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ROCK THE BELLS 2012 LINE UP!!
not saying there aren’t some great artists on that poster… but seriously? that’s your shit this year?
Timbo & Missy is the most exiting thing I see.
I am pretending I do not see Watsky. Ugh.
that’s your shit?
my mom just posted in the comments. epic.
Moms love Open Mike EAGLE!
Oh man this is great.
In the first verdict of its kind since former President George W. Bush left office, he and several members of his administration have been successfully convicted in absentia of war crimes in Malaysia.
Yes, this is a BFD.
This past Friday, a five panel tribunal delivered a unanimous guilty verdict after a week long trial that, unsurprisingly, was not covered by American media. The witnesses included several ex-Guantanamo detainees that gave testimony on the conditions and human rights violations that were systematically carried out under orders of the Bush administration.
Former President Bush, Former Vice-President Dick Cheney, Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo that crafted the legal ‘justification’ for torture that basically said, ‘we can if we want to even if it’s illegal’ were the defendants. None were present, of course, but international war crime trials do not require the presence of the accused. The trial was run according to the standards set by the Nuremberg Trials to convict war criminals after World War II.
Professor Gurdial Singh Nijar, who headed the prosecution said, “The tribunal was very careful to adhere scrupulously to the regulations drawn up by the Nuremberg courts and the International Criminal Courts”.
The United States is subject to international law which makes this trial significant beyond the borders of Malaysia. Foreign Policy Journal reports:
President Lamin told a packed courtroom: “As a tribunal of conscience, the tribunal is fully aware that its verdict is merely declaratory in nature. The tribunal has no power of enforcement, no power to impose any custodial sentence on any one or more of the 8 convicted persons. What we can do, under Article 31 of Chapter VI of Part 2 of the Charter is to recommend to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission to submit this finding of conviction by the tribunal, together with a record of these proceedings, to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council.
“The Tribunal also recommends to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission that the names of all the 8 convicted persons be entered and included in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals and be publicized accordingly.
“The Tribunal recommends to the War Crimes Commission to give the widest international publicity to this conviction and grant of reparations, as these are universal crimes for which there is a responsibility upon nations to institute prosecutions if any of these Accused persons may enter their jurisdictions.”
The hope is that other countries will hold trials of their own and the guilty verdicts will mount up. This is not that outlandish an idea as Bush and Cheney have not only brazenly admitted they authorized torture in direct contravention of the Geneva Convention, but bragged about it. Nothing more helpful than having a criminal do all the heavy lifting for the prosecution. If enough of these verdicts are passed on to the international courts, they will have no choice but to hold a trial of their own. While Bush won’t be arrested on American soil, he’ll have a very difficult time leaving the country. Already he’s canceled a trip to Switzerland, due to possible charges of war crimes.
The best possible outcome is that the world court delivers a guilty verdict that sends a clear message to President Obama and his successors that the United States is not above the law, American Exceptional-ism be damned. It’s a lesson we’ve forgotten and need to relearn.
oh please oh please I had given up on anyone ever admitting they were criminals in a way that wasn’t jokey or mock-exaggerated but really addressed that they are and looked forward to doing anything about it. it got unfashionable to dream about, people let it slide, I didn’t know what to look forward to.
Please please please let something come of this. please.
In yesterday’s post, I ended the description by saying that your mother ‘loves you,’ a comment that was meant to make people feel good and welcome about identifying with the comic, if they did. But, we all know that not everyone’s home life has been ideal, and some people took me to task on saying so. I do not, of course, think that everyone has a healthy or even tolerable relationship with their mothers, and I’m not in the habit of dictating anyone’s feelings to them either. No offense was meant if it appeared so, and I am sorry if it did.
Mother’s Day to me has been a sincere and cherished memory, but I understand it can be trite and unfair in others’ lives. I guess the best we can do in this old world is to try and be mindful of the feelings and experiences of those around us. This job of mine is very public, and I’ve learned that lesson many times over as I’ve advanced in it, to my greater (I hope) growth as a creator and friend.
