Fall Be Kind

Le Boom Box, tonight, 6-7pm on KSUBSEATTLE.org!!!

It's dark now at like 4:30pm so I'll be dropping little rays of sunshine in the forms of various global jams to get your night started on the good foot, so make sure to stream online at www.ksubseattle.org.

Lil' Boozy and The Furbies with be there. In case you didn't know I'm Lil' Boozy and I only wish I had a group of Furbies.

I Argue With My Mother Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter Time

Directed by the unknown but probably just for now, Sol Tyron, The Living Wake is screening FREE in Seattle, Monday the 23rd. From what I'm told, "The Living Wake" is a dark comedy which chronicles the final day in the life of self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew.  Binew enlists his best friend, the unrecognized poet and biographer Mills Joquin to chronicle his final hours.  As the eccentric duo go about their day (on a bicycle-powered rickshaw), Binew hands out invitations to his final party, a living wake."


Dammit, that was totally my idea. I blew it by not being dead already. 

If Jim Gaffingan is in it (Hot Pockets), I'll see it and it could be pretty good...or really bad, I can't tell. All you have to do is bring a non-perishable food item and donate it to Northwest Harvest. This is a Win-Win, People!

I'm Never Doing Numbers On A Daily Basis

Pill's video, "Trap Going Ham," is on a continuious lean on my desktop at work right now: I've probably listened to it 10 times in the last half hour.

Fairly new on the scene but I've been waiting for this mixtape for a few weeks now. If you want to download the mix-tape, FOR FREE,  just go to The Fader and as they say, "re-up."

I mean, it's obvious: This video is as raw as they come.

I've included a note from the directors and producers below.


Pill - Trap Goin Ham from Motion Family on Vimeo.


“We hope that this video shocks your conscience. If it does, we have succeeded in our goal. The fact that this video is nearly terrifying in its graphic nature means that it is doing exactly what it is supposed to do – terrify. These conditions that our people live in are terrifying, and we seek to expose what so many have forgotten.

We are essentially reporting live from neighborhoods and communities long forgotten, and, in Atlanta, recently torn down. It seems as though our city and our people place no importance on our community any longer. These are the places you never visit. These are the places that hip-hop claims to care about. These are the people that most of gangsta rap music fraudulently portrays. This video is one hundred percent real and unstaged.

You can try to chock this up as exploitation – it will not work. Nobody was put up to any scene in this video. As a matter of fact, everybody in the video volunteered themselves, for the sake of our mission.

The song has an upbeat and happy tone. When you’re in these situations, you do not feel as though what you are doing is wrong. When you are making money in the underground economy, it does not feel wrong. Our goal is to reflect the psychology of someone who turned to drug dealing as a means of survival, and got caught up with the addiction of making money in the underworld.
Pill still lives in this situation, and we will continue to kick, scream, and make music until we can provide a better way. Until then, we will continue to expose our truths.


Our mission is to bring REALITY back to street music. I hope this a first step towards accomplishing our goal.


Sincerely,
The Educated Villains”

Teen Dreams

I'm blogging!

Small Black

Alison and I went to see a cool, little lecture from one of Chicagos' most well-know Architects, Dan Wheeler, who famously built the Pritzker House. One of the questions we came out of the lecture with was, "How much did that house cost and how could anyone afford it, much less maintain it?"

So, my dectective partner and I, Googs, did a little dectective work and there is some interesting back story behind the Pritzker house and family.

Weirdly, I couldn't find any additional pictures of the Pritzker house, even though Dan Wheeler showed us hundreds; too bad because the house is amazing. Just check out Dan's website from the link above.

Exotic On The Road

From the blog at KEXP:

Help support independent radio! Our neighbors on the New York dial, freeform station WFMU, broadcasting online and at 91.1 FM in Manhattan and at 90.1 FM in the Hudson Valley, is currently running an emergency 24-hour marathon pledge drive to help raise money to keep them on the air through the winter months:


At WFMU we’ve always prided ourselves on being able to support ourselves on one pledge drive a year, plus whatever we can scrape together by selling roses outside the Holland Tunnel.

But that was before the great recession. Before we fell over $100,000 short of our goal during our March fundraiser. Before we lost our lease on our main transmitter site and set out to put an antenna in midtown Manhattan.

