Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:00PM - By davidhall
Despite the early set time (12:45 p.m.), Themselves‘ Sunday (April 19) show in the Gobi tent at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival drew a sizable audience that didn’t seem phased by the sweltering heat. While producer Jel (Jeff Logan) pounded Heinekens between laying down erratic beats, emcee Doseone skipped around the stage with enough genuine vigor to keep the crowd alert and dancing for a solid 40 minutes. Gotta love that intellectual-white-boy hip-hop.
Peep some pics from the show below…
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:15PM - By davidhall
If you’re heading down to good ol’ Austin, TX for SXSW this week and you haven’t arrived yet, get reading to hit the ground running. I’m an Austinite myself (yes, that is our title), so I know the city back-to-front, but it’s always difficult to prepare for the throngs of people clogging the downtown streets.
Air travel was a nightmare (Dallas- Fort Worth’s airport was an anxiety-ridden scene of stranded South by Southwesters), and traffic on the freeway slowed me down even further, but once I finally joined the mob on Red River Street for Day 1 (March 18th), the feeling of joy was immeasurable…
After grabbing my wristband from the Austin Convention Center, I followed the sweet sounds of power-pop to one of Austin’s trendiest clubs, Beauty Bar. Since it was only a tad before 10 p.m., the line moved quickly, and soon I was soaking up the New Wave-infused glory of Fol Chen (above), who delivered their brand of (usually) production-heavy pop-rock with an erratic punk-rock twist.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:00AM - By sergiosoto
Jeffrey “Jel” Logan and Adam “Doseone” Drucker, known together as Themselves, are releasing a full length album, for free, through Anticon Records. “theFREEhoudini,” is a 39-minute mind-altering Rap album that features: Aesop Rock, Busdriver, Lionesque, Slug of Atmosphere, D-Styles, DJ Baku, Pedestrian, Sole, Yoni Wolf (of Why?), and Odd Nosdam (as cLOUDDEAD), among others. These guys are here to make some honest rapping happen. Very artistically made, this album attributes much of its success to the mixing of Odd Nosdam.
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