The Buddy System / Hot Lava / Eternal Summers South East Micro-Tour This Weekend!

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



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

like Ryan Lewis, India now hates the Black Lips Too


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.

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

Go-Go Gadget Jambox!

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
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.

mr. singh
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.

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