MATISYAHU (Live In Indianapolis - 10/22/08)

He turned it out and that backdrop is silly fresh...

MUDKIDS receive BEST HIP-HOP BAND in NUVO READERS' POLL. Dig the plaque.

Here's the lovely and talented Amy Crook of NUVO Newsweekly bringing the plaque to the 'Kid for the 'Kids. Thanks to everyone who voted for Us and all of you everywhere who have supported Us all these years.

We got so much to say. Thanks for listening.

Respect and Grace, Get your MATISYAHU/FLOBOTS/MUDKIDS tickets NOW!

LIVENATION

MUDKIDS

MUDKIDS ON FACEBOOK

MUDKIDS TV

RUSTY ON IMEEM (I HAVE SOME FLY PLAYLISTS!)

Rusty

PG freestyles for MUDKIDS TV

Yeah,

I ain't finna talk your ear off. I really want you to see this video.

My man, PG, came over to vibe and talk about his set. I couldn't let the opportunity to get one of Indy's illest on tape. We went into Beta Base and this is how it went down.

Dude is ill...



See us do it tomorrow at SPIN.

Respect and Grace,

Rusty

DJ RUSTY REDENBACHER - 'Ridin' Around In My City' (FREE DOWNLOAD)

I was rappin' with my cousin, Stevie D. and we agreed that 'Onstar' by alpha. (pictured above with DJ Metrognome. They do the THANG as 'Class of '93') is one of the illest things we had heard in a while.

I have watched alpha. for a long time. His craftsmanship has grown over the years to a point where he has to be mentioned in any discussion about serious lyricists in Indianapolis. He's got an eye for detail that makes me hear new things every time I listen to one of his songs. His story-telling is top-notch, absolutely keen insights and a flair for the cinematic that puts you inside of the Song. When I listen to 'Onstar', I can actually see the road, I can feel the breeze when we roll down the window. J. Brookinz' track is absolutely perfect for this song. I would say it is about as sweet a marriage of track and narrative as I have heard.

The Brother is just as real and as cool as it gets. He has a cool that is so unforced and natural, you just can't help but listen. He's the kinda cat that could always be the 'life of the party', but understands that those cats usually go home alone and end up as the talk of the water-cooler. The flow is ridiculous, kids. The passion is obvious. Everything about this cat says 'Truth' from his 'no pressure' baritone, to his inimitable swag, to his incredibly keen insight and his willingness to share it.

alpha. (his spelling; "lowercase, with a period", typical understated cool.) has a blog a Myspace page where you can hear more of his Music. Please check him out, as he is truly a shining light in Naptown's Music scene. Here are the links to his pages...

alpha.'s blog.

alpha. on Myspace

Class Of '93 (alpha. and DJ Metrognome)

DJ Metrognome on Myspace

J. Brookinz on Myspace

Now, let's ride. It me, you and Cousin Steve.



MP3:

DJ RUSTY REDENBACHER - 'Ridin' Around IN My City' [zshare] < click there, click your seat belt and ride with Rusty and Stevie D.!

'Onstar' - alpha.
'Choppin' Blades' - UGK
'Sittin' Sideways' - Paul Wall
'Sittin' On Chrome' - Master Ace, INC
'Born To Roll' - Master Ace, INC
'The Boomin' System' - LL Cool J
'Let Me Ride' - Dr. Dre
'Mrs. Officer' - Lil Wayne/Bobby Valentino
'Keith Turbo' - Kool Keith
'85' - Youngbloodz
'Black Mags' - The Cool Kids
'Super Clean' - Nappyville/Onrey (625 Ent.)

FREE DOWNLOAD - LIL WAYNE/RUSTY REDENBACHER - 'A MILLI (Rusty On The Wheels) Remix)'. VIDEO INSIDE.

Muthf***a, I'm ill not sick.


myspace graphic at Gickr

Haven't been here in a minute, but if you were to check MUDKIDS TV, you'll see why. I have been on the wheels like a madman.

I think things hit an apex yesterday. I recorded this remix, shot and edited this video and posted it for ya. I'm kinda proud of this one. I think it shows a little bit of a lotta what I do.

LIL WAYNE/RUSTY REDENBACHER (MUDKIDS) - 'A MILLI (RUSTY'S 2 DEX REMIX)'



You can download it here...

'A MILLI (Rusty On The Wheels Remix)'

Peace, y'all. Stay tuned, this is getting good.

Bulldozers, Pt. 2

This looks to be a continuing story.

'Slumber Is The Price Of Progress' - at least I got a good title outta this...



Fucking bulldozers.

Hum V. featuring B-Swayzie - 'Back In The Day' (Video)

Here's the new joint from my man, Hum. V from the Cleptoz. Nice li'l video, y'all. You can see that they took some time with this one and the little versions of those dudes are too cool. I ran into Hummer at MoJo's when they were storyboarding this joint. Looks good!

Peep it...



The dude is going for it...but I have told him about these long-ass fade-outs!