The link here is to Light’s House, an informative site for the children of difficult or toxic parents. If you do not recognize your own in there, well then, we should all be so fortunate.
I just got off the phone with my maritime mom and Katie’s equanimity and compassion in this response made me cry.
I mean I am also sneezing up a hell storm from this Ottawa valley allergy lifestyle I’m living, so my eyes were watering already, but I can’t front like that’s all it is.
They all weigh 150lbs
I like what this infographic achieves in terms of breaking down presumptions about the significance of any given metric, although it would be nice if “they all weigh 150lbs” were in the frame and not something that needs to be pointed out separately.
I was really upset a few weeks ago (when those pseudo-FA maniacs were shredding up my sister for having the wrong feelings about her body) when I started to realize that dress sizes were being used as a very intentional caste system in their conversations. Larger numbers were de facto more oppressed, and more sympathetic, and more worthy of respect and care and compassion, on a linear scale.
Someone eyeballed the tiny, partial photo of my sister’s face and called her a “size 6.” It got picked up in subsequent reblogs and mean remarks and long after anyone knew who it was referring to, many people who hadn’t read anything she wrote were still howling about the privilege and fatphobia and shitheadedness of this now-mythical Size 6 Girl of which their lore spoke.
I mean she doesn’t even wear dresses, she builds her own clothes, but even if every body’s shape could be accurately described in detail by a two-digit number called “dress size,” the way they were calling her A size 6 was really telling. It was central to their bullying.
Dehumanizing the victim makes things simpler. It’s like breathing with a respirator.
It eases the conscience of even the most conscious and calculating violator.That’s how Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy put it in “Language of Violence,” twenty years ago. The song illustrates how bullies become victims, but could perhaps have used a third verse about how victims become bullies.
When you start telling someone that they are Number 6 to the exclusion of all else, then it is the end of Animal Farm but instead of turning into humans you have turned into the bad guys from The Prisoner.
Anyway yeah dress size is their way of not using BMI, which they are able to recognize as phony, as a hierarchy… by substituting a different phony source of extrapolatable information.
So yeah that’s some things that I think about when I think about what I like about this picture.
Conventional wisdom tells us that obesity itself is a major cause of clogged arteries—the rationale being that more fat on the body equals more fat in the blood stream equals more fat build-up in the arteries. However, most of the studies that have looked at the relationship between body weight (or body fat) and atherosclerosis—via coronary angiography or by direct examination of artery disease at autopsy—find that fat people are no more likely to have clogged arteries than thin people (4, 11, 27). In some instances results entirely opposite to conventional wisdom are observed. For example, when researchers at the University of Tennessee (4) evaluated coronary angiograms of more than 4,500 men and women, they found that the risk of having a clogged artery actually decreased as body weight increased. In other words, it was the fat men and women who had the cleanest arteries. Although this finding is exceptional, the preponderance of angiography studies of this nature do undermine the notion that obesity inevitably results in clogged arteries.
Obesity, Health and Metabolic Fitness by Glenn Gaesser, Ph.D.
Definitely read the whole article, it’s wonderful.
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Common sense is the enemy of understanding.
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- Less hate. Less shame.
I need to disengage from the type of fat activism that seems endemic to Tumblr (and probably other blogging communities), where people who identify as legitimately fat just scream and scream at people they deem to be less fat, or less legitimately fat.
I really need to find a place where I can be part of a movement to be good to everyone at every size and without a lack of regard for how fat bodies are hated on in particular, but where I am also able to pretend people who I would like to count as allies aren’t constantly, viciously out to make people of other body types feel as worthless and despicable as the mainstream would like me and us to feel.
My solution to fat hate and body shaming does not include more hate and shaming.
