Music “Bitches Brew” Re-invented at Sunset Junction
by Shop Keeper
If Miles Davis‘ “Kind of Blue” is the gateway drug to Jazz music, than Bitches Brew is the overdose. If you’ve heard the album than you know what I’m talking about, and if you have not yet experienced this rule-braking genre-bending dark odyssey, you’re probably not ready yet… 40 years ago, Bitches Brew transcended the genre known as jazz (transcended is too soft a work) and blew peoples minds. In honor of this landmark album, Sunset Junction Festival will host a remix/re-creation live performance featuring J.Rocc from Beat Junkies, Miles’ nephew/drummer Vince Wilburn Jr. and other special guests. ChinaShop Got the inside scoop from Vince himself and here is what he had to say.
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If Miles Davis‘ “Kind of Blue” is the gateway drug to Jazz music, than Bitches Brew is the overdose. If you’ve heard the album than you know what I’m talking about, and if you have not yet experienced this rule-braking genre-bending dark odyssey, you’re probably not ready yet… 40 years ago, Bitches Brew transcended the genre known as jazz (transcended is too soft a work) and blew peoples minds. In honor of this landmark album, Sunset Junction Festival will host a remix/re-creation live performance featuring J.Rocc from Beat Junkies, Miles’ nephew/drummer Vince Wilburn Jr. and other special guests. ChinaShop Got the inside scoop from Vince himself and here is what he had to say.
4.67 (3 votes)
Loading ...Music Mudhoney: What Doesn’t Die
by Shop Keeper
As their bio pretty much sums up the importance of this incendiary Seattle band, I’ll just paraphrase that while it may have been Nirvana that moved all eyes towards the Northwest, Mudhoney were the original originals. A notably garage rock-influenced, fuzz-addicted furious four that put out a little gem of an EP called Superfuzz Bigmuff, and ended up inspiring Cobain to dream of Nirvana. You might have even heard the guys gave birth to an early incarnation of Pearl Jam. I remember even as a wee lad hearing my friend’s teenage brother blasting Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge in his room, and proclaiming that they were the next big thing. Damned if he wasn’t rather prescient for a pimply-faced punk, as EGBDF ended up being the one that got them signed by Reprise. Though the group undeservedly got some backlash for putting out an album so soon after Kurt Cobain’s death, as if they were somehow responsible for it (even though they admittedly did make a remark about some anonymous musician blowing his brains out on “Into Yer Shtik”), they’ve been touted for years as one of the most important groups to ever come out of Washington, and one of the 2 or 3 that really gave birth to the Seattle Scene. You get the point; they were important. And for more on this seminal punked-out, garage-grunge quasi-metal outfit, head over to Red Bull Music Academy Radio, and listen to Mark Arm, Steve Turner, Dan Peters, and Guy Maddison give a Fireside Chat on their legendary exploits in and out of Seattle.
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As their bio pretty much sums up the importance of this incendiary Seattle band, I’ll just paraphrase that while it may have been Nirvana that moved all eyes towards the Northwest, Mudhoney were the original originals. A notably garage rock-influenced, fuzz-addicted furious four that put out a little gem of an EP called Superfuzz Bigmuff, and ended up inspiring Cobain to dream of Nirvana. You might have even heard the guys gave birth to an early incarnation of Pearl Jam. I remember even as a wee lad hearing my friend’s teenage brother blasting Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge in his room, and proclaiming that they were the next big thing. Damned if he wasn’t rather prescient for a pimply-faced punk, as EGBDF ended up being the one that got them signed by Reprise. Though the group undeservedly got some backlash for putting out an album so soon after Kurt Cobain’s death, as if they were somehow responsible for it (even though they admittedly did make a remark about some anonymous musician blowing his brains out on “Into Yer Shtik”), they’ve been touted for years as one of the most important groups to ever come out of Washington, and one of the 2 or 3 that really gave birth to the Seattle Scene. You get the point; they were important. And for more on this seminal punked-out, garage-grunge quasi-metal outfit, head over to Red Bull Music Academy Radio, and listen to Mark Arm, Steve Turner, Dan Peters, and Guy Maddison give a Fireside Chat on their legendary exploits in and out of Seattle.
