Savannah Shoulders Posted

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6 months ago
by Claire Morra in

The Savannah Shoulders Dirty Dog Juice Gang weekend performance has been posted on the Dirty Dog Juice Gang show page. Simply go to Shows => Music => Dirty Dog Juice Gang.

 

Claire, dirty dog juice gang

Savannah Shoulders on Dirty Dog

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6 months ago
by Claire Morra in

Dirty Dog Juice Gang hosted the Savannah Shoulders this afternoon. Audio will be up on the ddjg page Monday and look for Dan’s video on the Horn in a few days.

 

Catch Savannah Shoulders in Richmond today at The Element Lounge, 5pm or in Waynesboro next Saturday the 16th at the Ridgeview Park Ampitheater, 2pm.

 

-Claire, dirty dog juice gang

Second Week of Folklike, D.C.

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7 months ago
by Claire Morra in

For all our friends in D.C. who can stand the heat, head over to the mall and check out the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. This year’s themes are Columbia, the Peace Corps, and Rhythm & Blues. This week’s events run from July 7 – 11. Schedule at http://www.festival.si.edu Smithsonian metro, blue and orange

 

Claire, dirty dog juice gang

Boy George defends Bowie’s artistry

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7 months ago
by Claire Morra in

The Belfast Telegraph reported Wednesday Boy George’s take on the British pop singing show The X Factor. Boy George said the show lowers music and restricts artistic integrity. The show goes beyond pandering to the tv audience and allows them to control the entire proceedings. George claimed that the show would reject true star power if presented with it. Even someone like David Bowie, both commercially and critically successful would have his hair cut, face shaved, and smile smartened for Simon Cowell.

 

What then is positive about programs like this? It is true that they weed out unique talent for Ford commercials, but they also have the kids sing really good songs. No, not all the songs are good, but it is creating a classic Western songbook for the modern audience. Simon Cowell has outsmarted Hal Leonard.

 

–Claire, dirty dog juice gang

Talib Kweli Review by Deric Brown

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7 months ago
by Claire Morra in

Talib Kweli

Gutter Rainbows

Rating: C

 

Fresh off his critical acclaimed, album entitled Revolutions Per Minute, which he released (alongside Dj Hi Tek) under the duo “Reflection Eternal” brings forth Talib Kweli with his fourth and solo album, Gutter Rainbow. Kweli has always been known for his socially consciousness rhymes and he doesn’t stray away from it this album.

 

The title track Gutter Rainbow produced by M-Phases, sets the vibe for the entire album. On the track he raps: It’s the voice of the voiceless hope for the hopeless/ Spit game way to real they don’t promote it/. Which is the Kweli we are accustoming to hearing, however is only great for couple songs.  However, it can be frustrating when you’re hoping to hear a little diversity or growth from a great artist such as him.

 

The albums’ lead single Cold Rain (Prod Ski Beats), is very reminiscent of Kweli’s Kanye West produced hit, Get by and similar to that track he raps over a gospel sample about the ills of the world.

 

On tracks such as Palookas (prod by marc Polo) featuring Sean Price and Uh Oh (prod Oh No) featuring Jean Grae, Kweli slightly strays away from the albums’ conscious feel and toward a street feel, he is successful but is outshined when the feature artist appear on the track.

 

Overall this is a decent album, but lacks diversity and fails to take creative risks.  Kweli is at point of his career where he is more focused on building his “Blacksmith” record label (with acts like Strong Arm Steady and Jean Grae) than making a great album. When creating this album he chose to stick to niche, which is good if you’re not looking for anything new from this artist.

 

-Deric Brown

No One Loves Morrissey :(

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7 months ago
by Claire Morra in

pitchfork released an interview the other day with none other than Morrissey discussing the malady that no one wants to pay to record his new record.

 

“I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist.”

 

True.

 

“Obviously, it’s much worse because the entire “industry”– as it must be called– has been destroyed in a thousand ways. The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map…”

 

Ten or fifteen years ago this might not have happened. Everything was being repackaged and re-released with new mastering or new mixing and an expensive CD package. So we can all congratulate ourselves for refusing to buy blockbuster, made-to-chart CDs. Because CDs are a rip-off and we know that now. And didn’t Morrissey try to get us to buy “Hand in Glove” on like six different compilations because he loved the song so much? Can’t he pay for his new record himself?

 

claire–ddjg

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