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Hey sorry I know StoneMtn.'s prob'ly the only one with a good sense of the legal issues here but basically this just really upset me.

I often like daily go to Mitzi's on College which is at the foot of my street and order coffee or food and use their wifi - like countless environments around the city. There's a starbucks nearby or much much better The Common where I am now. In any case I've been totally broke and because of going through some really hard ass shit with the chef I worked for I guess I was pissing off the staff. I also burn them CD's all the time and hook them up with good tips and treats (I also worked in the exact same space when it was a Thai restaurant for a year, and probably drop $50-$100 there since they opened).

In any case in an absent minded moment and this was not unrelated to be in a bit of a mental health crisis I was on top of but struggling to manage- one day I ended up having to pay with a combo of quarters, nickels and alot of pennies (for like a $1.50 coffee). I also said to the girl working at the time 'you're catching me on a really bad day, I work for a really demanding chef and it's just embarassing'.

In any case this regular server a kid who went to my high school this morning just ignored me for twenty minutes then rudely told me 'I'm not going to serve you, you paid with pennies last week, that's not cool' I then left politely and asked when I could have a discussion with management about this and he rudely said something like management would back me up on this.

In any case I know alot about tenancy law with regard to mental health shit, and human rights shit and whatnot. I guess I wonder what would an act like this be a contravention of. The product was after all paid for in whatever currency.

I thought a few of you might find this interesting

http://northernheads.blogspot.com/2010/05/j-dillas-protege-black-milk.html

Yeah I'm talking about the legal shit the totally released by the artist shit.

Okay then email the shit to me lukecbowden@gmail.com

I don't think any of us need a moral diatribe on the issues surrounding file sharing.

Okay I know you're all sitting on shitgobs of music. Let's create a thread of sendspace or easily downloadable links of albums of note or high quality (note high quality recordings not performances).

This was an unbeliveably good shit kicking night of music. Sam can wail like Janice (on Turtle Blues the encore), Lucinda, Patsy, her and the Haggard's originals are super tight. They're definitely the newest crack crew of musicians fronted by a woman.

Welcome to my life, seriously.

Anybody who's seen Sam sit in with the Beauties (she also manages the Dakota by day), Hot Rock or with her own band The Haggard knows she's one of the finest Roots performers in the city today. Her show kicking off the long weekend at the Dakota tonight should be a ball.

I had a photographer there and another random studio photog who just took some unfuckingbelievable pics- expect a review and photo montage here soon.

They might, they might not- but they will have kicked my ass and saved my soul on more than a few thousand occasions.....

"projectionists and publicists, athletes and comedians

photographers and columnists, subscribers and enthusiasts

participants and spectators, the ragers and the clever kids

we're all actors and actresses

i want to thank you all for having me

a special thanks to the academy

for birthing me and blessing me

with this fantastic opportunity

to let the light shine down on me

now let us grieve for dead celebrities

we know them all from all the magazines"

Spectres from B-Sides

This was just fucking insane. I knew they'd be playing essentially the same setlist with a few variations but it's like I'd blocked it out of my mind (and admittedly I'd only caught the second set last time). Just some total ragged Rock & Roll, tasty touches from Michael Johnson (Skydiggers) that kept things on the rails, five horns (Rambunctious) played on the last 3 or 4. Sexsmith sang back up on one and keys and back up on another. Just a ridiculously beautiful night of music for 5 bucks!

Yeah that's what I meant everyone knows Kevin Hearn plays with BNL I just read like they play with both or whatever.

This is gonna be a sick concert with likely serious guests and horns I'd presume.

I don't like to post setlists when I think there's a chance it's a worked out set but with this crew you can bet they'll mix it up, count on slick keys (they've had pros like Michael Johnson and Kevin Hearn from Skydiggers sit in on keys, well Ron Sexmith sat in on keys and a tune last time too).

Hot Rock - O3/24/10 Dakota Tavern

Set I:

Happy

Get Off My Cloud

Monkey Man

Let It Bleed

Sweet Virginia

Live With Me

Brown Sugar

Beast of Burden

Shine A Light

Bitch

Waiting On A Friend

Can't You Me Knocking

Set II

Satisfaction

Honky Tonk Women

Loving Cup

Dead Flowers

Wild Horses

Tumblin' Dice

Under My Thumb

Let's Spend The Night Together

Miss You

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Gimme Shelter

Sympathy For The Devil

Hot Rock (The Beauties, Flash Lightnin' and Samantha Martin) play killer Stones

A bunch of great dates coming up if you've never seen The Beauties in their home environment of the Dakota this is a great chance to see them give life to their more nuanced material from their first release.

Hot Rock - Tues., May 17 Dakota Tavern

Hot Rock - Thurs., May 20 Tatoo Rock Parlour

Samantha Martin and the Haggard - Fri., May 21 Dakota Tavern

The Beauties opening for Blue Rodeo - Fri., May 21 Kee To Bala

The Beauties - Fri., May 28 Call The Office, London

The Beauties - Sat., May 29 Horseshoe Tavern

Oddly enough I made the exact same post on stillepost and the only recommendation was Caribou Swim which I had bought of my own accord prior to posting! Haven't listened yet but presume it's amazing.

