk across that stage at the Grammy's tonight - hopefully early in the show so I don't have to watch all that other bullshit. But I already know how they do. Do they even show the rap award? I'll be watching.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
