SNOOP LION

so i have been silent for years. don encouraged me to post this after i hipped him to it... the D-O double G has opened his third eye, and has an upcoming reggae album. Apparently Vice documented the whole album process in Jamaica and will be releasing a film on it. way better than i imagined, looking forward to the whole album.

my #1 jam of the moment

"Out of Many" Jamaican compilation

http://www.npr.org/2012/07/22/157128975/first-listen-out-of-many-50-years-of-reggae-music

I often forget to check NPR's "First Listen," but this morning I've been loving this. It's the first disc of "Out of Many: 50 Years of Reggae Music." The record is celebrating Jamaica's 50 years of independence. There's one song from each year.

Record Sale in BK Tomorrow

What's up, bros.  If you know anyone in Brooklyn who likes Records tell them about my LP sale Stoop Sale tomorrow morning, a'ight??!

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/for/3147948559.html

Thanks a lot.

dc

BMSR

BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW is doing it for self and taking the power back from the man!  Check out the details of their kickstarter campaign.  Pledge $10,000 and they will fly you out for a roller skate disco party with all you can eat pizza and make your own sundaes.

CHECK THE LINK my friends.

dc

Hilarious rock show post

I just read this off Brooklyn Vegan about the Lita Ford/Poison/Def Leppard show in NJ last night and I was cracking up, check it out.

Also...

Check out this stone cold funky garage rock jam I found via the Turntablelab blog:



YEAH!

dc

Daniel Higgs

Daniel Higgs is doing a residency this summer every Monday at Zebulon in Williamsburg and I checked it out last night. I hadn't heard of him, but read his bio on the Thrill Jockey page, and I guess the guy is kind of a cult hero. It was a pretty weird show. When I walked in and said hi to a friend I was given the stink-eye by a pissed hipster and I quickly fell into step; the place was so quiet for the first part of his set that you could hear a pin drop between notes. The music was pretty far out, just Higgs and his banjo, singing sometimes, veering between hippiesh and surrealist poetry, to droney ragas, Americana meets Middle East mysticism. You can tell that Devendra Banhart owes a lot vocally to this dude. The vocal stuff was cool, and I admired the originality and bravery of where he went. But the extended ragas were dope as hell, he's a killer banjo player and his ability to go from Appalachia to Egypt in the span of a few notes is pretty amazing. Some of the people on this blog (BILL ZINK) would totally dig this if they aren't familiar with his stuff already. If anyone is in the NY area in the next few weeks, check it out.

Oh, and on the shameless self-promotion tip, here's my latest rootless track.

The Weird Weeds

I like The Weird Weeds, i think some of y'all might like them too.

They have some stuff on Spotify.  They have a bandcamp, some live shows on soundcloud, a facebook page, all that shit, so do some digging.

dc