I am unfollowing a GRIP of motherfuckers. I used to have to only do that for fat-PHOBIC content. (Or well I mean lots of *.phobic content but you know, BAD GUYS.)
Mikal kHill wrote this song in part about the fifteen hours he spent driving through the snow to rap with me, Shane Hall, Remind, and People With Teeth in Brooklyn this February.
He had just written an exam in the course he’s taking to upgrade his employability, after having been unceremoniously canned from his daytime office job right before Christmas.
Mikal has two kids. The baby boy is pre-verbal, but Emmy is like four or something (???) and loves to watch her dad play Super Meat Boy. She kind of won’t let him do anything else when he’s at home, I’ve seen it - it’s like a third job, if rapping is #2 and school is #1.
“Go get Bandage Girl, daddy! Go get her! She’s right there, just go get her! Daddy, why don’t you go get Bandage Girl she’s just right there?”
I hate to think that while he was taking time away from his family to make that drive and ultimately arrive just as the bulk of the audience skulked away at two in the morning, his family was missing him. I mean I’m glad he had a good show the next night in Worcester, but just knowing what I already know about that day and night makes that second verse really moving to me.
The kHills are good folks. Mikal is still not really graced with anything you might call an income, and as far as I know Laura kHill is taking care of the kids full time, so if you want to make their cup jingle a little… this track is free but allows for donations.
(Sorry to the kHills for any details I got wrong, or intentionally fudged to make them seem more sympathetic and worthy of love and support!)
For context, here is something else that was going on in hip-hop in 1996, apart from my stage debut.
Fuck I love this song - I can’t believe I never saw the video before now!
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I just found this extremely rough 30 second clip of my first rap performance of original material.
Extremely rough… in so many ways.
Here are some facts about this clip.
- it is 1996, and I am 16 years old
- I am rocking the open talent competition at NAID ‘96 in Montréal, to which my dad had driven me and my best friend to compete in the tracking competition. Our entries did not pass the initial jury round.
- This song is called “Daily Affirmation” after the Stuart Smalley sketches on SNL, because I use his signature line in the final couplet
- The beat samples Weird Al’s armpit beatbox from “I Love Rocky Road,” and the noise a Baron of Hell makes when he spots you in the original Doom
- Lyrics not heard in this clip include references to: midwifery (mispronounced to kind of rhyme with library), Ladybug’s verse from “9th Wonder (Blackitolism),” Jeru the Damaja, “Hello My Name Is” stickers, Harold Ramis’s dual threat as director and star, Leviathan AND the Illuminati AND pre-Will Smith Men In Black (showing more Principia Discordia influence than conspiracy rappers, but there’s some crossover there)
- The lyrics that ARE heard are the most embarrassing thing - my moment of “but look… let’s get serious about politics for one second here…” that entirely, agonizingly, consists of analogies to slavery and the institutional exploitation of marginalized populations because I LITERALLY DID NOT KNOW THAT I DID NOT SHARE THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF THE RAPPERS I GOT ALL OF MY POLITICAL VIEWS AND INFORMATION FROM. It had not occurred to me, because as far as I was concerned they were the direct line to the absolute correct big picture… for EVERYONE.
I really should have some kind of filter to prevent me from uploading stuff like this. I should be too embarrassed to let anyone know that when I was given the opportunity to debut my career as a rap legend, THESE are the views that I thought it was most important to share with a CEGEP auditorium full of demo coders and ANSI art impresarios.
But nope. Here’s the baby photo of me in the bath.
- Call for Submissions / Signal Boost (TW sexual violence)
DEADLINE EXTENDED Completed submissions due: June 15, 2012.
Like much prison abolition work, the call for this anthology comes from frustration and hope: frustration with organizers against sexual assault and domestic violence who treat the police as a universally available and as a good solution; frustration with prison abolitionists who only use “domestic violence” and “rape” as provocative examples; and, frustration with academic discussions that use only distanced third-person case studies and statistics to talk about sexual violence and the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC). But, this project also shares the hope and worth of working toward building communities without prisons and without sexual violence. Most importantly, it is anchored in the belief that resisting prisons, domestic violence, and sexual assault are inseparable.
