mmj spring tour

April 2010
20 - Birmingham, AL - Alabama Theater
21 - Nashville, TN - Municipal Auditorium
23 - Atlanta, GA - Chastain Park Amphitheatre
24 - New Orleans, LA - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
27 - St. Augustine, FL - St. Augustine Amphitheater
28 - Charleston, SC - Family Circle
30 - Raleigh, NC - Koka Booth

May 2010
1 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2 - Columbus, OH - Lifestyle Communities Pavilion

My Morning Jacket will return to the tour trail for the first time in nearly a year with a round of spring dates alongside Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

The indie-rock quintet will begin the tour with an April 20 show in Birmingham, AL, followed by concerts in eight cities throughout the southeastern portion of the US. The current schedule concludes with a May 2 performance in Columbus, OH. The full schedule is shown at right.

New Orleans-based Preservation Hall Jazz Band will provide opening support for the outing.
MMJ frontman Jim James collaborated with the jazz outfit last year at New Orleans' legendary Preservation Hall, recording two tracks for the band's forthcoming album, "Preservation: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program." The collection hits shelves Feb. 12.

"When I got the invitation to go to the legendary Preservation Hall--where so much of the music we now know and love on this earth found its early roots--I did not waste a minute," James explained in a press release. "Getting to sing while the guys played with such glorious bursts of sound--all live in that holy room with the ghosts and garbage trucks crankin' along--was an experience I'll never forget."

Earlier this month, My Morning Jacket unveiled "Live at the Palms," a digital EP available via iTunes. The short set features the previously unreleased "Dear Wife" and the rarely performed "Tonight I Want to Celebrate With You," which originally appeared on the group's 1999 debut, "The Tennessee Fire."

"Evil Urges," MMJ's most recent full-length studio release, surfaced in 2008 and peaked at No. 9 on The Billboard 200.

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shut the funk up... o.g. videos

 warren g - smokin me out


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 dru down ft. bootsy collins - baby bubba



silkk the shocker, mystikal, master p - it aint my fault



the firm - firm biz


dmx - what's my name?



and, i think i will rock this dmx this weekend!

"and then there was x" download

"it's dark and hell is hot" download

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bisco's best show.

so, i don't really listen to this band too much anymore, but i'm sure some of you would like to hear what is considered their best show.  it is from the haymaker festival in 2002.  enjoy.

Set 1: Hot Air Balloon > Astronaut, Bernstein And Chasnoff > Aceetobee

Set 2: Save The Robots, The Very Moon > Helicopters > The Very Moon > Shem-Rah Boo > Helicopters, Kitchen Mitts, Run Like Hell

download it here (just click on the link that says: VBR ZIP)

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tha dirty thirties

dj yoda - how to cut & paste: the thirties edition



Responsible for spreading his name across the globe, DJ Yoda's How To Cut & Paste mixes have become the stuff of legend. Injecting a necessary dose of humour into the UK's Hip-Hop scene without ever taking his eye off the dancefloor, 's unique ability to mix and scratch theme tunes, adverts and comedy skits with some of the rawest beats around, gaining both commercial and critical success, is without equal. Following hot on the heels of his barnstorming Country & Western Edition, the fifth instalment in the series delves deep into the past, to the advent of Swing for The Thirties Edition. The decade that gave the world the first LP, the first 'All-Talking All-Colour' wide-screen movie and the Zoot suit, the 1930s was a hotbed of musical creativity that DJ Yoda has mined with his trademark ear for a funky beat turning up some surprising musical treats.

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Press Release :
Kicking off with a heavy dose of turntable trickery before dropping into Danny Kaye's appositely titled "Beatin' Bangin' Scratchin'' Yoda gets busy on the ones and twos traversing the era's gems, mixing stone cold classics of the time with tracks you didn't know you knew and some real digger's delights. Underpinned with crushing 808s, slick breaks and a dazzling array of vocal samples, the latest edition of How To Cut & Paste brings each and every track bang up to date, mixing up the Hip-Hop, Dubstep, B-More and Drum n Bass beats, catapulting the likes of 'The Professor' Benny Goodman, 'The Hi De Ho Man' Cab Calloway and the legendary 'Satchmo' Louis Armstrong into the here and now without losing any of the original magic that made them the heroes of their day. As adventurous as always, he doesn't limit himself to the kings of swing, flexing his deft deck manoeuvres with tracks from bebop don Thelonious Monk, Delta Blues' most famous son Robert Johnson, Jazz pianist Jeri Southern and Calypso singer Cecil Anderson The Duke of Iron.

