BoomBaptist Is About to Kick It Live There is a show tonight that you must check out. It’s at the Spider House cafe, it’s only $5 and it features one of the coolest DJs in town. I should preface this by saying that I am not a connoiss… The good folks over at Ovrld have […]
On 10/25/2013: BoomBaptist, The Lower Class, Secret Levels
Whaaa-ttt?! ANOTHER Loser City show?! Yes indeed! And this time it’s headlined by the incredibly talented BoomBaptist, who is coming off a ridiculous run of support dates that include gigs with P.O.S, Cut Chemist and Just Blaze. Joining BB are the Lower Class, a neo-Native Tongues style group from San Marcos, and Secret Levels, a sharp tongued Austinite […]
Mad Dukez + Fresh Kils – “Bootleg Bartenders”
Quakers’ self-titled Stones Throw debut was, in my opinion, one of the most slept on releases last year, so it shouldn’t be too surprising that Mad Dukez + Fresh Kils’ latest single “Bootleg Bartenders” has me all worked up. Anchored by a Geoff Barrow-esque beat courtesy of Fresh Kils, “Bootleg Bartenders” is slinky, its spy movie […]
Don’t Talk to the Cops – “Gimme That ’80s Butt”
Dadaism is a thing that gets thrown around a lot these days in the worlds of literature and indie rock, but you don’t hear it applied to hip-hop all that often. That’s too bad, because as Seattle’s Don’t Talk to the Cops prove, hip-hop and Dadaism are two cultural forces that come together pretty damn […]