Archive for January, 2010

~THIS MIC IS A PIPE BOMB!~

NEW ALBUM NEW ALBUM NEW ALBUM NEW ALBUM NEW ALBUM NEW ALBUM

Here it is, folks. No intro (I know, I know) cuz the whole moving situation kicked my ass and I feel like I need a fresh start to really get back into full-on production mode. So here’s the fruits of my labors for the past eight months or so, “This Mic is a Pipe Bomb”.

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Here’s the track list:
1) Get Your Eyes Back In Your Head
2) (Who Will Be Laughing) Once I Learn Guitar
3) Focus In!
4) Manual Labor (Palms, Wrists, Knuckles & Fists)
5) The Realities of Municipal Hustle
6) Holy Diver
7) Turn Off the Damn Radio
8) The Spare Change Shake

And, yeah, a lot of this won’t be new to you if you’ve been following this page, but please spread this around as much as you can and, as always, feel free to rehost and relink and whatever the hell you wanna do to get the word out. I’m real proud of this and I’d like the world to know so go ahead and do your part — if you like the record, share it with a friend or whatever.

As before, this record is entirely self-produced, every sound on it is a sound I made unless I ripped it off a record — No external producers or engineers or anything, just two hands and a dream (and a cliched catch-phrase, apparently). The artwork was created by the talented Anderson M. Cook (andersonmcook@gmail.com) and the idea was to mimic the political hardcore records I grew up listening to from labels like Ebullition and Mountain. I think it came across REAL well.

The next record is definitely going to be much more of an “album” than a collection of tracks and I have some pretty heady ideas about it and a collection of interesting guests I plan on inviting to keep things from being such an insular process. Keep your eyes peeled for sure, thanks for your patience, and don’t forget that hip hop isn’t dead just cuz a couple people wanna sell their records by saying that it is.

– J.