What y'all getting into this weekend?

F*CK YESS!!! Tonight catch LeCastle Vania doing his thing at The Drunken Unicorn. for the low-low. If you like electronica and dance/club music this should be the spot tonight. I gotta work, tho so I'ma miss it. :o(


Of course y'all know the First Friday's Jump off is going down over at Sugar Hill this Friday. The Black Bill Gates and The Audubon Society on the one's and two's.


Also on Friday you can peep the Dub sounds of ATL's Suntoucher over at Apache Cafe. If you haven't seen them perform live, you are missing out. Should be a dope experience. Get there early, then jet over to get FUXKD up down at Sugarhill.


On Saturday at Apache you can also catch Kelly Love Jones, Tommy Bottoms 'n 'em. For Twisted Tounge. If you aren't in the mood for Spoken Word you could always get some great Rock music in your life. Deerhunter is playing the Earl this Saturday. They always put on a great show. Should be fantastic.



Got a mind for something different this weekend? Why not shoot over to the Rialto Downtown and treat someone to the Sam Cooke Story. It's a musical on the life and times of Sam Cooke detailing his biography, music and untimely death. Sounds interesting.



Oh yeah, almost forgot. The Sloppy Seconds party CONTINUES (can you believe it?) this Friday (tommorow) With the Decatur Social Club Klever will be spinning along with a mystery guest DJ over in Decatur at Club Azul. Wow. "The party don't stop." (c) Dj Variable.

Then of course you have your normal weeklies going down at MJQ, Halo, The Royal, Django, Apache, etc...

That's about it for this weekend. I'll catch y'all with any updates as the come available. Meanwhile, you are sure to hear this Gorilla Zoebumping in the streets. This isn't brainiac music, it's club music. Don't hate on me for liking to see 'em drop it like it's hot. I'ma man, dammit.

Fridays = No Doze/ Don't sleep.

I think every Friday I'ma introduce some young Fly Folk making some dope music. This Friday we'll kick it off with Wale out of D.C. (not to be confused with ATL's Wale Oyejide- GET THAT ALBUM!!!)




Wale is serious. (Re)discover him.

You knew I had to get back to the ATL, tho. Didn't you?



ATL Based The Dreamer is making moves as well. They say left of center music can't make it onto Big Radio. WRONG! (c) Charlie Murphy. WRONG! The Dreamer don't seem to have that problem. The Dreamer is really an extension of what is an entire group of new fly cats emerging from ATL's art scene (which I gotta shout out Doo Gallery, Artists like Gaelle, and promoters like The F'in Socialites and others for stoking it's fire).

The media hasn't gotten hold of this movement yet, so there isn't really a name for these folks. The movement includes names like like Stacy Epps, Proton, Janelle Monae,Crunc Tesla, Supreeme, Dj Rob Wonder, Former DMC Champion DJ Klever, The Audubon Society, Hustle, Knives Out as well as Producers like Battery 5 and Tru.ski.


These fashion forward acts with an electic musical palatte threaten to make some noise this summer, and into 2008.



The Dreamer is no exception.



Atlanta's very talented, and equally congested Indie Underground Hip Hop scene has yet to manage lifting critically acclaimed acts such as Y'all So Stupid (yeah, I took it back), or Dungeon family members Witchdoctor, Malachi, Ked or even Cool Breeze from the murky depths of the local scene despite them penning anthems like "Hustling boy", "Holiday","Watch for the Hook" and "Van full of Pakistanis".

I don't think that The Dreamer and those of the class of 200? will have that problem.

Their be fly as you wanna be stylings have a mass appeal. This could be the next big ATL soundscape much like LaFace/Organized noise was in the early 90's, Crunk in the the late 90's and Snap is now.

There aint much I can tell you about Dreamer except that he is a young cat- a film student at Georgia State. He is part of the B Rich Squad, and he's already made fast friends with the likes of Lupe Fiasco, Fonzworth Bentley and the Dugeon Family.

Sounds like he's on the right track.
"Bowtie" ft Fonzworth Bentley




Another young brother making moves is Hustle. This Georgia Southern University alumnus (had to get that in there) has been on his grind to. Making music with Kanye West protege Really Doe. Here is the mp3 to "Diamond Girl".




Knives Out. We talked about them earlier this week. The group is comprised of Shoden- a local producer, Former Rawkus Label star Novel, and Spree Wilson. If the outtakes in their youtube clips are any indication, this upcoming album should be FIRE! Anytime you can get No I.D. (Frequent colloaborator with Common) in the studio, you might be doin sumin major (Let alone Dallas Austin 'n 'em).



So fresh, so clean.

I gotta mention the Slack Republic real fast. Meczilla fronts this Rock/Punk fusion band based out of ATL. I caught them at the Star Bar last year. I'll let the music speak for itself...

"Popular Belief"

Finally, I'ma talk about Proton. These cats are fly for real. I haven't really been able to stop playing "Wsup Now". These are really the elder statesmen of The Class of 200?. Proton been on and off the scene for a quick minute. But I think that Atlanta, perhaps the world wasn't ready for them the first time around. Maybe it is now. I dunno...you be the judge:




I'll be back later on today with some music from NYC like I promised. I want to talk about this Joel Ortiz character, Emily King, and Peter Hadar a taste. I also want to ask what appearantly is a rhetorical question on why Kudu isn't getting the love that J*Davey and Heavy is getting.

Or I might not. I have to go to Jummah, and go in early to work this evening. We'll see. I might add the NYC stuff on Saturday.





I'ma leave y'all with DJ Klever's remix of "Get it Shawty" by ATLien singer Lloyd.


I'll Holla back.