Shockhound.com a new digital download site (owned by your favorite goth clothing mall chain store) is giving away free tickets to see No Age and Titus Andronicus at Santo’s Party House in New York City. Go here to get your tickets, then your about 20 clicks away from getting them. The ticketing system is not so good, but free shows with two great bands are excellent
The Bronx, Trash Talk, and Akimbo played the Solid PR CMJ 2008 showcase at Fontana’s the other night. I gotta say, for an industry party, things got pretty freakin’ rowdy down in that basement. It was an awesome show and you check out more pictures after the jump.
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Black Lips – All photos by Bill Shouldis
The Black Lips are a circus on stage by themselves, but add King Khan & The Shrines and Deerhunter to the mix and you’re going to going to have pure mayhem. Sunday’s show at McCarren Pool was just that. It was hard to find a focal point most of the time. TP was flying while an old dude were skating on stage. Pillows were being ripped apart while flowers were placed in butt cheeks and spit was being swapped. When can you say you saw all that at a show? Some dumbasses have been asking where rock ‘n’ roll has gone? Well, maybe if you listened to all these bands more, you’d realize it hasn’t gone anywhere. Viva The Black Lips!
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Jaguar Love, one of the latest signings to Matador, have released their first video for the song “Highways of Gold” from their debut Take Me To The Sea. Catch them on tour now with The Faint and playing at Southpaw in Brooklyn on August 19th.
Sure, the suburbs of New Jersey may not be the newest hot spot for rap, but that doesn’t mean that the occasional freestyler can’t come up from the land of manicured lawns and polluted air. For example, take West Orange’s own Matt Miller aka GDP. Full disclosure, I’ve known the man/myth/legend for quite a number of years at this point, but that doesn’t take away from his true dedication and commitment to the rap game. We here at LNWF sent off a couple of questions for GDP while he was on his tour with Gainesville punks Dirty Money back in June.
You talk about New Jersey a lot in your lyrics. What is it about NJ that inspires you so much and how do you see the current rap scene in NJ?
GDP: I rep NJ because I think it is an interesting place to grow up. Its the diversity of New Jersey, particularly my hometown West Orange that makes for such well-rounded, crazy emmer effers. The punk rock scene here is one of the best, if not the best, in the country and world right now. There’s some talented cats coming out of NJ and repping worldwide. Hip hop shows actually taking place in NJ are hit or miss, usually miss. A lot of acts suck too.
