P.O.S. - Emo's - November 1, 2006

Thanks Crystal for letting us know what's up at Emo's on Nov. 1st! P.O.S. hittin' the stage! Show starts at 10pm... cop your tix here.

She swears he was the greatest performer at SXSW.

Depression setting in... come back Vince...



More info:

P.O.S. (born Stefon Alexander), is a rapper signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment and a founding member of Doomtree.

P.O.S. began as a punk rock musician. In high school, Alexander and his friends played punk shows in a band called "Om," in which he first came to be referred to as "Pissed Off Stef." The abbreviation has taken on various and indefinite meanings since, including "Product Of Society", "Promise Of Stress", "Promise Of Skill" and "Piece Of Shit".

At first hostile to hip-hop, as many of his fellow rock musicians were, Alexander soon realized that rap was an alternative, valid method of expression. He began creating music that was increasingly influenced by the genre, despite having very little respect for mainstream rap.

Sqratch Karnival 10 - Austin Music Lab - September 15, 2006

Think you can mix it up on the ones and twos? Wanna show off your skillz? or just watch some peeps scratch something other than their nuttz... It's been awhile but... Sqratch Karnival X is coming Sept. 15th at the Austin Music Lab. A lot of competition that weekend with ACL Fest and all but definitely check it out if you can.

Weeks been rough yo... lab issues like crazy... first our lab's power blows up... literally... no joke... and whatever happened killed our switches... network issues for like two days now... insane.

Remember the DJ Q-bert show way back when...



More info:

Scratching is a DJ or turntablist technique originated by Grand Wizard Theodore, an early hip hop DJ from New York (AMG). Theodore developed scratching from DJ Grandmaster Flash, who describes scratching as, "nothing but the back-cueing that you hear in your ear before you push it [the recorded sound] out to the crowd." (Toop, 1991) Kool Herc was also an important early figure. The technique is designed to accentuate the work of the DJ by creating an assortment of sounds through the rhythmical manipulation of a vinyl record, and has spread from hip hop culture to a number of other musical forms. Within hip hop culture, scratching is still of great importance in determining the skill of a DJ, and a number of competitions are held across the globe in which DJs battle one another in displays of great virtuosity.

Lady Sovereign - The Parish - November 23, 2006

Some one get this grrrl a real f**kin' booking agent!!! I mean come on... Thanksgiving Thursday!?! For real! I've been trying for a while to catch her show... and now this? Anyways... Lady Sovereign so impressed Jay-Z that he signed her to his label... now that's some sh*t. Gotta wonder what the new sound will be from their collabo.

I will no doubt be in Houston visiting the fam... but if you're in town, definitely try to check out Lady Sovereign at The Parish on Nov. 23rd.

More info:

Lady Sovereign was raised primarily on the Chalkhill Estate (a council housing estate in North-West London) and though she dropped out of school with no qualifications, she has become one of the UK's very few white female MCs, often cited as part of the rising British grime scene. Lady Sovereign cites Ms. Dynamite as an influence and has supported The Streets, Obie Trice, Dizzee Rascal and Basement Jaxx on tour.

She signed to Island Def Jam Music Group in 2005, after impressing Def Jam Recordings president and CEO, Jay-Z and The Island Def Jam Music Group chairman Antonio L.A. Reid. She is expected to release a studio album on October 3, 2006.