Three reasons to get reacquainted with your old friend, fun, tonight at Subterranean…
1. It’s impossible to resist a musical group that describes itself as band of “gypsy punks and Balkan pimps.” The description is not entirely inaccurate. BomBBone‘s lead singer Roni Bombboni is a native of Sarajevo who truly becomes the Bosian Elvis, with suit to match, when he jumps on stage. BomBBone can play hard and fast punk with funny lyrics about not wanting to kill Fabio now that the author bought a Casio, and traditional eastern European gypsy music with plenty of rock flare. WATCH: “bombbone.”
And now three reasons to forget the Bears ever even played yesterday and get to Reggie’s tonight…
1. The local and national hip-hop community waited about three years for The Cool Kids’ official debut, When Fish Ride Bicycles. And when it was release this past summer, fans were greeted with a very solid album featuring the Midwestern duo’s minimal digi-rhythms and gritty yet hook-filled rhymes. When Fish Ride Bicycles may not have been the game changer that the delay hype brought on, but it satisfied in it’s old school feel meets new school delivery. WATCH: “Bundle Up”
Generally, when I listen to Kid Sister, the word “menacing” never comes to mind, but on her track “Mickey,” off her new four-song EP Kiss & Tell, the Chicago-based MC gets pretty fierce.
As soon as you press play, the back beat thunders as Kid Sister’s flow pulses over the track. At times, “Mickey,” sounds and feels like a hip-shaking track by sultry electro-rocker Peaches, due to Kid Sister’s confident, larger-than-life attitude.
Chicago’s Rhymefest might have finally released his long awaited album, El Che, this summer, but he’s not quite done releasing new music just yet. His new song “Mermaid”, for which he held a contest for fans to create a photo-video, is a smooth and melodic electro-tinged jam. According Elchethemovement.com, Rhymefest states, “My new song “Mermaid” is about being with a beautiful woman who I can’t breathe with. Ultimately, she ends up killing me because she hates my world & I can’t live in hers.” Damn. Pretty dark stuff for one of his more poppy tracks. Anyway, check out the Bryan Carr & Francis Kmiecik-directed clip below:
Chicago Hip-Hop duo Qwel & Maker are prepping their new album, Owl, for release on Galapagos4 on September 10, and to the left you can hear the first single titled “El Camino”.
Qwel & Maker was born out of an occasional collaboration between Chicago MC Qwel and Chicago DJ/producer Maker that has developed into a full-fledged musical partnership. The duo were described by Rolling Stone magazine as having, “stark, biographical songs that occupy the same bleak terrain as Francis Bacon paintings or The Dark Knight.”
Still, according to a Ground Lift Media press release, Qwel & Maker have matured since their 2009 sophomore LP So Be It, which can be heard in “El Camino”. The track features some melodic samples over snare-heavy beats, and the laid-back delivery from Qwel that is a tottaly throwback to old-school hip-hop sounds from Jurassic 5, Talib Kweli and influential predecessors A Tribe Called Quest.
The Chicago wordsmith performed four songs from her 2009 album Ultraviolet including “Pro Nails,” “Daydreaming,” “Right Hand Hi” and “Switch Board.”
You can stream Kid Sister’s entire set right now or download it for free in 128K MP3 format at Daytrotter.com.
Daytrotter is loving on Chicago. It was only last week that we told you about fellow Chicagoans The Light Pollution recording their own Daytrotter Session. By Audrey Leon\comments
The tracks will not necessarily be a new Kanye track, as the previous link states, it could be a new Jay-Z tune or something else entirely. The tracks look to come out on Fridays, which West again tweets that he’s calling it “Good Friday.”
So, stay tuned. Sounds like we’ve got quite a few new tracks coming our way. And as we previously reported, West will make his triumphant return to the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, September 12.
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