— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
This evening I was lucky enough to witness a live performance of I Want It That Way by some guy loading scaffolding into the back of a truck. It was lovely. I felt like Tartine was an airplane hangar at LAX.
— By Brizz |
I don’t know anything about the governor’s race really, except that dude that made fun-time with his best friend’s wife isn’t running, and I think Jerry Garcia is the democratic front-runner or something. Not to be outdone, the GOP’s Carly Fiorina, who is apparently one of the Worst CEOs of All Time (and will therefore be our next governor), came out with this bad-ass Pink Floyd/demon sheep video to connect with all you Satan-worshiping, acid-dropping kids.
(Found via AwwwDamn’s super secret internet posting.)
— By Serg |
It’s going down over at the Parish in Oakland Friday. If you don’t know about Dream you really need to step up your graf knowledge. TDK blew my mind the first time I saw their pieces in shitty graf mags 15 years ago. They got djs and some people preforming the rap music. All proceeds will benefit the Dream Legacy Fund and the Dream book fund.
Art exhibition by TDK crew + more
Music by DJs: Apollo, ShortKut, Sake One, Fuze, Myke One, Platurn, Namane, and Willie Maze.
Performances by Equipto, F.A.M.E. and The Bangers.
The Bay Area’s best DJs and Artists have assembled to pay tribute to life and legacy of Oakland’s beloved Graffiti King and Bay Area legend, Mike “DREAM” Francisco. Recognized worldwide as a style master, Dream’s graffiti established the visual aesthetic of Oakland’s Hip Hop culture, and put The Town on the map in what is now the fastest growing art movement in human history.
This event marks ten years since Dream was tragically murdered, and all proceeds from the event will benefit Akil Francisco, Dream’s only son, now 10 years old. The TDK crew is also proud to announce the forthcoming book on Dream’s art and life: “The Title of My Book Reads: Advanced Vandalism.”
All proceeds benefit the Dream Book Fund and the Dream Legacy Fund for his son Akil, 10, who recently lost his mother to breast cancer.
If you are unable to attend and want to support, please make checks out to The Dream Trust Fund, or Akil Francisco.
Art Show 6pm-9pm, All Ages, Free
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
The other day I was watching Con Air and reliving the pinnacle years of American cinema and got to thinking, “Hey Kevin, remember those days when a bald, self-deprecating Cuba Gooding Jr. could get hella airplay on MTV? Do you think anyone even remembers Cuba?” But let’s take this to the serious level, SKEE-LO is the best one-hit wonder of the 90s. Yeah, we get all nostalgic and shit for Marcy’s Playground and Right Said Fred or whatever the fuck those Englishmen were called, but SKEE-LO killed that shit. Rabbits, Impalas, fully admitting to sucking at basketball. Us “cool-kids” could learn a thing or two from grandpa.
— By Serg |
It’s going down bitches! Starting tonight Butter (11th and Harrison stupids) is letting us play metal every first Wednesday of the month! Get pumped because I can’t mix for shit but who gives a fuck! I’m bringing the death! All kinds of metal so lets fucking rage! I don’t give a fuck what the other dj’s are playing I’m dropping thrash, doom, death, grind and blackthrash! Fuck your life, leave that pussy shit alone and ditch your soul because tonight we give praise to satan and rejoice in motherfucking pain!
oh yeah, bar’s open at 8, dj’s at 10 and dollar off all drinks
— By Serg |
The group is Grand Invincible, consists of Luke Sick and DJ Eons One. It’s some 89 QB timbs, camo, and piano stabs type shit so don’t expect some bullshit rave raps with trance synths blasting through the beat. They drive around the mission, hangout on ocean beach, kick it at Gestalt and stand in the hallway of the Bernal Heights Shamiq from 212. The video is missing a camera man beatdown with hella boots and goretex coats. Also where the fuck is the standard roof top shot? Anyways check it out and maybe if they get enough views then Youtube will buy that Volvo a new headliner.
— By Megan Allison |
The Independent is a movie theater like I am a newspaper box.
Also, I am the mayor of Storyville. Get your own fucking popcorn, and while you’re at it, ditch Get Satisfaction if you ever want any constructive feedback from your users. What a pain in the ass that is.
