World's Fair

Daptone Record’s the Budos Band has been continuing to assert its afro-beat-funk dominance on the West Coast with a handful of dates this past weekend, including a Friday Night gig in Seattle for the record release party of the Saturday Knights (got that?).

(Photo by Abbey Simmons/The Seattlest)

The omniscient Seattlest was there, and here’s what they had to say:

Our brief summary: the Budos Band sounds like “Hot damn!” spicy, and we’re head-over-heels for the sunny punk-pop-rap-rock of The Saturday Knights.

The classy Budos Band, aptly labeled as Afro-soul funk by critics, played a diverse and absolutely danceable set. We loved “Up From The South” and “Budos Rising,” both of which you can hear on their Myspace page. The guys on stage ranged from a cutely dimpled trumpet player out of L.A. to a wiry, grey-haired guitar player straight from the ’60s—East Coast style—and a dreamy-eyed dude on the keyboard with lovely curls. This is music Seattlest and our father could both appreciate for once, bridging generations with skilled brass players, memorable song composition, and hot, organic rhythm.

We couldn’t agree more, but if there is, for some reason, any lingering doubt, there are still chances this summer to see them (and having an invite to the MLB’s All-Star Game Private Pre-Party isn’t an excuse!), including a gig the Waverly Hotel in Cumberland, BC, tonight.

Here’s the “Origin of Man” video to pass the time (4:37 minutes of it, in fact. Which means you could watch it 4,520 times before the pre-party starts).

July 1 - Cumberland, BC @ Waverly Hotel
July 11 - Ottawa, ON @ Ottawa Bluesfest
July 13 - Camden, NJ @ XPoNential Music Fest
July 15 - Randall’s Island, NY @ Official Major League Baseball All-Star Game Pre-Party (Private Party)
July 18 - New York, NY @ Damrosch Park - Mid Summer Night’s Swing
July 19 - Los Angeles, CA @ Getty Center

Artist: The Budos Band
Album: The Budos Band II
Label: Daptone Records
Street Date: August 7th, 2007
Formats: CD, vinyl, mp3

With their brand-new album, Earth To The Dandy Warhols, hitting stores in North America on August 19, the Dandy Warhols are bringing their extraordinary live show to fans across the US and Canada. Pacific-Northwesterners are fortunate enough to be able to see the band during their exclusive June shows, but everyone else will have the chance come early fall, with stops in Denver, New York, Toronto, Atlanta, Los Angeles and pretty much everywhere in between. The band will be supported by LA pysch-rockers Darker My Love for most of the fall tour, as well as their newly-signed labelmates the Upsidedown on all dates.

The Dandy Warhols have already established themselves as musical icons with their songs “Bohemian Like You” and “Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth,” but Earth To The Dandy Warhols, their sixth full-length and first of many on their own label, Beat the World Records, raises them to a new platform. This is classic Dandys, of course, and songs like “Talk Radio” and “Mission Control” continue to reaffirm the band’s position in alternative rock annals, but the album also sees the band moving into repertoire-broadening territory, from the tongue-and-cheek and very Dandy-esque take on outlaw country, “The Legend of the Last of the Outlaw Truckers AKA The Ballad of Sheriff Shorty,” to “Love Song,” which features Dire Straits’ Mark Knopfler and the Heartbreakers’ Mike Campbell, and of course, the opener “The World Come On,” which was made available for download on May 5, courtesy of a Stereogum premiere.

Although tickets officially go on sale June 21, members of the Dandys new fan-club subscription service will be able to buy tickets during a special pre-sale starting June 17. Pre-sale for the general public begins June 19 through the band’s website.

Also of note to those in The Dandy Warhols’ home base, the Portland show, initially planned for June 21 at the Roseland Theater, has been rescheduled for October 5 (same venue). The band’s European tour kicks off at the top of July, and due to unforeseen circumstances with gear routing, the equipment must ship out of Seattle on June 21. All tickets purchased will be honored at the October 5 show. Refunds are available at point of purchase for those who cannot attend the rescheduled show.

In other Dandys news, Courtney recently did an interview for Wired.com’s Listening Post, where he talks about the new record, among other things. Here’s a clip:

LP: So you’re not in search of a new sound, you just have a lot of toys in the studio.

CTT: A lot of both. Monkeys like “new” and “familiar” in some kind of unquantifiable proportions. I’m pretty sure this is what led to us making records that sound different from each other. That and the fact that it seems to be about three years between albums.

