TAG: Kenna

May13

A little peak into a studio session (Kenna/Lupe/Cool Kids)

As reported last week, I had the opportunity to join a remix session over @ Record Plant and got to see some great minds at work…though the footage is brief, it hints at special collaborations…

Just in case you didn’t catch it on Kenna’s myspace

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May02

Remix chaos!? Cool Kids/Kenna/Pac Div

First post! Shout outs to Perkins…
So this week we had the Cool Kids come into town…to get bizzy!
First got in the studio with Kenna @ Record Plant (above).

Then Lupe had to drop by and check it out…

For additional footage of the week (remix with Pac Div?). Check dubfrequency.com…Video coming soon or soon coming…

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Jan12

New DJ Graffiti Mixtape

Hipsters Need Soul Too, DJ Graffiti’s latest mixtape, is available now. You can download part one of the mix with no song breaks here, or you can go to DJ Graffiti’s store and cop the whole feel.

Song List

1. Buff1 – What Does Hipster Mean? (exclusive)
2. Intro
3. Jessica Tonder and Proton – The Bee Rmx
4. Mickey Factz – Light
5. 6th Sense & Wildabeast (Both Nice) – Arcade Fly
6. Sir-Mix-A-Lot – Posses on Broadway
7. Black Moon – How Many MC’s (Cool Kids G-Fix)
8. Eazy E (NWA) – Boyz in the Hood
9. Beastie Boys – Paul Revere
10. Black Milk – Stupid
11. Masta Ace – Born To Roll
12. Rahsaan – Sneaker Store Terrorist
13. Pacific Division – Taste
14. O.C. – Times Up G-Fix
15. Cool Kids – …

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Aug09

Hanson Disaster (and not even Mmm…Bop)

Date: Aug 7th
The scene: Knitting Factory Alter-knit Lounge, Los Angeles.
Reason: Jeff Hanson

Do you know what the alter-knit lounge is? It's hella small that's what it is. And it feels like an open-mike night, where some guy who just got off work sings in the style of Ben Kweller, and the entire audience of seven was all the dude's friends. At least this guy has a sense of humor, as he says he has a song about having to shit all day and it turns out to be Beyonce's “Crazy In Love.”

Now the audience has a total of 15 people in it, including the guy who had just performed. And Jeff Hanson walks onstage, Kill Rock Stars Elliott Smith-ish darling. Normally Hanson has such an angelic girly voice, but lucky us-tonight he …

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Jun18

Kenna – Make Sure They See My Face (Review)

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Make Sure They See My Face

Released by Star Trak/ Interscope


Aided by the Neptunes, this Star Trakee has outdone his now-realized-self with his sophomore LP Make Sure They See My Face. Schizophrenic, 'I feel like I'm nowhere' lyrics comet carefully out of Kenna and reverberate off the cosmos, leaving listeners twitching towards the replay button. This is the type of collected, smooth insanity that best defines the post-postmodern emotional climate. The success of the skyrocketed Sony PSP commercially-raped single 'Out of Control [State of Emotion]' is telling of where the entire record can go. Inspired by U2's Joshua Tree, ...

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