JAY-Z & Alicia Keys performing "Empire State of Mind" Last night before game 2 of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies.
Our good friend and Owen running mate, The Kid Daytona released the video for "Air Born," his collaboration with UGK legend, Bun B today. Directed by Derek Pike of Three21Media, and featuring EBC star Africa, the video has a melodic, silky-smooth vibe. Check it out. Community J.U.I.C.E.!
Wooleystock 2009 was a music festival at the Wooley Street Gallery in Atlanta. It was based around music, love, peace and free beer.
Carnivores and Living Rooms performed until 2 am, illuminated by a projector playing "Bum Fights 2" on repeat. Admission and booze were free and the crowd was treated to an evening to remember (if possible). Not even a scuffle on an empty Peters St or a few local crackheads could dampen the mood for the crowd which dispersed shortly before 3.
Great song great video. NYC's own Holy Ghost. Great cameo by Jonny Famous at 1:55 in. Thanks to HeavyRoc for the heads up. Also check the New Order - Confusion video. Shot for shot recreation. Making pizza and making music!!!
LOLA friend The Kid Daytona is featured on producer Jet Audio's new video for "Lose Your Mind". Get Daytona's debut album Come Fly With Me if you haven't already, and check for Jet Audio's Stand Alone Complex releasing via download on July 21st at JetAudioMusic.com
. Look to the right to check out the video and see the requisite pictures of Daytona dipped out in LOLA gear.
My friend and I were having a conversation that begin with, If you're wearing a band's tee shirt, you better be able to name some songs. For me, Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures shirt takes the cake, worn by pseudo hipsters who never heard of the band until the film Control came out and subsequently "Love Will Tear Us Apart" became the anthem for a generation who for the most part doesn't know the first thing from postpunk.
Here's a funny and good throwback. Weird that this was one of Bad Boy Records hottest selling records. The album went platinum within a month and a half of it's release. Peep out their funny steez!
Email interviews are what's good these days. B-Roc of The Knocks sent me some telling answers to a few questions I posed about his label and band. Heavy Roc Music is a force to be reckoned with, so check out the new website premiering today! - Jon
The Allido camp is having a good week. Daniel Merriweather had a solid debut at #2, is getting incredible airplay, and Wale just released the official video to "Chillin'" his collaboration with the red-hot Lady Gaga. Check it out, and look for their website launching later this month...
These kids eat lightening and crap thunder!
"To My Partner and Friend, James Cruickshank, who never gave up on his dreams.
Love,
Hank"
The Beastie Boys performed “So What’cha Want” on Jimmy Fallon with The Roots, pretty self-explanatory. Mike D’s jewfro’s looking a little Screech.
The Cold War Kids have an ill page on MTV.com, featuring the I've Seen Enough interactive experience. You can click on a band member to mute him and do the same on a color bar above the video to change the track.
LOLA New York is named in honor and loving memory after an abandoned, overgrown plot of land known as Lola Prentice Memorial Park. Using stolen wood from construction sites of nearby houses, a home-made skate-park rose out of nowhere within a month. It was organized, run and enforced by dozens of twelve and thirteen year olds. The park became a legendary refuge and playground for unsupervised youths. Around 1998 it became too popular and boisterous and the police decided shut it down unannounced; destroyed the ramps, dumping gravel over the park and building a police station on the grounds.
Through the designs, music, artwork, events & clothing the values of Lola Prentice Memorial Park: loyalty, freedom, creativity and camaraderie are able to live on and blossom.