LP: Talk about the digital release. How has the response been?

CTT: Our digital subscription package with first download of the album turned out to be a great idea, since we own our studio we can produce a lot of music. I feel that digital subscription is the obvious way of the future. If the old-school ASCAP and BMI people had been on the ball, they could have become the new superpowers of music by creating monthly subscription sites in the web’s early days. They snoozed.

Check out “The World Come On” here! [DOWNLOAD]

TOUR DATES
June 20 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo^

Sep 09 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue*
Sep 10 - Madison, WI @ Barrymore*
Sep 12 - Chicago, IL @ Vic Theater*
Sep 13 - Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus*
Sep 14 - Montreal, QC @ Club Soda*
Sep 16 - Boston, MA @ Wilbur Theatre*
Sep 17 - New York, NY @ Terminal 5*
Sep 20 - Philadelphia, PA @ TLA*
Sep 22 - Washington, DC @ 930 Club*
Sep 23 - Atlanta, GA @ The Center Stage Theater*
Sep 26 - Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall*
Sep 27 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theater*
Sep 28 - Aspen, CO @ Belly Up*
Oct 03 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern #
Oct 04 - San Francisco, CA @ Warfield %
Oct 05 - Portland, OR @ The Roseland Theater (No Pre-Sale)

More dates TBA

All shows with the Upsidedown
*With Darker My Love
# With A Place to Bury Strangers
% With the Charlatans
^With Monstrous

Artist: The Dandy Warhols
Album: Earth To The Dandy Warhols
Label: Beat The World Records
Street Date: August 19, 2008

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Still propelled by the energy from an explosive 2007, funk revitalizers Daptone Records are treating their fans to a digital-only compilation of some of their most treasured 45s. Out June 3, Daptone 7 Inch Singles Collection, Vol. 2 is comprised of 13 tracks from some of the label’s finest artists, including Lee Fields and Sugarman 3, the now-defunct Mighty Imperials, Charles Bradley, and of course the incomparable Sharon Jones, alongside her band the Dap-Kings, who are now practically a household name.

Never before released by Daptone on either CD or LP, the collection offers the exclusiveness of vinyl with the convenience of digital formatting, perfect for barbeques or humid July nights, for road trips or back-porch gatherings. So start the summer out right, with plenty of funk. And hey, there’s no arguing that burgers taste better with an acclaimed horn section behind them.

Though Jones’s cover of Kenny Rogers’s “I Just Dropped In to See What Condition My Condition Was In” — by now a staple of her live show — is a definite standout, the singer’s emotive voice transporting the song from its psychedelic roots to something based in the organic grit and toil of soul and R&B, music enthusiasts of all types will find inspiration in the fast-paced funk of Charles Bradley’s “Can’t Stop Thinking About You,” the wah-wah-driven groove of Lee Fields’s “Stand Up,” and Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra’s take on the Willie Colón salsa standard “Che Che Colé.”

Check out the Charles Bradley & The Bullets track “Now That I’m Gone” [DOWNLOAD]

Daptone 7 Inch Singles Collection, Vol. 2 is a necessary piece in the ever-growing discography of one of the most exciting young labels of the new millennium; but more than that, it’s great music, music that shouldn’t be held back by format or player, music that needs to — and now can — be heard by everyone.

CONNECT: Website | World’s Fair | Myspace | iMeem | YouTube

BSP throw in Shostakovich, CCR, Sigur Ros and a Pedro Almadovar soundtrack into a Rhapsody mixtape for NylonMag [READ MORE]

Catch up with all the recent interviews below..!

QRO: Right before SXSW, you played Late Night with David Letterman. What was that like?
Yan: It was quite relaxed, really. It was quite weird: we flew out to South-by-Southwest that day, and we were on the telly on the plane, and we watched it on there. A quite weird but funny thing to do. It’s just, you know, you do your song… You don’t really think about it too much. You maybe dress up – Martin was trying to get some jokes in there. You know how people walk out of the restroom, and they’ve got like toilet roll going off their foot? He did that one, and left his fly down. He was very disappointed, ‘cause they never showed it on the edits. - Yan @ QRO Mag [READ MORE]

