Megawords, the free, Philadelphia based magazine, takes up residence in Chinatown for the month for their Storefront installation.
Megawords…will leap off the page and into a month-long storefront exhibition during September 2008. The Megawords storefront project and exhibition will include a month-long period of intense activity including permanent and rotating installations, guest speakers, musical performances, workshops and film screenings.
Highlights include “Nail Me”, an interactive nail salon with Amanda Blank and Rose Luardo of Sweatheart, a Ted Passon film screening, Zoe Strauss workshop and much, much more from now until September 30th.
When I first heard Ready To Uff I put down my pencil and just looked at the computer for second. This girl was fucking killing it on so many levels. She had a decent flow, semi nice voice, and was flippin some next level fourth generation baltimore club inspired beat. Shit I guess that was in 2006. Then she had a really dope long standing fued with Curtis Vodka and Oxy Cottontail and that inspired Dissmissed probably the best track of the Ed Rec Vol 2 CD which I bought and felt incredibly slighted by the lack of linear notes on the CD. I went to see Uffie play her first US gig (although she’s American) at the Hiro Ball room in New York to ice grill her and talk shit. Instead I ended up enjoying the set and was singing along with the three songs I knew at that time. It also gave me plenty of time to build with Feadz who was absolutly killing it on the decks. But it was kinda dope Amanda Blank came out and rapped her verse of bump over the Switch remix and got the crowd hype as shit. I went back stage with all of them and hung out with Pase Rock and XXX Change while drinking free vodka and getting crunk with J-Uzi and talking shit. At that time I was kinda dissapointed with Uffies second single but was hype as shit for this track that leaked over UK radio which turned out to be the verse from ttthhee parrryy that justice remixed for there album. That shit should have come out.
But any ways Uffie still wowed crowds and is killing it. Today I am not really sure what the fuck she is up to except showing her bobs on blogs and some shit. Fuck if I know you are gonna have to email Hipster Run Off and see whats good. Thats like the best blog out there right now.
Uffie I feel for you boo. I’m a still holler. I gave you that Hollertronix Shirt and I am kinda pissed it never showed up in a photo shoot or a magazine. Time to make another one..
Santogold mania just doesn’t stop as she was named MTV artist of the week this week and for her on air spots, she brought along some friends including Sweatheart, Amanda Blank, Chris Devlin (of BBC) and Plastic Little all after the jump. (more…)
You see that right there? Thats Amanda Blank ready to rip your nuts out with her perfectly pink manicured nails. You better hope they’re not Lee Press ons either or else they’ll probably just come off and then they would be stuck in there like a sliver that just keeps on giving. Thats right folks, Sweatheart performs at the Barbary tonight with the Doyle and Jacci Stallone. It’s $5 and you can totally get Colt 45 pounders for like $2. Go ahead and click on Sweatheart below and watch some of their awesome videos. I’m totally going to put on some Winger…
The NY Times profiled the new crop of female MC’s this past weekend, many of which we’ve been covering for awhile, including Amanda Blank, Santogold, Kid Sister and Yo Majesty (playing this Friday at 4am, guestlist here).
But in the wake of the critical favorite M.I.A., a new crop of young, multicultural, female hip-hop acts is causing a stir on the Internet and in indie-label conference rooms. There’s Kid Sister, a cheeky, charismatic rapper from Chicago who recently released a video featuring Kanye West; Amanda Blank, a nasty-mouthed M.C. from Philadelphia who is associated with the hipster male hip-hopper Spank Rock; and Santogold, a new-wavey singer and dub-style rapper from Brooklyn who toured with Bjork last fall.
Holla! This is going to be a huge year for these three girls as all three expect to release albums this year. The only qualm I have is that they say Santi is from Brooklyn. They later go on to correct themselves and say that Santi is “now living in Brooklyn” but don’t mention that she is from Philly.
The Inquirer just released their Spring music announcing 8 in ‘08 to watch out for and it features some of our favorites on the list including the power couple above.
The YMD: set for the spring release of the hilarious Excuse Me, This Is the Yah Mos Def on Princeton’s My Pal God records. Santogold: Santogold, her self-titled debut, comes out in April. Nouveau Riche: A new EP is due next month, and a full-length by year’s end. They play Silk City, with TuPhace, on Feb. 12. Diplo: putting the finishing touches on a Brazilian music movie called Favela on Blast that dazzles even as a work in progress. He’s got a solo album coming with vocal tracks from artists as varied as Cat Power and rapper Bun B, and a reggae dancehall album with British DJ Switch. And, oh yeah, he’s spinning on the MySpace tour as the opening act for Justice, at the Electric Factory March 10. Spank Rock and Amanda Blank: both will have albums out on the Downtown label.
Behind the (cold) scenes of the cover shoot for the next Urb. One miss Amanda Blank, a couple Cool Kids and the Queen of Downtown, Roxy/Oxy Cottontail.
I try to stay away from excessive youtube postings since I can’t watch this shit at work but I just saw this promo thing for North American South American were these dudes got all these fucking pretty cool artists together to make music. Some of the stuff sounds like its gonna be wack, like dope on paper but wack cause the executive producers are on some super West Coast Hip Hop shit. But then some of those tracks sounded really fucking incredible. Like that shit with Amanda Blank and Sizzla.
Where as all yall were hoping to see booties in B.O.O.T.A.Y. and it was entirely too wholesome, the gang made up for it with this one. Favorite comment so far “wow,i’ve never seen a porn music video this is amazing.” Think Spank Rock invading a porn shoot and rapping with lots of champagne. Couple friends stop by including Brendan Bring’em, Rose from Sweatheart and Dirty South Joe. In the immortal words of Amanda Blank “These bitches is nasssttyy.”
UPDATE: Imeem pulled the video down, but its up on youtube, probably not for long.
We are proud as punch to unleash the video premiere of “B.O.O.T.A.Y”, from Bangers & Cash, aka the twisted minds of Spank Rock and Benny Blanco. The song and video also features the talents of the lovely Illvia (of Kudu) and Santogold (of her own damn self). Directed by Jesse Engaard, known for his much-loved video for Spank Rock’s “Rick Rubin”
Holla. Recognize where its shot at? Yo, so I had issues with the player (on the rcrd lbl site) where it would stop and start over if it hadn’t finished loading. Hit play now, and go check your email and then come back to it. Hey, its better quality than YouTube and the video is the jump off.
