Once a month you can tune in to Trash Menagerie for an hot, hot, hot, and exclusive DJ mix download from our boys down in Miami, Hydroz ready to hit you with some more of their Miami booty bass. The first installment is their January mix, yes, I know, it’s February already, my bad on getting this one up in time. But better late than never, and these party jams got some mileage on them, enjoy the ear candy!
1. 95 South – Booty Man Battle
2. Mayday – On to Something (Dj Craze Remix)
3. Busy P – To Protect & Entertain (Crookers Remix)
4. Jason Tyler – Run Around (Udachi Remix)
5. AC Slater – Party Like Us (Udachi vs. Hydroz Remix)
6. Retro Kidz – New Era (Kill The Noise Remix)
7. MSTRKRFT feat. NORE – Bounce (A-Trak Remix)
8. MSTRKRFT feat. NORE – Bounce (Hydroz Re-Edit)
9. Bag Raiders – Nil By Mouth (Knightlife Remix)
10. From Monument To Masses – Beyond God To Elvis (Felix Cartal Remix)
11. Le Le – Breakfast (Kill The Noise Remix)
12. Feed Me – The Spell
13. Wolfgang Gartner – Wild Card
14. N.A.S.A. Feat. Kanye West, Lykke Li & Santogold – Gifted (Hydroz Beta Test Rmx)
15. Avian X – Dark Circles (Designer Drugs Remix)
16. Wizard Sleeve – Dirty Slut Money (Hydroz Remix)
17. The Kills – Cheap And Cheerful (Fake Blood Remix)
18 . Deadmua5 – Ghosts N Stuff
We caught wind of this story a few months back, but didn’t think much of it, or that it would go anywhere, but apparently “Santo Gold” aka Santo Rigatuso, a former wrestler and founder of the “Blood Circus“, later turned jeweler, won’t let it go.
Now that the lovely songtress Santi White, know to us as Santogold is hitting her stride, the wrestler “got lawyer” and is going in for kill in an attempt to get some “blood money” from the name.
And apparently, he’s a real genius when it comes to the name game, and spelling in general, and stakes his claim for the “Gold” on his website www.santogold.com stating “THERE CAN ONLY BE ONLY 1 ELVIS PRESLEY, 1 WALT DISNEY, 1 EIMSTEIN, 1 HUDANI, AND JUST 1 SANTO GOLD!” Rigatuso is also now releasing his own album titled “I Am The Real Santo Gold.”
He also offers these “gems” of advice:
1. & NEVER HIRE MANUFACTURERS TO ATTEMPT TO MAKE A 24 K GOLD PROCESS THAT WOULD NOT TARNISH WHEN THEY SIMPLY COULDEN’T!
2. NEVER HIRE EMPLOYEES TO OPEN UP YOUR MAIL IN ORDERS, POCKET THE CASH AND THROW THE ORDERS IN THE TRASH CANS!
Santo Gold Infommercial
However, when TM’s Lovestar interviewed Santogold back in May 2007, this is what Santi had to say regarding the orgin of her name . . .
Lovestar: Upon doing a google search for ‘Santogold,’ the first entry I came across is an odd site about a man named Santo Rigatuso, who in the mid-80’s, tried to sell fake gold chains & promote his alien movie, Blood Circus. (ha!) Does the name Santogold have anything to do with that?
Santogold: Santogold was a nickname that I got when I was younger cuz I used to wear these huge gold name earrings. My friend who made it up said she got it off an infomercial for cheap gold, and that was it.
“A press release for the mtvU Woodies Awards is a weird place to mine your breaking news, but we do what we can. Yesterday we received a blast from MTV detailing the performers at their annual music-video-for-dorm-rooms award show, including Vampire Weekend featuring Chromeo, the Cool Kids featuring Asher Roth, Lykke Li, and “Santi (formerly known as Santogold).” Formerly known?”
Our TM sources told us that the press release MTV issued with the billing “Santi formerly known as Santogold“, did not come from the Santogold camp. So then, where did it come from?
I think at this point it’s a matter of personal preference, do you prefer “cheap gold” or the real thing?
Let’s get MADDDDD! The Mad Decent Fall Tour has finally arrived, kicking off tomorrow October 16 at Webster Hall in New York City!! DIPLO, Boy 8-Bit, Abe Vigoda, Telepathe, and special guests will be on hand playing a smashing array of tunes fit for all!
