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BLACKENEDWHITE

Been running through the new MellowHype (Hodgy Beats + Left Brain) album BLACKENEDWHITE a whole bunch this week, "Packed With Gun Sounds, Grams OF Coke And Dead Cops." Entirely produced by Left Brain, the whole thing sounds a bit more polished and cohesive than their first album YellowWhite. They amped up the swag, enlisted a total of five non-MH Odd Future verses (oh and there's this new guy Frank Ocean) and actually blew away my expectations for YellowWhite's follow-up.

Here's the shit I've had on repeat:


#2 "Gun Sounds"

The second track starts off with what miiight be a real voicemail from one of their dads, apparently without contact with the boy for a while. He asks if he's "locked up" or "shot." Reminds me of my mother text messaging me "Alive?" when she hadn't heard from me in a bit in college. The difference is these dudes have been locked in their basement recording futuristic hip hop anthems while I was just like, hanging out. Also, I've never called my mother a "faggot-ass nigga" just for leaving me a voicemail. The proceeding couple minutes is largely made up of, you guessed it, gun sounds. Shit's dark, Hodgy taking a noticeably more violent tone over Left Brain's murder spree snap.

Best moment:

"You shop at K-Mart? I shop at AK-Mart"

#4 "Loaded" ft. Mike G

This one's got some serious swag. That said, I hardly know what "swag" means in the hashtag sense of the term. It seems more of a placeholder for anything that's "cool" or "good" or "fly" or "chill." Perhaps "swag" is the new "chill." Evidence for this lies in "Loaded," a totally cooled-out and laid-back jam, slowed down and gelled together by Left Brain's absolutely sultry rasp in the chorus. Shit just sounds like windows down in Summer time. The only thing that stands out as not-swag in this one is that Hodgy refers to Xanax pills as "xannies" which really turns me off. But this is completely pardoned by Left Brain's smooth delivery, which I am finally realizing is awesome, especially in his verse at the end where he gets pretty harsh:

"You're comedy to me and crowds flee when your shit's on, you get fake applause like a TV sitcom"

#6 "Dead Deputy"

The faux strings swells really do it for me on this one. Also any cut that revolves around killing deputies (or sergeants or officers or whatever) is fine by me. The gunshots and stuttering beat sounds like some helicopter choppin overhead in search for those responsible for an entire county of dead cops. However, the beat overpowers Hodgy's verses, which have moments but act more as another percussive element underneath the monstrous beat.

(NOTE: While I'm into the dead cops motif, the track that appears later on BLACKENEDWHITE "Fuck the Police" is a bit TOO straight-forward or something. Maybe? I don't know, I just can't get into it. A bit monotonous, a bit too care-free. Might be one of my least favorite Tyler verses, too. Just sayin.)

#8 "Loco"

Really cant get over this jazzy MellowHype shit on "Loco." Hodgy goes and goes as the beat evolves, eventually retreating back before breaking it someone (presumably a lady) "it's not just you, I hate everybody." I'm finding this line uncommonly universal. Or maybe way too personal. It's real easy to hate the world. You know, "fuck the world" style. But its hard to actually break it to someone that you hate them. Unless it's just a cop-out. And I guess in this case it probably is.

Anyway, the little vocal clip sampled here really gets me. It's remained in my head almost a week after first hearing it, cascading keys in all the right places. Also, I'm way into the song trailing off, riding out the sample into churning puddles of nothing. Crisp autumn shit.

#11 "Chordaroy" ft. Earl Sweatshirt and Wolf Haley

This has got to be the album's centerpiece. Not only do we have Left Brain on some killer future-beat space shit, not only do we have Hodgy thriving in his natural beat environment, but we also have guest spots from "The Mysterious Earl Sweatshirt" and Wolf Haley. "Chordaroy" starts with Earl's verse, which hits high on all Earl meters in my ear. He always sounds lax, especially over a slow, warped beat, but he's so nimble and articulate it's scary. Wherever Earl is that he needs to be freed from, we seriously need to firebomb that place and smuggle him out of there.

This is not to discount the other parts of the "Chordaroy" equation. Seriously - who uses the word "geophyte" in hip hop (P.S. a geophyte is "a perennial plant, for example the potato or daffodil, which in spring propagates from an underground organ such as a bulb, tuber, corm or rhizome." via)? Hodgy Beats does. He also ends his verse with "feed niggas shells like my muhfuckin beach is nice." Sick.



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Check out ODD FUTURE live in New York City Monday November 8 if you can get a ticket somehow - according to Webster Hall's site, SHIT'S SOLD OUT. See you there with yer makeshift Fuck Steve Harvey shirt.

