Another June, another Bonnaroo Metal Lungies is going to. Starting today we will be roaming the farm in Murfreesboro basking in the glory of the 10th anniversary of the completely sold out festival.

Be sure to catch me on twitter, where we will be ranting, recapping, and instagraming… and other verbs.

If you aren’t fortunate enough to be in Ten-a-key, VEVO will be live streaming a lot of the performances, and Comedy Central will have an event on Sunday from the Comedy Tent.

In case you need to some suggestions on who/what to check out, here are our picks (in chronological order):

Thursday:  5Pm- DJ Neil Armstrong (Jay-Z’s former tour DJ, who earned that spot with his well honed skills) 6:00pm-Lewis Black, Wavves 7:15pm-Best Coast 7:30pm-The Knux 8pm-Lewis Black 9pm- J.Cole 10:15pm-Sleigh Bells (Most likely to melt your face off) 10:30pm-Twin Shadow 11:30pm-Deerhunter, Childish Gambino (see what all the hype is) 12AM- Dam-Funk

Thur night ends early performance wise, so rest up!

Friday: 12:30pm-420 Comedy Blaze (420 at 12:30pm, what?)  2:30pm-Lewis Black (the man is clearly the workhorse of ‘roo this year), 3:15pm-Matt & Kim 4pm-DJ Neil Armstrong 4:30pm-Lewis Black 5pm-Atmosphere 6:45pm-Florence + The Machine 11:00pm-Arcade Fire (*The* act of the festival?) 12:45am-Big Boi 1:30am-Lil Wayne (but after Big Boi ends!) 2:30am-Ratatat (can’t miss. have wanted to see these guys for years on years.)

Saturday: 2:30pm-Donald Glover 3:30pm-Chiddy Bang 3:45pm-!!! 4:30pm-Donald Glover 5pm-Portugal.The Man 5:50pm-Wiz Khalifa 6:15pm-Mumford & Sons 7pm-!!! 8pm-The Black Keys 9:30pm-Buffalo Springfield 11pm-Eminem 12:20am-Screening of 8 mile (I’m just curious to see who watches this after seeing Em live, ‘roo Stans?) 12:45am-Scissor Sisters 2:15am-Gogol Bordello 2:30am-Girl Talk

Sunday: 1:15pm-Mavis Staples (Just learned she was Sam Cooke’s boo.. thanks CBS Sunday Morning.)  3pm-Tig Notaro 4:10pm-Children’s Hospital [Adult Swim] (Cool down and watch this hilarious TV show) 4:30pm-Robyn 5pm-Cold War Kids 5:45pm-30 for 30: Reggie Miller (essential watching for basketball fans, if you are all music-ed out) 6pm-Robert Plant 6:15pm-Beirut 6:45pm-The Strokes

If you are like myself, and pack last minute, I’ve listed some non-camping, basic survival essentials after the jump that you want to make sure to have.

• 5 pairs of socks, underwear.
• 5 Shirts, shorts
• Poncho
• Windbreaker/Hoodie
• Gum
• Water/Bottle
• Gold Bond (Worth it’s weight in.. Gold.)
• TP
• Blister Kit + Bandaids
• Cash $$$, to avoid the ATMz.
• Baby Wipes
• Clif Bars (or whatever bars you like, it’s what I get by, food wise for the majority of the festival)
• Flashlight (so you don’t step on sleeping hippies scattered around!)
• Poncho (a solid one.)
• Bandanna
• Cell Phone charger, extra battery
• Camera (YOUR FB FREINDS DEMAND THIS)
• Hat (pref. *not* black and wool)
• Toothbrush/Toothpaste (and special cleaner for those with grillz, right, Lil Wayne?)
• Pen (to write deep thoughts in your moleskin journals)
• Flip-Flops
• Towel
• Plastic zip bags

Did you know that Dee Dee of the Ramones recorded a rap album as Dee Dee King in 1989? This single is not on the album but still terrible and entertaining in a kind of car-wreck way. Seek out the whole album if you hate your ears.