Organizers of this anthology want to hear from survivors in conversation with prison abolition struggles. We are interested in receiving submissions from survivors who are/have been imprisoned, and survivors who have not. Both those survivors who have sought police intervention, as well as those who haven’t, are encouraged to submit. We are looking for personal essays and creative non-fiction from fellow survivors who are interested in discussing their unique needs in anti-violence work and prison abolitionism.
Discussions of sexual assault, domestic violence, police violence, prejudice within courts, and imprisonment cannot be separated from experiences of privilege and marginalization. Overwhelmingly people who are perceived to be white, straight, able-bodied, normatively masculine, settlers who are legal residents/citizens, and/or financially stable are less likely to experience violence, while also less likely to encounter the criminal injustice system than those who are not accorded the privileges associated with these positions. At the same time, sexual assault and domestic violence support centers and shelters are often designed with certain privileges assumed. We are especially interested in contributions that explore how experiences of race, ability, gender, citizenship, sexuality, or class inform your understandings of, or interactions with cops, prisons, and sexual assault/domestic violence support.
Potential topics:
· What does justice look like to you?
· Perspectives on police and prisons as a default response to sexual assault
· What do you want people in the prison abolition movement with no first hand experiences of survivorship to know?
· How did you overcome depression/feelings of futility when dealing with these systems?
· Critical reflections on why the legal system has or has not felt like an option for you
· Perspectives on the cops/PIC participating in rape culture
· Restorative justice and other methods for responding to sexual violence outside of the PIC? (if you are a settler be conscious of appropriations of indigenous methods)
· How have you felt about conversations you’ve had about the PIC?
· How sexual assault inside and outside of the PIC is treated by organizers against sexual assault, domestic violence, and the PIC
· Police and prison guards as triggers
· Responding to sexual assault and domestic violence when communities weren’t there for you
· What the legal system offers survivors and what it doesn’t
· Rants at manarchists, the writers/directors of televised cop dramas, and communities that let you down
· Survivor shaming for reporting and for not reporting to policePlease submit first-person accounts, critical reflections, essays, and creative non-fiction tosurvivorsinsoli@gmail.com by JUNE 15, 2012 with “Submission” as the subject line.
Please:
· One submission per person;
· English language (we are happy to work with authors who may need assistance writing in English);
· Pseudonyms welcomed, as are name changes in the written piece.If you are passing this on to someone without computer access:
· We accept scans of hand written letters (please include contact info for the author);
· Contact us if you require a mailing address.Early submissions are encouraged. First time authors encouraged.
If you have questions, we welcome emails to survivorsinsoli@gmail.com with “Question” in the subject line. We are looking for both shorter pieces of writing and longer pieces, but if your piece is more than 20 pages consider sending us an email to run the idea by us.
Please attach a short biography that you are comfortable sharing with the editors (200 word max.). This is not about your credentials, but getting to know you and where you are coming from. All information you provide will be kept confidential.
About selection and editing: Submissions will be reviewed by a group of readers who will consider if and how each written piece could contribute to the finished project. Each piece will be read by at least two readers who will contribute to the decision to accept/reject/edit the piece. Some of us working on this project have been made to feel alone as both survivors and abolitionists. Some of us have managed to carve spaces within these communities. Now we are looking to open the conversation and hear from people we’ve never met, who have struggled to practice politics in a rape culture and police state. We believe that the needs of survivors matter in these movements, and we don’t need someone else to speak for us or about us as case studies and numbers. We want to hear from you.
For more information please visit: http://survivorsinsoli.blogspot.com/
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- I love a lot of moms...
…and mine most of all.
