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Grand Buffet may drop their King Vision soon if label and ladies cooperate
:: Grand Buffet :: Bluebird Theater :: January 5 ::
By Mike Scales
After a weekend of hometown CD release shows with the official release date for the newly recorded King Vision just over the horizon, Grand Buffet’s fearless hypeman Jarrod Weeks (a.k.a. Lord Grunge) could stand to be in much higher spirits. But alas, problems with his lady and her subsequent departure have left him felling a bit low on this chilly Monday night in Pittsburgh.
“I’m just lookin’ to get drunk right about now,” said Weeks with a sigh, his normally fiery demeanor clearly smoldering. “But enough about that shit…” And just like that, gears switch and the classic rock and hip-hop-obsessed Lord Grunge emerges once again to discuss what has to be his favorite subject of all: the reign, along with his musical brother-from-another-mother Jackson O’Connell-Barlow, of Grand Buffet — “America’s Original Sons of Rap-Glory.”
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Aesop Rock drops politics from his new album and rehearses like a madman
:: Aesop Rock :: Black Sheep :: October 17 :: Cervantes :: October 18 :: Fox Theatre :: October 19 :: Aggie Theatre :: October 20 ::
By Mike Scales
“It is far too easy to hate on something because pop culture has watered it down,” wrote Definitive Jux label rapper Aesop Rock in a recent URB magazine article. “To entirely dismiss hip-hop as being ‘dead’ is a little like saying elephants are dead because they are no longer armored and used in battles like they were in 16th Century India.” No truer words have been written in the defense of hip-hop culture and the underground innovators who constantly strive to explore the possibilities of this young genre.
Case in point: From the first few seconds of “None Shall Pass,” the title track from Aesop Rock’s new highly-anticipated LP, it’s clear that his vision of the art form is more vital and alive than that which was displayed in any of his previous output. The song’s subtle techno thump, spacey keys and guitar with shuffling hi-hats, sounds almost otherworldly, as does the rapper’s frenetic delivery. On the phone with The Marquee from his new San Francisco abode, Aesop discussed the direction of his new material, the upcoming None Shall Pass Tour and all the painstaking crap in between.
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