Metal Lungies

Here a two tracks you can enjoy for some nice lazy sunday listening…

First off is a timeless piece from Herbie Hancock, ‘Wiggle Waggle’. This is one of my favorite tracks from him, the trumpets on this tracks are just perfect. FYI Did you know Herbie Hancock was the first person to feature a Dj scratching on a mainstream single with ‘Rockit’ which featured Grand Mixer DXT on the 1’s and 2′ way back in 1983?

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Next is ‘Beef’ from Royce Da 5’9″, this is just a nice track where Royce let’s you know know what he thinks beef is, and I like it. One of the better tracks off of his ‘Death is Certain’ 2004 album.

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So I was browsing Yahoo News and was reading a bit about some racist MTV2 cartoon called ‘Where My Dogs At?’ that was in some hot water and had a scene with Snoop Dogg having 2 women with him who were on chains, but they went above and beyond to include a real life photo of the event the cartoon was trying to portray (from the VMAs a few years back), with full on nipple being freely viewable, feel free to add this gem to your ‘My Pictures’ folder from here. Im really suprised the article didn’t have a link to buy the beautifully “Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle“. NOW that is a video no fan of *ahem* fine cinematography should be without. I have 2 copies, one for each tv.

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XXL magazine never ceases to amaze me. I was flipping through the recent issue of XXL when I came across an ad for PETA, of all things, urging readers to go vegeterian. Interestingly enough the ad featured Masta Killa, standing over a plate of some appetizing food.

The ad for PETA in XXL was not the weird part though. It was the fact that the ad was in the back section of the magazine. A portion which is usually used for the sale of nude pictures of disproportionately weighted women to prison inmates. Not to mention the numerous talent agency ads, and the occassional offer to “meet local bi guys”. I guess PETA doesn’t have the advertising budget of, say, a Joker Brand Clothing Company and must instead advertise in the Meat Parade Section (I’m Punny Like Joel Siegel!) of this writer’s favorite mag.

Depressing.

Good Issue Though. Cop it. Check that top 20 street albums article.

Oh Yeah. Heres the PETA2 page for Masta Killa. Watch the interview.

Rumor Has It is the reason why anyone ever fell in love with punk rock in high school, saved up for that electric guitar and pitiful second-hand amp. They were the band that played for beer at Jason’s house when his parents went to the Cape for the long weekend. They are the band that plays every Battle of the Bands they can, rock out like it’s their last show, and will play in your basement no matter how small a party it is.

The keep-it-simple, keep-it-sweet trio from a sleepy town tucked away in the Northwest corner of Washington state dish out twelve minutes of honest punk rock on their eponymous EP. The no-frills four-song set keeps your foot tapping and the subject matter simple: “Slut” (perfect for mixtapes) and “Party Song” (the ultimate anthem for getting plastered and making choices you will regret in the morning).

This EP may not win a Grammy for songwriting but if you’ve been neglecting the punk in you, here’s your chance to make good again.

-JP

http://www.myspace.com/rumorhasitpunk

Recent And Upcoming:

July 1, 2006 – Rumor Has It (EP)

JP: btw
JP: i hope it’s safe to microwave styrofoam
Pal: uh
Pal: it’s totally not
JP: because i just heated up last night’s mexican food
JP: hahah
JP: dude don’t lie
Pal: seriously, that’s a no no
JP: haha
JP: well crap
JP: i just put it in the microwave for 2 minutes
Pal: put some metal in there, it’ll be like a double neg and cancel it out
JP: if i die you can have my dignity
Pal: so i’d get nothing?

This little conversation prompted me to do some research, which led me to:

http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/microwave_ovens.html

This is the most amazing Q&A set I have ever read. If you’ve ever wondered about microwaves and how they work, check this page out. My favorite question has to be:

My husband put a large metal bowl in our new microwave oven and tore a small hole in the oven’s metal screen while trying to close the door. My husband isn’t concerned, but the oven is mounted over the stove at face level and it certainly concerns me. Can we use it? — E, Ontario, Canada

I still haven’t figured out if styrofoam is hazardous after being nuked.

-JP

The now-defunct punk post-hardcore band known as All My Heroes shined briefly on their first and last album Magnolia Street, nearly two years ago on the fledgling Florida-based label Secondhand Records. Originally recording a four-song demo under the name Citizen Kane, AMH transitioned from demo to album and successfully refined their voice without changing it.

