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Category: Live Coverage
NEWS: Blue Scholars Fall Tour w/Bambu
The longest headlining tour Blue Scholars has ever done includes 29 dates across cities in the West, Midwest and Northeast. Check the list below for your town. Tickets on sale Friday, July 29.
09/14 – Vancouver, BC – 560 Nightclub
09/17 – Seattle, WA – Showbox Market
09/20 – Eugene, OR – Wow Hall
09/21 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
09/22 – Olympia, WA – The Royal Lounge
09/23 – Bellingham, WA – Wild Buffalo
09/24 – Belllingham, WA – Wild Buffalo
10/12 – San Francisco, CA – Slim’s
10/13 – Santa Cruz, CA – Atrium @ Catalyst
10/15 – Los Angeles, CA – Key Club
10/16 – San Diego, CA – Casbah
10/18 – Scottsdale, AZ – Chasers
10/19 – Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad
10/20 – Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre
10/21 – Denver, CO – Cervantes
10/22 – Colorado Springs, CO – The Black Sheep
10/23 – Ft. Collins, CO – Aggie Theatre
10/24 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court (early) & Urban Lounge (late)
10/26 – Boise, ID – Reef
10/27 – Missoula, MT – Top Hat
10/28 – Spokane, WA – A Club
11/03 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
11/04 – Madison, WI – Frequency
11/05 – Chicago, IL – Schuba’s
11/06 – Ann Arbor, MI – Blind Pig
11/07 – Toronto, ON – WrongBar
11/08 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
11/10 – Boston, MA – Paradise
11/11 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
SHOW: Red Bull Emsee Battle @ The Crocodile 7.28.11
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A few of the competitors at tomorrow night’s Red Bull Emsee battle have been featured on 206UP.COM’s The TrackMeet. Displaying skills on a single track is a far cry from being able to represent live. Go watch these budding MC’s try to eat each others’ lunch tomorrow night at The Crocodile.
NEWS: Track Listing & Artwork for The Physics’ “Love Is A Business”
206UP.COM is so hyped for this. Love Is A Business, The Physics crew’s sophomore full-length drops on August 6. Just caught the entire track list over at The Good Sin’s tumblr. Your official Seattle Summer Soundtrack is almost here. A little late, but better than never. Album release party goes down in two editions (an early all-ages and a late 21+) at The Crocodile on August 6.
VIDEO: “Tell ‘Em Where You’re From” – Dyme Def
New clip from Dyme Def, produced by their unofficial in-house slap-master Bean One. Word on the press release is DD have left 800 LB Gorilla in favor of doing their own sh-t with the Yuk The World collective.
Catch Dyme Def, Helluvastate and THEESatisfaction at Nectar Lounge next Tuesday for the FADER/Vitamin Water Uncapped Live show. There’s a gigantic flyer with information below. (If you can read it, you don’t need glasses.)
SHOW REVIEW: Blue Scholars Cinemetropolis Album Release Party @ Neumos on 6.18.11
Photo by Canh Solo
At Saturday’s sold-out Cinemetropolis Album Release Party, the second of a two-night run at Neumos, Blue Scholars had Seattle hip-hop fans eating out of their proverbial hands, as has been the case at all of the duo’s local shows for the last six years or so. The energetic all ages crowd followed Geo and Sabzi’s lead for nearly an hour and a half as the crew marched through a set list heavy on new material with a few select older favorites.
VIDEO: “Fou Lee” – Blue Scholars
Geo is one of the best lyricists at taking simple ideas and extrapolating them into something larger and more complex. On “Fou Lee” one of the best cuts from Cinemetropolis, the name of the venerable Beacon Hill Vietnamese grocery store is used as an emblem for the source of Blue Scholars’ inspiration and sustenance, literally and figuratively. This is an intimate Town jam, in which the best reference is the MC Foods corner store at Alaskan and Columbian. I always get a laugh when I pass that spot. Directed by Canh Solo.
Cinemetropolis officially drops tomorrow, but if you ain’t got it already, then you probably aren’t a fan. The live jump-off is this Friday and Saturday.
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DOWNLOAD: “Run & Tell Dat” – Saturday Morning Cartoon (feat. Silver Shadow D, Dee.aLe & DeRoxs)
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Fresh off their debut album, Cereal Box Superheroes, Saturday Morning Cartoon and 206UP.COM bring you the exclusive premier of the crew’s new single, “Run & Tell Dat.”
Blending new and classic styles, this posse cut connects dots between Northwest hip-hop artists Jonnie Storm and Nitro Fresh of SMC and the venerable flows of veteran MC’s Silver Shadow D, Dee.aLe and DeRoxs. As Nitro himself tells it:
Silver Shadow D, Dee.aLe (DMS) and DeRoxs (Wolfpakk) are like brothers. As you can hear lyrics by Silv, they have been knowing each other for nearly 20 years. But, according to Silv, this song is actually the first song he had ever recorded with Dee.aLe. Jonnie had known these guys when he used to be known as Jon Doe, at the freestyle ciphers, shows, etc. I, personally, got a chance to first meet Silver Shadow D and Dee.aLe at RC tha Trackaholiq’s CD release party. I was mesmerized by their energy on stage, and immediately decided to work with them. I met DeRoxs about 2 years ago, at the show. I gave him my beat CD, and about a year later he contacted me, saying he wanted to work with me for his upcoming album. Now, his upcoming album “Checkmate” is due June/July 2011, produced by myself, Silver Shadow D, and few others. It was truly my pleasure to have all these veteran MCs on one of my tracks.
Catch Saturday Morning Cartoon at the Arts In Fusion show at Rendezvous this Friday (5.27.11) at 9:30 pm. Click the flyer below for more details and download the track below.
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DOWNLOAD: Altered State EP – State Of The Artist
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State Of The Artist dropped their new FREE EP today, Altered State. It’s a seven-track collection of anthemic electro-infused hip-hop. The title of the EP is appropriate as the album represents a shift in sound, away from the easy-going party rap of their debut LP, SeaCal, toward a moodier synth-heavy club aesthetic.
With all in-house production by group member Parker Joe, Altered State mostly rejects hip-hop’s traditional norms, so from that standpoint it doesn’t please the way SeaCal did. You can’t knock a group for growing, however, and there is plenty new to appreciate on AS.
SOTA will be heading out on tour with Mad Rad. Check the flyer below for your town:
SHOW: Shabazz Palaces & THEESatisfaction @ Santos Party House NYC, 5.12.11
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Best live look yet for Shabazz Palaces? Quite possibly. The enigmatic crew brings its live presentation to The Apple for the third (?) go-round, this time to one of the Lower East Side’s most venerable party establishments, Santos Party House. Oh yeah, the equally talented Cat and Stas of THEESatisfaction will dazzle, as well. This one’s in my own backyard, so how couldn’t I?
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