Urban Honking

“I got a rap that’s as fat as my waist band You got a rap that belongs in the waste can” –Vast Aire, on the Jean Grae EP Must loop, listen always.

Found this in unrelated search: Libretto does indeed have a full-length coming out soon, on…. DIM MAK? I have mixed feelings about this, mostly because I think Libretto is amazing and I don’t want his album to be lost in a tear in the fabric of time, which could happen given Dim Mak’s track record […]

Why do I need nine versions of the same track? Ty’s “Wait A Minute” comes on two plates–Original b/w Dwele; Fusion remix b/w Sticky remix–effectively compelling me to spend $16 (minus frequent flyer miles, thanks homie) on tracks I will play out maybe, five times. The song itself is the anti-“I Luv U” (another single […]

… a line freestyled by Jumbo last night, of Lifesavas. Show review: they are the best thing to ever happen to Portland. THE END. oh, p.s.: keep checking for Libretto, also of the Misfit Massive crew, who keeps getting better, the newer songs are GREAT and by the way, One Drop, where the eff is […]

Add water, and he gets smarter, even while living in Switzerland. Today, he sent this great anti-RIAA link, complete with DIY flyer campaign. Download some posters and fight the power! Also, remember when RIAA issued those anti-piracy artist statements, and Everclear’s Art Alexakis was all, “Downloading takes money out of my kids’ mouths” [sic]? Ethan […]

My favorite local 21-year-old emcee, Sleepyhead, who “never leaves the bedroom cause he does it twice a day” (paraphrased), will be at Tonic Lounge on Wednesday 12/17 with his crew, Dismal City, doing ALL DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS RAPS. I can’t go because I’ll be a judge in the First Annual Portland All-Area Laptop Battle that […]

I have seen the film that is HONEY, and, while it is definitely terrible, I absolutely love it. ADORE IT. Honestly I don’t have awful taste in movies, at least not completely. My two favorite filmic genres are: profoundly bleak (sur)realism, usually replete with destruction and allegory urban dance Cinderella stories [Favorite films in the […]

The place where I live/work, the Portland Mercury (our motto: “we put the “urinal” in “jourinalism”), is auctioning off a bunch of weird shit on ebay and donating all the money to charity. Highlighted items: a Sleater-Kinney autographed baseball bat, a Gus Van Sant autographed poster for Elephant (hey, it’s better than Gerry!), the top […]

Gayle Ferraro smuggled cameras into Myanmar (formerly Burma) to produce this amazing documentary, about the Southeast Asian sex trade. Her subjects are young prostitutes–the primary character is 17–and most of them have been sold or tricked into the business, some at ages as young as eight. Their only alternative yields devastating poverty (wages sewing in […]

Tonight saw Seattle’s MODULE! make live electro that was so funky it made me want to bite it, like the sound chalk makes when it scrapes brick. I was sweating three minutes into it and then my friend Honey, the cool sound lady at Dunes, which is where all the party people wanna be (and […]