Big shouts especially to everyone missing their mom today - mine is just a time zone away, but some of my homies are living with a more permanent absence, having lost a loving mother or never really had one.
I’m thinking of you today, and also my own mom, and also her mom (whom I miss) and my dad’s mom (whom I wish I’d known better), and also my friends who are amazing moms to amazing children, and really a lot of people.
A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world. And candy! You take a box to Mother—and then eat most of it yourself. A pretty sentiment.
Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother’s DayRules-defying bloody knife in teeth notwithstanding, this poster appears to straight up feature a drawing of my homie @Gaia_Grace! (Taken with instagram)
I missed my greyhound home and it’s gonna rain on me? At least @waxmannequin is playing at rancho. (Taken with instagram)
seriously. listen to the key teens album or you have no soul.
Woah, you can stream entire albums on here?
What a time to be alive.
This is my band, we’re playing at Harbour Water Fest 3 in a couple weeks, so maybe you should learn all the words?
LEARN THEM
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BuyThe first single and video from Jesse Dangerously's self-produced 2011 album, Humble & Brilliant! It features Canadian feminist icon Audra Williams, rapping and tapdancing, and Bad DJ Budget Cuts on scratches. Included free with the single download is a high-res file of the exciting music video directed by Charlotte Wolf! You can also watch that video at-
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BuyJesse Dangerously IS "Humble & Brilliant!" This gorgeous book is the greatest rap album you have ever heard, unless you have ever heard A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing or Slaughtahouse. Halifax rap legend Jesse Dangerously has split his mind lengthwise, bisecting it along the lines that divide the synaptic processes responsible for “tough rap good times” from those governing “feeling very sad and almost crying,” and arranged this album into two hemispheres, accordingly. Nestled inside the front cover is a gently hand-picked Internet download code, empowering you to acquire the music and raps that Jesse made all by himself, except for also with help from the finest wizards in Canada.-
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BuyBack after a long time! Imaginary Friends 7" vinyl (actual, physical vinyl 7" mailed to your home and played on your turntable!) featuring the two songs on this site.
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- Jan 18, 12
We are so excited to bring you, at long last, the 3:AM Studios-created video for “Heatwave,” from Heatwave, by Backburner!
The beat is by Timbuktu, and he raps on it along with Wordburglar, Jesse Dangerously, Chokeules, Jay Bizzy, and Thesis Sahib singing the sweet, sweet hook. I can almost guarantee that the hook will be wedged uncomfortably in your head for weeks to come, so you had better get used to liking it. Start now, it’s amazing.
In celebration of this momentous release, Hand’Solo Records will also be bringing an EP of only the very best songs from the Heatwave album to vinyl. We thought it might spruce up the selection a bit if we included an exclusive remix of the title track on the wax, but one obstacle we encountered is that we’re VERY LAZY. So we’ve decided to let you handle this one for us.
We’re having a contest, open to everyone! Grab the track elements and peruse the rules over here: Heatwave Remix Contest. The fifith-, fourth-, third-, and second-best remixes will be featured and gushed over on the Hand’Solo and Backburner websites, and the number one greatest remix will be included on the Heatwave vinyl EP this spring.
You have until February 29th! Thank goodness for leap years, eh? Go and get cracking, or at least tell that cool friend of yours who makes beats to get a move on. The vinyl is going to be a load of garbage without this hot injection of new blood. Oh my god that was a disgusting thing to say.
*I was just kidding about how we’re too lazy; there will also be another bonus cut on the vinyl that will make every other rapper on earth cry from not feeling good enough anymore. It’s mean but unavoidable, plus fun.
**I don’t know probably go read about SOPA/PIPA or Bill C-11 because it’s Black Wednesday and while we love copyright infringement and wouldn’t be able to live without the thrill of illegally appropriating protected works, not everyone should have to encounter that thrill just went they want to do some normal thing in their day that’s fine.