While Hawthorne Heights taught us what it was to be accessible faux-screamo, AMH seems to be a genuine punk band with a little throat-scratching edge to it. They love their guitar riffs as much as their bass lines or their cymbal intros, and while any band could set up the double bassdrums and belt out empty anthems in gutteral tones (I love that word), it takes a little more to coordinate.

Undoubtedly the layering of screaming over singing is a tried and true method, but timing is also important. They save it for the end of verses, for the chorus, for words they want you to remember, and use it often but wisely. While guitar solos following the melodies of songs tend to come out tacky and predicitably unimpressive (see Weezer’s Green Album), AMH knows how to combine both for emphasis, and in a flash of a sixth grade art class epiphany when Ms McKenzie introduced negative space, riffs or vocals in this duo which are purposely left out make even more of a statement.

Overanalysis aside, this album is enjoyable, especially if you too are reminded of Knight Rider in all of its Hasselhoff and talking car glory by the intro to one of the songs. It is certainly a pity that the band broke up due to artistic differences – which probably means the drummer slept with the lead guitarist’s sister – but in all seriousness, this is another band that could have been.

What are the bands’ members doing now? Apparently selling clothes and a hip-hop band. Oh Miami.

-JP

http://www.allmyheroesrock.com/

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November 16, 2004 – Magnolia Street

When you are rocking Wallabees you don’t need much else.

Last night, hangover and I hit up the Boost Mobile Rockcorps show over at the 9:30 club. The only way to get in this show was to do volunteer work at the Latin American Montessori Bilingual School the day before. When we got there the balcony section was closed off and for a good reason. About 80 people tops were in attendance (9:30 usually sells out with a 1000+) which was sort of a double edged sword (more ‘private show’ but a pretty lackluster crowd). After WPGC’s DJ Quicksilver (who spun 95% south records from Young Joc to D4L :X) complained about being set up and hung out to dry, because from what I understood the acts took too long to come out, but I didn’t really mind because shit like that always happens at hip-hop shows. First came out Tru-Life shining with his ROC chain (who else wears roc chains? I know Hov really dosen’t) and did a quick gritty set, with about 3-4 songs and some acapella joints dissing Dip-Set with highlights calling Jimmy Jones, “Jenny Jones”, no one knew any of his material so he kind of left the stage in a hurry, it was as dead as I’ve ever seen a crowd. Also he had a woman DJ, anyone know who she is? Then came out Rickyyy RAWWWWSSSSSSS, he did his thing, he had the largest (in weight and numbers) posse of the night, some real mean grillin dudes who probably dont smile. ever. His set was average but it was evident that most of the crowd cared/knew only him on the bill. After he did his 30 minute or so set, he left and so did about 80% of the crowd (I wonder what role the DC youngn 10PM curfew had to do with that). But we were there to see the man that provides the namesake of this fucking website, without a rapper like him still around we’d probably be laffytaffy.com (disgusting thought). After about a 45 minute delay due to some traffic Ghost was stuck in, the man still didn’t fake on us. When he arrived from backstage yelling in his signature smooth yet high pitch “All 10 of y’all up to the front!!”, everyone who was left (somewhere around 20-30 people), followed god’s directions. And boy he didn’t dissapoint, he could’ve pulled some shit and did a few quick songs and dipped but he didn’t, he delivered about a 50 minute long set including Be This Way, Run, Metal Lungies, Crack Spot, Dogs of War, Shimmy Shimmy Ya (ODB tribute), Triumph, Back Like That and some others. Not once did he mention that Fishscale was in store as many rappers tend to do dozens of time during their performances. At the end Trife was jokes shouting out to Boost Mobile asking for some free phones and $20 phone cards. After he wrapped up Ghost was the nicest dudes I’ve seen after show chillin with the fans and talking, it was surreal. Even his manager Mike Caruso was mad nice taking a picture of us with Ghost (on Stage!), I’ve seen too many managers in that position that would tell you to get lost. Seeing Ghost with such a small crowd was surreal, I think this is def. one of my highlight of maybe the decade.
Check out the whole photo album here. Those pics are compressed and don’t look as hot as the full high res ones do, if you’d like some of those shout me a holler.

I also got some videos, audio sucks cause it was so loud but I’m going to youtube/google video tomorrow.