By Chris Mills | December 18, 2009 at 7:11 am | No comments
Local hip hop artist, James Christos premiered his latest, "Kill The Radio," live at the Riot Room a couple of nights ago. When the song's intro came in, most of the people in the crowd had looks on their faces as if to say, "Oh no he didn't!" This is Christos' bomb threat...
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By Chris Mills | December 8, 2009 at 11:43 pm | No comments
This track came out on a maxi-single of sorts that The Popper put out over the summer, the lead single being "Dead Beat." I like this song a lot better, though. If Popper is reading this - we're still looking out for that Club Hits record! Though he's getting up there in...
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By Chris Mills | October 27, 2009 at 1:58 am | No comments
DJ SKU and the Tactic dudes have officially started "YEEEEAH BUDDY RADIO." This podcast/downloadable mix is the best take on current, popular hip hop that I've heard in a long time. And as you awwwready know, SKU's mixing is on point. Keeping the theme of their "YEEEEAH...
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By Chris Mills | October 26, 2009 at 2:16 am | No comments
By no means do I expect to go on a merciless run of DJ mixes like our upcoming cover dude, Murderbot has been doing, but I think I've caught a real DJ bug over this past week or so. I knocked this one out today after a REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL shitty night last night which ended...
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By Chris Mills | September 26, 2009 at 11:40 pm | One comment
I first heard about Below from Ms. Reno, O.V.E.R.K.I.L.L.'s manager a few weeks ago. Apparently he's collaborated with Krizz Kalico in the past, but this shit is...
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By Chris Mills | September 23, 2009 at 4:50 am | One comment
While rummaging through one of DJ Shad's music hard drives a couple of months ago, I came across a song by Stik Figa (Topeka, KS) called "Part of Town." The beat sounded familiar and I remembered it was from one of Miles Bonny's old beat discs he was handing out at the...
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By Chris Mills | September 21, 2009 at 11:20 pm | 2 comments
A couple of weeks ago, I ran into this cat from Miami at the Newsroom on Broadway who was in town on business. Vertigone introduced me to him and said that this Parable character was a former Scribble Jam and World Rap Championships contestant. A group of us chopped it up...
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By Chris Mills | September 9, 2009 at 8:12 pm | No comments
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By Chris Mills | September 1, 2009 at 5:31 pm | No comments
Stik Figa Live @ The Granada from Bumps & Grinds on Vimeo.
video courtesy of Johnny Quest for bumbsandgrinds.blogspot.com
Peep the Ron Ron and Greg Enemy guest appearances towards the end of the video for "Caked Up." It's the last song that Stik...
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By Chris Mills | August 31, 2009 at 10:59 pm | No comments
I have a love/hate relationship with the Czar Bar. I love it because they bring really good DJs in (recent out of town acts include Cosmo Baker, Treasure Fingers and Roy Davis Jr.). But I hate it because I can't sell magazines in their bar. Not that any of you have to worry...
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