Archive for February, 2009
fresh threads locally
Feb 25th
From the bringers of Value King in Adelaide comes the Co-op Store. A crew based out of Australia dealing with all that is deftly cool, begin to feast your eyes on the selected styles in their online store. For the month of Feb there’s free shipping worldWILD stylee. Do it!
A Suite For Ma Dukes
Feb 25th
Conducted by Miguel Atwood Ferguson & Carlos Niño – A Suite For Ma Dukes A Tribute To J Dilla was a special event in Los Angeles commemorating the life and work of James Dewitt Yancey with the help of a 40 piece orchestra. The 4 tracks on Suite for Ma Dukes cover Dilla’s productions from “Antiquity” and “Nag Champa”, A Tribe Called Quest’s “Find a Way” and Slum Village’s “Fall in Love”. The EP available on preorder now via Stonesthrow Records
Hip hop I love you but step out of line and I’ll beat that ass.
Feb 5th
Xpizzle’s Bitch Slap
The most unintentionally hilarious thing one encounters in their journey as a hip hop journalist are press releases. Seriously who the fuck writes these things, people, that’s who, what’s worse than this is they are getting paid, actual money! There is one company in Australia doing an outstanding job largely, other than that it is a constant stream of rubbish into our mailbox, both online and the old fashioned postal way. Rather than helping launch their acts into the stratosphere of superstardom the third rate writing promises, they instead make them mocked and judged before the music has even hit the ears of a handful of listeners. If everyone is “the future” and every album “definitely the years best” what exactly does that leave? I long for the day where I read something along the lines of “CD contains an attempt at a Triple J single, three BBQ songs, some stolen beats & gratuitous use of the word fuckholio”. If those writing these releases are really serious about both their jobs and the careers of those they are looking to promote they need to step their shit up or step the fuck away from the Microsoft Word document.
Press release writers, you’ve been pimp slapped.
Crumpet Presents. We’re Through – A Valentines Special
Feb 5th
It’s gonna be a fun week next week with Good Vibrations Festival kickin off on Valentines Day Saturday the 14th with the likes of Wale, Roni Size Reprazent, The Pharcyde (jeah yeah!) + Qtip headlining the roots tent.
We’re throwing a party 2 days before it on the 12th, and its gonna be a Valentines Special cos that’s how we do.
We’re Through!
On the eve eve of Valentines the Crumpet crew bring some more headnod’n shit.
Dj’s. Murda1. Dj Saez. Risq. + AFishNamedStargazer.
Thursday 12th Feb 2009.
8pm Til Late
No Cover. So bring a future ex
Middlebar | Kinselas.
383 Bourke St. Taylor Square.