5.00 (1 votes)
Loading ...Featured Music Red Bull Big Tune Winner Frank Dukes Records with Ghostface Killah
by Mike Bucher and Nicholas Shrunk
This year’s Red Bull Big Tune competition brought together hip-hop giant Ghostface Killah and up-and-coming producer/beat maker Adam Feeney a.k.a. Frank Dukes for a recording session in Red Bull’s $6,000,000 Santa Monica studio. Dukes, whose name is a Jean-Claude Van Damme / Blood Sport reference, is an all-business personality. Seeming comfortable in the studio, he is meticulous, well spoken, and purposeful. His focus and tenacity were tested by fire when Dukes lost in the 2008 big tune finals to Chicago native C-Sick. Undaunted and eager to set the record straight, Dukes returned in 2009 to unleash his wrath on Detroit, winning the national producers competition and earning him the opportunity to work with the MC of his choice.
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This year’s Red Bull Big Tune competition brought together hip-hop giant Ghostface Killah and up-and-coming producer/beat maker Adam Feeney a.k.a. Frank Dukes for a recording session in Red Bull’s $6,000,000 Santa Monica studio. Dukes, whose name is a Jean-Claude Van Damme / Blood Sport reference, is an all-business personality. Seeming comfortable in the studio, he is meticulous, well spoken, and purposeful. His focus and tenacity were tested by fire when Dukes lost in the 2008 big tune finals to Chicago native C-Sick. Undaunted and eager to set the record straight, Dukes returned in 2009 to unleash his wrath on Detroit, winning the national producers competition and earning him the opportunity to work with the MC of his choice.
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Loading ...Featured Gallery New York City Graffiti perseveres in the ever-changing NYC
by Max Herman
Graffiti and New York City are inseparable. Regardless of how many security cameras are installed or other preventative measures enacted, there is no way to completely stop writers from leaving their names on surfaces across the expansive five boroughs. It’s a decades old tradition that not even rabid gentrification can cease. And in 2010, it’s good to see that walls, doors, street posts, and all reachable surfaces are still being hit up with style.
4.60 (5 votes)
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Graffiti and New York City are inseparable. Regardless of how many security cameras are installed or other preventative measures enacted, there is no way to completely stop writers from leaving their names on surfaces across the expansive five boroughs. It’s a decades old tradition that not even rabid gentrification can cease. And in 2010, it’s good to see that walls, doors, street posts, and all reachable surfaces are still being hit up with style.
4.60 (5 votes)
Loading ...Music Tuesday Newsday!! New Releases from Mike Posner, Amorphis, The Thermals, Kreator, and Jimmy Eat World
by Shop Keeper
Mike Posner settles comfortably into his career as it takes off; the sludge that is Zakk Wylde seeks to overshadow Ozzy with a new BLS release; Jimmy Eat World is back for more; the soundtrack to the long-awaited Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is out, and Finns Amorphis take us back to the land of a thousand lakes…
Blake Shelton - All About Tonight
Mike Posner – 31 Minutes to Takeoff
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World – Soundtrack
Eli Reed and the True Loves –Come and Get It
Amorphis – Forging The Land Of Thousand Lakes
The Budos Band – The Budos Band III
Colour Revolt – The Cradle
Corinne Bailey Rae – iTunes Live from SoHo
Dan Mangan – Nice, Nice, Very Nice
Dirt Nasty – Nasty As I Wanna Be
Foals – iTunes Festival: London 2010
Jimmy Eat World – My Best Theory
Keane – iTunes Festival: London 2010
Nick Drake – Digital Box Set
Street Sweeper Social Club – Ghetto Blaster
The Thermals – I Don’t Believe You [Single]
The Walkmen – Angela Surf City [Single]
