Crypts

The homie Blade Brown of Class Act fame, Nick Bartoletti of visual artist whatever everything and Steve Snere of These Arms Are Snakes are CRYPTS. Big beats. Industrial attitudes. Major Bass.

Bloods by Crypts

MAD RAD @ The Comet Friday 08/28

Best poster to date. So last time we played Comet is was insanely sold out and utter madness. This time we are bringing up the portland homies Breakfast Mountain. If you don't know who that is, it is about time you found out. Zack is making some year 4000 Miami booty music. Also on the bill are local rock stalwarts Chk Minus, the play whatever he wants whenever he wants Dash EXP, and the table standing Darwin.

Interviewer Interview x Jonathan Cunningham

Recently on a mini road trip to Portland, Seattle Weekly writer Jonathan Cunningham decided to hop in the van and come with us. He was working on a story and needed up close and personal time with the boys. I took this time to flip the script and interview him. It was a long day and night of drinking for this man, and I have definitely seen him in rare form. He earned a few nicknames over this time: Jonathan Snoozingham, Sly Pork, and Malcom-Jamal Warner. I truly like making fun of him and will continue to do so.

TR: How does it feel being an african-american writer in a predominantly white city like Seattle?
JC: I feel like the token writer at my paper. I really do enjoy Seattle but I love Detroit, I feel its my destiny to die there.
TR: Do you have a close relationship with family back there?
JC: I am the youngest in ten so you definitely know that its a big family. Every mother's day I buy my mother flowers.
TR: How about your father?
JC: My father has never read anything that I have written. I don't get him anything for father's day.
TR: Sad. Well, Seattle is happy to have you!
JC: Thanks, I love my job with the paper but the editor job at The Stranger is really what i want. Plus I haven't had sex with anyone in the editorial department at the Weekly but do know that some of them are fucking people at The Stranger.
TR: Would you fight Eric Grandy?
JC: It would be no contest.
(Jonathan Cunningham then decides to litter empty beer cans out the van like its nothing and shrugs it off when confronted.)
TR: Who are three music acts in Seattle that you are really feeling right now?
JC: Born Anchors, Khingz, and Fresh Espresso.
TR: What act do you think is most overrated?
JC: Hallways? Yeah, I don't get it.
TR: Do you like MSHVB?
JC: I like the drummer because he's black not because he's 14. He is the new Questlove.
TR: Do you prefer Nike or Reeboks?
JC: I like Nike but have never owned a pair. I'm wearing Reeboks.
TR: What size shoe do you wear?
JC: 8. Same as Bryce Brown.
TR: Better Segal? Dave Segal or Beanie Sigel?
JC: Dave.
TR: Better Freeway? Freeway or I-5?
JC: I-5.
TR: Beanie Sigel or Freeway?
JC: Freeway for his voice.
TR: Michael Jackson or R. Kelly?
JC: R. Kelly. He's done more for R&B music.
TR: What are your hangout spots?
JC: I go to a lot of really whack clubs frequently and hit on every woman.
TR: Who's your favorite dreaded person dead or alive?
JC: Johnny One-Dread from Rockers.
TR: Do you smoke weed?
JC: Yes.
TR: Favorite munchie?
JC: Asian food in the ID.
TR: Do you want to write a novel?
JC: One day, yes, but I wouldn't get a house like Chevy Chase did in Funny Farm.
TR: How was your experience with Mad Rad this weekend?
JC: Ya'll are the whitest motherfuckers in Seattle. No, not really, but you are the first white people at my house.

Thanks Jonathan for your time. I think you're a stand up guy and I am now glad to call you my friend.

Chk Minus @ Chop Suey

I enjoy a lot of local bands and one that caught my attention last summer from day one was Chk Minus. A three piece including a bassist, guitarist, and lead singer/drum sequencer-programmer the band really struck me with a grand aesthetic. To be rocking that hard without a drummer was difficult for me to grasp, but soon after I found myself compelled and eager to watch Bryce Brown wail away on drum pads and keyboards. Recently, the band went back into the studio with a new lead singer: Buffalo Madonna. The past two weeks have been a hurried journey for the band to write new material and find a new balance within the music. I haven't heard one sound, and I am looking foward to this epic event tomrrow night at Chop Suey. Weekend (Gajamagic!) and TacocaT also peform. Family will definitely be in the house for this one.

Poster of the Week #6

Chk Minus is playing a show at the Cha Cha with The Beats,Man. I look foward to the boys in black fitted baseball caps.