I like rap/I like hip-hop/I like hardcore and punk rock

To clean your ears out, here’s the video for “I Wanna Be Sedated” featuring Courtney Love in a cameo as a junkie (really!):

Click here to view the embedded video.

Shouts to Nate Patrin for reminding me about this.

ML was at LIV Night Club last night to check out BYT’s 19 hour party (sadly, we were there for only about a 4th of that..there was some obscure ceremony going on downtown that we decided to check out.)

This was our 4th time seeing Wale live, making it his best that we’ve seen yet (and it softened the agony of missing out on that epic NYC show he had last month). Wale ran through his most known cuts like Nike Boots to W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E. (favorite of the night?), in addition to performing 2 debut album cuts for the 1st time. Wale performed the Cool & Dre produced Chillin (the final version, which isn’t out, will feature Lady Gaga) and Pretty Girls. Wale’s stage presence should be in a textbook for all rappers performing live, the crowd was feeding off of it all night. The vibe of the whole club was so dope, that it seemed Wale didn’t want his time to end, scrambling last minute for a make-shift encore featuring a line over My President Is Black (“My President is Black, my credit card is too./ but my credit is fucked up thanks to that previous dude“) as well as inviting local-bred producer/rapper Oddisee to freestyle a quick 16.

Wale also had a few PSAs through out his set that stuck with us:

*UCB x Wale album coming soon (separate from the debut).

*If you hear someone mispronounce his name (ie Whale or Wall-E (Wale predictied that he’s gonna be bigger than the Pixar joint).. smack that person for Wale .

*Tre (of UCB) wrote a Lindsay Lohan (or say it like Wayne: Lo-hann) song.

*Wale is signed with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation.

The event in of itself was kick ass, there were 2 floors of live music, cheap Colt 45s, intermissions with Burlesque Dancers and Comedians (Tig Notaro). We even got some good new music on to our radar, Team Facelift (who might be the wildest partying pack, I’ve ever seen live?) & Team Robespierre.

Peace to Dan & Wale; Victor & the BYT crew for organizing such a dope event.

Check the whole set of our pictures at the Flickr page. Seeing as I used my dslr camera at a concert for the first time, I plan on getting better at it, to see dope(r) fisheyed photo’s check out BYT’s stash.

Lastly, check what Washington Post had to say about Wale’s performance.

But we love it.

I woke up this morning and got this in my inbox:

When you’re one of the greatest emcees of the modern generation readying your bow from hip-hop with three albums, what do you do meanwhile? In Lupe Fiasco’s case, you simply watch a film, get invigorated, start a band, begin making not so bad post-indie punk music in a faux British accent, think of a peculiar band name (cue “Japanese Cartoon”), create a MySpace page, & upload the music. Then act like it isn’t you but rather Percival Fats. Cool.

There are only two tracks so far, and I’m not sure whether I love it or hate it. Its like punk rock, but the lyrics are clearly Lupe. The British accent is pretty annoying, but you would have to know me to find out why.

Either way you should listen to it, and reflect in the comments. Maybe I’ll take your opinion because I can’t find my own.

Cause I’m a tool.

JAPANESE CARTOON – ARMY

JAPANESE CARTOON – HEIRPLANES

Props to ThatRealIsh for the link.

I went to see Nardwuar’s band, the Evaporators, earlier this month and I got a chance to meet the man. Nardwuar is very friendly and a seriously cool guy.

It’s a bit late for a full review but I will tell you two things about the show.

1) The show was fucking awesome.

2) Nardwuar dressed as Canadian superhero Guardian on stage. (for people who don’t know who that is and are too lazy to click the link: he wore a skintight latex suit with the Canadian flag branded on it while on stage.

If you want to know what it looks like…

Bonus: Nardwuar interviews Flava Flav:

I’m so glad people are catching on to how great Nardwuar is. He makes me proud to be Canadian. If you’ve never watched/heard Nardwuar do his thing, you’re in for a treat.

I particularly recommend any of his interviews with Snoop Dogg. Nardwuar has interviewed Snoop 4 times now and the two have a wonderful rapport together. You can check out all their interviews here. Oh, and naturally there’s a picture of Snoop, Nardwuar and Bishop Don Juan on the page. Snoop has a habit of stealing any records Nardwuar brings to an interview.