“We had a bit of spring cleaning,” Wilkinson says. “We kind of got associated with having trees and plastic animals onstage, and lots of natural, symbolic things, and just having lots of funny props around, but we decided that four years of that is enough. We don’t need that anymore. So, we took that all down and slowly developed new things. We’ve been using nautical flags, which are actually quite pretty. You can spell out funny words, or send different messages like, ‘My engine has failed.’ We’ve also been using pictures of animals on bed sheets. Stages aren’t really attractive places. Without the lights, they’re quite ugly. A lot of it is just trying to make it more interesting for the audience.” - Yan interviewed @ Jambase [READ MORE]

“It’s the sort of anarcho-noise ending to a show every rock band wishes they could pull off. Few do it like British Sea Power does tonight. Either you put everything you have into — there’s no half measures on this sort of freak-out — or you look like a total jerk. Nobody who left the club will remember British Sea Power as a gang of visiting jerkbags… “You’ve got to risk looking like a jerk!” Yan chuckles. “Really! I don’t think there’s anything wrong with looking like a jerk if you mean it, if you’re genuinely just having a laugh. Sometimes the best thing you can do is the stupidest thing you can think of.” - Yan @ Aversion [READ MORE]

CONNECT: Website | World’s Fair | Myspace

“Ruling airwaves (in a just world)… The title’s question may be cheeky, but the answer in this case is: Definitely.” - U.S.A. Today [READ MORE]

“This is an incredibly good album that should cement the band’s place as one of the best the UK currently has to offer.” - Exclaim

“I’m sure that I wasn’t alone in the critical world when I originally found myself wanting to write a one-word review that simply stated `yes,’ as a response to the album’s query. I’m equally as sure that after hearing the record, that single word would have to be followed by several exclamation marks…” - Treblezine [READ MORE]

“Even the more meandering pieces like “Atom” and the instrumental “Great Skua” feel like steampunk soundtracks for polar exploration, a notion that looks weird in print but makes a whole lot of sense through a pair of headphones, a set of vintage basement speakers, or the inside of a freighter as it disappears into the bowels of the Arctic Ocean…” - AllMusic, 4.5 Stars [READ MORE]

“Do You Like Rock Music? is a highly memorable, deeply appealing album that will satisfy not only the most discerning intellectual alt-rock fan, but will also draw in all lovers of atmospheric and experimental music…” - Soundcheck Magazine [READ MORE]

“Do You Like Rock Music? is a large, unabashed attempt at greatness, and where other bands might diffuse into a chaotic mess in the process (ahem, Broken Social Scene), British Sea Power remain, skillfully intact. That’s something impressive from a compositional standpoint - regardless of whether or not they’ve rewritten the template for rock music…” - Lost At Sea [READ MORE]

“Do You Like Rock Music? gives you exactly what you might expect from British Sea Power: a lot of rock, some surprising turns of events, and the desire to hear more from the band… unlike a lot of the bands spawned from the turn of the century, British Sea Power does not seem like a one-trick pony, which is what most music fans want to find in a band in the first place…” - Three Imaginary Girls [READ MORE]

“Still, the success of the record on some level depends on irony and detachment. Any band that sets out to make an over-the-top rock record like this needs to either have their tongues in cheek or end up in a wash of sincerity and schmaltz (the Arcade Fire, U2, and Bruce Springsteen immediately come to mind). It’s not so much the heavy guitars or huge drums that makes tracks like “Atom” and “No Lucifer” so strong. It’s that Yan and Hamilton manage to capture old clichés in new ways and that, filtered through their weirdness and idiosyncrasies, the sentiments seem new (or at least more original). Doing that in the midst record that gently tweaks the musical clichés of rock music is a neat little accomplishment. Managing to make the whole thing enjoyable and more than a bit compelling is a feat…” - Coke Machine Glow [READ MORE]

… and last for now, definitely not the least, and definitely not the last, the glorious Moleskin review for Do You Like Rock Music? c/o Tha Bomb Shelter

… Moleskin review continues on several sheets of moleskin here - click

The rock still don’t stop!

