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Fashion PegLeg Threaded Straight to the Top

by jamienewman
May 11, 2009 - 9:39 am

Pictured above: Bobby Waltzer and Harry McNally (inverted) of PegLeg NYC wearing all PegLeg gear on top, god knows what on the bottom…

Many people who troll the various trend-spotting websites and “lifestyle” publications have probably already seen or heard of PegLeg NYC – a brand solely born of New York City origin (redundant, but true). But, if PegLeg’s brightly patterned high-fashion “streetwear” have eluded your view, you should check out what they have in-store (www.peglegnyc.com) for the spring of ought Nine.

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Featured Music N.A.S.A. In Another Dimension

by jamienewman
April 21, 2009 - 10:34 pm

George Clinton once told me that he loved the Wu-Tang Clan (verbatim, ’04), though he might not have ever known he’d work with them, until the guys from N.A.S.A. put Dr. Funkenstein, RZA, Meth and O.D.B. (r.i.p.) on the same album. Okay, so they might not have been featured on the same tracks, but they both added to the musical ambrosia that is N.A.S.A. So at least I got to share a small tidbit of info about the N.A.S.A. album, that Squeak E Clean honestly had never heard, and seemed to make him happy (even though he said it took a while to even get George’s voice to warm for his track). Luckily, it was well worth it, “There’s a Party” featuring George Clinton is an epic cut of some old school funk, not of the Baile variety, but with the same communal spirit that underlies N.A.S.A.’s whole album. It is this musical collectivity that is the hallmark of the N.A.S.A. sound – a sound that plays more to their Baile Funk roots for live shows and mashing and weaving from all sorts of different genres for the album, providing a cool dynamic and furthering their musical intrigue.

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Music These Arms Are Snakes Make Maniacal Memories

by jamienewman
April 12, 2009 - 11:26 pm

These Arms Are Snakes are out of their minds – but it all goes toward fueling the fire of fury they unleash on every crowd they play for.  After seeing These Arms are Snakes at Red Eyed Fly in Austin, I now know why everyone I talked to said “I HAD TO SEE THEIR LIVE SHOW.” They were NOT lying. These Arms are Snakes have been touring for a long time, and it shows – they’re live show is ruckus, rowdy and tight. Despite their singer’s flailing and freaking-out for the crowds, the band plays-on with seamless precision.

These Arms Are Snakes  “Red Line Season”

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Music The Coathangers

by Mary Sledd and jamienewman
April 9, 2009 - 3:20 pm

Photos by Mary Sledd, Live photos by Jamie Newman

The Coathangers – Stop Stomp Stompin

Music What the Puck? The Soulful Sounds of Hockey

by jamienewman
April 7, 2009 - 5:55 pm

Hockey band members

As Hockey’s “Song Away” would tell you, they make truthful songs over eighties grooves, but their music goes further than that – more diverse, but a good start in trying to describe their unique sound.

Hockey started their musical adventure as a two-piece. Jerm Reynolds (Jeremy, but nobody calls him that) and Ben Grubin got together when the two attended college together in Redlands, California. After moving to Spokane, Washington (on a whim) in hope of finding new band mates, they soon re-located to Portland (adding drummer Anthony, and later Brian on bass). Although Hockey calls Portland home when they aren’t spreading the gospel from the west coast to the UK, the band members hail from every corner of the United States and their musical style is the sum of their disparate parts.

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Event Off into the Sunrise, with the Red Riders

by jamienewman
April 6, 2009 - 2:09 pm

Straight outta’ Sydney, ‘stralia, Red Riders mounted-up rock out the final night of this year’s Red Bull Moontower in Austin – setting-off Saturday night with a bang. Entertaining the crowd with their musical rockibility and witty reparté, Red Riders made for a great kick off to the final wild night in the desert.

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Music N.A.S.A blasts off in NYC

by jamienewman
April 3, 2009 - 10:21 am

If North America South America’s (N.A.S.A.) music were a type of food, it would be Gumbo or Paella (not a stew because stew aint cool), mixing disparate flavors of different nations into a delicacy worth devouring en masse. N.A.S.A. is a musical duo of DJs Squeak E Clean and Ze Gonzalez (Zegon) and about FORTY other collaborators from nearly every corner of music. More a traveling musical circus than simply an “act” N.A.S.A., brings the brash and bizarre influences of Brazilian Baile Funk to life with a North American thump – a serious sensory overload; a spiced mélange of all musical flavors.

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Music Shout OUT OUT OUT

by jamienewman
April 3, 2009 - 10:03 am

Electronica has really come to a head of recent in the U.S., opening doors (and windows) for all sorts of new artists (and genres), and Shout Out Out Out from Alberta, Canada are no exception.

As they professed  at the Red Bull Moon Tower, “knowing you’re making terrible decisions and knowing that you’re doing it. It’s a song specifically about Austin”. As with this statement, the Shout Out Out Out’s proved to be a good end note to more than a week of music, schmoozing and debauchery in Austin, Texas. The group barraged their listeners with heavy electro big-beat bass; making the crowd sway, shake and gyrate with all the last bits of energy they could muster (at least those who were not flying high on the free Red Bull’s). Shout Out Out Out had the amped-up capacity crowd shaking their moneymaker’s under the moonlight in no time, and offered some solace in their humorous hooks and quirky anecdotes.

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Music Freeland: Electronic Currency in the Dance Economy

by jamienewman
April 2, 2009 - 9:26 am

If you ran into Adam Freeland, or anyone of them for that matter, you might assume he is a musician – you would be correct. Freeland, the brainchild of the group’s namesake is a group fashioned for the party. Building from Adam’s desire to perform the music he mixed and mashed as a DJ, and a need to rock the crowd harder then ever before.

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Music VersaEmerge on the Verge

by Jacob Cottingham and jamienewman
March 31, 2009 - 9:45 am

Bands like VersaEmerge are one of the greatest parts about SXSW. The scrappy quintet of Florida pop punk rockers was unloading their own equipment when I caught up with them. They recently released an EP on the Fueled By Ramen, and are going to be one of the headlining acts on this year’s Warped Tour.

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