On May 9th, Coog Radio will release its first ever Coog Radio Compilation. It’s a free compilation of new local, national and international independent music. Contributors to the compilation include Elegant Animals, Tan Dollar, Run DMT, Sleep ∞ Over, FLCON FCKER, Supreme Cuts, Abstract Cannon, CROCAT, A Sea Es, and Redondo Beach, featuring a new Fat Tony/Tom Cruz track from the upcoming Double Dragon.
Stay tuned…
R.I.P. Adam Yauch - MCA of the Beastie Boys. One of the very first music groups I ever loved as a little boy. And still love to this very day. From the moment I saw them on TV playing basketball, having a mini ramp in their studio, rapping, being sarcastically ridiculous, and giving off heavy punk vibes I was sold. I can’t count the number of times I’ve obsessed over every little detail of their album Paul’s Boutique. An album that is still one of the funniest, most interesting, odd, enjoyable ass albums I’ve ever purchased on a whim. An album that created its own world within the confines of its packaging, beats, references, and lyrics which never grow old. And I can’t forget the $22 I paid at Sam Goody for their Hello Nasty CD the week it came out. An album I played over and over again (much like Tim McGraw & Nelly) in the den on my Sega Saturn cause I had no idea where to get a damn CD player as a 10 year old. It’s always terribly sad to see a childhood hero pass away but the amount of respect that I know will pour in for this well deserved artist and group cheers me up. Much respect to the Beastie Boys for showing me how to be a fan and why I should be a fan of any artist I appreciate. And thank you for bringing rap music to the money making mainstream when the world thought it was bullshit.
[edit: Thanks Spin Magazine for posting this. :) http://www.spin.com/articles/mca-remembered-danny-brown-action-bronson-exquire-and-new-rap-underground]
THUNDER ZONE ENERGY
Milwaukee rapper Juiceboxxx has a new no-rules brand/record label called THUNDER ZONE and their flagship product is an energy drink called THUNDER ZONE ENERGY.
ENTER THE THUNDER ZONE
Milwaukee rapper Juiceboxxx has been deep in the game forever. Performing since the age of 15, he has done multiple tours of North America, Asia, and Europe, sharing the stage with legends like Big Freedia, Lightning Bolt and Public Enemy.
THUNDER ZONE is Juiceboxxx’s new brand/record label focusing on a no-rules approach to music and culture. A label where Southern Rap 7 inches, custom nails, tee shirts, tapes and energy drinks stand together as part of one movement.
In the spirit of Factory Records, Thunder Zone operates with no boundaries. Anything is possible and everything gets a catalog number, including energy drinks. And that is where this INDIEGOGO campaign comes in.
Thunder Zone Energy is to be the flagship product for a brand attempting to move beyond. Reverse engineered suburban freakout culture with an emphasis on the dirt style is the name of the game and there is no limit to what kind of projects Thunder Zone can and will take on.
WHAT WE NEED
This INDIEGOGO serves as fundraising for production, distribution, branding, backing and marketing of the Thunder Zone energy drink and Thunder Zone Enterprises. It’s also the best and only way to pre-order Juiceboxxx’s long-awaited new record “I Don’t Wanna Go Into The Darkness” which is finished and comes out in July as a co-venture with Thunder Zone and Jeff The Brotherhood’s Infinity Cat Records.Donators receive a variety of premiums including energy drinks, Juiceboxxx album pre-orders, custom clothing and even the ability to have pizza with Juiceboxxx when he comes to your town. Or if you are really feeling the thunder, there is an option to have Juiceboxxx show up at your front door with a few cases of Thunder Zone and rage a private party!
The premiums are blazing. The drink is sick. “I Don’t Wanna Go Into The Darkness” is packed with anthems. Juiceboxxx has seen the ups and downs that come with a life of music but he’s still standing and ready to fight the good fight for all the kids out there with a dream. Never Surrender Forever.
SHOW MY BOY JUICEBOXXX SOME LUV AND SUPPORT A RIGHTEOUS CAUSE!
ALSO… COME SEE FAT TONY & TOM CRUZ + JUICEBOXXX + BLOK AT A FREE RAGER OF A CONCERT THIS FRIDAY, MAY 4th in LOS ANGELES, CA AT KIBITZ ROOM (CANTER’S DELI) [WEST HOLLYWOOD].
THROWED POSTER: http://www.dotcomandshit.org/images/newwork/2011scans4rawhide/DONEjuiceboxxxmay4th.jpg
FACEBOOK ELECTRONIC INVITATION: http://www.facebook.com/events/209993505769663/
Me and @BetteryetJSH showing our support for Kim Kardashian, the future of Glendale, fresh from popping tags in the local shopping mall. Fuckin with my nigga Jimmy Kimmel. #KIM2K17
@FANGLIFE777 aka Mr. Blunt Fang got a new video for that ass. This night has opened my eyes. You may remember him from our ode to lesbians that like us and weed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EMI6hA3boY
Had a in depth convo with my bro @fattonyrap last night at The Flat about this. “AFRICANS UNITE”
Birth of a Nation 4*29*1992. Thanks @noz for putting me on to this via cocaineblunts.com. Award winning low budget documentary all about the L.A. riots sparked by the Rodney King verdict and years on years on years on years on years of fucked up living conditions and trauma. Features tons of live footage.
I couldn’t even imagine what this would be like in America today. Will this happen again in my children’s lifetime? My children’s children’s lifetime? I don’t know.
Tamra Davis directed this Sir Smoka Lot video?! Nice. My friend @jawnita interviewed Tamra Davis about her very, very excellent Basquiat documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child which I have watched probably 20 times this year (and just might watch again right now as Half Baked plays on my television). I highly recommend the film to anyone interested in art, graffiti, american culture, punk rock, rebels & radicals, intelligence, courage, famous black people with predominantly white fans, hip hop, new wave, fans of Fat Tony, or any other cool buzzword representative of 1980’s progressive creative culture.
Tamra Davis also directed CB4, Half Baked, Billy Madison and more lovely movies & TV. She’s also Mike D from the Beastie Boys wife which is way cool.
Read it: http://www.thefader.com/2010/07/27/qa-director-tamra-davis-talks-basquiat-and-her-new-documentary
P.S.
@jawnita has one of the few tumblrs I love to read regularly. join me? http://jawnita.tumblr.com/
Rep for my City.
@HollywoodFLOSS is very ill. The first producer/rapper I worked with on my very first solo project The Love Life EP and The Tipping Point & Fly68 Presents Fat Tony mixtape in 2007 + 2008. Thanks a lot. We still got some songs from 2009/2010 around that I don’t think anyone’s heard yet. Maybe they’ll hit the internet one day! Fuck with this young man the long way.
http://www.djbooth.net/index/mixtapes/entry/hollywood-floss-one-fan/
http://www.HollywoodFLOSS.com
The Notorious B.U.M. H-Town classic right here, y’all. 3rd Ward, nigga. 2006 throwback. This was hot my first semester of university when YouTube was just gettin extra poppin. So many quotables, so much money being thrown on the floor, so many bitches getting their booty bitten… Damn. Shot right down the street from my home outside the Wendy’s next to the Shipley’s and Burger King across from the University of Houston.
But on a real serious note the homeless problem in America has always fucked with me. I really believe many of these men and women on the streets are mentally unstable and have some disabilities that need some serious medical attention which causes them to act so damn wild & crazy. Being a psychology student a few years ago and having an autistic brother really makes me care tremendously about those mentally incapable of taking care of themselves in regular society. Don’t know what I can do to help but one day I want to help in a big way.
