Fresh Espresso "Big or Small" Video!!!!!!!!!

I was in Seattle for the show the night before this. Actually I did my interview with Smoov that night too. Whatever... this video has already made the rounds on the SEA Hop blogs but it's too fresh not to get a post here too!

OFS Bitches.

Fela Kuti Sees Vinyl Availibe in US!

All I got to say is it's about time! While it's likely most people are vaguely familiar with at least the name, Fela Kuti is far from the widely known musician he should be.



Luckily I had a teacher who took this to heart and dedicated a couple weeks to Nigeria and Fela - the last class I took in college too! This gave me a much deeper interest in and desire for the music he made and put anything by the man at the top of my vinyl buying wish list. Little did I know his albums in the US were imports only.

That is until now. Knitting Factory Records will be reissuing all of his albums in the coming years as deluxe digipak's on CD and on vinyl as well. This is great news and will hopefully, along with the current broadway production about his life, help generate a revived interest in the man and his music.

Read the full story here. Via Fact Magazine.

New Dam Funk Mixtape

I had the pleasure to sit down with this man back in September. He is making some truly awesome music for the new generation to get funky with! If you haven't been peeping his Toeachizown EP series or the full length that just dropped you might want to get on it. In case you need some convincing here is a new mixtape he just released for free with Clae - apparently a super fresh shoe company!

Peep the tracklist and then check out the mix!

Download it here.

Album Covers in Action

I never did post this when it first premiered on the net, but it's so fresh that it still deserves some play. Jay-Z teams with Rhapsody to recreate his album covers in honor of the release of his latest effort, Blueprint 3 which you can catch my thoughts on over at the home base!

Wax Poetics: If You Don't Know, Now You Do!

If you love music get this magazine! The next issue will be a tribute to the King of Pop himself. Now you may be thinking, can there really be anymore said about the man? If Wax Po's past tribute issues (James Brown, J Dilla) are any indication, this should be something unlike that which has ever been seen.

Mayer Hawthorne! He's coming to town...

Could there really be a better place for Mayer Hawthorne to stand in front of? I think not! Delivering his own modern brand of Northern Soul and burning down stages across the country, if you are in PDX this Friday be sure to catch him at Jimmy Maks! And cop that album, A Strange Arrangement in stores now on Stones Throw records.


A great slow burner, sounds crisp and crackly on wax - LOVE IT!


The lead single, I regret not getting that heart shaped 12" now! Enjoy the tune and peep the Dam Funk cameo at 2:09 stealing Mr. Hawthorne's girl.

Macklemore is Back!

Many thanks to OFS for hipping me to this! Macklemore was one of the first Seattle artists I ever heard and The Language of My World still gets play to this day. Glad to see he is making new music again! Enjoy the above video and peep out this other leak all about The Town.