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Zoon Van Snook Gets Remixed | 11/2010 | Zoon Van Snook's "Cuckoo" from his upcoming album (Falling From) The Nutty Tree is being released as a single with remixes from Minotaur Shock, James Yuill and Christ. |
Free DL - Antimc Remixes Open Mike Eagle | 11/2010 | Here's a remix of Mistakes (Feat. Alpha MC) by Antimc, one of many remixes Open Mike Eagle is continually adding to website for his album Unapologetic Art Rap. |
Zoon Van Snook Party | 11/2010 | Anyone planning to be within range of Bristol Colton Hall at 8pm on December 11th, Zoon Van Snook is having a free launch party for his debut full length, (Falling From) The Nutty Tree! |
Thavius Beck Tours Europe | 11/2010 | Thavius is going to Europe on his Live Beat Series tour spanning from Prague, Dublin, Paris, Barcelona and Brussels to Dresden, Geneva and Berlin! |
Eat Sugar Plays West Virginia | 11/2010 | If you happen to be in the Virginias this December, make sure to stop by 123 Pleasant St. on the 10th to catch Eat Sugar. |
Head Like A Kite Plays December | 11/2010 | Seattle's favorite dashing rock 'n roll troubadours, Head Like A Kite will be playing some west coast shows throughout December that are sure to be a rip roaring good time. |
Eliot Lipp Plays End Of Year Shows | 11/2010 | Eliot Lipp has a few good shows left in his system this year, including two in Georgia in November, followed by what sounds like the New Year's Eve party to attend, especially if you're as excited as we are both about what Eliot has been doing with his music lately and about his show mates Lazer Sword and Virtual Boy. Complete details have now been made available. |
Swim Team Cypher Continues To Thrill The Masses | 11/2010 | Open Mike Eagle and The Swim Team just can't stop getting love for their thoroughly unique LA hip hop patoi. Head to Passion of the Weiss to get writer Jeff Weiss' take on their new brand of poetic revolution. |
Mush Signs A Lull of Chicago! | 11/2010 | We are elated to report that Mush will be releasing the full-length debut from Chicago's own band, A Lull. Their gorgeous album, Confetti, and a remix EP for the lead single, "Weapons For War" will come out this spring. We are also thrilled to announce that the album and EP are being licensed by the label Something In Construction (home to Memory Tapes among other great acts) for a simultaneous release in Europe. A Lull joins the Mush roster after releasing the widely loved EP, Ice Cream Bones on Lujo Records and a 7" on their own, as well as embarking on touring adventures (up to and including getting struck by lightning) that have helped them perfect a mellifluous live act (to see what we mean check this performance at a Chicago area show earlier this year). Watch the video for "Weapons For War" then take a look at some of the press on A Lull, including coverage in Pitchfork, Stereogum and XLR8R, to get a sense of what we're all in for. |
Urb Covers Swim Team Cypher | 11/2010 | Urb Magazine took notice of Open Mike Eagle and The Swim Team's private cypher and waxed ecstatic about it on their site today. |
Philaflava Posse Cut Featuring Open Mike Eagle | 11/2010 | Download Philaflava's posse cut for free, featuring Cadence Weapon, Rob Sonic, Selfsays, Ardamus and our very own Open Mike Eagle! |
The Return Of Andre Afram Asmar | 11/2010 | Suffering from an aneurysm in 2004, Andre Afram Asmar underwent an intense half-decade of physical therapy on the road to recovery. Despite his health setbacks, Asmar remained determind to complete his epic, Harmonic Emergency - an album originally architected in sessions between 2001-2004. We could not be more proud that his album has now been delivered, with a January 2011 scheduled release date. This album is one of the greats. |
Open Mike Eagle Embarks On One Week World Tour | 11/2010 | Open Mike Eagle is hitting California and Arizona with members of his hip hop collective The Swim Team, Sahtyre and Verbs, on what is being preemptively dubbed by historians across the globe as The Return Of The One Week World Tour. |
Review Of Ninja Tune's Anniversary Show Feat. Thavius Beck | 11/2010 | Chinashop Magazine has a review of Ninja Tune's twentieth anniversary show at the Echo over the weekend. |
3Ninjas Remixes Open Mike Eagle Track | 11/2010 | Stream the 3Ninjas remix of Open Mike Eagle's track "Original Butterscotch Confection" featuring Busdriver. |