Mar 26 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop (1900’s support)
Mar 27 Columbus, OH @ The Basement (1900’s support)
Mar 28 Louisville, KY @ Phoenix Hill Tavern (1900’s support)
Mar 29 St. Louis, MO @ Billiken Club (1900’s support)

Apr 11 Dallas, TX @ The Loft (Coulourmusic & Film School support)
Apr 12 Austin, TX @ Club Deville (Colourmusic & Film School support)
Apr 13 Houston, TX @ Numbers (Colourmusic & Film School support)
Apr 15 Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon (Film School support)
Apr 16 New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks (Film School support)
Apr 17 Tallahassee, FL @ Club Downunder - Florida State University (Film School support)
Apr 18 Orlando, FL @ The Social (Film School support)
Apr 19 Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits (Film School support)
Apr 20 Mount Pleasant, SC @ CANCELLED
Apr 21 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl (Film School support)
Apr 22 Birmingham, AB @ Bottletree (Film School support)
Apr 23 Memphis, TN @ Hi Tone (Film School support)
Apr 26 Norman, OK @ Norman Music Festival w/The Polyphonic Spree

May 1 Columbia, MO @ Mojo’s (Rosebuds support)
May 2 Oxford, MS @ Proud Larry’s (Rosebuds support)
May 3 Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge (Rosebuds support)
May 4 Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle (Rosebuds support)
May 6 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle (Rosebuds support)
May 7 Charlottesville, VA @ Satelite Ballroom (Rosebuds support)
May 8 Washington, DC @ Black Cat (Rosebuds support)
May 9 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s (Rosebuds support)
May 10 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom (Rosebuds support)
May 11 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (Rosebuds support)
May 13 Boston, MA @ Paradise (Rosebuds support)
May 15 Montreal, QUE @ La Sala Rossa (Rosebuds support)
May 16 Toronto, ONT @ Lee’s Palace (Rosebuds support)
May 17 Buffalo, NY @ The Tralf (Rosebuds support)
May 18 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre (Rosebuds support)
May 19 Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell’s

Artist: British Sea Power
Album: Do You Like Rock Music?
Label: Rough Trade / World’s Fair
Street Date: Feb. 12th, 2008
CD: Amazon | Newbury Comics | Insound
MP3: iTunes | eMusic | Amazon
2xLP: Insound

British Sea Power - “Waving Flags” [DOWNLOAD]

British Sea Power - “Atom” edit [DOWNLOAD]

CONNECT: Website | World’s Fair | Myspace

“Funky as ever, the Homosapien manages to evolve yet again, this time by embracing sounds of the past…” - Entertainment Weekly [READ MORE]

“Del sounds confident and contented, and not overly concerned as to whether you take him seriously or not.” - Spin.com [READ MORE]

“Everything you want out of Del: adventurous off-kilter production and smart rhymes.” - PLAYBOY

pLUS, Del was on one of WNYC Soundcheck yesterday with John Schafer & New Yorker critic Kelefa Sanneh. You can check a summary of the show, comments, and download the mp3 - Listen!

Double mega-plus, Del just confirmed a handful more dates to keep Workin’ It!
April 10 - SOLANA BEACH, CA BELLY UP TAVERN
April 12 - LOS ANGELES, CA USC April 25 - Berekely CA, Red Bull Music Academy, workshop and show
April 26 - Reno, NV

Artist: Del The Funky Homosapien
Album:Eleventh Hour
Label: Definitive Jux
Street Date: March 11th, 2008
Formats: CD, vinyl, mp3 [PRE-ORDER @ DEFINITIVE JUX]

Del The Funky Homosapien - “Bubble Pop (Promo)” [DOWNLOAD]

Mr. Dibbs Presents “Del The Funky Megamix” [LISTEN]

CONNECT: Delspace | Definitive Jux | World’s Fair

Photos c/o How Was The Show & More Cowbell:

Up,…

Up,…

& Away!

“During the last 15 minutes, the show entered onto the list of the best shows I have ever seen… As British Sea Power started into their final song, the train came off the rails. Rolls of crepe paper came flying into the crowd and just kept coming (there were easily 50 of them, probably more), courtesy of Colourmusic. All of the band members commandeered instruments and started playing, bashing and assaulting them… This was what all rock shows could be, but luckily they don’t all unfold like this way—when things like this happen you feel lucky to have been there. Maybe this happens at every stop along the way for the bands, but one thing was certain: British Sea Power left everyone present feeling like the slump was over and that they are in it for the long haul…” - How Was The Show [READ MORE]

The crew found some time to stop by MPR / The Current for an in-studio performance:

British Sea Power - Live @ The Current [LISTEN]

Then again in Urbana, IL, Music For Kids Who Can’t Read Good witnessed the marvel and proclaimed, “I’m of the opinion that British Sea Power’s recent album Do You Like Rock Music? is the best rock album of the year and I’ve only heard good things about the band’s live show, so you can imagine how excited I was going into Saturday’s Canopy Club show… The audience was clearly in shock after they left the stage at what we just witnessed. So in summation, go see British Sea Power and stay for the encore. They will rock your face off…” - Music For Kids Who Can’t Read Good [READ MORE]

