…maybe your ex-girlfriend…?
Posted in Music with tags beer, Deborah Hudson, Kanye West, white people on December 10, 2008 by blackdaveThis might sound like stand up or something, but white people seriously need to stop drinking alcohol. One of my favorite things they do is reaffirm their relationship with those around them. “I know you’re my wife, but I just wanted to say I love you”. Yo, fuck you. You think she doesn’t know that? I love when people come to me like, “For a black kid, you’re really smart.” I would like to inform those people of a few things:
1) I don’t drink and you sound fucking stupid.
B) Yes, I am really smart.
3) Fuck you.
I also love when white people act shocked that they’ve ran out of that shit. “How’d we run out of beer, I swear the 18 pack between the 8 of us should have lasted longer!” And to you, I want to tell you a few things:
1) There has been an uneven distro of alcohol and you need to fight someone.
2) You can’t count.
3) Fuck you.
It really all makes sense if you think about it.
Speaking of cents, how’s that new Yeezy record. If you’re not connected to the world, Yeezy is Kanye “white people wish they could hold me down” West. I’ll be reviewing his new record, titled ‘808s and Heartbreaks’ in my next update.
I have a friend who sounds many times more beautiful than you do while playing the acoustic guitar.
www.myspace.com/deborahhudsonmusic
If you’re stupid and can’t read, he name is Deborah Hudson.
6 More Reasons Why EVA is the Best Band Ever
Posted in Music, white people with tags EVA, Halloween, Sierra Emerge, Sierra Kusterbeck, Versa Emerge on November 8, 2008 by blackdaveIndietronichristiacore
Posted in Music, Rant, white people with tags Band of Horses, bike, busy, car, car wreck, class, dog, downtown, genre, helmet, insomnia, Kirk Franklin, love, Olympics, Shakespeare, Skyeatsairplane, Swagger Like Us, vagoo, Viking on October 21, 2008 by blackdaveHey. I’m gonna let you know now that I only have one planned thing that I’m gonna be talking about, and that everything else is opposite of that.
I was talking to one of my friends last night about genres in music and how bands define themselves and are usually completely wrong. I wouldn’t be surprised if I read a band description like:
We sound sort of like skyeatsairplane, but with a twist of Kirk Franklin. But also sorta not like skyeatsairplane. It’s like if Kirk Franklin was the vocalist of skyeatsairplane, but if they didn’t sound like skyeatsairplane, but if it wasn’t actually skyeatsairplane. Almost sort of like Band of Horses. We’re definitely electronic/gospel/indie. I mean, you can check our myspace for details.
Swagger Like Us ended up becoming a single, by the way.
So, I talked recently about how dudes with hot girlfriends look completely ridiculous, and to add on to that…dudes who aren’t just absolutely in love, but look like a faggot doing it. Nigga like picks up a Shakespeare book and is reading that shit while he looks into his girl’s eye’s reading that shit. So what you’re trying to tell me is that when you read her that book while looking into her eyes(which means he was making shit up because you can’t read AND look into someone’s eyes at the same time) is gonna get you that level 2 vagoo? That’s a lie.
I said vagoo. That’s right.
I love it when people have been too busy to hang out or do other miscellaneous things. When I ask someone to hang out and they tell me they’re busy, I tell then “I know you aren’t 24 hours busy today” and then I stop talking to them for a bit. A bit being like a week or two. What you’re telling me is that waking up 2 hours before class, going to class for 3 hours, coming home for 2 hours, working for 4 hours, and staying up for 6 more hours on your probably laptop is 24 hours busy? Fuck you. You know what I do? Wake up an hour before work, work for 4 hours, then sit on my ass and blog about niggas who think that the 9 hours they spent sitting around or “getting ready” is being busy. I think busy would entail something like getting chased by large dogs or joining the Olympics, or even a pie eating contest. Another awesome activity that would constitute you as busy is riding around town in your car and trying to look as awesome as you can…and for those of you who live downtown(location doesn’t matter…downtown anywhere), you ride your bike around like you’re trying to stay fit. That could constitute as busy, but only if you have on a helmet. I’m an advocate of….helmets.
Speaking of helmets, you think if you wore a Viking helmet while driving that you’d be safer from wrecks?
