Metal Lungies

Celebrate the release of Double Barrel next week at Sutra. From the looks of the flyer, there will be no shortage of hip-hop legends in the building.

On Monday night, I saw a band live for the first time that I have been checking for more than a decade. I have been listening to The Prodigy since elementary school, in fact their classic The Fat of The Land was one of my first albums that I bought on my own. Last month, when I caught word of them doing a short run in the states to support their recently released Invaders Must Die including a DC stop at the 9:30 Club, I had to jump on it (no Sir Mix-A-Lot).

DC area native Tittsworth opened up for The Prodigy, spinning a dope 1.5 hour set that ranged with everything from dubstep to fatboy slim. Once Tittsworth was done spinning from the corner balcony, it was time for trio known as The Prodigy; Keith, Liam, Maxim along with their guitarist to hit the stage. With Nostalgia thick in the air (35 year old dudes trying to relive college days, I see you!), hit they did. There wasn’t much time for feeling out the crowd as The Prodigy blasted out Worlds on Fire & Their Law, which was shortly followed by my personal favorite, Breathe. Let’s just say there wasn’t a person on either of the clubs 2 floors that wasn’t jumping up and down (for pretty much the rest of the night after that point). They proceeded to run through a bunch of notable songs including The Omen, Poison, and Voodoo People. The Prodigy were pretty much recreating their Greatest Hits album (which stayed in heavy rotation for the good part of my Freshman year of college) live. Halfway through the show Maxim did something I’ve never seen done before at any of the numerous 9:30 show I’ve been to; he performed from on top of the bar while quickly downing a drink, a true performer! The last song before their encore was Comanche (complete with Keith twirling like a helicopter (no Petey Pablo), needless to say that song was one of my favorites of the night. When the Prodigy came out for the encore, they saved one of their biggest songs, Smack My Bitch Up (how many rappers would love to be able to have THAT as a title for a single?!).  But they didn’t end on that particular song, perhaps as a sign of more adrenaline pumping Electronica to come in the future for the Trio, they finished off with Take Me To The Hospital & Out of Space.

(Ed Note: Updated some song titles @ 5/20 8:48PM ET)

I was impressed with the sequencing of their set, they spread their most well known songs through out their set instead of saving them for the end like a lot of live acts tend to do. The last electronic act I saw at 9:30, Justice, left me pretty disappointed, this show was the complete opposite, simply put The Prodigy live is full of energy and kicks ass.

Don’t miss out, here are the remaining dates of the The Invaders Must Die Tour run:

05/20 – House of Blues – Boston, MA
05/22 – The Filmore – Detroit, MI
05/23 – Congress Theater – Chicago, IL
05/26 – The Grove – Anaheim, CA
05/27 – Hollywood Paladium – Los Angeles, CA
05/28 – Warfield Theatre – San Francisco, CA
05/30 – WAMU Theatre – Seattle, WA

Don’t forget your earplugs, kids. Otherwise, you might be saying the same thing as the message scribbled on the cover of one of  Liam’s laptops: “TAKE ME TO A HOSPITAL”.

Invaders Must Die is in stores now.

Notes:

*You are probably wondering, WTF is up with the Camera phone pictures? Well, if you were following on twitter, you would have known that I experienced one of my biggest failures of my concert going history. I got a media accreditation and all that, only to realize after the club that I lugged along a dSLR camera WITHOUT A BATTERY. UGH.

*Shout out to the couple next to me on the balcony that were doing the most eclectic set of dance moves ever, including: cradling baby, a running man, ballroom dancing, rope climbing, the weight lift.. oh and when I was sitting down for a bit, they thrusted right at my eye level, sweet. To cap their dancing, this dude let his girl tie his scarf around the waist. Sadly though, I think she saw people chuckling as she proceeded to untie it shortly afterward.

*This is the first show I’ve seen at 9:30 that had a barricade at the front, I guess they know Prodigy fans don’t mess around.

*Lastly, a huge thanks to Adam & Sioux from Magnum PR for working with ML to make this happen!

Brooklynati is invading NYC tonight. First, Tanya Morgan is hitting up Fat Beats (406 6th Ave, 2nd Floor near 8th Street) for a free in-store performance at 7:00. ML we be there keeping an eye out for shoplifters.

After that, you can head over to Sutra (16 1st Ave at 1st Street) at 10:00 for their official release party.

Stones Throw is sending a quartet of dopeness.. Peanut Butter Wolf, Dam-Funk, Mayer Hawthorne & James Pants to a town near you (if your town matters that is.. kidding, please no more hate mail). Personally, I will try my best to figure out a way to trespass into the DC show, right after I hit up the free instore Stones Throw is going to have at Stussy DC.