Open Mike Eagle And The Swim Team In A Private Cypher | 11/2010 | WARNING: this video will own your head. Shot beautifully in a private theater, Open Mike Eagle's Los Angeles rap collective The Swim Team whip out their cypher skills and take turns reminding us all what's so exciting about hip hop, anyway. The answer? People with talent like THIS. |
Zoon Van Snook To Work With Mush Records | 10/2010 | Zoon Van Snook... is the solo project of Bristol Weirdsmith Alec Snook and the latest addition on the Mush Roster. His Mush debut, (Falling From) The Nutty Tree is set for a pre-Christmas release. |
Thavius Beck Plays Ninja Tune Twentieth Anniversary Show | 10/2010 | Ninja Tune is approaching it's twentieth anniversary, and celebrating at the Echo this Saturday with Thavius Beck, not to mention Kid Koala, Amon Tobin, DJ Food, Cut Chemist, and more. |
Thavius Beck Fall Shows | 10/2010 | Thavius Beck is playing a handful of shows in Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Houston, Texas in October and November! |
Open Mike Eagle Collaborates With United Citizens Brigade | 10/2010 | Watch videos of Open Mike Eagle's comedy debut at the United Citizens Brigade Theater. He performed three brand new, unreleased rap songs and the improv team responded to each by basing a skit off of it. |
I've Been Funked Interviews Open Mike Eagle | 10/2010 | Check out underground arts journal, I've Been Funked, and their recent interview with Open Mike Eagle. |
K-The-I??? Plays France In November | 10/2010 | K-The-I??? is headed to France next month to play a set of live shows. He'll be kicking things off with a state-side appearance at the Low End Theory in Los Angeles, alongside Bigg Jus on October 20th. |
Busdriver Releases Free Mixtape | 10/2010 | Get Busdriver's free mixtape featuring the likes of Flying Lotus, Daedelus, Anit-Pop Consortium, Free The Robots and more. |
Busdriver Plays With Pigeon John | 10/2010 | Busdriver will be pairing up with Pigeon John for a couple of shows in Fairfax, California and Reno, Nevada at the end of this month. |
Head Like A Kite Plays City Arts Festival | 10/2010 | Head Like A Kite is making a live appearance at the City Arts Festival in Seattle, along with such giants as Belle & Sebastian, Blitzen Trapper, She & Him, Cat Power, Brother Ali, The Vaselines and more. |
Daedelus Fall Dates | 09/2010 | Daedelus is hitting the road, playing across the country and heading up to Canada. Be sure to check him out! |
Lymbyc Systym Plays Powellapalooza | 09/2010 | Lymbyc Systym will be playing the Arizona music festival Powellapalooza on September 26th. If you're in New York, head to Sound Crash Vol. 3 in Williamsburg this Saturday. |
Thavius Beck Plays Europe | 09/2010 | Thavius Beck is making a handful of stops around Europe this month, dropping by Germany, Spain and playing a free festival (Pikkema Frack) in Belgium. |
Deru Remixes Bear In Heaven | 09/2010 | Stream Deru's remix for Bear In Heaven's track "Deafening Love" released in conjunction with nine new remixes on "Beast Rest Forth Mouth". |
Open Mike Eagle Teases Us With Secrets, Plays New York | 09/2010 | Open Mike Eagle is headed to Washington D.C. next weekend with producer Silence to work on a hush-hush project. While on the east coast, Mike Eagle will be in New York at the Knitting Factory on September 12th and Hannibal Burress' weekly event. |
Eliot Lipp Pays Homage To GoldenEye With Remix | 08/2010 | XLR8R has an exclusive track from Eliot Lipp flipping the soundtrack to the first-person shooter game GoldenEye 007 and turning it into, as XLR8R puts it, "a slow-swaggering dance jam that wouldn't be the least bit out of place in a darkly lit nightclub scene featuring a tuxedo-clad Pierce Brosnan with some doe-eyed European knockout". Be sure to read the article and give the song a listen. |
Open Mike Eagle Claims The Autumn, Tours With Blockhead | 08/2010 | Open Mike Eagle is touring up and down California with Blockhead, Nocando and Signal Path. In addition to that he's playing a date in LA with the infamous Asssscat improv group at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater. Come see him perform and interact with the improv actors. He will also be playing the Songodson festival in Pomona on the 18th of September. |
