Hey Buddies!

The Buddy System and our friends in Hot Lava and the Eternal Summers (with Daniel from the Young Sinclairs!) are hitting the road this weekend for the 4-show Hot Summer Buddies Micro-Tour!

Dates:

• Friday, March 13 @ BoBo Gallery/Asheville, NC with EAR PWR
http://www.bobogallery.com/
8PM, 5 bucks

• Saturday, March 14 @ Wonderroot/Atlanta, GA with Clemente and Paper Scissors Rocketpack
http://www.wonderroot.org/
8PM, ALL AGES!!, $5

• Sunday, March 15 @ Cine/Athens, GA with the Rockafire Explosion movie sneak preview!! EARLY SHOW!!
http://www.athenscine.com/
6:30PM, 5 bucks

• Monday, March 16 @ Alabama Music Box/Mobile, AL with The Press, The states
http://www.myspace.com/alabamamusicbox
9PM, 5 bucks

Posted by ryan on 12 Mar 2009 at 12:23 pm

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i saw Slumdog Millionaire this weekend. it fucking rules and is worthy of all the awards and press it’s getting. ironically at the same time i was seeing a movie about how shitty it is to grow up in the Mumbai slums, Atlanta’s own Black Lips were in India getting their asses run out of the country!

they’ve come a long way from that time i booked them at the 40 Watt and they got banned for trying to set their drums on fire, but they’re still a bunch of punkass kids who like to start trouble. i hope they made it out alive, as they are one of the only about 4 bands from the state of Georgia who are worth a shit.

Posted by justin on 26 Jan 2009 at 06:40 pm

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A few months ago, when this whole crazy blog first started, I made a post about go-go, DC’s club music of choice. I was about to move away from the Washington Metropolitan Area, and I guess I was feeling a little sentimental about that subgenre of hip-hop unique to DC.

OK, so technically unique means “existing as the only one or as the sole example; single; solitary in type or characteristics,” and for a while I thought that was the right word to use for DC go-go. After coming down here to Georgia, I found out that Atlanta’s got its own burgeoning go-go scene.

XO Band - I Love It
First, we’ve got the XO Band, whose name shows they’re willing to keep in the go-go tradition of groups such as the Junkyard Band, Backyard Band, Total Control Band, and Take Over Band. With this song, they pull another classic go-go move and take somebody else’s track (Young Jeezy’s “I Love It,” in this case) and make it their own. Sure, a song about dealing drugs is, ya know, cool and all, but why not just rap about how much you like go-go and namecheck DC? Cuz you know I love that.

Gucci Mane - My Chain (Mr. Singh’s Go-Go Remix)
It shouldn’t be any surprise that go-go bands play covers like this, since taking something else and making it your own is a big part of what hip-hop’s all about. Atlanta DJ Mr. Singh finds another way to do this, making go-go remixes of some of his favorite Dirty South tracks. A go-go remix of a song by Atlanta native Gucci Mane struck me as a good way of summing this whole thing up.

Posted by Mat on 04 Sep 2007 at 01:25 pm

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