Our guy in the Chi, Vyle, recharges the scene with his long-awaited Oh I Think Dey Like Hoodtronics Vol. 2 Mixtape, featuring sound-smiths Shazam, Chuck Inglish of The Cool Kids, Daedelus, Tepr and Million Dollar Mano, not to mention next dimension beats that Vyle produces himself. A few weeks ago, Vyle sat down with Green Owl for a Mugshot Monday interview; we're psyched to keep the conversation going.
More great news gang! Word on the street is scientists are about to unveil the next best thing to the internet. This technological advancement is similar to the 'information highway' for our most pressing post industrial issues. With the use of sensors and software, the basis is a “smart infrastructure” that features computing devices to collect data and monitor progress to our already functioning foundations.
Want more excitement? According to the New York Times article this smart infrastructure will make more “efficient and environmentally friendlier systems for managing… commuter traffic, food distribution, electric grids and waterways.”
I don’t know much about it but I give it 456 thumbs up. After watching Idiocracy, I thought the exact opposite would happen. 10 years from now “smart infrastructure,” may make its way through the exploited marketing mantras like we presently see “green” and “clean coal” going through but until then let us get our smart infrastructure on.
Read the original article with real journalists and all sorts of wooing facts HERE.
Spade (dancing above) and I started talking in the check-in line to board a plane on the way to New York. Turns out he's a top krump dancer from LA -- TI and Puff Daddy went to him to learn a few moves. Check his style above and peep his beats below.
Here's the video for the debut single from South West London band The xx. The song is a grower. As it keeps building up from it's sparse opening, I find myself liking it more and more. A nice blend of dreamy shoegaze/new wave with beats and R&B.
The band lists some of their influences: Aaliyah to CocoRosie, Rihanna to The Cure, Missy Elliott to Chromatics, The Kills to Ginuwine, Pixies to Mariah Carey and Justin Timberlake to Tracy + the plastics.
Directed by Alex Flick and Masato Riesser.
We are just tickled fucking pink to have our guys, The So So Glos, back home in America from Europe. Playing sold out shows at London’s Electric Ballroom (1100 folks approximately) with ...And You will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, left these lads a wee bit knackered. Before we carry on with the rocking and the rolling, we should let them sleep, kiss their mums and rehearse their stories to their girlfriends (what do we look like? Capitol).
Be sure to show our beloved Glos some good old fashion love on May 9, when they play at Santos Party House in New York City. Oh, how nostalgic. This is just like that famous photograph of the veteran coming home from WWII and kissing his girl. Except in this version, the man is in a leather jacket, giving the finger to the camera and his lady is covered in tattoos and eyeliner with a bottle of whiskey in her hand... Ah, love.
Fiume Nights w/ GREEN OWL New York _ Tinariwen, backstage from vincent moon / temporary areas on Vimeo.
A photo from the upcoming Edward Sharpe mystery project
It's unclear what these pictures have to do with the new Edward Sharpe EP that drops in mid-May. We hope they're making movies. See them / hear it for yourself on MySpace. Tripwire has the story.
Thanks to Zander for the tip.
Green Owl doin it right in New Orleans. From the Ponderosa Stomp to Preservation Hall to the South Bayou. Above, a short preview on bounce music, a Crescent City creation in the vein of jazz -- lest we forget "American" culture was born in a brothel. Here's a scholar's history on New Orleans rap from Southern Spaces.
Great news gang! Looks as if science is not all about developing well endowed body parts, turning people into pharmaceutical robot-zombies or creating a one world order (NO, I did watch THX 1138 last night).
Science is still captivated by space and far off galaxies. A Gamma-Ray burst shattered the record for the most distant object in the universe: Ever. The most distant recorded object EVER was from the result of a blast (a large star exploding) from 13 billion light years away (DAMN!) According to the Yahoo News post, "It easily surpassed the most distant galaxies and quasars," said Edo Berger, an astrophysicist at Harvard University.
The last record setting Gamma-Ray burst was peeped from 12.8 billion light years away in September of 2008. I am pretty sure all this burst and Gamma-Ray talk further supports my theory that the world is ending. Berger suggests, however, it merely means there are other galaxies with stars and black holes (boring).
Although Harvard guys are smart everything, I think the real expert here is rock-et-Scientologist, Beck. “Gamma-Ray,” a song off his latest album Modern Guilt, seems appropriate for you all to check out. Good thing Beck is here to guide us through life or else where would we be?!
Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Just found this through David Rager's blog, Excavation by Spoonfulls. More on him in the days to come.
Dennis Coffey, performing tonight at the Ponderosa Stomp in New Orleans. Full lineup here.
The Long Lost is a collaboration between Los Angeles experimental music maker Daedelus and his wife Laura Darlington. It's a folky affair, with lilting bossa nova strummings and an understated use of the electronics usually associated with Daedelus' music (he plays a monome, aka the coolest box ever).
Here's a remix of their song "Woebegone," radically re-imagined by Warp labelmate and all-out genius Flying Lotus entitled "Woebegone (Fly Lo's Like Wo)" followed by the original track, to facilitate your side-by-side comparison.
MUGSHOT MONDAY: K'NAAN from Green Owl on Vimeo.
"Ducks Float" is a new tag line being used by CARE International, one of the largest organizations fighting global poverty. The Ducks Float campaign is focused on mitigating the effect that climate change has on the world's poorest communities:
In Bangladesh, one of the biggest problems people face is increasingly frequent and severe flooding. This affects access to food and clean water, as well as people’s ability to earn a living. CARE is working with community leaders to create innovative counter-measures. Many of the solutions being put into practice are as simple as they are effective. For example, raising poultry is a common livelihood strategy — especially for women. Unfortunately, chickens often drown during protracted floods; this can be a major blow to household economies. In response CARE and our local partners struck upon the idea of helping women in flood-prone areas switch from rearing chickens to ducks. The idea has caught on, dramatically improving the resilience of many women and their families to the ravages of climate change.
From using wind-power to produce Green Owl LPs to addressing the immediate needs of poorest communities across the world, the fight against climate change happens on a variety of levels. Here's CARE CEO Helene Gayle testifying a few days ago in Washington.
In the stream, a collage from CARE partners in Benin.