There is a lot about Mad Decent that we love and because we want to share that with everyone, Trash Menagerie is giving away 2 FREE GUEST LIST SPOTS (each spot gets a +1 for your best mate!) for the CHICAGO show on Thursday, October 23 at The Abbey!!!!
For a chance to win, all you have to do is answer the following questions, which has to do with one of the reasons why we’re so keen on the Mad Decent movement! The first two people to send in the correct answer to: partypeople@trashmenagerie.com, will win! In the subject line, write MAD DECENT TOUR – CHICAGO. We will notify the winners via email.
Our questions to you – What is Diplo’s non-profit side project called and what was the first single from this project?
** Congrats to the 2 winners that have given us the answers to our questions. The answers are HEAPS DECENT, an artist development program for young indigenous and underprivileged musicians, started by Diplo, Andrew Levins and Nina Agzarian, to help indigenous communities. And the first single to come from Heaps Decent is “SMASH A KANGAROO“! Learn more about Heaps Decent on Throw Shapes and an earlier article on Pitchfork!
Here is a taste of what’s to come on tour from the striking Brooklyn pair known as Telepathe, who have just released their latest EP ‘Chrome’s On It‘, the 14th of October on IAMSOUND. The 7 track 12″ features remixes by Mad Decent, The Mae Shi, Frankmusik, Free Blood and Bobby Evans!
MAD DECENT TOUR DATES
10-16 New York, NY – Webster Hall
10-17 Cambridge, MA – Middle East (Downstairs)
10-18 Montreal, Quebec – Cabaret Musée Juste Pour Rire
10-20 Ottawa, Ontario – Babylon
10-21 Toronto, Ontario – Circa Nightclub
10-22 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick
10-23 Chicago, IL – The Abbey
10-24 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
10-25 Lawrence, KS – The Granada Theatre
10-27 Denver, CO – Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom
10-28 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
10-30 Vancouver, British Columbia – Richard’s on Richards
10-31 Seattle, WA – Nectar Lounge
11-01 Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater
11-03 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
11-04 Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex
11-05 Phoenix, AZ – The Brickhouse
11-07 Austin, TX – Emo’s
11-08 Dallas, TX – Palladium Ballroom
11-10 Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
11-11 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
11-12 Washington, DC – Black Cat *
11-13 Baltimore, MD – Sonar
11-14 Philadelphia, PA – Starlight Ballroom
This is what Trash Menagerie was throwing down during the month of September. Features, interviews, parties, and plenty’a mix and MP3 download. We’re snuggling in for the busy month of October. Have you started thinking about your Halloween costume yet? We’re looking for ideas, so please hit us up and let us know if you’ve got any. Last year we gave you a heads up on how to MAKE YOUR OWN DAFT PUNK COSTUME. Hipster Runoff offered up a bit of inspiration, “WTF SHOULD I B 4 ALL HALLOW’S EVE”, But is it “ok” to be a Justice this year, if you were a Daft last year?
A truly scary option, the United States Vice Presidential Republican
Candidate and current Governor of Alaska – Sarah Palin.
Hmm, I guess she didn’t get understand the memo regarding last year’s Halloween Party. It was a Nordic theme. Looks like she still won anyway, even though she didn’t really come close to qualifying.
Sarah Palin 7 Months Preggers “I can hide my belly in a sexy, yet sophisticated, little black business suit.”
Goodness, her belly is HUGE, she looks like she’s going to pop any day now, right?
This is what Demi Moore looked like when she was seven months preggers . . .
Photo: Vanity Fair
Sarah Palin’s Witch Doctor . . .
Other potential options – “Sarah Palin Mayor of Meth”, “Sarah Palin Miss Alaska”, “Sarah Palin Soccer Mom”. Wow, and to think, the election isn’t even over yet, we’ve still got a few weeks to go . . . goodness, i’m sure we’ll have so many more choices to choose from. Maybe i’ll pull off one of those “couple costumes,” and we can go together as “Foreign Palin Policy“. One of us will be Russia, and the other Alaska, and we’ll stand on opposite sides of the room and say “I can see ya over there, behave yourself!”
With all this talk of the LHC creating a black hole that will envelop the earth I think it’s about time that I write about the latest of up’n'coming Chicago producers, Black Holes. They are rather new to the scene here but they show little sign of n00biness. They are clearly some of the best producers to arise from our fledgling electro scene and certainly a welcome change from the mash-up and b-more that dominates the city’s hipster nights.