Huffington Post Interviews Thavius Beck | 08/2010 | The Hit+Run crew are hosting a musical extravaganza at The Echo in Los Angeles tonight, featuring Thavius Beck, called SOUNDCRASH. The Huffington Post interviewed Thavius, along with the people behind the event. |
Open Mike Eagle Freestyles for Culture King | 08/2010 | While on tour, Open Mike Eagle took a minute out to impress the internets with his unmatched freestyle elan for the Culture King series The Cypher Series. Watch him rap about overactive colons and podcasts. |
Artist of the Day: Thavius Beck | 07/2010 | Thavius Beck is Artist Of The Day at The 13th Plate. They give a great career rundown if you are just getting into Thavius' vast catalog. |
Deru Podcast For Plasmodium | 07/2010 | Deru recently mixed a hypnotic set for the Seattle-based internet radio show Plasmodium. Everyone from Haiku D'etat to Mos Def to Mush's own Qua gets a makeover at his deft hands. |
LA Weekly Interviews Open Mike Eagle | 07/2010 | LA Weekly reviewed Open Mike Eagle's album Unapologetic Art Rap this week and talked to him about it at length. Read the interview between Jeff Weiss and Mike also featured in LA Weekly. |
Open Mike Eagle Tours With Everyone Good Ever | 07/2010 | Open Mike Eagle is OFF! First up is an extensive west coast jaunt with Moka Only, Ceschi and Factor that begins on the 8th of July. Check out the show preview Universatile Music did for their Phoenix show and get the details for the tour on the shows page. Next, he's off on a handful of dates with none other than Psalm One from Rhymesayers! Once the dust has settled from that sprint, Open Mike Eagle teams up with Abstract Rude for more west coast shows. |
Open Mike Eagle Listed In 10 Best Hip Hop Albums Of 2010 | 06/2010 | Open Mike Eagle's critically adored album Unapologetic Art Rap has been picked as a tie for #4 best hip-hop album of the half-year by journalistic luminary Jeff Weiss. Check out the full list and Mike's write-up on Jeff's blog Passion of the Weiss. |
Head Like A Kite West Coast Tour | 06/2010 | Head Like A Kite are embarking on a west coast tour which will begin in the Northeast and end in California. |
Lymbyc Systym Takes Asia | 06/2010 | Lymbyc Systym is on the brink of an extensive tour of Asia. To offset this run of appearances, Lymbyc Systym are teaming up with fellow Mush artist 4 Bonjour's Parties in Tokyo, and then it's off to: China, South Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan! |
Listener Embarks on Wooden Hearts Tour | 06/2010 | Listener is taking fienix and Homeless Gospel Choir on the road across the US, also stopping at the Cornerstone Festival in Illinois. Head to the shows page for an updated list of dates. |
Eliot Lipp US Dates | 06/2010 | This summer, Eliot Lipp is playing a little Santa Cruz here, a little South Carolina there, bouncing all over the states. |
Daedelus Plays Dour Festival | 06/2010 | On July 16th Daedelus is taking part in the legendary Dour festival in Belgium. Daedelus will play alongside De La Soul, Chromeo, Devendra Banhart, Calvin Harris, Simian Mobile Disco, Faith No More, and lots more. |
Lymbyc Systym To Play Free Press Festival | 06/2010 | If you're in the southwest at the beginning of June, find your way to the Free Press Festival in Houston, TX. Lymbyc Systym join a bill that includes Flaming Lips, Girl Talk, Kid Sister, Stars, Lucero and many more. |
Curse Ov Dialect Tours Europe With Kaigen | 06/2010 | Curse Ov Dialect are headed to Europe this month, to play their way through France and Germany. They're taking Kaigen, a rapper hailing from Japan, but not before a farewell show of sorts in Melbourne. Australians, do not miss the mania that is a live COD show, all the tour dates and details are listed. |
Daedelus Embarks On Summer Long Tour | 06/2010 | Daedelus has tour dates in the coming months that bring him to the east coast, west coast, the UK and beyond. Live show information is now available. |
Busdriver US Shows | 06/2010 | Busdriver to play a selection of live dates on the West Coast, including a date with the legendary Freestyle Fellowship and a Dupstep set with 6BLOCC at the Henry Fonda Theater in L.A. |
Deru Featured In The Stranger | 06/2010 | Just ahead of his performance with Glitch Mob in Seattle, Deru has been featured in The Stranger. |
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