Another voice in Urbana spoke up… “Staying in the same place for the majority of the performance and looking extremely unassuming in his black pants with matching red piping to the spandex-y shirt he had on and a lack of facial expressions, out of nowhere, this guitarist began playing with his face. Then…He crowdsurfed the Void room… He proceeded to mount a pole upside down, and was so close to falling that people in the audience had to help him to ensure that he wouldn’t bust his head open. He seemed possessed, which left me wondering if he was wasted, tripping on drugs or just downright crazy…” - The 217 / Awkward City [READ MORE]

photos c/o The 217 / Awkward City

British Sea Power continues American tour - don’t miss your chance to rock!

More live photos from across the web - click on for credit

British Sea Power - “Waving Flags” [DOWNLOAD]

British Sea Power - “Atom” edit [DOWNLOAD]

Artist: British Sea Power
Album: Do You Like Rock Music?
Label: Rough Trade / World’s Fair
Street Date: Feb. 12th, 2008
CD: Amazon | Newbury Comics | Insound
MP3: iTunes | eMusic | Amazon
2xLP: Insound

CONNECT: Website | World’s Fair | Myspace

So five British guys decided to come to Austin and play a little prank on us Yanks.

“Let’s wear all white jumpsuits,” one of them said.

“And we’ll say we’re from Kansas!” said another one.

“No, Oklahoma!” chimed in another. “Just like the Flaming Lips.”

“Awesome. They will never know. We will play our brit rock. We will get them all sexed up. We will swirl our guitars, and make the pit pogo. It will be grand.”

“And we’ll call ourselves Colourmusic,” said the last one. Ah, the spelling almost gave them away.

“But we’re not shaving our beards, right?” said the first one.

“Hell, no,” they said in unison.

And there they were on Maggie Mae’s rooftop on the last night of SXSW, pretending to be a handful of bearded guys from Oklahoma…. “Fucking bullshit artist,” I think. “Go back to Glasgow or Manchester or wherever the hell it is you’re from.” Then I wonder if they have a cool T-shirt. - Village Voice / Sound of the City [READ MORE]

… meanwhile, on the other side of the continent, the Tucson Scene is also seeing thru colored music lenses… even Superfan Beatle Bob, who has gone to over 10,000 shows in the last 40 years, is shouting “Yes!” repeatedly @ TSXSW showcase c/o Tucson Scene

In further live reviews, post-SXSW… “Colourmusic is known for its wild stage antics: costumes, painting each other, getting hair cuts while playing. When I walked into the Hi-Dive, they were playing my favorite song, “You Can Call Me By My Name,” simply wearing matching white jumpsuits. It was almost a rebellious move for a band like Colourmusic, and I appreciated it. They don’t need those crazy antics anyhow; their music is good enough as is…” - Denver Post / Reverb [READ MORE]

Let the anticipation build for Stillwater, OK’s Colourmusic’s debut release coming out on Great Society later this year! In the meantime, enjoy these demo’s from their 2 roadworthy EP’s available now

Colourmusic - “Yes!” [DOWNLOAD]

Colourmusic - “Circles” [DOWNLOAD]

Colourmusic - “You Can Call My By Name” [DOWNLOAD]

CONNECT: Website | Myspace | World’s Fair

“… There was a lineup outside of Maggie Mae’s Patio to see British Sea Power… and there was manic energy both on stage and in the crowd right from the beginning. They’re a much better live band now than when I first saw them after their The Decline Of British Sea Power debut came out in 2003, and their new Do You Like Rock Music? album is exemplary… The audience repeatedly chanted “Easy” to introduce “No Lucifer,” while “Canvey Island” and “Lights Out For Darker Skies” were both striking… It turned into a free-for-all at the end, with friends of the band jumping on stage and people riding on each other’s shoulders, play-wrestling and falling over. It definitely made the fourth night of SXSW end on a high note…” - Chart Attack [READ MORE]

Enjoy the chaotic climax (almost like you were really there!)