I’m not trying to belittle their abilities here, but describing their sound is rather simple. They sound like Crookers. So here’s where you think to yourself, “Why would I listen to this if I can listen to Crookers?” Well, firstly, Crookers is good and these kids are almost just as good. Two Crookers is better than one, my grandfather always told me. Secondly, I’m not sure if you guys are old enough to remember but about a year and a half ago (feb 7, 2007; about 8 years ago in blog years) I remember the fluokids posting a little tune called “Massive” by a then unknown duo called Crookers (later released on Pottymouth Records) that was somewhat overlooked because the general consensus was, “Oh, no big deal, they are just trying to sound like Switch.” Well, look where that got them. And I feel like Black Holes are capable of the same thing in the near future if they keep plugging away and develop their own sound so, when you download and play these tunes out now, you will have future ammunition for when they get big and you want to assert your authenticity. Although, now that I’ve said that, does it negate ones ability to use this as snob-fodder?
Anyways, they have certainly caught folks ears here in Chi and elsewhere. They were tapped to open for MSTRKRFT on their upcoming Chicago tour date. They also happen to be the winners of the Trouble & BassLittle Jinder remix contest that recently took place. Here’s a couple of their tunes to whet your appetite and you can hear their winning remix on their myspace.
They picked a fitting band name, yeah? I’ve been getting hit by Hot Chip from all sides, and I like it. They are currently out on tour in North America, i’m eagerly looking forward to their New York shows at Terminal 5, Oct 3 & 4.
I could tell you what the band’s been up to, but the email below from the band’s Joe Goddard, sums it up nicely. It’s always lovely when the band themselves take time to write. I’m just going to tag on a track and recent photos from their show in Tucson, AZ this past Tuesday, Sept. 23rd.
And since I too love the Ewan Pearson remix, and it’s my pick of the lot, give it a listen.
Hi, we are putting out a package of great remixes of songs from ‘Made In The Dark‘ featuring some of the best producers around at the moment.
Dave Taylor (Switch) is obviously killing it at the moment, his recent mix of Mystery Jets and his work for Santogold were great and we have been friends for a while, he did a great mix of ‘Over and Over‘ for us under his Solid Groove guise and if anyone has not heard ‘This Is Sick‘ by Solid Groove then search it out, it is responsible for the sound of a lot of recent records.
(personal note, not from Joe, but 100% agreed, Solid Groove – “This Is Sick”, is REALLY, REALLY, SICK INDEED!)
Dave has completed 2 mixes of ‘Hold On‘ and we liked them both so they both feature on the package. Mock and Toof also remixed ‘Hold On‘ and again, have been friends for a while, their label Tiny Sticks is consistently excellent and they have already featured on Death From Abroad as well as previously remixing “Over and Over.”
I think their mix of ‘Hold On‘ is one of the best mixes we have ever had. Ewan Pearson takes on ‘Touch Too Much‘ and the quality of his mix shows through pretty obviously, I think this mix will be played out by alot of people. If you don’t know Ewan he has been DJing and producing for a while now and his Partial Arts moniker is particularly good in my opinion, especially the ‘Trauermusik‘ release on Kompakt a couple of years ago.
Kollektiv Turmstrasse are one of Felix and Al’s favourite groups, they have been making excellent, melodic, very funky techno for a while and whilst not being the biggest name on the scene have been consistently excellent and responsible for a lot of big DJs ’secret weapons’.
I hope you like this stuff!
We are also putting the finishing touches to our next release, which is an EP of songs from ‘Made In The Dark‘ featuring new contributions from Robert Wyatt, which we are very excited about.
Meeting and working with him was genuinely lovely, look out for that in the next month or so.
take care,
Joe
HOT CHIP ON TOUR
Fri 09/26/08 – Austin City Limits, Austin
Sun 09/28/08 – Metro, Chicago
Mon 09/29/08 – Metro, Chicago
Tue 09/30/08 – Koolhaus, Toronto
Wed 10/01/08 – Metropolis, Montreal
Fri 10/03/08 – Terminal 5, New York
Sat 10/04/08 – Terminal 5, New York, NY – Growing
Sun 10/05/08 – The Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA – Growing
Wed 10/08/08 – 9:30 Club, Washington, DC – Growing
Thu 10/09/08 – Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA – Growing
Here at Trash we are lucky to have readers gather together from all over the world. While many of us hail from the States or across the pond in the U.K., our ears are always to the globe and never with narrow minds. So if that isn’t hard enough, imagine trying to write about all the great things we’re hearing! But luckily for us and luckily for you, DJ’s and musicians are increasingly connecting the dots with greater ingenuity and listenability. One such exciting ambassador of world dance music is Brooklyn’s Uproot Andy, pulling together the infectious beats of the world in the forms of of Cumbia, Dancehall, Bassline, Hip-Hop and Electro.