Beta Male - 'Husband's Girlfriend'

Beta Male is one of the most exciting new bands I've seen in a while. P. David Hazel is a phenomenal songwriter with a stone-cold sense of melody and structure. He's also a nice as hell dude. I was trippin' when I saw their stage set-up; Dave sets up in the front with his drums, the guitar and bass play the back and these two badass rockin' chicks man the keys on his side. I knew when I saw them that they were on their own thang.



Beta Male also employs the talents of his lovely wife, Allison, as well as the legendary Vess Ruhtenberg, Tyler Bowman, and Jess Hack. I hate to write that they sound like 'this-meets-this-band'; that style of rock journalism is so tired to me. They don't look like NOBODY, they sound like 'BETA MALE'.

Beta Male has an good-size 80's influence, but what they do is wholly modern and wholly their own. Allison brings showmanship to the stage as well as anyone I have seen before. She rocks the whole time, talks some good shit between songs, and is behind a lotta the way that the ladies in the group are represented visually, as well as sonically and socially. She's a strong lady, yo. I've told her that she has a 'Bowie-esque' quality; very chameleonic and charismatic, but she is also quite the provocateur. Jess is like her quiet, stoic counterpart, bookending cool Dave. It's an awesome look and sound, to be sure.





Really feeling this jammie-jam here. I had to wait to get the okay on it before I posted it. I had a previous mix of this record, but I had to wait to get the final version. I told P. David that I wanted to feature them here and I would be using IMEEM to post their joint. The next day, my man had an IMEEM account too...and here's that good shit I was talking about.

I have always said that any group with two or more family members in it is worth listening to. Here's further proof. Their full EP is available online at iTunes, get that shit NOW.

BETA MALE - 'Husband's Girlfriend'



...and I owe these guys a video appearance...fucking pneumonia, man. I WILL make the next one, yo!

MUDKIDS - 'Stop! (Don't Quit) (Rusty's West Coast Remix)

MUDKIDS - STOP! (DON'T QUIT) (RUSTY'S WEST COAST REMIX)



The track for this is something that I did with my friend, Benelmo. In the Summer of '04, I was interested in learning a bit about making beats and Ben was cool enough to sit and work with me. I have no musical training, other than whatever it was I received in school. Ben can play anything; so if I had an idea, Ben could play it if I could hum it. It ended up that I would actually play the parts and Ben and I would edit them. Ben would be cool and patient enough to let me tap out what I thought I heard in my head. We'd move things into different spots, trying all types of things stylistically and sonically. It was a lotta fun. i hope to make some more tracks with Ben asafp.



I figured there was no point in having these just sitting around, so SPStar and I got together today and knocked this out. I had been thinking of reinterpreting a Mudkids Song; here's what we did today.




Get at us, man...

MUDKIDS (Myspace)

LAZARUS (Myspace)

RUSTY REDENBACHER (Myspace)

MUDKIDS TV (Youtube)

My Morning Jacket - 'Evil Urges' (6/10/08)

I simply can't wait for the new My Morning Jacket album, 'Evil Urges' to come out on Tuesday...

...so I didn't. Here's the first jammie-jam that hooked me from their latest release. A little joint called 'Highly Suspicious'





I believe they are streaming the album if you would like to hear it. It's on their Myspace page. 

and Indy's own CARL BROEMEL plays with 'em! YES!

Eli Larch Chastain - 'Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Luck'

I get to be around so many talented people. I really am a lucky dude.

This is Eli Chastain.



Eli's relationship started out with me as the 'new dude at Northside News'. I knew he played in Mardelay, a great indie rock band here in 'Nap.

When I met him at the newsstand, he put me up on his hardcore band, Trenches. (They're fucking FIERCE...).

Then today, he played me this song today at work.

His Myspace profile says he is 'working on the album that will make his Mom and Dad proud.'. He's right. He told me today he was writing his 'Heartbreaker'. 'Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Luck' is a good place to start. The kid digs Ryan Adams and John Mayer. I ain't mad, at all.

I really like this song a lot and if I didn't I wouldn't have bothered setting up an IMEEM profile. It's that good...made me get on my game. There is just too much good stuff around me. I am so happy to share it with you.

Here's the new future-hit single from the new dude at Northside News.

ELI LARCH CHASTAIN - 'Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Luck' from the album that is gonna make his folks proud.

It was HOT danna MUG today...Download 'Summer' by MUDKIDS HERE. MUDKIDS, LAZARUS, and RUSTY show updates.

Man....Indy...



That DYNAMIC Summer I have been telling people about is well on its way, if today's temperature was any indication.

I think some of what was going on today is what I was thinking about when I wrote this. It's been up on the Mudkids Myspace page for a while. I thought I would give you guys first dibs on the download.

MUDKIDS - 'Summer' from 'We Are Dynamic And People Like Us' (coming soon!)

Click the Song's title and feel the HEAT! Don't forget we will be playing a few shows for our Hometown People...

FRIDAY, JULY 13: LAZARUS is at the MELODY INN! After that I'll be shooting over to the TIP-TOP TAVERN to play a set of solo-material.



...and, of course, you can get with this or you can get with that...THURSDAY, JUNE 19 at SPIN NIGHTCLUB!

A-B-C. Easy as 1-2-3. Dizzy Yung and the Ol' Timer.