Photos @ Maggie Mae’s c/o UGO

“I really like BSP’s new album, so this made a pretty good finish to the fest…Things got terribly and perhaps dangerously uncomfortable on the rooftop venue, though, which was way overpacked. The third-story floor was shaking harder with each of the band’s bursting songs. We had to get outta there.” - Pop Life / Minneapolis Star Tribune [READ MORE]

“..YES. Amid band upon band of yanks who don’t know a good rock performance from a beard trimmer, Brighton, England, band British Sea Power, shooting sparks behind its latest, Do You Like Rock Music, delivered the guitar-oriented goods Saturday night at 1 a.m.” - Kansas City pitch / Wayward Blog [READ MORE]

Artist: British Sea Power
Album: Do You Like Rock Music?
Label: Rough Trade / World’s Fair
Street Date: Feb. 12th, 2008
CD: Amazon | Newbury Comics | Insound
MP3: iTunes | eMusic | Amazon
2xLP: Insound

British Sea Power - “Waving Flags” [DOWNLOAD]

British Sea Power - “Atom” edit [DOWNLOAD]

British Sea Power continues American tour!

CONNECT: Website | World’s Fair | Myspace

Let’s give it a shot! Start off with the Free Yr Radio early afternoon gig out in the sunshine…

Dizzee Rascal Live @ MPR The Current / Free Yr Radio [LISTEN]
Songs performed: “Where’s Da G’s,” “Sirens,” and “Fix Up, Look Sharp.” Peep the bird’s eye view:

Gorilla Vs. Bear was around snapping pola’s…

Later, Dizzee controlled the main stage at the Austin Convention Centre. Watch him blow through hits from the forthcoming Def Jux release including:

Dizzee Rascal - “Where’s Da G’s” Live @ Crackle.com

Dizzee Rascal - “Sirens” Live @ Crackle.com

Synthesis was there to snap pics:

“Dizzee Rascal delivered forty minutes of blistering, grimy hip-hop, flanked by the roster of his Dirtee Stank label. The set drew heavily from his latest, Maths + English (finally seeing a physical U.S. release April 29 after being out in the U.K. for nearly a year), including “Flex,” “Sirens,” and the new America-only track “G.H.E.T.T.O.” He dug back in the catalog for “Stand Up Tall,” “I Luv U” and “Fix Up, Look Sharp,” making sure to reinforce along with the Billy Squier sample that, yes, he’s got the big beat. GZA and Ice Cube need to step up their game Saturday if they hope to take the week’s hip-hop crown (which is currently Dizzee’s white L.A. Dodgers cap) away…” - RollingStone.com Rock Daily [READ MORE]

“Wandering into the Convention Center mid-afternoon and catching a sweet set from Dizzee Rascal and Footsie. Killer accent, bass to rattle you down to the marrow, and raps about the “G.H.E.T.T.O” for a buncha white folks with badges and baseball caps. Hey, it all worked. Can’t wait for Dizzee to tour the states again…” - SF Weekly / All Shook Down [READ MORE]

“… It was strange to watch Dizzee Rascal play such a traditional SXSW rap show. Instead of the eccentric cowering on the cover of Boy in Da Corner, fans were treated to a talented MC with a crew who likes shout-outs and shoes. His set drew as much from excellent early material as it did from Maths + English, and the high-BPM beats kept the show flowing and energetic. Dizzee looked older than he does in pictures, which was cool to see: a prodigy aging well. He made sure to plug the April 29 U.S. release of Maths + English, which comes courtesy of showcase sponsor Def Jux…” - Pitchfork [READ MORE]

… when out of the b-blue, b-boys showed up to throw down!

Dizzee Rascal / El-P tour all lined up - get yr tickets now yo!
May 8- 9:30 Club, D.C.
May 9 - First Unitarian Church, Philly
May 10 - Webster Hall, NYC
May 11- Middles East, Boston
May 12 - New Capital Music Hall, Ottawa
May 13 - Crofoot Ballroom, Detroit
May 14 - The Abbey Pub, Chicago
May 16 - Triple Rock Club, Minneapolis
May 19 - Neumos, Seattle
May 20 - Berbatis Pan, Portland
May 21 - 1015, San Francisco
May 22 - El Rey, Los Angeles

Artist: Dizzee Rascal
Album: Maths + English (U.S. Edition)
Label: Definitive Jux / World’s Fair
Street Date: April 29th, 2008
Formats: CD, mp3

Dizzee Rascal feat. U.G.K. - “Where’s Da G’s?” [DOWNLOAD]

Dizzee Rascal - MegaMaster 1.0 (Mixed by El-P) [DOWNLOAD]

CONNECT: Definitive Jux | Dizzee Rascal | Myspace