I want you to think on that.
THURSDAY SIGNS TO EPITAPH!
Posted in Music with tags Epitaph, thumbs up, Thursday on October 1, 2008 by blackdaveHere’s a release from Thursday:
To All Our Friends and Fans-
Today we are very pleased to announce that we have signed with Epitaph Records. We would like to take this opportunity to tell everyone why we are so excited about this partnership and how we believe it will affect our future.
Many of you already know that we have had many difficulties with our record labels in the past, both “Independents” and “Majors”, and have subsequently taken some time (a year and a half) to decide on a new situation. In this time, we’ve been meeting with labels from all over the country as well as discussing the possible alternatives to “signing” with a label. Some fascinating and intelligent people took the time to help us see what we were looking for (and some Record Execs inadvertently showed us what to avoid). From distribution deals, where we would be our own “label”, to digital releases with suggested donations, we tried to educate ourselves to all the new and exciting ways that people can get their music out.
One of our biggest concerns was that we find a situation where we could be free to just be Thursday. In the past we’ve been asked to be the poster boys for a movement that we didn’t wish to be a part of, pressured to write “The Big Single” and told to work on our “image.” As much as we’ve always tried to remain true to our vision for the band and our belief in the basic power of music, it has been a struggle to constantly deflect the suggestions and advice of the people surrounding us. In this way, our story is an all-too-common one in today’s music industry: We jumped in at the deep end and found ourselves trying to swim with the sharks; even when we were winning, we were losing ourselves. We feel very lucky to have outlasted these challenges and are grateful for the chance to finally do things our own way.
So why did we choose Epitaph? Of all the exciting and liberating options available to us, we found the idea of entering into a partnership with a label that we’ve always loved to be the most exciting idea. In this new era of music distribution we still see value in aligning ourselves with a company of dedicated and hard working people rather than trying to conduct all of the business ourselves. We want to keep our focus on music and touring. Epitaph have continually voiced their desire to help us become the band that WE have always wanted to be. It’s a great feeling to have a label encourage you to be more socially conscious and politically active. It’s a great feeling to have a label owner push you to explore the most experimental and challenging aspects of your band’s music instead of dissuading you. It’s a truly great feeling to be working with a label that all of our friends have had so many great experiences with. And it certainly doesn’t hurt to work with a label that has put out many of our favorite records and is run by someone who’s been in a touring band.
Brett G. was very clear that he wasn’t looking to create any hype about a “return to form” for Thursday and he has never asked us to revisit the style of song writing that we used on Full Collapse (still our biggest selling album to date) but that we should continue to write with the firm intent of making our best record, our true “dream record” and that was especially informative in our decision to sign. We love our early records but the reason we still write music together, every single day, after ten years is that we believe our best records are still unwritten. We are very inspired by Bad Religion’s post-Atlantic albums and look forward to our Epitaph years.
In short we’ve always believed that music has the power to change lives and that all of us who have been lucky enough to make music for a living have a responsibility to try and make the world a more compassionate and livable place in any small way that they can. We hope that with Epitaph’s help and guidance we can do our part.
Thanks for listening,
Tim, Tom, Geoff, Andrew, Tucker and Steve (Thursday)
Thursday’s Ten Favorite Epitaph Releases (in no order):
Refused “Shape of Punk to Come”
Hot Water Music “Caution”
The Bouncing Souls “Hopeless Romantic”
Bad Religion “Suffer”
Converge “No Heroes”
Tom Waits “Mule Variations”
NOFX “Punk In Drublic”
Rancid “Let’s Go!”
Atmosphere “Seven’s Travels”
Grinderman, “Grinderman”
Some Organizations That We Support (maybe you will too?):
Shirts For A Cure/SSE: www. shirtsforacure. com/
Human Rights Campaign: www. mencanstoprape. org/
Men Can Stop Rape: www. mencanstoprape. org/
And I’m sure y’all niggas are like, “I thought you only like electronic hardcore bands and rappers that aren’t Lil’ Wayne?”
I’m more hip than your mom when she had you, alright? Fuck off.
I wanna put a smiley face right there. Maybe a thumbs up. Definitely a thumbs up.
Peace bitches.
