Gnarls Barkley - Boogie Monster Chicago Afrobeat Project - Superstar Pt. 7
Bobby 'Boris' Picket - Monster Mash L. Hollis & the Mackadoos - Bui Bui
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Jumpin' Gene Simmmons - Haunted House Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I put a spell on you The Poppy Family - Where Evil Grows Fabienne Delsol - I'm Gonna Haunt You Gloria Jones - Tainted Love Lavern Baker - Voodoo Voodoo Charles Sheffield - It's Your Voodoo Workin'
Johnny Otis Show - Castin' My Spell The Beattle-ettes - Seventeen Louis Farrakahn - Zombie Jamboree The Bootles - I'll let you hold my hand The FAbulous Brothers - Run For Cover (Dells)
Shirley Bassey - Light My Fire Dave and Ansil Collins - Double Barrell
Soul Unlimited - Raving Vampire, Pt. 1 Kermit Ruffins - Drop Me Off In New Orleans Marie Queen Lions - Fever
JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound - Baltimore is the New Brooklyn The Rebirth Brass Band - I Feel Like Funkin It Up
The Fresh Prince and Dj Jazzy Jeff - Nightmare on My Street The Fat Boys - Are YOu Ready For Freddy?
Dawn Silva And The Brides of Funkenstein - Whole Lotta Game Ruth Copeland & Funkadelic - Gimme Shelter The What Four - I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy
Sugar Pie DeSanto - I Want To Know Irma Thomas - Don't Look Down Barbara Stephens - Wait A Minute Ruby Andrews - Everybody Saw You Helen Shipiro - Stop & You'll Be Aware Little Eva - You've Been Talkin' bout me Baby Earnestine Eady - The Change Major Lance - Cryin' In The Rain Roosevelt Grier - In My Tenement Rita & The Tiaras - Gone With The Wind Is My Love Marie Knight - That's No Way To Treat a Girl Jackson 5 - I Want You Back (Z Trip Remix)
The Explosions - Hip Drop The Artistics - Leave It Up to You 24 Carat Black - 24 Carat Black
Curtis Mayfield - Live Frank Penn - Gimme Some Skin
Betty Davis - F.U.N.K. Yvonne Fair - Funky Music Sho 'nuff Turns Me On Little Sister - Stanga Isis - April Fool
Ten Wheel Drive w/ Genya Ravan - Ain't Gonna Happen Sweet Linda Divine - I'll Say It Again Ruth Copeland & Funkadelic - Gimme Shelter
Clarence Carter - Snatching It Back Eddie Floyd - Good Love, Bad Love
The Temptations - Since I Lost My Baby Sweet Breeze - Good Thing
Thomas Bailey & the Flintstones Band - The Flintstones Shuffle War - Slippin Into Darkness The Philadelphia All Stars - Let's Clean Up the Ghetto Funkadelic - TV promo for Funkentelechy
Friday, October 19, 2007
It's Saturday morning. Glass Candy is playing at Debonair. Digitalism is playing at Smart Bar. Meneguar and Parsley Flakes are probably already finished over at PeopleProjects, ditto Suffering Bastard and TwoDeadSlutsOneGoodFuck over at Mister City. Me? I'm smokin' a hookah in my parents basement, watching an awesome documentary about Klaus Nomi.
It's Sunday morning. I'm watching "Shaun of the Dead". I guess five pm doesn't technically count as morning, but it's Halloweekend, and I've only been up a few hours, I got a job this month, putting up a clothing store on Belmont. With this, coupled with my two days at Reckless and my two weeks at Feed, I will have completed the trilogy of hipster jobs. Hopefully I can keep this one though. Right now I'm working six days a week, and I've been prioritizing going to shows and parties, more than writing about them.