CMJ SUPERLATIVES (PART TWO)

FRIDAY:

BAND I WISH I COULD HAVE SEEN IN A BASEMENT: Flight.

TINIEST PLACE TO SEE A SHOW: Co-op 87.

ILLEST DRINK DEAL: Free Budweiser and Vitamin Water/vodka drinks at Fader Fort.

NICEST WEED STANK: Glasslands for Freddie Gibbs' set.

BEST ADDITION OF LUKA USMIANI TO A BAND: Family Portrait.

MOST IMPROVED: Greatest Hits at Death By Audio seemed much more polished and nicely mixed at DBA than at Bruar Falls.

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: John Maus canceling his Death By Audio set.

REALEST SENTIMENT: "Fuck the beef shit" - Freddie Gibbs.

SATURDAY:

FREE SHIT WAS AT: Fader Fort (bud + vitaminwater/vodka cocktails) & Purevolume House (Izze sodas, Asahi, vodka, Pop Chips)

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Waka Flocka canceling at Fader Fort OR not seeing Kanye at Brooklyn Bowl or whatever.

BIGGEST BUMMER: I ate a bag of Pop Chips at the Purevolume House and my mouth STILL hurts.

SECOND BIGGEST BUMMER: I had to do laundry Saturday afternoon.

BEST BAND: Teen Inc. at Purevolume House.

BAND THAT REMINDED ME MOST OF PITTSFIELD, MA: OFF!

TIGHTEST WEED SMOKING QUARTERS: Storage Room at Fader Fort, Friday + Saturday.

SUNDAY:

All I did Sunday was wind down by going to Shea Stadium and seeing Birthdays, Dark Sea of Awareness, Emily Reo, Millionyoung, Truman Peyote (with Shane from Many Mansions on bass) and Gobble Gobble.

CMJ SUPERLATIVES (PART ONE)

TUESDAY:

ILLEST DUDES I NEVER MET BEFORE: Rose Quartz trio.

ILLEST DRINK DEAL: 2 for 1 happy hour 5-8PM at Bruar Falls.

BUMMER I MISSED OUT ON: Group Tightener/Acephale show at Shea Stadium.

ONLY BAND I HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE: Greatest Hits sextet ft. Ian Drennen of Big Troubles on bass and the one and only Luke Perry.

DRUNKEST MOMENT: Happening upon Dent May just starting at Micro-Pixel-Rites Glasslands show.

WEDNESDAY:

STANKIEST BASEMENT CLUB: The Delancey.

BEST T-SHIRT: Diamond Rings' absolutely bonkers Blue Jays t-shirt at Santos Party House.

LAMEST BAND I SAW TWICE: Houses.

MOST SUPREME SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS FANS: Young Prisms.

DOPEST ENCOUNTER: Music director dude from UC Santa Barbara randomly asking me if I was going to The Delancey while I was eating pizza. Later, dude let me drink a bunch of his Jim Beam.

RADDEST COVER: Dom covering "Hey Sandy" by Polaris (for you dweebs who aren't in the know, "Hey Sandy" = The Adventures of Pete & Pete theme song).

PITCHFORK GUY I MET AND IT WAS OKAY: Larry Fitzmaurice.

LATEST SHOW: How To Dress Well at like 4AM at The Delancey.

THURSDAY:

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Absolutely no free poutine at Arlene's Grocery, though apparently M for Montreal advertised that there was free poutine.

MOST WILD SHOW: Gobble Gobble, by far.

STICKIEST FLOOR: Live at The Pyramids.

REALEST SENTIMENT: "Fuck the Police of the United States of America."

DOPEST DUDE: Guy outside Glasslands who gave me $2 for a single Maverick.

BEST VISUALS AT A SHOW: Eternal Summers at The Pyramids.

PITCHFORK GUY I MET AND IT WAS OKAY: Ryan Dombal.

BAND I'M LEAST BUMMED THAT I MISSED: Surfer Blood at The Pyramids.

MOST DEJA VU MOMENT: Seeing Andrew Cedermark at Glasslands again after seeing him there like last week.

BAND I'M WAY DOWN WITH SEEING WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, AND WILL DEFINITELY GO SEE FRIDAY: Young Prisms. Playing Friday at Mexican Summer's Co-op 87 (FIRE TALK SHOWCASE).

I AM NOT A HUMAN BEING

It's been a while since I've mentioned Lil Wayne here on FBUS. Mainly cos he went to jail and dropped something horrendous in Rebirth. I literally didn't listen to the whole thing. I couldn't. I respect myself a little bit.