Black Label Society - Order Of The Black
Blood Of Kingu – Sun In the House of the Scorpion
Kreator – Hordes Of Chaos Ultra Riot Edition
5.00 (1 votes)
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Mike Posner settles comfortably into his career as it takes off; the sludge that is Zakk Wylde seeks to overshadow Ozzy with a new BLS release; Jimmy Eat World is back for more; the soundtrack to the long-awaited Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is out, and Finns Amorphis take us back to the land of a thousand lakes…
Blake Shelton - All About Tonight
Mike Posner – 31 Minutes to Takeoff
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World – Soundtrack
Eli Reed and the True Loves –Come and Get It
Amorphis – Forging The Land Of Thousand Lakes
The Budos Band – The Budos Band III
Colour Revolt – The Cradle
Corinne Bailey Rae – iTunes Live from SoHo
Dan Mangan – Nice, Nice, Very Nice
Dirt Nasty – Nasty As I Wanna Be
Foals – iTunes Festival: London 2010
Jimmy Eat World – My Best Theory
Keane – iTunes Festival: London 2010
Nick Drake – Digital Box Set
Street Sweeper Social Club – Ghetto Blaster
The Thermals – I Don’t Believe You [Single]
The Walkmen – Angela Surf City [Single]
Black Label Society - Order Of The Black
Blood Of Kingu – Sun In the House of the Scorpion
Kreator – Hordes Of Chaos Ultra Riot Edition
5.00 (1 votes)
Loading ...Music Major Lazer: Guns Don’t kill people, Ladders Do
by Dustin Downing
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) Standard for portable ladders contains specific requirements designed to ensure worker safety when using portable ladders. #1926.1053(b)(4) States: Ladders shall be used only for the purpose for which they were designed. Shit! I swear, if any of you tell Skerrit Bwoy from Major Lazer that OSHA may frown upon his leaping through the air from said ladder and into the crotch area of his lady friend, I will turn this car around and no one will be getting a drop of MDMA. Not even you DJ Diplo.
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The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) Standard for portable ladders contains specific requirements designed to ensure worker safety when using portable ladders. #1926.1053(b)(4) States: Ladders shall be used only for the purpose for which they were designed. Shit! I swear, if any of you tell Skerrit Bwoy from Major Lazer that OSHA may frown upon his leaping through the air from said ladder and into the crotch area of his lady friend, I will turn this car around and no one will be getting a drop of MDMA. Not even you DJ Diplo.
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Loading ...Featured Gallery Music All Eyes on Flying Lotus: Hard Fest 2010
by Dustin Downing
I have photographed Steven Ellison, a.k.a Flying Lotus, 5 or 6 times in the past 2 years. It was during the first set of his which I photographed that I noticed Flying Lotus had certain, “tell”, as they so call it in poker. Just before the baseline is to drop through the floor, into the basement and most likely end up in the water table, he would pause as if floating Wylie Coyote style in mid air. Just hovering there above his Eve bitten clamshell which contains the soles of well worn Samiyam 8-bit beats and most likely photos of a black tee clad Thom Yorke.
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I have photographed Steven Ellison, a.k.a Flying Lotus, 5 or 6 times in the past 2 years. It was during the first set of his which I photographed that I noticed Flying Lotus had certain, “tell”, as they so call it in poker. Just before the baseline is to drop through the floor, into the basement and most likely end up in the water table, he would pause as if floating Wylie Coyote style in mid air. Just hovering there above his Eve bitten clamshell which contains the soles of well worn Samiyam 8-bit beats and most likely photos of a black tee clad Thom Yorke.