That’s why we’re setting aside our pride for 24 hours for our first, and hopefully last, day-long marathon. Starting Tuesday, November 17th at 7pm and continuing for 24 hours, we’ll be trying to raise enough money to keep WFMU’s heart pumping and turntables spinning until next Spring.

This is only the third time in WFMU’s 51 years on the air that we’ve taken the drastic measure of interrupting our programming, even briefly, outside of our annual March Marathon. The first two times happened when our old owner, Upsala College, went down the financial tubes. Our 24-hour Marathon is meant to ensure that WFMU doesn’t meet that same fate.

The diversity of independent radio benefits everyone. Please help support stations like WFMU by calling 1-800-989-9368 today or by pledging online.

WFMU is a great station, just check out their huge, downloadable online archive of live performances. Compitish for KEXP, but not really, because we have no true equals.

Help these kids out!

You Don't Know Me, There Is No Relation

"To all my people locked down

Coming back to life

In the world once again

Though your bid was trife..."

Wonderfully words from those Queensbridge Philosphs, Mobb Deep. It's been hard: The weather in Seattle has gone south for the Winter and so it's easy to get the SADS. Sorry for slow posting but I just need to get my groove back, which means dating Taye Diggs and going on a cruise with my girlfriends, I guess.

Wait, that sounds weird...

Lately, I've just been riding my new bike...(that's not my real bike but it's close)...

Dealing with some real Sauna Thugs...(They Live!, check em out, Bro!)...

I moved out of this place...

And I've been keeping my radio game strong, which is about the only creative thing I've been doing.I know thats weak but have you ever been to Seattle in Novemeber? It's a struggle just to get me to talk to other humans; creativity takes like a billion times more energy than curling up with a jar of peanut butter and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Stay tuned as Bobby Ocean get's his groove back, because don't even remember what that looks like anymore.

I Left You On The Good Side Of The Bed

Real Music For Your Ears (c), or in other words, Le Boom Box, is back this evening. 


Bobby Ocean and the rest of the A-Team will be dropping some Magical Jams and Bad Business Tunes to make sure your Friday night starts off right. The new Joy Orbison remix of Four Tet's, Love Cry, is just a small example of what we're gonna throw out there.





Just log onto KSUB Seattle.org and stream online, anywhere in the world.

Love Cry

Awww SNAP, SON!

King Khan and the BBQ Show arrested for Drug Charges.

From Pitchfork: 

The King Khan & BBQ Show were nowhere to be found when it came time for them to take the stage at Off Broadway in St. Louis last night. The garage-rock act "missed its early evening soundcheck and were MIA and incommunicado throughout the night," according to a Riverfront Times blog post, which offers a full chronicle of the concert.

According to King Khan & BBQ Show's publicist, the duo "have had some kind of hold up in [Tennessee] and are missing tonight's and possibly all shows this weekend." Pretty vague.

The Riverfront Times reports that show promoter Joey O'Farrell and Off Broadway owner Steve Pohlman claimed Arish "King" Khan and Mark "BBQ Show" Sultan were allegedly arrested on drug possession charges, though that has not been confirmed yet.

UPDATE: The Kansas City Pitch reports that King Khan & BBQ Show's booking agent has confirmed that the band was indeed arrested in Hopkinsville, Kentucky yesterday. However, there is no information about what charges were brought against them. The band is currently out on bail, but their tour manager is still behind bars. Tonight's show in Lawrence, Kansas has been cancelled.

Bummerville, Population: You, Bro...


That's too bad because the guys are scheduled to play in Seattle this upcoming weekend at Chop Suey and I have been in love with their new stuff, most notably the Epic Jam, "Why Don't You Lie?"

Legit Like The Savage

McFly v. Tannen

Marty was just way too clean.

This Mountain Weighs A Ton

If you are in the Bay Area AND NOT IN SEATTLE MEETING WEIRD DUDES AT THE MARKET (inside jokes suck, don't they?), then you should probably not fail at life and miss my favorite Photog and Creative, Ari Marcopouluousounessous and the screening of his new movie about my all-time favorite snowboarder, Craig Kelly.

Extreme Winter, R.I.P.