However, I figured there would be a good enough reason to sing dude's praises before Carter IV dropped, and I was right. I Am Not a Human Being is a mini-album in the grand scheme of hip hop albums. It's only ten tracks, many of which the public had heard before the shit dropped on September 27 (remember - Wayne's birthday), but I suppose that should be expected. What's an album anyway? Especially in the mainstream spotlight like this one. "Album" at this point, in a corporate sense, just means you can buy it on iTunes for a little bit less than if you bought the songs individually. In this case, the individual songs cost $1.29 and the album costs $11.99, so that's like saving $1.00. Great.

HOWEVER, continue reading this article and I'll show you a way to shave the price down even further cos even though there's only ten tracks, there's a few you certainly don't need. The other Wayne songs on your iTunes will actually get sick knowing you purposefully spent money on the useless few (assuming you didn't already poison your MP3s by purchasing anything from Rebirth).



1. "Gonorrhea" feat. Drake

This is probably one song you don't need to buy cos, well, it leaked before the album dropped anyway. For one, Lil Wayne HQ posted it up a week before the album dropped. For two, it's really not that great of a song. Pitchfork's review of I Am Not a Human Being claims that this is one of "the finest three songs" on the album, which is simply not true. Who cares that Drake is on it? He doesn't do much to save the boring beat and a generally bored Wayne. Also, the whole point of the song is that if you're not with Young Money you're a pussy that has a nasty STD and frankly I don't appreciate people assuming I'm filthy just cos I'm not with YMCM or whatever.

2. "Hold Up" feat. T-Streets

Don't buy this one either. No idea who T-Streets is or why he has anything to do with this album, but according to his bio he abandoned his interest in sports at the age of 12 to pursue a rap career simply because he met Wayne. I dunno, dude should've tried his hand at hoops or baseball or fucking curling or ANYTHING but rapping. I'm not saying he ruins the song, but he doesn't make it any better, that's for sure.

3. "With You" feat. Drake

Finally, something to talk about that doesn't completely blow it. "With You" is the highlight of this album (or maybe the following song), seeing Wayne get all sexy talkin about pleasing beautiful women. This might be my favorite Weezy, the one who left his gun and his weed at his crib, opting instead for "moonlight and candles and shit." The StreetRunner beat is all slow and tinkly, the whole thing wrapped around a simple but soothing vocal bit. Then you get to the chorus and Drake pretty much redefines the "and we gon' be alright if we put Drake on every hook" sentiment. Also, this:

"she get mad when I call other women hos
you send her rose I'll pick some flowers and send her those
tall glass of Merlot get her in the mode
two tall glasses of Merlot get her out her robe
I whisper in her ear and lick around her lobe
and when she check her watch it's never time to go."

4. "I Am Not a Human Being"

Then this track arrives next, pretty much the exact opposite of "With You" from the opening nu-metal guitar riff. And if that wasn't enough to convince, Wayne gets diabolical right away like Bruno from Strangers on a Train, intimating that he's about to "pop all the balloons and spit in the punch." The verses' content is sort of weak but the song's generally fun and heavy, lots of insults and murder-boasts like "if you think you're hot then obviously you been lied to" and "shoot you in your head and leave your dash full of memories."




5. "I'm Single"

I think this was the first full I Am Not a Human Being track I heard, in the form of the official video. That was some six months ago, and the video's still pretty ridiculous. Shots of one well-endowed (back-wise) woman on the beach, seeming to run through Wayne's mind, while his main chick desperately awaits his arrival back home. Eventually she figures out he's not coming back (probably cos, well, he's Lil Wayne) so she stabs the cake she made him and we leave her in regret with eyeliner running. If only she could have seen how many cellphones Wayne has in the studio a.k.a. certainly enough to never let on that there's another lady waiting for him elsewhere.




6. "What's Wrong With Them" feat. Nicki Minaj

On the surface this seems like stupid mid-tempo radio fodder. Maybe it is, but honestly Nicki is the only one on this 'album' that I could imagine actually appearing on Carter IV (aside from Drake, of course). I'm okay with her chorus melting into my inner ear. She's been that interesting new breed of female rapper or whatever for a while, doing the whole face twitch robot barbie thing. But there's a ton of her verses I still can't get down with. However, when she's thrown on a syrupy hook I usually dig, and that's exactly what happens here (though I have absolutely no idea what she's talking about). Wayne also has some alright one-liners, including a Celtics reference:

"we get high til it feel like the sky low"
"that's that nine, nigga - eugh, Rondo"
"sleepin' with the enemy, so I fuck the world"
"the world is on my shoulders - should I dust my shoulders off?"
"man, I'm fly as fuck you ain't even next to depart"

7. "Right Above It" feat. Drake

This is another one that's been around a while. Shit's huge, Drake's verse is actually good and I'm so down when these two just talk about how awesome they are and how you're probably a loser. Drake does the thing where he teeters on being introspective ("fake friends write the wrong answers on the mirror for me") when I wish he'd just get more arrogant ("I got a couple cars I never get to use, don't like my women single - I like my chicks in twos"). But then Weezy saves it with the chorus where he claims that "you know you at the top when only heaven's right above it" which I wouldn't know anything about but apparently he got so high he saw angels or something. There's also a couple Weezy lines in his first verse that blow my mind:


"guns turn you boys into pussies - sex change"
(and directly after that but in a separate breath...)
"and I smoke til I got chest pains"




8. "Popular" feat. Lil Twist

Let me preface this song by saying it's not that good. Aside from it being a pretty stupid basis for a song (if you fuck Lil Twist you will be popular), Wayne just kinda recycles parts of his verse from "Bed Rock" for the little bridge part. This is weird to me. Seems like an insult to Twist. Wasn't worth thinking up a few new words to say before his chorus? Guess not. Guess it's cos a Young Money groupie might settle for Twist if they can't get into Wayne's hotel room, given they're young enough. How old is that dude anyway? 17? 19? (EDIT: He's 17.) I dunno, I guess the chorus might be worth half the cost of a normal MP3. I promise dude won't appear on Carter IV. Don't buy this one unless they're having an at least 50% off MP3 liquidation sale, "EVERYTHING-MUST-GO" style.

9. "That Ain't Me" feat. Jay Sean

Who the fuck is Jay Sean? Don't listen to/buy this song. Er, well, there's one good part...

"and I don't go to church because the line long"

^ BEST excuse for not attending church, ever.

10. "Bill Gates"

First thing's first - this song is called "Bill Gates." Wayne says he "got a sign on my dick that say 'bad bitches only.'" Do you think Bill Gates has a SIGN on his DICK that reads "bad bitches only" ? Yeah, me neither. Do yourself a favor and forget this one too.

I'm sure the tracks I approved will tide you over til Carter IV. Until then, #FREEWEEZY.



(image via Google Search)

FRIENDSHIP BRACELET X ROSE QUARTZ PRESENT...

AN UNOFFICIAL CMJ SHOWCASE:







TUESDAY OCTOBER 19//BRUAR FALLS//6:00PM DOORS//7:30PM SHOW//$8



THAT'S RIGHT -- it's on. Six days from now the gentlemen from Rose Quartz and Friendship Bracelet present a night of rock n roll, weirdos and rad kids. It would mean so much to us three dudes if we saw you out there, sluggin back Rolling Rock cans and goin wild. We have incurred some slight lineup changes and will also be starting EARLY, first band at 7:30PM. In addition, we've shaved the price down a bit, from $10 to a cool $8! Two more bucks towards booze/merch. Here's the lineup with set times:

7:30 - WOODSMAN
8:15 - TONSTARTSSBANDHT
9:00 - GREATEST HITS
9:45 - TOTAL SLACKER
10:30 - BIG TROUBLES
11:15 - GARY WAR

I've also taken a minute to collect a bunch of videos/music for you all to suck on between now and Tuesday. So PLEASE spread the FBUS X RQ gospel -- we'll see you there.

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GARY WAR


Gary War has been at it a few years, churning out the New Raytheonport LP (originally released on SHDWPLY, soon to be reissued by Sacred Bones), Horribles Parade LP (Sacred Bones) and a bunch of other records, including the Reality Protest 7" and the soon-to-be-released Police Water 12" EP, featuring synth morsel "Born of Light." The track made its rounds towards the end of Summer, Fader claiming it was "significantly more cosmic" than the "goth mumbling" of yore.





Gary War - Born of Light (via Fader)

Gary War - See Right Thru

Gary War - Costumes (both via Rose Quartz)

Gary War - Using (via NME/Pinglewood)

Gary War - Everynight (via Pinglewood)

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BIG TROUBLES


Big Troubles has been one of my favorite current rock n roll bands for over a year now. They have released 7" records on Blackburn Recordings and Olde English Spelling Bee, and their Worry LP recently dropped, also on OESB, a massive blast of shoegaze fuzz scuzz, drum machine heartbeats and synthesizer flourishes. Their live set ends up slightly different from the Worry recordings, as Alex Craig and Ian Drennan drop the synthetic low-end in favor of Samuel Franklin (Fluffy Lumbers) on drums and Luka Usmiani (No Demons Here) on bass. These dudes rip hard. Bring your earplugs... or don't.

BIG TROUBLES "BITE YR TONGUE" from OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE on Vimeo.

BIG TROUBLES "MODERN INTIMACY" from OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE on Vimeo.

