Happy New Year

(SHAMAN SUIT BY NADINE BYRNE)

TO A RIGHTEOUS FUTURE!!!

Tomorrow on Cool Places Radio

No flyer today just this amazing video....



Cumbia and Champeta plus the return of DJ RAINSTICK!!!! FINALLYY!!!
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This Week

Lemonade- Blissout

Lemonade are currently touring the wilds on Canada looking for replacement windshield wipers and slaying audiences with El Guincho. They're coming back to their new hometown on Tuesday for a much-anticipated show at Le Poisson Rouge. That's not all though! Two more shows in the next two weeks. We're awfully lucky here in nyc.

Some nice press recently from Brooklyn Vegan and RCRD LBL and Pensatos. Thank you online media!
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Tuesday 12/2 @Le Poisson Rouge w/ El Guincho
Friday 12/5 @ Cafe Zebulon w/DJs Cool Places Sound System
Tuesday 12/9 @The Annex w/Friendly Fires
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Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie

An extra Gimmie for HUNX AND HIS PUNX and well deserved. Watch for the single on True Panther in '09!!!!

Cold Places

Getting real cold in NYC. Keeping spirits hott with some colder music from all over the world. Get into it! Eastvillageradio.com

Family

Family is beautiful. I read an interview in the L.A. Record a few months ago that stuck with me pretty intensely with Seun Kuti. Read it HERE. Seun talks about keeping the legacy of his father Fela Kuti's work going with his own music, not taking the general slash and burn to tradition approach to your forefathers' work approach but taking the lessons, celebrating the past and building. Seun says "They wanted everything to die with my father..." but he comes to term with the spirit by carrying it around and letting it song on stage with him rather than hiding it in a basement. "I am what I am"!

On that note, Femi Kuti another one of Fela's kids is putting out an album soon and it actually rips. Contrary to what Starbucks compilations (and on occasion writings on this very blog) would have you believe, contemporary African music can be vital and exciting even when produced in a legit studio and given the room to make intentional beautiful music. Day By Day is loud, angry, funky and original- inspired in the best way by the legacy of Afrobeat but not governed into submission by it. Yes.

Femi Kuti- Tell Me

Skeletons on the Road

Some of the best buds a guy could ever hope for went and made one of the best albums I've heard in years. You see a tree and it looks so solid and strong, the base expands out into thick branches covered with healthy leaves....but you come down to the base of that tree, move some leaves and see a million bugs eating each other, crawling worms digging through rotting fruit, wet earth slippery to the touch dark and frightening to the eyes. MONEY is like that. Doubly beautiful and frightening, so stuffed with substance that it takes 50 paces backwards outside of your ears to see the fully realized whole- the righteous growth of months of nighttime labor. A totally fucked up masterpiece.

Skeletons- Stepper a.k.a. Work (available from Tomlab)

Skeletons are touring the country now.....

Nov 10 Someday Lounge Portland, Oregon
Nov 12 House of Nostromo Oakland, California
Nov 13 Eagle w/ The Mayyors San Francisco, California
Nov 14 The Smell w/ Nite Jewel, David Scott Stone, Vienna Noise Choir Los Angeles
Nov 16 Scoot Inn Austin, Texas
Nov 17 Club Dada Dallas, Texas
Nov 18 TBA New Orleans, Louisiana
Nov 19 Eyedrum Atlanta, Georgia
Nov 20 Secret Squirrel Athens, Georgia
Nov 21 Pilot Light Knoxville, Tennessee
Nov 22 Skylab Columbus, Ohio
Nov 23 The Gypsy Hut Cincinatti, Ohio
Nov 24 Akron Matinee Akron, Ohio
Nov 25 Mike and Molly’s Champaign, Illinois
Nov 26 Empty Bottle w/ Elliot Bergman (NOMO), Lazer Crystal Chicago, Illinois
Dec 4 Velvet Lounge Washington DC, Washington DC
Dec 5 Fordham University Bronx, New York
Dec 7 Mercury Lounge

Go ask Alice....

Thank You

Thanks to everyone for making the CMJ showcase so special! A packed house! Amazing performances from Lemonade, Glasser, Suckers and all the excellent twosyllable bands! If anyone has photos send 'em our way. We'll have some video for you non-New Yorkers post-haste.

some photos HERE

Love,
True Panther Sounds

Lemonade on Mary Anne Hobbes today!!

WOAH!
About 1 hour 26 minutes through the show! "I love this. Pure, agile, pop music". RIGHT ON!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs/