Silver Lake lounge - LA

Mad Rad and Champagne Champagne live from Los Angeles. Check out part of their show and an interview from the Silver Lake Lounge! Out For Stardom all day everyday.

OC Notes x Rik Rude = Dope Fiend Jazz

Visualize......

Its another rainy day in the square. Rude and Notes walk the back alleys to the murder mart to pick up a sweet and some of the finest pois-ons the city has to offer before returning to the laboratory. The sweet gets rolled, the cork pops, the machines get turned on. An agreement has been made. Today our scientists have decided to try a new experiment in spoken word and electronic African rhythms. One take, free form, freestyle, jazz. This is pioneer square....Dope Fiend Jazz.

The L gets blazed. Rude steps in the booth, OC gets on the pads. The record button gets pushed. No pens, no paper, no pre made beats. This is Live improvisation. New experiments in space and time. Dope Fiend Jazz.

-OC Notes x Rik Rude

This is a brilliant whimsical listen from these geniuses. Highly recommended.

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Kaputt

Right now, Destroyer's "Kaputt" is on my top 10 of 2011. It seems to have captured everything that is the essence of what I need to hear right now. A Post-disco sound and use of the "dark silhouette" style saxophone and lyrics that have and are relayed with tons of texture very much makes it a theatrical listen. Well besides making a pretty great record, Destroyer decided to top it off with a video cherry. I don't know what the song is about and the first time I watched this video, I didn't understand what it was about either, but it was obvious I had to watch it again. So I watched another video that was kinda amazing and then went back to the first video. It didn't make too much more sense, but it did and its perfect. So since I came to this crazy conclusion, I thought it might make sense to make my listening and watching scenario available to you.

[Please note - this is a long crazy process, but would you expect anything less?]

-listen to the track
-watch this
-then this [Kanye West tweeted this video today. "Super simple and creative! Kate Moss for Balmain". He's right.]

-watch again

What do you think?

"Kaputt" is out on Merge Records on 1/25.

Paramount Video

This video barely touches on how amazingly epic this night was. Thanks again to City Arts.

Hip Hop at the Paramount from brad curran on Vimeo.

Year of the Tiger

My lady, the ever so talented Mary Kalhor, put her 2010 mix of music. These are songs she had on rotation all year long and made this mix for her closest friends for Christmas.

She really opens me up to so much music, more than I could ever imagine sometimes. And since I didn't have time to put together top 10 lists or anything like that, why not enjoy someone so close to me? I Love You, Ono!!

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Samo Sound Boy Poster

I'm sure Darwin will be breaking this show down for you in the next couple of days.

Kool Keith Poster

Probably one of my favorite posters as of late for Black Elvis himself.

Mad Rad @ The Jet Poster

We are playing with our homies SOTA & Katie Kate. This one should be crizzackalacking.

Last Meal

Been awhile between blogging, I blame Marcus. Regardless I'm hungry, and these don't help. A series of photograph by designer James Reynolds based in London who has staged the last meal requests of former death row inmates before execution. Makes me think what would your last meal be?









via Fubiz

Fresh Espresso - Live New Years Eve Video

(photo by Lavid)

So us Michigan kids had a lil party at The Crocodile on New Years Eve. It was a total blast and sold out the day before. We knew it was gonna be an awesome packed house filled with drunken F.E. fans ready to start off 2011 with dancing and debauchery. We rented tux's and played some new songs.

This video is of a new song called "Green Windows" and looks to be shot by a fan from the crowd, but the image is relatively good and the audio sounds pretty nice, so check it out.