That's my man, Dizzy, from The Cleptoz, one of Nap's most popular hip-hop groups. Say what you will, those cats hustle. I actually DJed for them for awhile; loved performing with these cats. They play a tight, high-powered, high-energy, non-stop banging show, they promote the hell outta themselves and they genuinely seem to love what they do. Their show has never lost steam as the years have gone on, in fact it's gotten stronger. They've always shown me a great deal of respect and I can dig it. I got it right back for 'em. I love them dudes. As soon as I get an MP3 of some of their new stuff, as well as the cut I did with Hum. V, I'll post them for you to check out. Some of you may already be familiar with my man, Hum. V, also from the Cleptoz; he's working on some stuff on his own and making some noise on the radio.

Dizzy had this acapella joint he would do during the show (if he felt like it!). I don't even know what it was called, but I noted it the first time I heard him do it cuz it set the crowd OFF. He'd spit bars, all in alphabetical order. First bar = 'A', second bar = 'B', and so on and so forth all the way to 'Z'. People would usually go ballistic when the kid got around the 'JKLMNOP' set, once they realized what he was doing. It was some fly shit. I remember telling Dizzy one night, "Yo, you're dope. You gotta dope voice, now just figure out what you wanna say, cuz people will listen."

It is one thing to hold a crowd with your bangers, but when you truly turn it out with an acapella, you're winning. The cat had people listening. That's the best reward an MC can ask for; when the people freak, you really get it back. The time you spent crafting that verse, promoting your band, and getting your show tight so you don't look like an ass when your fans get there is paying off. You lock eyes with someone and you know they are 'getting it', there ain't nothing like it. Making that connection with a room full of people is an amazing feeling. I still get goosebumps when I can hear the crowd rapping along with me. Still.

Diz stopped doing the 'ABC' joint after a while. I asked him why and he let me know that he was just kinda 'over it'. I am also sure that he probably heard a few people compare his 'ABC' song to Blackalicious' Alphabet Aerobics'. They do share pretty much the same concept. I told him that you can't start worrying about that.

I can't tell you how many times I "just thought of that" when I heard somebody spit it the next day or week. It just happens, man. Ain't nobody about to stop rhyming about 'girls', 'cars', 'money', and what-have-you; people knock heads on concepts all the dang time. Man, do YOU. If the people are feeling it and you are feeling the people, you are doing the right thing.

Dizzy has a new track posted at my man, Romer's blog I'll let you know when my guys are playing next. I wish I had Dizzy's 'ABC' joint so I could post it for you. I don't even know if there is a recorded version I guess you'll hafta go see them live (and if y'all see me in the place, y'all better do that joint for me!). That dude, Dizzy is particularly ill; watch him and tell him to do that 'ABC' shit...

I do have the Blackalicious track, y'all...


MP3:
BLACKALICIOUS - 'Alphabet Aerobics (The Cut Chemist 2 1/2 Minute Workout)'


And what? Did y'all forget about Third Bass? I wonder if Gift Of Gab caught the blues from his buddies about Allan. There is nothing new under the sun. This might actually be the reason I still have this CD. It sure ain't 'Pop Goes The Weasel'.



I told you; I stick with my people...but why do I still have this?



We'll talk more about that later. Check out my man, Allan. "NO! Don't try and steal my spot! This is my spot!". I LOVE this track.

MP3:
THIRD BASS 'Al'z A-B-Cee'z'

and I am pretty sure y'all know who started this shit for real, though. DON MUSIC up in this joint.

'The John Zeps Show' is coming....Part 2

I really have no idea as to what the hell this 'show' is gonna be about. Is it gonna be like 'Seinfeld', a show about nothing? Is it gonna be like 'Jackass'? (which could happen knowing Zippy and his predilection for recklessness). Might it be in the vein of 'Intervention'? (What is 'ZEPS LIGHT'?) So far, we've been in the car with John twice and we haven't learned a lot. I guess they're gonna break us in slow. 

I'm hooked...What is Johnny doing?

I have a feeling this is gonna be infinitely watchable...something is bound to happen

Props for my man, Dino Codalata

 

http://www.indy.com/posts/8419

Check out this article profiling some of Indianapolis' own 'Guitar Heroes'. It features John Byrne, Thom Daugherty of the ELMS and the MIGHTY DINO CODALATA of LAZARUS! Yeah, I am proud of my man.

Click the blog's title to check Dino and Lazarus.

LAZARUS

http://myspace.com/lazarusindy

Rusty Goes To See The Hives

Tell ya what; you wanna see a phenomenal rock n' roll show? Go see THE HIVES. I wish I coulda gotten more actual footage of the show, but my recorder doesn't do so well with live, LOUD sound.  It was really about as good a live show as I have seen in years plus I gotta hang out with some of the old heads from the Glory Days of Broad Ripple, before it was infiltrated with squares, frat-boys and their shenanigans, and faux hipsters.

...and what is even cooler is that the good Dr. Matt Destruction himself chimed in on muh little video and put me up on some game for ya. That's a good look, Doc. 

This is Saturday Night with the HIVES!