An FBUS post on Big Troubles' "Drastic and Difficult"

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TOTAL SLACKER


Total Slacker is Tucker, Emily and Ross from Brooklyn, consistently staying true to their name by rocking out slowed pop songs about parties and creepos and 40s and Doritos. Their first 7" record, "Crystal Necklace"/"Video Store Rental Guy", is now available on Impose Records. Also Tucker usually ends up playing a guitar solo behind his head so check these dudes OUT.



Total Slacker - Creepos

Total Slacker - Crystal Necklace (7" version)

Total Slacker - Crystal Necklace (Demo)

Total Slacker - Stuck in 93

Total Slacker - Hangin' Tough (New Kids On the Block cover)

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GREATEST HITS


Greatest Hits (Tyler Thacker + Zak Mering a.k.a. Raw Thrills) will perform live with Luke Perry a.k.a. Axl a.k.a. Screech and the Medium Fries, bringing their jubilant dance-y pop jams to life. "Danse Pop" is some serious dancefloor grinding material, which isn't to discount the other three tracks on their OESB 7" cos they're all serious, radical slices of euphoria. Watch out for a guest mix from these dudes sometime before the end of the week and if you seriously can't wait, check out the one they made for Rose Quartz RIGHT HERE.

GREATEST HITS "DANSE POP" from OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE on Vimeo.

GREATEST HITS "MAKE YOU MINE" from OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE on Vimeo.

GREATEST HITS "DANSE POP" 7" by OESB

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TONSTARTSSBANDHT


Tonstartssbandht is two brothers, Edwin + Andy, who throttled out some raging psych mess when I caught em playing this past Sunday at Glasslands. Maybe it was the pentagram carved into Andy's back. Maybe it was the end of a long weekend of playing shows with the forever-rad Cool World. Maybe it was all the Four Loko. Either way, the dudes churn out some heavy meshing of pop music on their tapes/CDRs and burn through sweaty riffs in their live sets. Check out these videos below from Denton last Summer of the dudes playing with Mike from Run DMT. Killer shit. They also have a label called DŒS ARE. Check it OUT.

Tonstartssbandht - maihama from ous on Vimeo.

Tonstartssbandht - Seriously

Tonstartssbandht - Black Country

Tonstartssbandht - 5FT7

Tonstartssbandht - Softly Kidding

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WOODSMAN


Woodsman had played with two drummers every time I saw them until last Saturday, and while the double pounding really was special, it didn't really take away from the show when they were backed by a single kit. The dudes still ripped two huge stretches of psychedelic guitar, which I assume is what they'll do in their opening slot Tuesday. P.C. Worship couldn't make it, so we asked Woodsman to jump on last minute and they were kind enough to do so EVEN THOUGH they're playing another show later that night. Sweet dudes.







Woodsman - When the Morning Comes

Woodsman - Chants

Woodsman - Sunglass

FRIENDSHIP BRACELET + ROSE QUARTZ PRESENT...

AN UNOFFICIAL CMJ SHOWCASE:







TUESDAY OCTOBER 19//BRUAR FALLS//6:00PM DOORS//7:30PM SHOW//$8



GARY WAR

BIG TROUBLES

TOTAL SLACKER

GREATEST HITS

TONSTARTSSBANDHT

+1 MORE



COME OUT AND PARTY WITH FBUS AND ROSE QUARTZ!

DJ THE-GLIDE, DJ CHICAGO SLIME AND DJ PEACE SAMPRAS WILL BE BLASTING TUNES ALL EVENING!

MP3S AND OTHER FUN STUFF TO COME ON MONDAY!

DRO CAREY

Sometimes I wonder why it takes so long to find out about things. I don't know anything about Dro Carey except it was introduced to me on No Pain In Pop and as of now the B R A I N---S O---S O F T tumblr is 61 pages deep and I'm only on page 30. Also all the vimeo stuff is from the same account from which I posted a couple lil DJ Nate clips over the Summer. Here's a bunch of embeds in reverse chronological vimeo upload order, followed by many tumblr streams in reverse chronological order. And there's a ton of stuff I haven't gotten to yet.

Dro Carey - Much Coke from DC vampira on Vimeo.

Dro Carey - Hungry Horse (Brain So Soft 2010) from DC vampira on Vimeo.

Dro Carey - Get Rid of this Guy from DC vampira on Vimeo.

Kazumichi Grime - Und (Dro Carey Remix) from DC vampira on Vimeo.

Dro Carey - Sprite So Pink from DC vampira on Vimeo.

Dro Carey Beats - Cash Critter from DC vampira on Vimeo.

09/07/2010 - Adina Howard - Freak Like Me (Dro Carey Remix)

08/29/2010 - Dro Carey BEATS - Top40 in Heaven

08/17/2010 - Dro Carey - SECRETIONS

08/10/2010 - Dro Carey - Spectral Trill

07/28/2010 - Check my foot wurk.