I've bought this so far:

The National – High Violet

Blitzen Trapper – Wild Mountain Nation

Basement Jaxx – Scars

Ghostface Killah – Milk Em

Afro Samurai: Resurrection – The RZA

50 Hip Hop Classics - Various Artists

Hi-teknology Volume 2 – Hi-Tek

Wu-Tang Killa Bees: The Swarm - Wu Tang Clan

Iron Man 2 (Magnetized) – Blaq Fuego

Dillanthology Vol. 3 – J Dilla

Black Milk/ Fat Ray - Dirty District Vol. 3

Black Milk Presents: Caltroit – Black Milk

Dopeman Music - Scarface

I got given a substantial gift in the form of an emusic premium subscription from a friend and have alot of credits if you like to download new music.

If you could take a chance on or just knew you needed to buy certain new albums what would they be?

I've basically been on a crazy run of sous-chefing at the restaurant, still doing the mental health drop-in kitchen and likely writing and researching another 40 hrs. a week. Easily just 5 hrs. sleep a night and at the gym first thing at 6:00 every morning. Slept 'til 8 and got a bunch of wicked emails from cool people, my buddy hooked me up with his premium emusic subscription to just download a whack of brand new licensed emusic - just listening to a crispy Wild Mountain Nation that pulled in about 13 seconds.

I'm smoking mad med pot and reading new Marvel comics all day fuck it!

Hey when you pull down those .rar files and it reads as a blank file graphically is it corrupted or does it just need to be unzipped? I'm a dullard.

Yeah I've been listening to this Excision set for the last hour it's quite good - takes me back to some Mickey Finn or Darren J jungle party.

Thanks for the link (oh and lowroller keeps me informed about why... what is that band A Perfect Circle... why those guys are supposed to be good.. .. no wait it's the Catherine Wheel you love those guys don't you).

Gaslamp Killer is not really a Dupstep DJ. He could be the worlds greatest psych-rock dj who mixes in dubstep and hip hop and whatnot

Couldn't agree more. Really with everything that's been said. You know what I need seriously is some just some straight up point and click mp3s you guys can tip me to (particularly this Wu dubstep Eric!!!) that I can pull down and get on my ipod before I have to chef it up at the restaurant tonight. The owner and I have a shared love of Prince, he was a DJ and he has a shared love for many of the things we all love to ingest so somehow I can play this stuff at the resto.

Thanks seriously. The epic name drop by the by wasn't meant to be pretentious as fuck, I'm sure it was, I basically love my neighborhood and as a music journo I love being able to interact with my heroes (like Matt Murphy aka Guy Terrifico aka Lil Orton Hoggett is seriously one of my heroes) on a daily basis within blocks of my house is cool. The more important part you don't seem to get is that Hendricks take on Collett informs my writing on Jason, kc's take on performers as a booker and audiophile influences me, Eric's take on production informs my take on production, BradM or Pete's tape's allow me to revisit shows and pick out musical or lyrical details and dynamics. Essentially for all my 'gotta be cruel to be kind' shit I do get a great deal of insight out of this community.

I do like DZ's Old Timers and I implicitly trust your guys take on in particular your taste in this case in music (I trust the Sloth implicitly who once told me that Jason Collett's Hangover Days was one of the best -Canadian?- pop songs written in the past decade which I agree with and have forwarded the compliment to Jason as recently as yesterday actually- ran into him at the Y, also ran into Chris Murphy, Matt Murphy, Gentleman Reg, and Champagne James from Run With The Kittens within a one block radius of my house and the gym).

I think I agree with the technical points you're making I don't think that Killer's a better DJ because he waves his arms around and shit. I mean how many dubstep DJ's get invited into QBert's lab? It's his much more expansive understanding of so-called 'world music', Turkish pop and psychedelia, left-field and mainstream hip hop - plus his dextrous mixes that make him such a threat.

Guaranteed Sloth's jaw would be on the floor at a Gaslamp Killer show, he'd drop into Jimi, he'd drop J Dilla, Turkish Pyschedelia, King Monitor Sound, Big Pimpin'. The guy controls sound.

You're listening to his releases or mixtapes and not watching his live sets from events. He's a visual performer and needs to be seen, you also see his deep appreciation for the music and textures he's conjuring and by seeing him execute mixes you get a sense of just how good he is technically beyond repertoire. And I'm sure Gaslamp and Gonji Sufi have worked together they're both Flying Lotus, or have been, non?

Trust me pack a bong and do whatever you do and listen to this clip. Period.

Gaslamp pretty much has to be seen to be believed. If you have even a passing interest in dub, dubstep, club, house, hip hop or left field psychedelia you should do yourself the chance of checking out a set of the Gaslamp Killer.

Gaslamp Killer live set from Manchester, UK (he destroys)