Particularly fascinated with the Latino contribution to the rhythm and bass community, Uproot Andy has taken his chaotic salad of a New York community and paid tribute to it all. Not unlike the interconnections made by Diplo and M.I.A., there still exists an astute community of DJ’s and musicians interested in pairing down this massive planet into a more tangible community of artists inspired by one another’s subcultures as well as their similarities and differences.
In an effort to stay open minded and ever-inspired, here Uproot Andy offers two of his most notable remix credits, one of ODB’s “Shimmy Shimmy Ya”, and a remix of Roots classic Alborosie’s “Kingston Town.” PLUS, over at our All-Star Mix page will be Mr. Andy’s Guacharaca Migration Mix, a feverish journey up and below the world’s equator, surely to make all listeners hit that Hype Machine button in search of the tracklist. Good luck. Until then, we invite you to get out of your Electro-centric chair and try a new dance move.
Summer is coming to and end, its been a good one, kept me busy, got to do some traveling, made my way across the country and back a few times, ran into old friends, made some new ones, found myself at more day events and festivals than clubs, which was really great. Soon enough its going to be cold here in New York, and ill be taking shelter in a club and paying $8 for cocktails. Since i’ve been slacking in the post department, i’m going to try and make up for lost time with a “summery” of my 2008.
Santogold @ sound check for Radio 1 – Annie Mac show, WMC March 2008
Saw Santogold perform a few times, although unfortunately, I missed her dates with Coldplay. I did however see her just about everywhere else I went, on the side of buses, in the subway, in magazines, TV, on the wall of Terminal 5 when I went to see Brian Jonestown Massacre (Joel performed, it was great, nobody got in a fight, bummer.) Anyway, you get the idea, Santi is everywhere, repping in style for Converse Connectivity. I have to say, the campaign is pretty tight, they did good, no one is trying to shove blatant adverts your way, the micro site is crafty, there’s a lot going on, you can even design your own kicks, and sonically, the artists on board, I genuinely like and listen to. Someone in the marketing department did their homework.
Brian Jonestown Massacre, Terminal 5, New York July 25 08
Crowd gathering for Radiohead – Lollapalooza Chicago, Aug 1 08
Lollapalooza in Chicago was definitely one of the highlight’s of my summer, I traveled from NY with Spank Rock and crew – Amanda Blank, Devlin & Darko, and Natalie. Their schedule was as full as it could for the weekend, press, after parties, and of course, their Saturday performance on the Citi Stage. Everyone rolled in Friday night, and headed over to the festival site for Radiohead.
I ran into the Foals, which was a super unexpected and pleasant surprise. I grabbed a piece of lawn and had a few drinks with Yannis and Jack, caught up, talked about the past year, how things have changed since we had last had seen each other in New York, when they were recording their album. They’ve got the typical touring band schedule, traveling constantly, playing tons of great festivals, waking up and not knowing where they are. Yannis and I tried to recall what it was that we were debating a few months back in regard to minimal techno (we are both fans – Minitek!!! ), never did figure it out. Soon more Foals came to graze, a grass fight ensued, and it was truly an “Electric Bloom” moment when they started shoving chunks of earth down each others shirts, it was my “Warning Call” to make an exit, so I galloped away to wait in the mile long line for a Vodka and Vitamin water.
While I was waiting in line, Radiohead took to the stage, all day everyone I ran into was gushing in anticipation of their performance, I was no different. It had been almost 2 years to the day that I had seen them last, also in Chicago, but in a theater setting, this time, it was outside to a sold out crowd of well over 70k, I love festivals. When Radiohead went on, the masses were well into it as expected, I had a side view, so I wasn’t able to see much of the production, that being the massive LCD’s and light show, or even much of the band for that matter, but hearing was good enough. What I was able to see was the woman at the front of the stage signing Radiohead’s lyrics, dancing, and clearly having the time of her life. (Note to self – learn sign language, what a great gig to have.) During their performance I was filled in on the fact that Thom Yorke is in fact a big fan of Spank Rock, and listed the album, Yo, Yo, Yo, Yo, Yo, as one of his top 10 albums of 2007, my eyes bugged out of my head a bit. Really?
Spank Rock is also a big fan of Radiohead and Thom Yorke. For a slight second I wondered if there was anyway for the two of them to meet, considering they had this mutual artist respect thing going on. But I also realized it was probably next to impossible, i’m sure everyone and their mother was probably trying to have a chat with the band that night, plus, it was a massive show. I put to rest the idea trying to make the introduction, got back to reality. The band did a few encore’s everyone was blissed out, it was a very memorable evening. We took off right as they were doing their last song to avoid getting caught up in the mass exodus. 70k people all leaving at once is a bit much. After parties were popping off all over the city, Foals were DJ’ing, Bloc Party, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, all kinds of madness, but I was exhausted, and Saturday was going to be crazy so I called it a night.
Saturday, well, I ended up not hitting after parties, but went to a local bar and tied one on with some old friends. We made a late night run to Rockstar Dog’s, ordered a couple of “Los Lobos”, and “tots” and yeah, we felt like what we ingested. When we woke up the next day we asked ourselves what the hell were we thinking? Oh! We were not thinking, we were drunk.
No time to be hungover, there was stuff to do, no rest for the wicked. I headed over to the Hard Rock Hotel, to meet up with the Spank Rock crew for Spin & Metromix’s gifting suite. They threw down, excellent grub, fancy juices, energy drinks, spa services, and sweet schwag. This was good, I was starting to feel better. Then it was interview time, Ms. Amanda Blank was losing her voice, and was under Dr.’s orders not make a peep until the Lolla performance later that afternoon. She made a clever name tag and attached it to her shirt letting everyone know, hey, I can’t talk, and worked some sign language of her own. The girl is amazing, she still managed to convey what she wanted to say, and charmed everyone.
Spank Rock & Amanda Blank Interview for Metromix @ Lollapalooza, Aug 2 08
Interviews were over, the crew split up, Spank Rock (Naeem, solo) and I jetted off (actually crawled through major traffic) as he was DJ’ing at the Diesel store. It was his first gig outside of Philly, he’s been dj’ing regularly every Monday night at a party he started called The Jang House, it all goes down at the Barbary. I’ve been told by many this night is hot, and hella fun, so it’s on my “to do” in the very near future list. I’ve never heard Naeem DJ before, he plays an eclectic mix of retro, disco, mash-up’s, heard some Prince, said ‘oh yes, I love this too!”, when he threw on a remix of MGMT’s, “Electric Feel”, we both agreed the video was sexy as hell and wish we could have been in it.
It was nearing Spank Rock’s 5:00pm stage time, we high tailed it outta the Diesel store, jumped in a car, and headed to the Lolla site. The first thing that reached our ears when we got on site, MGMT, of course, go figure. We sighed, got over the fact we were missing their performance, and jumped on a golf cart that delivered us to the Citi Stage. Booka Shade was just wrapping up their set. For me, seeing them provided some solace for the MGMT loss, hey were amazing as always. Spank Rock took to the stage and performed to a charged up crowd, Amanda’s voice was in top form, the crew brought the party, Plastic Little jumped on stage and did a guest spot, everyone was caught up in their energy, the stage and the audience may have well been one.
The Lolla performance was over, but the day was is not, one more interview with Fuse TV, then back over to the Hard Rock for an after party performance with Mark Ronson and Spank Rock. We were starting to feel like we might be hitting the wall, festivals are fun, but they are hot, and have the ability to suck the energy out of you. Besides being tired, everyone was hungry, we had dinner reservations at the China Grill, which thank god, we didn’t have to go far for, as it was adjacent to the hotel. Dinner was excellent, but now we were really tired, time to rest. We made our way out the door mumbling about various things in our food comas, then everyone got really quiet. After we walked outside the door, we looked at each other, and all at once started talking – “hey that guy looked really familiar?”,”do you know that guy?”, “who was that?”, “was that Thom Yorke?”, “That WAS Thom Yorke.” We snapped out of our comas. Damn, It’s Thom Yorke.
All things considered, Thom being a fan of Spank Rock, and vice versa, we should go over and say hello, right? It was kinda too ironic that we were having dinner in the same place at the same time. But everyone agreed, interrupting him, or anyone for that matter, during dinner, who probably already has a hard time in the “peace & quiet” department, we didn’t want to go there. So we continued on to our rooms where we twiddled our thumbs. It was definitely one of those “what would Jesus do?’ moments.
We discussed the irony at hand. I thought Thom & Naeem should meet, it was kind of a no brainer. And I admit, I had my own selfish reasons, I also really wanted to chat with Thom first hand about music industry politics. I think i’ve easily done 20 + posts about Radiohead and/or Thom. When the band released In Rainbows, it was kind of a big deal.
Everyone I know carefully watched how the band’s, name your own price, self release, limited edition box set concept was going to unfold. For weeks it was the hottest topic of conversation. So the release day came, people got online and placed their order, and continued to watch the concept unfold. In my opinion, it was a beautiful. No, Radiohead didn’t fix everything that was wrong with the industry, and what they did, most bands can’t really afford to do. (I discussed this with LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, read it here). They did kick open the door of the major labels, and sent a very strong message. They gave their fans a choice, they made room for both artists and others in the industry, to do even more inspired and creative things, perhaps even take risks they might not have before. They let people know, that yes, you can release music in a non-traditional way and it can work. Not only that, you can do it on your own, they exact way YOU want to do it, real freedom of expression. And isn’t that what everyone wants? Not only in art, but in life.
If you haven’t picked up on it yet, I live for these kinds of moments, i’m all for pushing the envelope, DIY, thinking outside of the box, stick it to “the man”, all those common cliches. I feel i’ve fallen off course at this point, so let me get back to the story and how it all ends.
I lived in Chicago for 16 years, it just so happens that I know the manager of the China Grill, I figure I might as well take advantage of that, so I head back to the restaurant, tell him the story. He tells me that Thom and his friends were almost done with their meal, and adds that they are really pleasant, he offered to ask them if they would be so inclined to meet us. I agreed this would be appropriate, and so it goes, “Thom would love to meet Spank Rock”.
I made my way back up to our floor, and my heart fluttered a bit when I told Naeem, come on, we’re going to go and say hello to Thom, and so we did. I hung back as they spoke about music, production, the writing process, how it can be difficult and unnerving process. As an artist, you second guess yourself, wonder if what your writing is good enough, you feel pressure to create something and your not always sure where you’re going with it, or what it is you want to create. Thom shared that he most certainly felt like that, and felt most everyone does, its part of the process of creating, and if those moments where you question yourself didn’t happen, that would seem to be a bit odd, and that perhaps was when an artist should worry. So as it turns out, Thom’s just like the rest of us, word. We spoke about their performance the day before, I told him I really only got to see the woman signing, he said she was great, stole the show. I got my politics on, we discussed the interview he and David Byrne did with Wired Magazine, on the real value of music.
Thom said it was an interesting interview, rather quiet, not as much talking between the two of them as one might think. Which kind of surprised me, I would assume they would carry on for hours. However, I’ve seen a few live interviews with Byrne, he’s incredibly intelligent, insightful, (I closely follow his industry politics as well), but I could see why a bit of silence between the two, might be the case. There is a particular interview Byrne did that stands out, with Daniel Levitin (author of This Is Your Brain On Music), you can check it out at Seed Mag online. We also discussed the In Rainbows release, Thom was very humble, when I expressed how I felt about the release, he said the release was just a minor start toward rebuilding an ailing music industry, and that there is still a lot of work to be done, particularly when it comes to radio. We had been carrying on for some time now, espressos were to be had, they were off to a show the next day, and exhausted from a day of boating on Lake Michigan, we had our own show, call time was just an hour away, we said our goodbye’s and floated away.
Spank Rock hit the stage for the Spin & Metromix after party, the room was packed, but the crowd was a bit lethargic, however, when these guys hit the stage, it doesn’t take long to get a room going. Lindsay Lohan and Sam Ronson were in attendance with their posse, so in honor of the occasion, Spank Rock finished the set with Lindsay Lohan’s Revenge. I think the posse was caught off guard, as they exited the room before the song was over. Funny stuff.
Amanda Blank & Natalie – Hard Rock After Party, Aug 2
Naeem – Hard Rock After Party, Aug 2
I also hit a few Rock The Bells shows – saw Tribe Called Quest, Pharcyde, Mos Def, Nas, even a stellar, surprise performance in Denver from Black Star. Nas – Rock The Bells, Columbia, MD July 27 08
Black Star – Rock The Bells, Denver, Co Aug 23
All in all, great summer, and as this post is quickly becoming a novella, I shall end it here, and leave you with this entertaining video of what I can only assume are cheerleaders learning new dance routines at summer camp to “Bump”. The dude the runs out to lead them rocks.
