Spinning some Mackaper at Lava Row
By Greg Swan, on February 4th, 2011%
I’m in Des Moines for a funeral — thus no post yesterday — and am working remotely from the luxurious offices of Lava Row.
LR is set up in a sweet warehouse loft across the street from the Iowa Cubs baseball stadium in downtown Des Moines. I love working here for a number of reasons, one being that they’re always spinning sweet tunes for the team to enjoy in their open space workstations.
Hillabean took off to grab us some food and cut off her tunes. I immediately searched the music mailbox for something cool/strange/weird/memorable to play for them and discovered a . . . → Read More: Spinning some Mackaper at Lava Row
By Greg Swan, on February 2nd, 2011%
MP3: The Seedy Seeds – . . . → Read More: Happy Groundhog Day with The Seedy Seeds
By Greg Swan, on February 1st, 2011%
Sims, a Minnesota native and member of Minneapolis rap collective Doomtree (P.O.S., Dessa, Lazerbeak, Paper Tiger, Cecil Otter, and Mike Mictlan), is set to drop his second full length album, Bad Time Zoo, on February 15, 2011.
He just sent over this unboxing video, complete with using a box cutter to mutilate the cover art to make a shark. A SHARK! Then a lion. Then a vulture!! So cool.
Love the creativity and innovation here to reinforce the value of buying a physical album. The song is an instrumental version of “Weight” off the new . . . → Read More: OMG sweet unboxing video for Sims’ Bad Time Zoo
By Greg Swan, on February 1st, 2011%
Lady Lazarus is the solo music project of Melissa Ann Sweat, a poet, writer and handful of other things from Savannah, Georgia.
This is off her debut album, Mantic, out January 18th…
MP3: Lady Lazarus – “Sick Child”
Creepy. Dissonant. Kind of feels like a storm is looming large, poised to destroy all in its path. That’s my . . . → Read More: A song for an impending storm
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