- Sep 07, 11
Lithium Studios in Toronto, who brought you More or Les‘s “Pop N Chips” and Timbuktu & Jorun‘s “The New Science” in ages past, has cranked up the special feelings for another Burner banger; this time the Bix-produced “Stolen Kicks,” featuring the Brooklyn underground legend once known as Pumpkinhead (now just PH).The riff on David Blaine’s Street Magic (and maybe more specifically, those YouTube parodies?) makes Socks’s eerie deadpan into a mask of determination… he will entertain you, or you will face the consequences.
This song is from Treat Of The Day, but if it gets you all riled up and excited to hear more collaborative Sockwork, you may be among the thousands of screaming fans clamouring for a bite of the Teenburger, where Socks and Timbuktu engage in lockerroom swordfight raps over endless summertime beats by Witchdoc Jorun.
Lucky for you… it’s Burgertime!!
- Sep 06, 11
On the first of September, two thousand and eleven, Backburner converged on the small village of Toronto, Ontario, and changed the way people think about such concepts as “enjoying a rap show” forever.Here are eleven performances, captured as in prehistoric amber (sorry, Jurassic Park marathon last night… don’t you think the dinosaurs should have time traveled to the old west in #3?) by the intrepid lens of Hand’Solo Recordings label head (and feet) Thomas Quinlan. You’ll be thrilled as MisterE fills in blank spaces left by several missing members! Shocked when Ghettosocks is yanked off stage by what may have been a great white shark (or just some not-so-great white dudes) and relieved when he emerges unscathed… on the surface.
Dumbfounded as Thesis Sahib, Chokeules, SJ the Wordburglar, rap legend Jesse Dangerously, More or Les and Timbuktu use their faces to punch the face of the soul of hip-hop… forever.Or at least I hope you like it a little bit?
Tomorrow is the grand release of Ghettosocks’s new video for “Stolen Kicks,” co-starring PH (f/k/a Pumpkinhead) and a few very special pairs of athletic shoes!Coming soon, but I’m not sure how soon, is the internet premiere of More or Les’s new video for “I Ain’t Goin’ Out.” It has about a bazillion cameos from Backburner and friends of Backburner, and the long-awaited return of Hal Johnson. In spirit, anyway.
- Aug 30, 11
The long wait has ended.
HEATWAVE is here.
This little bandcamp player is ready for you to bump every track for free, and then go buy the download for five tiny dollars, or the physical CD for $8.99.
We’re all on it, you guys!
A great many of us are going to be in Toronto and London to launch the album this week, too.
On Thursday, September 1st, we’ll be playing in Toronto at Rancho Relaxo, 300 College Street.
On Saturday, September 3rd, we’ll be playing in London at The Black Shire, 511 Talbot Street.
At both shows, the cost of admission includes a copy of the CD!!So what are you going to do, now that your life is perfect? Oh yeah… BUMP DOPE RAPS FOREVER.
- Aug 07, 11
You remember Chokeules‘s lovely album from 2009, Hypergraphia? All of a sudden, he has a dope video for sleeper hit, “Blind Boy Choke.”Timbuktu produced it, Uncle Fester on the cuts.
Don’t you love it!?
- Jul 12, 11
You have been chilled to your bones, and we have heard your moans for warmth.
This may be on some “be careful what you wish for” ish, though.
Backburner’s HEATWAVE is coming to a face near your face for September 1st, especially if your face is a face near Toronto, Ontario – a release show that night at Rancho Relaxo (300 College Street) will feature captains among a team of captains: Jesse Dangerously, Thesis Sahib, Timbuktu, Chokeules, SJ the Wordburglar, More or Les and more TBA!??
Believe the hype. Unless the hype is negative, in which case believe ME when I say HOLY SHIT RAP ITSELF JUST GOT SLIGHTLY BETTER FOREVER.
(Oh yeah hey also listen friends – thank you SO MUCH to everyone who chipped in on the “HEATWAVE” video shoot fund. Shooting has been postponed to the first week of August due to logistical boondoggles (YEAH I SAID IT) endemic to a crew of this breadth and girth, but it is happening and it is amazing. And YOU MADE IT HAPPEN. And YOU WILL GET PRESENTS!!)
- Jun 27, 11
Friends of the Burner, we don’t like to think of this a problem, but an opportunity.
To begin with, let’s take a listen to a quick preview of the lead single “HEATWAVE,” from the Backburner group album HEATWAVE coming to a face near you this summer.
So did you peep the little scrolly at the bottom of that otherwise very placid video clip? We’re about to make a video for “HEATWAVE,” and we’ll do it with or without your help! YOU’RE NOT OUR DAD.
Look, forget what I was about to say about money. Here’s a better idea. Don’t you love RAP?
Don’t you love BACKBURNER?
We have some special treats for you. Think of it as a blow-out sale, with some guy called CRAZY EDDY in the commercial and no-one believe how CRAZY he is for these prices.
- For One Dollar, you get the MP3 download of this ridiculous song “HEATWAVE” featuring Thesis Sahib, Timbuktu, Wordburglar, Chokeules, Jay Bizzy and Jesse Dangerously cranking out a summer jam for the ages. Every second the thermostat is above 24 and you aren’t banging out this jammy, your heart cries piteously… and you may not even know it.
- For Ten Dollars, you preorder the whole HEATWAVE album to be downloaded the MOMENT it is released to the public officially, some time in August.
- For Fifteen Dollars, you preorder both the download AND a physical CD copy to keep in your glove compartment forever, next to license, registration, and condoms (yeah Will.I.Am we keep domes in the whip… sorry u gotta hoof it).
- For Thirty Dollars, you can have the Toolshed Starter Kit! It consists of Toolshed’s most recent group album, The Lost, and Timbuktu and Chokeules’s solo albums, Stranger Danger and Hypergraphia, respectively! Also the Backburner album preorder.
- For Forty Dollars, you get Before The End, Thesis Sahib’s gorgeous full-colour art book and 16-track album with 7″ vinyl insert. Ordinarily the book/album/download/vinyl/party is $45 plus shipping, so this is like STEALING. In the fun way! Also you get the Backburner album preorder.
- For Fifty Dollars, you may make the gut-churningly difficult decision between receiving the Wordburglar Starter Kit or the Jesse Dangerously starter kit. WB’s includes his vinyl-only EP from 2005 featuring exclusive remixes and b-sides, one copy each of Burglaritis and Burgie’s Basement, and oh Jesus a t-shirt and a Snakor’s Pizza comic book authored by young Burg (not to be confused with rapper Young Berg) himself.
But the Jesse D kit is enticing to a similar extent!! You get his new album/chapbook, Humble & Brilliant, his last two albums on CD, a 7″ vinyl featuring two songs by Jesse with Thesis Sahib and MC Frank Deluxe, a Jesse Dangerously t-shirt designed by Thesis Sahib, and an actual cassette tape of unreleased b-sides, demos, and collaborations. OH HOLY SHIT. - If you are a super duper wild Jesse Dangerously fan, then fifty dollars could get you the very last last ever final last physical CD copy for sale ever of either Eastern Canadian World Tour 2002, or How To Express Your Dissenting Political Viewpoint Through Origami. It is very steep, but you know it is a WISE INVESTMENT like a BEANIE BABY with a HEART-SHAPED PLASTIC TY TAG PROTECTOR.
- For Two Hundred Dollars, we have a prize tailored to the rapper or producer out there in the world who has everything…. everything, that is, except one of Canada’s dopest MCs spitting a hot verse on his or her track. You can pick between Chokeules, Jay Bizzy, Jesse Dangerously, More Or Les (who isn’t even on this song, but generously threw in anyway!), Thesis Sahib, or SJ the Wordburglar!! It’s a bargain at half the price.