07/27/2010 - This is sick.

07/11/2010 - Check my footwurk. Again.



Oh, and there's a Twitter.



(image via FAT DUDES)

KILL THEM ALL #4

"Hope you like us. You should love us, actually."

It's safe to say that the Odd Future dudes have been 'killing them all' over the past year or so, even though we here at FBUS hadn't caught a whiff until about a month ago. Guess that makes us "faggot ass dope boyz." This is #4 in a short series about listening to Odd Future.


Hodgy Beats + Left Brain = MellowHype. Their YelloWhite mixtape is on some smooth, smooth shit. Not really many tie-you-up and dump yer body inna river raps, more like mad hangouts in a cloud of weedsmoke and Chinese takeout.

First off I must mention, the more I listen to all these guys the more I love how hung up they are on 2dopeboyz. It's as if they hate them as much as Steve Harvey, but I couldn't find a post on 2dopeboyz about how Odd Future sucks so maybe it's a joke. Or maybe they just think they're fuckin lame. Either way, "Team" seems to be about standing behind your dudes especially when assholes hate on em.

"Two dope bitches wana dis onna blog when they can't see through this Odd Future smog. Odd Future Wolf you're a premature dog, I'll burn your whole website like it's a fuckin log"

This must have been what Earl was referring to when he suggested to "try talkin on a blog with your fuckin arms cut off."

"Team" is from MellowHype's YelloWhite mixtape, which gets better and better as the track numbers increase. "Polyurithane" is all cooled-out storytelling, "Thuggin" is about um, being thug. The flows remind me of something Kanye would want to pick up for G.O.O.D. music, like that only Big Sean song that matters but never boring.

It's not all about the flows, however. They got their big feet in productions as well, which I think are best on blazed-out tracks like "Premier," "Rasta," and "CocainKeys." Haven't dug into Hodgy Beats' The Dena Tape yet, but you should go for it.

I picked these cuts to highlight, but you should just grab the whole YelloWhite tape and a bag of kush.



MellowHype - Team

MellowHype - Polyurithane

MellowHype - Rasta (ft. Ace Creator)

MellowHype - CocainKeys



(top image via GOLF WANG)

KILL THEM ALL #3

"dreaming is bliss. imagination is power. music is love. odd is our future."

"Im Influenced By Dope Dealers, Adolf Hitler, Dinosaurs, Books, Hamsters, DOORs And White People."

It's safe to say that the Odd Future dudes have been 'killing them all' over the past year or so, even though we here at FBUS hadn't caught a whiff until about a month ago. Guess that makes us "faggot ass dope boyz." This is #3 in a short series about listening to Odd Future.


I think Tyler, The Creator spits the realest, most brutal shit out of the whole Odd Future crew. It doesn't just sound real and feel real, it reeks of dissociative rage. Tyler's Bastard mixtape is the prime example, hitting on dark themes such as growing up fatherless and dealing with all that must go along with it, as well as kidnap, murder, girls, the demonic, coke and the long road to be taken seriously as a relatively young (age 18) rapper/producer/designer.

The mixtape acts like a therapy session, as Dr. TC (presumably a pitched-down Tyler) acts as a school psychiatrist trying to figure out why Tyler's been misbehaving. He immediately jumps into all the imagery listed above, using Dr. TC as someone to pry his mind open. He transitions from opening track "Bastard" into "Seven" with the following exchange:

Tyler: "I just want my father's email so I can tell him how much I fuckin hate him in detail"
Dr. TC: "Wow, um. So, Tyler. If you had the chance to tell him something, what would you tell him?"
Tyler: "I'd tell him to eat a dick quicker than Mexican sprint over borders"

Next is "Odd Toddlers," which sees Tyler deep pitched over a slowed "One Beer" alongside Casey Veggies. This might be the lightest fare on the whole mixtape, especially slotted up against devilish "French."



Now, for some reason this video doesn't include Hodgy Beats' verse and his voice is all screwed again (it isn't on the mixtape version...), but the video is a good example of an interesting shift in hip hop videos mentioned by Tumblin Erb, trading in "animated arm flailing energy" for "exaggerated side glances, raised brows and twitched blinks" (he actually used this video as an example).

However, "French" absolutely pales in comparison to his clip for "VCR," which I'm not even going to try to explain in words. Trust me on this one -- turn the lights off, put yer headphones on and click play:




Here's a few more highlights from Bastard:

Tyler, The Creator - Odd Toddlers (ft. Casey Veggies)
("I sold my soul to the devil for 30% off")

Tyler, The Creator - Blow
("all I really wana do is fuck and snort blow")

Tyler, The Creator - Parade
("my TV stays on Cartoon Network fuck that Twilight shit")

Tyler, The Creator - AssMilk (ft. Earl Sweatshirt)
("spit sick shit like my saliva got the rabies in it")

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KILL THEM ALL #2

"Flooded With Bitches, Weed, Females, Marijuana, Sluts, Green Shit And Grocery Stores."

