DTTTC! Stranger Cover

Nice work guys! You are well aware that Team Cover is playing New Year's Eve, right?! Well get on that! Also, nice write up by The Stranger staff talking about their favorite music of 2011. DTTTC! and Katie Kate are mentioned in the article.

Jumped

Buff writes a beautiful piece and cover story for The Stranger about an instance that happened not too long ago. CLICK HERE to read. Great work, Nathan.

OFS Geniuses

This what The Stranger had to say about three of OFS' own geniuses. I must add I consider everybody that I fucks with a genius. I am so blessed to be surrounded by such amazing human beings on a daily basis. It is my honor to work with you all and a huge pleasure to call you my friends and my family. Much respect from NJ to SEA, OFS!


NATHAN QUIROGA
One of the more surprising transformations of the year was watching Mad Rad's Buffalo Madonna—a man known for scaling the sides of a festival stage at Sasquatch! a few years back and rapping from above the stage's roof—transform into a subdued memoirist publishing under his given name. A confessional essay Nathan Quiroga read aloud at several literary events this year, later published in The Stranger, was daring, dark, and rueful. Quiroga is of the mind that readings aren't as alluring as they need to be, and this year plans to start a reading series in alleys at twilight, with writers up on ladders, and beer, and possibly music. -CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE


OC NOTES
This year alone, OC Notes (Otis Calvin III), a local hiphop producer, has released four superb albums: Metal Chocolates (with the highly regarded rapper Rik Rude), The New Generation (embracing the new age), Medicine, and Secret Society. As a local hiphop album, Secret Society (the first of OC's rock-influenced recordings, the other being The New Generation) is second only to Shabazz Palaces' Black Up—and it's a close second. (True, if THEESatisfaction had released their sophomore album this year, Secret Society would be third—but, again, a very close third). OC Notes, who recently moved into Vitamin D's former recording place in Pioneer Square, is a genius, and like all true geniuses, he is generous. OC Notes is a pure giver; he is always giving beats to this city. -CHARLES MUDEDE


KATIE KATE
Katie Kate is a rapper, producer, and classically trained pianist. She studied music at Cornish and is currently a member of the Out for Stardom crew (Mad Rad, Fresh Espresso, and Metal Chocolates). Recently she completed her debut album, Flatland, which we're hoping will be released this year—and the album's production is solid and her range (singing, rapping, beat-making, keyboarding) impressive. Indeed, Katie Kate could easily become one of the top local producers—a realm that's screaming for more female talent. Her hiphop beats for "Totebag" and "Body Out" are first-rate, and the techno/new wave of "Copenhagen" and "Houses" is beautifully cold, dark, and cosmopolitan. Katie has a muscular sense of composition or design; her music is carefully built, part by part, with this part corresponding with that part, and this melodic line corresponding with that melodic line. Her music is in the details. -CHARLES MUDEDE


GENIUS AWARDS TONIGHT @ THE MOORE THEATRE. GO GO GO GO

The Stranger X Metal Chocolates

I am super excited to see Metal Chocolates play this Friday with Viper Creek Club and Truckasauras! I am currently finishing up mixing this amazing debut record.



Seems like The Stranger is digging it too.

Larry said this.

Mudede said this.

So get your ass to Neumos this Friday.
I hear they're on at 10:00pm.
I also here there is gonna be a whole plethora of guest appearances on the VCC set. So Get there.

P Smoov VS God

It's that time of year. Everyone's favorite totally pointless competition is here. The Championship of Balls Championship. P Smoov had a massive victory in the 1st round against Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse. This time he is facing up against a more worthy opponent: God. Sure God walks on water, but P surfs on crowds.

We are Out For Stardom, we think we should win everything. So here's 10 reasons to vote for P Smoov.



1. God has more fans. Underdog factor.
2. If you don't follow P, he won't condemn you to an eternally burning hell.
3. P gets more tail than God.
4. God's beats are wack.
5. P Smoov actually exists.
6. God created overpopulation. P Smoov is pro-choice and all about contraceptives.
7. God hates the gays. P has some of his wildest nights on the town with his homo buddies.
8. God doesn't know where to find the really good drugs.
9. P is vegan and loves his furry friends. God is sacrificing lambs left and right and only saved a few of each animal in that big flood he sent.
10. P is all about protecting the environment. God's gunna destroy the earth in a lake of fire and destroy all who are not sanctified by the blood of Jesus. God makes British Petrol seem like Green Peace.

Now go vote for P Smoov here.

High Tea w/Mad Rad

What could be more civilized than high tea at the elegant Sorrento Hotel with Seattle's preeminent etiquette experts, the well-behaved boys of hipster-hop act Mad Rad? Which fork is the scone fork? How many biscuits ought one to ingest at a time? What's the proper way to escape a bouncer's choke hold? For the winner of this auction, P Smoov, Buffalo Madonna, Terry Radjaw, and DJ Darwin will entertain such questions and more over a private tea service the likes of which would make King Ralph fart with envy.



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Stranger's Spring Playlist

Christopher Frizzelle at The Stranger put into today's paper his springtime playlist and put up 9 of the songs that he cannot stop listening to. I do suppose that gorgeous days bring on gorgeous music. To see what other songs made his cut go to the LineOut blog. I personally feel 100% the same about that Hot Chip song.

"My Product" by Mad Rad
The question isn't whether Mad Rad is the future of Seattle hiphop, but whether Mad Rad is hiphop at all. Is Hot Chip hiphop? Is Santigold hiphop? "My Product" is a catchy, relentless, adrenalized beat covered in spiky metallic notes, a spiritual cousin of Santogold's "L.E.S. Artistes," and the female voice wailing into the sky in "My Product" is in fact a guy's very impressive falsetto. There are a couple seconds of spoken-word business about consumerism that I used to roll my eyes at—"My product is your product, your product is my product, their product is our product, our product is not theirs"—but the more I learn about the banking industry (fuckers, all), the more I think of it as a perfectly timed fall-of-capitalism dance hit. Mad Rad haters—the band has been banned from every major venue in town—are going to have to deal. These guys are special.