Responsible for spreading his name across the globe, DJ Yoda's 'How To Cut & Paste' mixes have become the stuff of legend. Injecting a necessary dose of humour into the UK's Hip-Hop scene without ever taking his eye off the dancefloor, DJ Yoda AKA Duncan Beiny's unique ability to mix and scratch theme tunes, adverts and comedy skits with some of the rawest beats around, gaining both commercial and critical success, is without equal.

Following hot on the heels of his barnstorming 'Country & Western Edition', the fifth instalment in the series delves deep into the past, to the advent of Swing for 'The Thirties Edition'. The decade that gave the world the first LP, the first 'All-Talking All-Colour' wide-screen movie and the Zoot suit, the 1930s was a hotbed of musical creativity that DJ Yoda has mined with his trademark ear for a funky beat turning up some surprising musical treats.

 download it here!

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 vampyros lesbos - sexadelic dance party

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Hipness has come full circle with the rise in popularity of vintage Sixties and Seventies exotica film soundracks. Some of the veteran studio musicians play on these sountracks and do so with abandon and laser-like percision. It's a rare opprotunity to hear usually staid studio hands playing with an over-the-top enthusiasm they seldom have a chance to display. Hired studio guns have a thankless task when they back well known singers. The producer usually orders them to stay in the background and cheeky solos are regarded as taboo, for fear of upstaging the "artiste" who is paying them handsomely for their time.

"The Vampyros Lesbos Sexadelic Dance Party" is an example just how good it can get when these expert musicians are allowed to rip. Beatnick hipster arrangements with plenty of tempo shifts and thematic improvisation. Blaring Stax horn sections, wild psychedelic fuzz box guitar, jazzy organ runs, strutting funkadelic drum and bass, and an occasional glockenspiel or sitar for freakout effect. Composers Manfred Hubler and Siegfred Schwab toss this melange of styles into a Cusinart blender and hit the "puree" botton. The musicans of Vampyros Lesbos play lounge jazz, funk, psychedelica, mambo, samba, europop, ethnic music, rock and roll and just plain old kitsch with equal facility. This isn't schlock however... the music here is straight from cool cat school of pop fusion as practiced by Serge Gainsboro, Lee Hazelwood, Jimmy Webb,Ennio Morricone and the great Fellini sountrack composer, Nino Rota. Granted, Hubler and Schwab's soundtracks freely borrowed from other sources, but the final product was a fascinating pastiche of the great popular music of their era.

Detractors of exotica soundtracks often berate them as background music written for go-go dance parties or sordid sex scenes. Man!...those cats just can't dig it. They should buy a one-way ticket back to Squaresville and do the funky chicken til the cows come home.

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it's raining music out.

louis armstrong - remixed

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free (zing)

vampire weekend - contra (2010)

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On their 2008 debut, Vampire Weekend whipped up a new pop formula by fusing Paul Simon's Graceland with the touchstones of preppy ennui — Cape Cod summers, collegiate grief, crushes on girls with trust funds. The music had a bracing smartness, as overdetermined and detailed as a Wes Anderson movie, almost perfect for what it was, but you wondered how they'd handle the real world.

Just fine, it turns out. If Vampire Weekend was Rushmore, Contra is their Royal Tenenbaums: brainy, confident and generally awesome. Where much of the first album's charm was conceptual — Ivy League guys mashing up J.D. Salinger and King Sunny Adé — here the band has put on some muscle. The drums are bigger, the guitars are faster, and the songs are outfitted with synth beats and hip-hop, reggae and electro accents. "Diplomat's Son" sounds like a cross between classic rock steady and an M.I.A. mixtape; Ezra Koenig Auto-Tunes his voice over dancehall on "California English." The band even takes a stab at arena rock on the synthy "Giving Up the Gun."

Koenig still comes across as a kid who brings his laundry home to Mom, but now he's kicking around midtown Manhattan ("White Sky") and realizing that dating a rich girl isn't an excuse to be a dick ("Taxi Cab"). The album ends with the brutal, orchestral quiet of "I Think UR a Contra": "You wanted good schools and friends with pools," he tells an ex in a wounded boyish falsetto. "Well, I just wanted you." It's powerful and disconcerting — and shows there's a lot more to Vampire Weekend than cleverness and bright colors. There's soul, too.

-WILL DANA (rollingstone.com)

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