"Roll A Joint, Grab A Bitch, Make A Toaster Strutal and Swag This Shit The Fuck Out."

It's safe to say that the Odd Future dudes have been 'killing them all' over the past year or so, even though we here at FBUS hadn't caught a whiff until about a month ago. Guess that makes us "faggot ass dope boyz." This is #2 in a short series about listening to Odd Future.


Second stink of Odd Future was Domo Genesis and his Rolling Papers mixtape. While Earl Sweatshirt is hopped on stuffing bodies in his trunk, Domo comes off less harsh, seemingly due to an undying fascination with weed. At times shit gets slowed to a crawl, vocals pitched down superhuman deep in a dense plume of jointsmoke, though I think I'm diggin verses more that sound like throats and mouths than drank-screwed drowning victims. Thinkin this is evidenced best by the slow-as-fuck "Up" from Radical, which sure is slow but the vocals remain untouched.



Domo sounds classic, all nimble and paced out, less erratic than Earl. Somehow it's easier to relate to wanting to get high with some girls than choking them til they're blue and stashing em in your window-tinted backseat. I believe the finest moment on Rolling Papers is "Supermarket", a dueling faux dis-track between Domo and the gruffer Ace Creator (a.k.a. Tyler, the Creator). Domo wants some chips, cuts the line or something and Tyler gets pissed off. After a lengthy exchange, I think he kills Domo ("I'm high as fuck and I didn't call for all this I'ma get on my zombie shit wait here's my carcass" ...and then it sounds like a body hits the floor). The production's all huge horns and comic-book-like sound effects (screams, sword slashes, taco shell crunches) while the two go back and forth insulting and planning on how to kill each other.

Fix yerself a plate of cheese + crackers, peep samples and wash it down with the while Rolling Papers mixtape.





Domo Genesis - Cap N Crunch

Domo Genesis - Super Market (ft. Ace Creator)

Domo Genesis - Basic Bitch (ft. Hodgy Beats)

Domo Genesis + Wolk Haley - Double Cheeseburger




(top image via GOLF WANG)

KILL THEM ALL #1

"Seriously, Things Are Just Getting Better. We Would Like TO Thank EVERYONE Who Fucks With Us, And Also, EVERYONE Who Didnt Fuck With Us To Begin With ( faggot ass dope boyz). It’s Kind Of Cool That People Like Us, Still Weird Tho. The People That Use To Torment Us And Call Us Weird And Shit Are Now The Same Fucks At Our Shows, So Swag Us The Fuck Out. And For The Record, Could People Still Stop Fucking Saying We Make Horrorcore?We Don’t. That Shit Is Really Fucking Annoying. Some New Videos, Music And Random Shit Coming Soon, Hopefully This New Found Coolness Of OF Wont Fuck Up The Nature Of Us Making Shit Normally. Thanks Guys, We’re Just Some Kids Doing What We Love, And We’re Fucking Good At It, At Least Respect It."

It's safe to say that the Odd Future dudes have been 'killing them all' over the past year or so, even though we here at FBUS hadn't caught a whiff until about a month ago. Guess that makes us "faggot ass dope boyz." This is #1 in a short series about listening to Odd Future.


The first odor that wafted over was that of Earl Sweatshirt's EARL mixtape. From what I can gather almost all of the collective, including Earl, are mad young, like 16. When I was 16 I was bagging groceries and had never seen weed before. Earl's 16 talking about mixing decomposing human remains with shit in a pan, putting it on the stove and eating it. Earl's flow is a sonic NSFW, plus NSFM ("Not Safe For Moms") plus PNSFS ("Probably Not Safe For Squares"). A good intro is the video for "Earl," a drugged and bloody trek through what I assume is a day in the life of a Wolf ("NSFW if you work with Steve Harvey").





The sound is addictive. Sort of a bummer EARL is only 10 tracks long (including 2 skits "Thisniggaugly" and "Wakeupfaggot"), though he's got a few songs on Odd Future's Radical mixtape which are all fantastic.

