TAG: Sage Francis

May24

Grand Buffet Reunites for 2nd Annual Church of Love & Ruin (Video & MP3)

Pittsburgh indie rap legends Grand Buffet are reuniting for a four-show Northeast run of B. Dolans’s 2nd Annual Church of Love & Ruin. The group has been on a three year hiatus following years of touring in which they stole show after show opening for the likes of MGMT, Girl Talk, and Of Montreal. The event, which drew rave reviews last year, is inspired by UK boutique festivals and features everything from hip hop to burlesque to toilet paper dodgeball. This year’s lineup sees the addition of Strange Famous head honcho Sage Francis, Mux Mool of Ghostly International, SXSW favorites Wheelchair Sports Camp, and the Providence duo Juan Deuce & Falside. Returning from last year’s festival are the 21-piece What? Cheer Brigade as well as Vockah Redu & The Cru. Rapper/activist B. Dolan will …

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Apr09

Sage Slays Solana (Live Review)

The indomitable Sage Francis approached the Belly Up stage sporting a tiara, politician wig, sunglasses with X’s painted over the eyes, and a flag tied around his neck like a cape. As the familiar drums of “Personal Journalist” exited the speakers, the impeccably-dressed emcee tore into the multisyllabic rhyme schemes and clever wordplay of an “oldies but goodies” set. It was somewhat strange seeing Sage by his lonesome after years of touring with a rotating door of backing musicians, but within the evening’s essence of taking it all back to where it started, the one man band delivered.

Affectionately rapping into the sneaker he had kicked off mid-verse and placed on the mic stand, Sage planted delicate kisses on his perched footwear throughout “Climb Trees.” Past live renditions of this song have seen the lumberjack-bearded wordsmith go …

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Dec19

B. Dolan’s “Film The Police” Goes Viral (Video)

Last week, Strange Famous Records released “Film The Police,” the first single from B. Dolan’s House of Bees Vol. II mixtape. The song is a blistering political anthem featuring label boss Sage Francis, Toki Wright of Rhymesayers, activist/rap journalist Jasiri X and UK crate digger Buddy Peace.

“Film The Police,” pays tribute to N.W.A.’s infamous “Fuck The Police,” and serves as a call to action for the digitized media movement while responding to the recent explosion of police brutality all across the world.

Since it’s release, the video has logged close to 70,000 views in seven days, and earned an incredible number of co-signs from folks like Michael Moore, folk singer/activist Billy Bragg, Killer Mike, Jay Smooth, and countless others. The song has also been picked up and retweeted by Anonymous Central and a number of international #Occupy accounts, making it one of the first popular anthems of this year’s definitive movement. 

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Jun23

Sole Premieres “Hustle Hard” Video + Nuclear Winter 2 Mixtape Download (Video & MP3)

“Hustle Hard” is the latest chapter in Sole’s Woody Guthrie-like détournement of the modern mainstream. This blistering track comes from the rap-as-journalism project Nuclear Winter 2 and features the anticon expat alongside Fake Four labelmates Bleubird and K-the-I??? ripping apart Ace Hood’s hit with their own unique brand of anarchy. Though the three emcees never go airborne over a sand dune in the cart a la Johnny Knoxville, they do get in a good round of Modelo tall can-fueled golf while bringing a fresh, challenging perspective to the original song. It’s surprising how quickly this beat transforms K-The-I??? from space rap weirdo to the long lost cousin of Rick Ross. His new instrumental album Synesthesia, which dropped this week, is streaming over at Soundcloud. Bleubird, who has turned life into one nonstop tour thanks to the Freeebird van, also has a new record coming out later this year.

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May05

Video Premiere: Sole – I Think I’m Noam Chomsky (Video)

For a hyper-literate emcee who routinely references everyone from Guy Debord to Shakespeare, it’s only natural that Sole’s newest song and video be titled “I Think I’m Noam Chomsky.” Properly situated at the lectern, Sole drops science over a cinematic backdrop in the latest installment of his rap-as-journalism project Nuclear Winter 2, which he has been releasing as it is created. This week also saw the unveiling of Sole’s Pedestrian-penned Drake detournement “It Ain’t Over,” which puts the assassination of Osama bin Laden in a larger context.

Sole’s otherworldly output over the last year is rivaled only by that of Lil B, who believe it or not, collaborated with Sole for a track off of his third full-length with the Skyrider Band. Aside from the Based God, the album also features a who’s who of indie elite ranging from Sage Francis to Ceschi to Xiu Xiu. Hello Cruel World, which many are calling Sole’s most focused and accessible work to date, drops July 19th on Fake Four. Check out the first single here.

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