World's Fair

Get ‘em while you can! More World’s Fair giveaways coming up @ Culture Bully so get yr RSS on!

Artist: Pela
Album: Anytown Graffiti
Label: Great Society / World’s Fair
Street Date: April 24th, 2007
Format: CD, digital
Shop: Insound | Amazon | iTunes | eMusic

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Fri - Aug 31 The Veils @ Off Broadway Nightclub, St. Louis, MO
Sun - Sep 02 The Veils @ Download Music Festival, Troy, WI
Tue - Sep 04 The Veils @ Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH
Wed - Sep 05 The Veils @ El Mocambo, Toronto, ON
Thu - Sep 06 The Veils @ Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ottawa, ON
Sat - Sep 08 The Veils @ Osheaga Festival, Montreal, QC
Mon - Sep 10 The Veils @ Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY

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Hell yes! Tiny Masters art-rock hip UK magazine Artrocker on their Aug. 7th issue. Out September 25th in US/Canada on Great Society / World’s Fair.

Tiny Masters of Today - “K.I.D.S.” [DOWNLOAD]

Tiny Masters of Today - “Hey Mr. DJ” [STREAM]

Tiny Masters of Today - “Radio Riot” [STREAM]

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Pick up a copy of the latest CMJ New Music Monthly as Budos and Dap-Kings guitarist Tommy talks shop and reveals his “Weapon of Choice” (his 1959 Silvertone hollow body guitar):

“When you talk equipment with the Budos Band, keep in mind this isn’t your average collection of white guys… Guitarist Thomas Brenneck runs down some of what it takes to make the Budos live experience come, well, alive (even when it’s hard to tell if he’s half-joking).” - CMJ New Music Monthly, Issue 149/150

The stellar reviews keep flowing in…

“At the start of the new second album by the Budos Band, simply titled “The Budos Band II,” a double blast of horns ushers in a liquid groove that channels the spirit of Fela Kuti, Tony Allen, and a generation of Afro-funk innovators. It’s to the point of osmosis, but this isn’t Lagos circa 1972: It’s New York City in 2007, at a time when Brooklyn hipster label Daptone has become curator and celebrant of an old-school soul revival. And the Budos, 11 mostly white dudes from Staten Island, have expanded that movement’s scope into Afrobeat.” - Boston Globe [READ MORE]

“On this album, The Budos Band do for instrumental psychedelic funk what the Chemical Brothers did for house music with “Exit Planet Dust” - The Link, Greenville, SC

Artist: The Budos Band
Album: The Budos Band II [LISTEN]
Label: Daptone Records
Street Date: August 7th, 2007 - Out Now!
Formats: CD, vinyl, mp3

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The Tripwire’s on it! “It’s about damn time” they say…

Mon-Oct-15 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell’s
Tue-Oct-16 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda’s
Thu-Oct-18 New York, CMJ
Fri-Oct-19 Washington, DC Black Cat
Sun-Oct-21 Cambridge, MA Middle East Downstairs

On the verge of announcing new EP and LP! Stay tuned for the further decline of…

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Credits: Maryanne, Brendon

And we have to shout out KEXP’s John In The Morning & the KEXP blog

“Darek had just been reminding me to stop being so shy at events and that’s when it hit me:

A. I haven’t crowd surfed in maybe 6 or 7 years

B. No one in Seattle has crowd surfed in 6 or 7 years

C. I’m pretty wasted

Then it was ON. ” [READ MORE]

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Although the debut full length CD by Unfiltered Records’ latest A&R pop wunderkinds The Grey Race is scheduled for September 18th release, fans of melodic soft rock should definitely cash in on the Andy Chase effect right now as “Give It Love”, the debut full-length is available at iTunes and eMusic.

Artist: The Grey Race
Album: Give It Love
Label: Unfiltered Records / World’s Fair
Street Date: August 28th / September 18th 2007
Format: CD, digital
Shop: iTunes | eMusic

Sample the goods:

The Grey Race - “On the Chin” [DOWNLOAD]

The Grey Race - “Stop Inside Your Start” [STREAM]

The Grey Race - “Through Your Eyes” [STREAM]

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“Everyone grows up. It’s a process bathed in confusion, reflection, and ultimately triumph. Artists have to endure this trial in their personal lives as well as their craft, but great things can happen when the two intersect. After years of perfecting his syllable-cramming style and writing chops, Aesop Rock’s None Shall Pass is filled with precise lyrical detail and head-nodding production, and the result is his most accessible record of his career to date. Though he still prefers to shroud his ruminations in cryptic couplets — sometimes even borderline gibberish — None Shall Pass is the sound of this Def Jukie growing into his beats, rhymes, and life.” - 8.5 out of 10, PrefixMag [READ MORE]

Prefix also got the premiere of the faaaaaaaantastic Big Wiz Megamix!

Aesop Rock & DJ Big Wiz - “None Shall Pass” MegaMix [DOWNLOAD]

Read the interview in Brooklyn Vegan:

W: Mainstream Hip Hop seems to be spiraling down in popularity right now. What are your thoughts on the state of underground Hip Hop?

AR: I think it’s going down also to be honest. (laughs) The underground craze hit its peak in 2001/2002 with Def Jux, Stones Throw, Rhymesayers and other underground labels getting popular. But once you get past being people’s critical darling, in order to get the same praise your new stuff has to be five times better than before, because there won’t be that ‘new artist’ shock anymore. I just hope that people can appreciate diversity and originality again. [READ MORE]

Artist: Aesop Rock
Album: “None Shall Pass”
Label: Definitive Jux
Street Date: August 28th, 2007
Formats: CD, vinyl, mp3

CONNECT: Definitive Jux | Website | Aesop Rock Wins

Watch @ MTV Subterraneanblog

And the video itself - click here for your viewing pleasure.

“None Shall Pass” is in stores now!

CONNECT: Definitive Jux | Website | Aesop Rock Wins

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“Spewing tongue twisters (”Notice how the phobias appropriately procreate”), Aesop could seem a mere syllable-cramming show-off. But after repeated listenings to the Long Island rapper’s fifth disc, his dazzling verbal pointillism resolves into clever rants and full-blown stories such as ”Fumes” and ”The Harbor Is Yours.” … Okay, it ain’t ”Go shawty, it’s your birthday,” but Aesop’s wordplay will grow on you — and maybe expand your vocabulary at the same time. A- ” - Entertainment Weekly [READ MORE]

New album in stores tomorrow!

Stream the whole album @ AOL Spinner or Myspace

Enjoy the brand new video! Co-directed by Aesop Rock himself!

Artist: Aesop Rock
Album: “None Shall Pass”
Label: Definitive Jux
Street Date: August 28th, 2007
Formats: CD, vinyl, mp3 [PRE-ORDER]

CONNECT: Definitive Jux | Website | Aesop Rock Wins

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