People comment all the time how we never update the blog with office visit pictures anymore…folks still stop by, but they’re all pretty much tired of posing for our bad pictures.  Rob Sonic, DJ Big Wiz, and Aesop Rock (the group now known as  Hail Mary Mallon) humored us.  They even posed with a copy of Sonic Sum’s second single, “Callarama Galla”  (featuring a Dan Lang cover).  They’re about  to do a bunch of tour dates (and release a new album on RSE).  More Aesop news on his new site including new shirt designs & tour dates…

He says, “Just made a playlist titled “white soul” (a sequel to black rock..lol) headlined by this track. Joe Cocker sure has that soul…”

Tonight! Del Funk For Free (with live band). First come, first served for the remaining tickets!!! Get there early!!! Doors at 9pm. Domino spinning classic Hiero tunes dj set.

Friday, April 22, 2011 at 9:00 PM (PT)

new site!  www.aesoprock.com

new tour dates!

new side project!

Hail Mary Mallon with Rob Sonic & DJ Big Wiz (art by Coro)

You can hear a preview song, “Smock”  on the Rolling Stone site.  Album coming out via RSE on 6/7.

You know a bunch of our folks are celebrating.  594 reprinted their classic shirt “Bomb City”.

Opio x Equipto did a special mix tape available on their bandcamp page. The first 50 downloads are free, the rest are $4.20 (edit: the page is now live).

And Billy Jam has been busy posting up related videos…

recap of Paid Dues 2011 presented by Fifth Element x Oh Boy Films. Adam from Oh Boy also took pics viewable here.

We’re going to be celebrating Record Store Day, this Sat, April 16th, with some of our oldest friends.    We thought it might be more fun to interact with us in physical form,  so we will be having a Giant Peach + Obey sample sale all day at:

TRUE East
925.280.2882
1335 S. Main Street
Walnut Creek, CA 94956

Music giveaways with purchase all day sponsored by Def Jux.   We were planning for a long time to have a few of our rapping friends stop by to sign autographs, but we’re not 100% that they’re going to make it out here (we’ll post again if we get absolute confirmation).

Online we will be offering additional giveways from the Def Jux catalog (if you buy clothing, most likely you will get a CD, if you buy vinyl, we’ll try to hook you up with vinyl).  We are also scheduled to receive some of the very limited Flying Lotus Cosmogramma Alt Takes LPs  as well as restocks from his catalog (this shipment may be delayed…not sure that we’re going to receive it by Sat).

So come on out or join us online…keep vinyl alive!

RJ auctioned some exclusive tracks on ebay to benefit Doctors without Borders:

“I decided to do a one-time-only auction of some tracks I’ve been sitting on with all proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders. This donation, while instigated by the situation in Japan, will be “untethered”, in that DWB does not earmark donations for specific regional causes; in short, they put resources towards where needs are highest. ”

The winning bidder will receive exclusive rights to the track, including the original ProTools session files.   You can check the auctions here (sorry, we snoozed, they ended this weekend) but also listen to snippets here.

New (really cute) vid from Atmosphere off the new album,  The Family Sign.  Sorry, we haven’t been hating on @Rhymesayers, they’re just such monster online moguls, we figured they had it handled!

Freshjive Moving Pictures – Bicycle Seat from freshjive on Vimeo.

Rick (the owner of Freshjive) says, “I’ve had this 45 single of a Caribbean style song called ‘Bicycle Seat’ since I was 14. It’s a track by an old punk band called Splodgenessabounds, headed by Max Splodge, that wrote some pretty fun novelty type tracks and were known for playing pranks. The song inspired our recent t shirt design called Life Is So Sweet, thus further inspiring our first Moving Pictures video.”