- For Two Hundred and Twenty-Five Dollars, you get the motherlode: The Backburner Starter Kit. It consists of one of everything in each of the other starter kits listed above, PLUS The Ghost of Jacob Marley by Jay Bizzy, Wartime Theme Songs For The Modern Ego by Thesis Sahib, Fuck by Les Swashbuckling Napoleons (Thesis & Bleubird), Brunch With A Vengeance by More or Les, the Hand’solo Records mixtape Hokey Religions & Ancient Weapons, and a DVD with the old Wordburglar video on it THAT WE DAMN SURE ARE NOT LETTING ANYONE SEE FOR ANY OTHER REASON THAN THIS.
- For Three Hundred Dollars, you insanely can have an original 12″x12″ painting by art star Thesis Sahib. This is real art for joke art prices. I almost could kind of cry just letting it go for a price that minuscule. You are robbing us blind here. I kind of thought you would be cooler than that.
JOKES YOU’RE SUPER COOL!!!!!!
This is where you go to do any or all of that:
- May 30, 11
You can almost smell the record shop must (musk?) on this digital 12″ from Hand’solo Records! A stand-out track from Toolshed’s recent album, The Lost, “Irish Car Bomb pt.2″ is now packaged with a clean edit, an a capella (REMIXERS!! MASHERS-UP!!), a remix by Savilion and another remix of album track “Flavour Saviours.” Most Canadian spellings possible in two words.Grab it for free below, or even just bump it off the embedded player. Why the shit not? Tell your friends!!
- Jun 13, 11
Uncle Fester of the Extremities is well known by now for the scratch sentences and cut collages he drops on tracks by Backburner artists, and others. He is renowned in Halifax for his hardy style on the ones and twos, and do you remember in 2009 when he dropped a few fly podcasts on this very site?The Uncle Fester Show is back! This episode features a few fly Extremities remixes, some overlooked bangers from the last few years, and exciting rap from RIGHT NOW.
Use this embedded player to stream the whole thing, or click the title to download the mix for your portable players or candlelit dinners at extremities.bandcamp.com – and peep the full track listing below!
- INTRO
- “Now Or Never” – Skyzoo ft Styles P & Buckshot
- “Freedom” – Fashawn
- “The Narrow Path” – Blu
- “MemoryStew”/”Life Twice” – Timbuk2 & Choke (Fes’KhrysisMashup)
- “1992″ – 1982 ft Mac Miller
- “Do Your Thing” – DJ Revolution Ft Guilty Simpson & Royce 5’9
- “Motown 25″ – Elzhi feat Royce 5’9
- “Colors/MoreColors” – Elzhi
- “Fall In Love” – Slum Village
- “Now Or Never” – The Roots ft Phonte & Dice Raw
- “ItzsoEEze” – De La Soul (Fresh Kils RMX)
- “Ya Playin Yourself (RMX)” – Jeru The Damaja
- “Melody” – MF Doom (Extremities RMX)
- “Nothing To Worry About (RMX)” – Mick Boogie ft Wale, Rhymefest, Young Chris
- “DWYCK” – Gangstarr ft Nice N Smooth (Fes’LemonaideAlphaBlend)
- “What’s Golden” – Jurrasic 5 (Extremities RMX)
- “Get On Down” – DJ Spinna ft Homeboy Sandman, P-Casso & Fresh Daily
- “Blacknostaljack” – Camp Lo (Extremities RMX)
- “Up In The Spot” – El De Sensei
- “Got That Drank” – Big K.R.I.T
- “T.W.O.R.” – Relic
Uncle Fester can be congratulated at fester902@gmail.com!
- May 08, 11
You probably know Les rolls tight with UK big beat jazz ensemble and erstwhile Ninja Tune flagship act The Herbaliser, right?Here’s a joint they did together on his new record, Brunch With A Vengeance. It’s about all that yang you pop!
Stop popping it, nerd!