— By Brizz |
Sorry Mission-dwellers, NOPA-ites, and Tendernobbers, your neighborhoods have been surpassed in trendsetting hotness by the unlikeliest of places: Alameda. You all should get out there now before the New York Times gets wind of this news and ruins it for everybody. If I had any idea of how one gets to Alameda, I might even consider going myself. I don’t want to say too much about the above event, but it pops off at McGrath’s Irish Pub tomorrow, and one of the DJs/organizers is named MC Oroville. He keeps it way realer than all of you. He lives in the pictured van (The Turtle) on the streets of the Bay Area. For real.
— By Serg |
Check this shit to see a bunch of flyers for things at clubs that you might have fun at. There are probably other things going on too but this is what I know of right now. Sorry about the long as post but Kevin fucking sucks at making this blog work. That break bullshit is not doing shit so now I got a long as post
Tonight at 222 is this new Ice Cream Social party that Shane King and Sleazemore are doing, Kingdom of Fool’s Gold is djing also (uk garage bass brooklyn based dance shit, sounds like rave to me) . They are giving away homemade ice cream at this party so if you like to eat dairy and get sweaty this is the lactose fartbomb you’ve been waiting for!
Vinnie Esparza is doing Hella Tight over at Amnesia. Standard funk soul 80’s hiphop dance shit in a sweaty room with tiny bathrooms
oldies night at the knockout, I’ve never been so I don’t know if it’s lowrider oldies or your grandma’s pbs bullshit ass oldies.
Agnostic Front at the parkside so yeah you can go hang out with really angry faced kids who really want to fist pump!
Tomorrow night at the Cat Club is the new Naked party, suppose to have gogo dancers and shit so yeah you can go there and swing your tits while Mind Motion plays an all 90’s set. ladies free before 11 so hopefully the place is packed with wet pussy.
Saturday at SOM the boys from People Under The Stairs will be playing records and there may or may not be free or cheap redstripe. I do not know nor do I want to drink that headache.
If you want to see 100 fucking djs go to Mighty for the Big Payback, it’s 5 bucks.
Oh and Tuesday there is this, if you like psychadelic rap beats and throwback delivery peep game over at SOM. They also plan on showing Ricky Powell photos so if you like seeing the faces of beastie boys you should check it out. It looks like Change The Beat will be at SOM on tuesdays so if you like to hear people pushing boxes with buttons to make sounds you should check that party.
— By Serg |
This post is long because I don’t know how to work this janky ass visual basic looking blog so fuck it here is some shit to do this weekend
Friday night over at Lower Haters the Burlesque folks are going to be showing their fancy ass artwork so if you want to see some sheets of paper with colors on them go there. It’s the opening party so they also got dj’s King Most, Enki, Platurn, and also Mike2600 of Burlesque will be spinning and his is good at not playing shitty music. Mike is also playing over at Triple Crown Saturday night for the Jinder show. I think it’s gonna be disco house type shit. I don’t fucking know, I aint about that shit but Mike is my dude so I support his ass.
If you don’t want to fuck with swedish disco house holler at Tormenta Tropical. Jess Jubilee is coming down to play some fucking bullshit music, hopefully she breaks out some miami bass but who knows maybe she will play dancey dance. Tormenta is probably my favorite party in the city. Last month Dj Panik blew my mind with some weird ass mexican dance music. The only way I can describe it is that it sounded like the music you hear when you listen to the radio out of Juarez, Mexico while you drive through El Paso at four in the morning and they are justing pummeling your barely awake brain with the weirdest balls to the walls mexican rave music. Panik took it there and I wasn’t sure I was ready to go there but it worked. But fuck all that what I’m really about though are those texas rap cumbia remixes, I lose my shit to that, it fucking bangs. I fuck with that shit hard, cumbia and dallas rap are a perfect blend of sounds. Nothing like getting buck to some accordians. Jess probably won’t play that but fuck it, Oro11 and Disco Shawn bring the cumbia electro turbo bass vibes. Pretty much one of very few reasons to go to the Elbo room.
If you want to rumble there is a DRI show at Slims on saturday so you can fuck with that. I may or may not be there pushing kids around.