Dates:

4/23 Portland @ Holocene. 9pm. 21+ Tickets
4/24 Bellingham @ Nightlight Lounge. 8pm. 21+ $10
4/25 Seattle @ Chop Suey. 9pm. All Ages. Tickets
4/28 Minneapolis @ Varsity Theater. 9pm. 18+ $15
4/29 Madison @ High Noon Saloon. 9pm. 18+ Ticket Info
4/30 Chicago @ The Abbey Pub. 9pm. 18+ Ticket Info
5/1 Toronto @ Revival Bar. 9pm. 19+ Tickets
5/2 Montreal @ Les Saints. 8pm. 18+ Ticket Info
5/3 Princeton @ Terrace F Club. 3pm. All Ages. FREE
5/4 Boston @ Paradise. 7pm. 18+ Ticket Info
5/5 Baltimore @ Sonar.  7pm. 18+ Ticket Info
5/6 Philadelphia @ North Bowl.  9pm Tickets
5/7 Washington DC  @ 9:30 Club. 9pm. All Ages. Tickets
5/8 NYC @ American Museum of Natural History. 9pm. 21+. $20
5/9 NYC @ LPR. 11pm. 21+. $10 (Pants, Dam, Hawthorne & Folerio) Tickets

I know I’m pretty late on this, but I think it’s still worth a post. For those of you who’ve never heard of Starscape, it’s a great one day electronic music festival held in Ft. Armistead Park in Baltimore. I went last year and had a blast, and the lineup is even better this year. Tickets are only $55. You really can’t beat it for the amount of good music you get all night. Hopefully I’ll see you guys there. Here’s a video of the Disco Biscuits playing “Lunar Pursuit” at Starscape ’07:

And here’s a few spun out kidzz making fools of themselves just for laughs:

Also in the building: Fat Joe, Ryan Leslie, O’Neal McKnight and Funkmaster Flex. I’m not going because it’s past ML’s bedtime. Shit. Buy tickets here.

Considering the fact, we covered 3 of the shows last year, you’d be wise to guess we are going to cover this…if this doesn’t come near an amphitheater near you.. you lose.

Update, here are the dates:

Chicago, IL – Saturday June 27th-First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Detroit, MI – Sunday June 28th-DTE Energy Music Theater
Toronto, ONT – Sunday July 5th-Molson Amphitheatre
Washington, DC – Sunday July 12th-Merriweather Post Pavilion
Boston, MA – Saturday July 18th-Comcast Center
New York, NY – Sunday July 19th-Jones Beach Theater
Vancouver, BC – Saturday August 1st-Deer Lake Park
Denver, CO – Thursday August 6th-Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Los Angeles, CA – Saturday August 8th-San Manuel Amphitheatre
San Francisco, CA – Sunday August 9th-Shoreline Amphitheatre

Camp Bisco 8 just dropped their initial lineup. From campbisco.net:

The Disco Biscuits have confirmed the 1st round of performers slated for Camp Bisco VIII, the eighth annual three-day music and arts festival in Mariaville, New York this July 16-18, 2009. The 45+ performer lineup at the multi-stage camping festival includes: The Disco Biscuits – All 3 Nights; Nas & Damian ‘Jr. Gong’ Marley; STS9 (2 nights); DFA Disco Tent; Twisted Records All Star Tent; Chromeo; Dr. Dog; K’Naan; The Orb; Shpongle x 2(Simon Posford vs Raja Ram); Younger Brother; Special Disco Version James Murphy & Pat Mahoney of LCD Soundsystem; Flying Lotus; Pretty Lights; EOTO; Holy Ghost; Orchard Lounge; John Brown’s Body; Telepath; Boombox; Martyn, BioDiesel with KJ Sawka; AC Slater; Phantogram; MO2; DJ Haitian; Fort Knox Five; Kill the Noise; Prometheus; Ott; Starkey; Bluetech; Indobox; Roots of Creation; Joe Nice; Tuphace; Otherwise; and Dirty Paris.

Lots of great acts again like last year, can’t wait to hit this festival up again. No doubt it’ll be a great weekend full of amazing music and lots of debauchery.

If you’re lucky enough to be in Miami, check out this show tonight.  The lineup is incredible: Diplo, Wale, Kid Sister, Stretch Armstrong, Junior Sanchez, Kidz in the Hall, Killa Kela, U-God, Hollywood Holt, Mickey Factz, Roxy Cottontail, Million $ Mano and more. Show starts at 10. Shit, I need to be in Miami right now.

Come see hip-hop artists from all over the world get it in at S.O.B.’s tonight. ML will be up in the spot trying to get out of paying for drinks by pretending we don’t speak English. Here’s the full lineup:

Mr. Reo
Eprhyme
Davi Vieira
Blitz the Ambassador
Illa J
Tiara Wiles
SF
Baay Musa

Also, Cormega will be at S.O.B.’s on April 8 to preview his new album.