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Posted on 06.14.09 by Brian @ 7:22 am
Comments on this: 3 so far. Add your own.  Widge's Note: As threatened, here is Brian from Quick Stop Entertainment's Cabin Fever to let you know about his life with hip hop, as a gateway to he and his amigo Aaron doing semi-regular hip hop reviews for the site. Enjoy. Hip-hop 'n' Me I remember the first time I ever heard gangsta rap. It was the summer of 1995, I was 14, and myself and my friend Brian were playing Mega Bomberman in his room. This was the norm for us, and we had spent countless hours gleefully blowing each other up over the previous months when we should have been doing homework. I wasn't quite the lover of music I am now; I had dabbled in a little British indie like Stone Roses and Oasis leading to a lifelong hero worship of Noel Gallagher, and I had been known to make idiotic claims like Green Day were the greatest band ever (I was fourteen...what do you want from me?!). One day Brian popped in a tape his brother had given him a few weeks before. I remember laughing when he told me who it was--I mean what kind of name was Snoop Doggy Dogg? Could beagles sing? Despite my mockery he pressed play…and blew my mind. Categorized as: Music
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Posted on 06.14.09 by Aaron @ 6:24 am
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own.  Widge's Note: In addition to being one half of Ireland's ambassador team to Needcoffee, Aaron (along with his partner in crime, Brian, both of them from Quick Stop Entertainment's Cabin Fever) are going to be reviewing hip hop for the site. Why? Because we can. Here, he reveals his hip hoppity past and explains his own personal yardstick for the musical genre. Enjoy. Hi, my name is Aaron and I got into hip-hop because of DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. I'm not ashamed to say it. It's not the most of credible starts I'll admit, but there was a time that they were considered part of the cool kids. Before the TV show, the movies and the "Big Will" moniker, The Fresh Prince played second fiddle to a highly respected hip-hop DJ called Jazzy Jeff. Back when De La Soul, Leaders of the New School and A Tribe Called Quest made a name for themselves by providing fun, clever and smooth rhymes/beats. Categorized as: Music
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Posted on 06.11.09 by Widge @ 1:51 am
Comments on this: just one. Add your own. The guy's name is Pogo and he's an Australian remixer of sound-things. Check out this fantastic bit, based on samples from Mary Poppins: Direct link for the feedreaders. Here's a slightly unrelated bit, but I realized it when we ran a contest for Mary Poppins a little ways back: the little girl is Karen Dotrice. I thought, "Huh. Dotrice isn't a very common name, I don't think...is she any relation to Roy?" Of course she is. It's Roy Dotrice's daughter. Roy Dotrice is perhaps best known to all of you as the dad in the Beauty in the Beast series with Ron Perlman. He was most recently the Elfin King in Hellboy II. And he read the audiobook of the first three books of A Song of Ice and Fire and rocked the house on each one. Anyway, there--your Widge-realized trivia bit of the day. Found via @Metaglyph. Pogo's MySpace is here. Another vid after the break. Categorized as: Music
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Posted on 05.02.09 by Widge @ 11:51 pm
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own. Frank Zappa is a musician/composer I seem to appreciate more and more as time goes on. In fact, below the break I'll include the first time I actually heard his work--and it wasn't even him. Oh sure, I had heard "Dirty Love" and "Yellow Snow" and all of the novelty-esque bits that you sorta can't help but run across. But it took a bit of time to start to delve and find some fantastic stuff. Starting away from the music, here he is on What's My Line? I love the way he and the host devolve into film geekery. Awesome. Direct link for the feedreaders. Found via Classic Television Showbiz. Categorized as: Music
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Posted on 04.23.09 by Widge @ 2:17 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. So Bill Corbett (he of the Rifftrax, yes) posted this on Twitter: a Kabuki version of Jesus Christ Superstar. This clip is from an older production, apparently, but check it out anyway: Direct link for the feedreaders. I don't know about you, but I would watch the hell out of that. It looks fantastic. It reminded me of the recent touring version (with the movie's Ted Neeley still playing Christ) that I saw with Corey Glover, he of Living Colour fame. I wondered if I could find any video of that, and... Categorized as: Music
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