Here’s Nardwuar’s 2nd interview with Snoop, from 2002:

The video for Korn’s “Twisted Transistor”with Lil’ Jon, David Banner, Xzibit and Snoop subbing in for members of the band, amusingly enough, features a Nardwuar look-a-like getting punched out after asking Snoop (as Munky) if he has an anger management problen. Fast forward to 3:45.

He did an amazing interview with ?uestlove around the time Game Theory came out. I’ve embedded the first part of the four-part interview.

Also: If you’re a fellow Canuck, come see Nardwuar on tour with his band, the Evaporators. If you’re not familiar with their stuff, the Evaporators play goofy, energetic garage-rock. Great stuff. Tour dates below:

Friday Oct 3 – Bar St Laurent 2, Montreal, Quebec (5550 St Laurent ) as part of the Mint Records “Pop Montreal” Showcase w/Pack AD, Buttless Chaps, Wax Mannequin. Evaporators are on at 12 AM.

Sat Oct 4th – Dominion Tavern, Ottawa, ON (33 York Street )
TWO SHOWS! and “Nardwuar’s Video Vault”!
Early show (ALL AGES) Doors open @4pm w/ Garaga and The Visitors
Late show (19+) Doors open @ 9pm w/ Garaga, The Felines

Sun Oct 5 – Trash Palace, Toronto, ON (89-B Niagara Street ) w/ The 3TARDS and The Weirdies plus “Nardwuar’s Video Vault!” 4pm ALL AGES AFTERNOON SHOW Info? palacetheatre@gmail.com www.trashpalace.ca. Tickets available at Rotate This and Soundscapes.

Subscribe to his YouTube channel if you’re interested in more. If you enojy these interviews, his website and his YouTube channel has tons of interviews with just about anyone you can think of. All you have to do is dig; trust me, it’s worth it.

Download: The Evaporators – Nard Nest

My favorite band at the moment.  This video only reinforces the notion that No Age is going to change the world.  These two guys from Los Angeles (Dean Spunt and Randy Randall) have made the loudest record of the year, but yet their sound remains elusive.  Mind boggling.  

More quality video here.  

Download: No Age-Teen Creeps 

WOW. Via a Pitchfork Media interview with Rivers:

Pitchfork: Can you elaborate on what a more experimental Weezer record might sound like?
RC: Longer songs, non-traditional song forms, different people writing and singing, instrument switching, TR-808s, synths, Southern rap, and baroque counterpoint– for starters.

When asked for clarification on the rapping part:

Pitchfork: Oh, and who’s doing the rapping?

RC: Moi.

Now, I love both the Blue Album & Pinkerton very dearly. But that sounds like a fucking awful idea. Is he taking a page from Cosby’s book? What would “Buddy Holly” sound like with 808s?

(amusing picture at top from Cuomo’s graduation, via Merry Swankster)

A little something from Stones Throw to warm your hearth in this cold season. Badd Santa is a dope compilation of really bizarre and great Christmas (and a little Kwanzaa) music, from reggae to Miami bass.

Here’s a sweet little promo ST made for the album.

You can check it out here. There’s a nice mix of the Badd Santa songs available through the Stones Throw Podcast too, mixed by label head Peanut Butter Wolf.

For all my fellow Heebs celebrating the last night of Channukah tonight: Fatlace Magazine hipped me to Shady Records head Paul Rosenberg’s annual Hannukah Radio show on Shade 45 on Sirius Satellite Radio, with special guests DJ AM, actor Jonah Hill (Superbad kicks ass) & Marky Ramone of the Ramones! Takes a while to load but it’s worth it.

There’s a second set of shows available at Rosenberg’s blog, Paul Rosenberg.For those celebrating Kwanzaa, I think you already know.

Bonus mix for the season: A DJ Yoda exclusive mini-mix from Fatlace Magazine (who are killing shit right now). Act like you know.

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

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July 1, 2006 – Rumor Has It (EP)