Here are a few tidbits
Cobrasnake Presents Fierce Velcro Lewis Latino Fest Be Are Trio Begotten March Fourth
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art Date: 10/9/07 Bands: Califone, The 1900s, The Eternals, Flosstradamus with the Cool Kids Cost: FREE! Drinks: $4 312 Things I missed to be there: The John Cage Musicircus at the Cultural Center; The Watson Twins at the Empty Bottle; Lovers in Arms and Phillip Morris at the Beat Kitchen Reason for going: I really wanted to see Flosstradamus and the Eternals after missing them repeatedly. One out of two ain't bad
We're standing on that island off the Magnificent Mile where all the horse carriages rest. Dan's skateboard screeches and grinds to a stop when we come across a familiar face. A very blunted familiar face.
"Where y'all comin from?" "They just had a show at the museum." "Who played?" "Flosstradamus and the Cool Kids." "Rock shit?" "Naw dude, hip hop." "They hip hop or they rap?" "A little of both. Club shit." "What they name is? Cool Kids?" "Yeah." "They black?" "Yeah." "You sure they black?" "Yeah." "I don't know man. Not with a name like the Cool Kids."
I was actually disappointed with the Cool Kids, and how much more rap they were then hip hop. Coming up after a frenzied Flosstradamus set, the Cool Kids came off as low energy. The music was just slow, and the vocals weren't mixed well. It was a hot day, hot enough that we had athletes dying on the street, and I chose to excuse myself and try to see some of the air conditioned Rock/Art exhibit, rather than wait for them to pick up the tempo. They did, of course, with more remix-heavy material that had a stagediving Hollywood Holt getting passed through a sweaty crowd and pumped fists from any hand that wasn't being used to prop him up.
The event was thrown in conjunction with the MCA's fortieth anniversary celebration(s), and their Rock/Art show, an exhibit so bright, loud, and flashy it would give Andy Warhol a seizure...or an orgasm. The party was thrown by the cats who started the Intonation Festival, and opened up the floodgates for all those stupid outdoor indie festivals that piss me off all summer. The way I heard it, they cancelled this year's fest (which was rumored to be featuring Yoko Ono and M.I.A., who ended up performing at Pitchfork and Lollapalooza, respectively) because of money, but the way they play it on their myspace, they didn't want to do it because everyone else was.
This made more sense anyway. Chicago bands playing for Chicagoans for free. The only thing that would have made it better was a later starting time. If I tried harder, I could have gotten there in time for the Eternals, who veer wildly from dance to noise, in a way very reminiscent of Indian Jewelry, but as it was I got there just in time for their last jam. I assume though, that this show wasn't for me. It seemed like every motherfucker I knew was out and about but it wasn't for them either, in the same way that the festival wasn't for me. It was a treat for people who don't get out much, who haven't been missing Flosstradamus parties or Schubas upstairs residencies because they had other shit to go to, but because they had kids or grown folks jobs that wouldn't allow it. I had a good time though. It was a novelty to get sweaty dancey like that with the sun bearing down, and something most people can't pull off (which may account for the hits-heavy Flosstradamus set in all of its ecumenical Kanye, Jay-Z, Daft Punk goodness).
The MCA has thrown a lot of good events over the years, but this was the closest I've felt to how I did back in 2001, when they threw the last of their 24-hour summer solstice parties.
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Date: 10/7/07 Location: Heart of Gold Show: Puppet Night Cost: Donation? Drinks: $2 beer $4 mixed Things I missed to be there: Apocalypticrust 2007 with Al-Thawra, Demonslaught, Sangre De Abajo and more at the Black Hole; Lord of the Yum Yum at Cal's; Avant Halloween with Mr. Bobby, Cophandz, Menowah and more Reason for going: I was sad, and puppets cure sadness
Friday, October 05, 2007
Tom Waits - Shake It Genders - Clothesline Bellafea - No Reply GD Luxxe - Hands
Coldcut - EIUC (Solid Groove Remix) M.I.A. - Bamboo Banda Warhammer 48K -?????? Jackie O Motherfucker - The Louder Roared the Sea Mad Happy - File 2 the Metal Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control Serengeti - Very Ill
Acid Mothers Temple - The Tales of Solar Sail - Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky