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Loading ...Music Erol Alkan: The Dark Horse of Hard Fest
by Dustin Downing
The Hard Fest tour, which made is way through LA this past weekend, is at first glance another dance/electronic show with a killer line up. But it’s the little things that you can’t see behind the scenes which make this show a favorite for the performers and a pain in the ass for yours truly. There’s basically a media blackout. No cameras are allowed in the VIP, Artist Area, or on stage, and there no photo pit. Interviews are granted only if you can hunt them down. “Por que?” you say in a comically bad Gerard Depardieu accent. Well, it’s so the Rock stars can be Rock stars and don’t have to worry about the restraints of being politically correct. A time to relax and be amongst their peers and mingle with some early 80’s Madonna looking groupies.
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The Hard Fest tour, which made is way through LA this past weekend, is at first glance another dance/electronic show with a killer line up. But it’s the little things that you can’t see behind the scenes which make this show a favorite for the performers and a pain in the ass for yours truly. There’s basically a media blackout. No cameras are allowed in the VIP, Artist Area, or on stage, and there no photo pit. Interviews are granted only if you can hunt them down. “Por que?” you say in a comically bad Gerard Depardieu accent. Well, it’s so the Rock stars can be Rock stars and don’t have to worry about the restraints of being politically correct. A time to relax and be amongst their peers and mingle with some early 80’s Madonna looking groupies.
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Loading ...Featured Gallery Music How I Spent My Summer: Camp Spin-off
by Barbie Brady and Sidney Bensimon
I think a lot of people have memories of camp as a kid. Long hot days, mosquitoes, friendship bracelets and camp fire smores. Now imagine for a minute that you are a kid into DJ culture! You love music and you spend pretty much all day listening to songs wishing you had an outlet for your creativity. Well DJ Tina T decided that both of these experiences needed a home, and thus Camp Spin-Off was born.
4.25 (4 votes)
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I think a lot of people have memories of camp as a kid. Long hot days, mosquitoes, friendship bracelets and camp fire smores. Now imagine for a minute that you are a kid into DJ culture! You love music and you spend pretty much all day listening to songs wishing you had an outlet for your creativity. Well DJ Tina T decided that both of these experiences needed a home, and thus Camp Spin-Off was born.
4.25 (4 votes)
Loading ...Gallery Music Sex, Drugs, and Sunglasses: Hard Fest 2010
by Dustin Downing
A pupilometer is a device which is used by an ophthalmologist to test the response of a person’s pupil to visual stimuli. Ya know that hole in your eyeball that a friendly police officer tends to enjoy shining a light in when you’ve had 2 or 16 beers. It’s been determined that the amount of dilation of the pupil in the eye can be proportional to the amount of particular interest in a subject. The size of dilation indicates an increase in mental processes, but the speed of dilation can also be a sign of drug use or intoxication. I.e. Mr. Flashlight. HARD fest was this weekend in La-La land and I decided that this would be an opportune time to study this very phenomena my scientific self. But, with a camera flash. The following gallery I believe will duly support my early hypothesis: I believe the crowd will be very into the show and thus pupils will be dilated to reflect said peeked interest. Either that or as one police officer in attendance relayed to me, “These f#@king kids are whacked out of their GD minds”…
5.00 (2 votes)
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A pupilometer is a device which is used by an ophthalmologist to test the response of a person’s pupil to visual stimuli. Ya know that hole in your eyeball that a friendly police officer tends to enjoy shining a light in when you’ve had 2 or 16 beers. It’s been determined that the amount of dilation of the pupil in the eye can be proportional to the amount of particular interest in a subject. The size of dilation indicates an increase in mental processes, but the speed of dilation can also be a sign of drug use or intoxication. I.e. Mr. Flashlight. HARD fest was this weekend in La-La land and I decided that this would be an opportune time to study this very phenomena my scientific self. But, with a camera flash. The following gallery I believe will duly support my early hypothesis: I believe the crowd will be very into the show and thus pupils will be dilated to reflect said peeked interest. Either that or as one police officer in attendance relayed to me, “These f#@king kids are whacked out of their GD minds”…
5.00 (2 votes)
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