Here's reasons why Earl Sweatshirt is sick, in bullet-point form:

- "Sent to Earth to poke Catholics in the ass with saws and knock blunt ashes into they caskets and laugh it off"
- "It's O.F., buttercup, go ahead fuck with us - without a doubt a surefire way to get your mother fucked"
- "Try talkin on a blog with your fuckin arms cut off"
- "Snapple fact you're rather wack"
- "I'm back on my sixty-six-six shit flowin like the blood out the competition's slit wrist"
- "The basement light is dark and the switchblade is sharp and her name on my arm and her face on a 2% carton"
- the ENTIRE last verse of "epaR" (final minute or so)
- "The Odd nigga with a spoon in your Danimals is hungry as a cannibal trapped in a van of cantaloupes"
- Earl's verses over "Drop" ("I'm a nice guy in person but a pervert in the sheets")
- Pretty sure he's referring to himself when he says "Who dat? Oh, that new coon John Cusack"
- This video

Check these samples, then grab the whole EARL mixtape.





Earl Sweatshirt - Couch (ft. Ace Creator)

Earl Sweatshirt - Luper

Earl Sweatshirt - Pigions (ft. Wolf Haley)

Earl Sweatshirt - Blade

Earl Sweatshirt + Mike G - Cool

FRIENDSHIP BRACELET CLUB VOLUME 4 CASSETTE

FINALLY Friendship Bracelet Club Volume 4 cassettes are READY TO SHIP and have started shipping TODAY, about four weeks later than expected. Sorry for those who have been waiting so very long, your tapes should arrive within the week or early next week, depending on location. Since we're already about half-way to sold-out I urge you to order a tape soon - each package is hand-assembled (contents displayed above) with art insert by GNARFIELD (various samples below), an edition of FIFTY (50).



LINK TO ORIGINAL FBC4 POST/DIGITAL VERSION DOWNLOAD



FRIENDSHIP BRACELET CLUB VOLUME 4 (CASSETTE VERSION):


SIDE A:


1. Tangles - Cruisin

2. Nowa Huta - Antlers

3. Mane Mane - Hidden Dap

4. Luke Perry - Phone Freak

5. RxRy - Aoen Eyseai Flouors (Demo)


SIDE B:


1. matthewdavid - Desert Moon

2. Universal Swimsuit - DD.EE (edit 1)

3. Happy Family - YoutubeHow To Dress Well - Can't See My Own Face (DEMO)

4. How To Dress Well - Can't See My Own Face (DEMO)

5. Persona La Ave - Backroads

6. Mind Rippers - Heather & Donna

7. Inflatable Mattress - Karen's Dub Part 2







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WMUA RADIO 05/03/10

Starting this week, the ICE CREAM PAINT JOB you may have grown to love will be no more. NOT TO FEAR - I am not gone altogether, instead I am reuniting with an old cohost, DJ DARMOK a.k.a. my friend Barry, for a Summer of the most partied-out jams, sensual seductions and late nite 40oz walks.

The program will air every Monday evening from 5:30-8PM, as always on 91.1FM WMUA in Amherst, MA. I feel compelled to use this space to bring up a small issue that has come up with our program director. I would like to preface this with saying that he is a really cool/nice guy who hosts a high-quality program on WMUA himself and has put in a lot of work for the station and I'm glad that there's kids at UMass that are as dedicated as him to independent radio. However, I don't think I want to and I don't think I can stay silent on one issue of censorship with regards to what we wanted to name our program.

DARMOK chose the name, "Making Love, Sexually." It's a reference to a song from the new season of Tim & Eric sung by the one and only David Leiber Mintz. The phrase is meant not to be shocking or even anywhere close to offensive, rather it's simply funny because of its redundancy. Unfortunately we have been disallowed from using this name as the title of our show because it (and this is a direct quote) "insinuates that rape is permissible." Now call me young and liberal, but is there any part of the failed show title that at all implies anything about rape, let alone whether it is permissible or not? Personally I think not, but I would like to hear what the general public thinks about this strange situation.

As of now we have not chosen a new name for our program.



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MORE BOX ELDERS

Here's another track from Box Elders' great new record Alice and Friends. Along the same punky garage rock & soul lines as previously mentioned tracks "Jackie Wood" and "Stay," "Necro" tells the age-old tale of... falling in love with a corpse. Nebraskan death glaze. BUY Alice and Friends from Goner.

"If my friends don't understand
why I sit here n hold your hand
n stare deep into where your eyes used to be,
they don't see the same girl that I see"

Box Elders - Necro

Don't Bring Up My Past

So you know that Clipse/King Khan & the Shrines/Santigold show that was supposed to go down at Wesleyan University Wednesday afternoon?


And you know that dude who went off and killed that Wesleyan University student Wednesday at a cafe in the middle of Middletown?

Well it's a poor combination because the extremely unexpected and brutal shooting prompted the University to cancel the show since, at the time, the killer was still at large. The gentleman, Stephen Morgan, even hung out for a bit at the scene after he did it and talked to police, officials completely unaware. Well he eventually turned himself in yesterday. A true summer bummer.