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Contest: ESG In New York City6/7 @ Le Poisson Rouge. Wanna attend with a guest? If so, then like A Heart Is A Spade on Facebook and leave a shout! A winner (21+) will be randomly chosen on 6/5. Buy tix here. Follow Le Poisson Rouge on Twitter. Visit ESG at their official site. Purchase ESG items via Insound. MP3: [...]A Heart Is A Spade19 May 2012
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Ike Yard – Ike YardFrom Aquarius Records: “Hailing from New York back in the early ’80s, they were one of the few American bands to sign to Factory Records (the most notable other band being ESG). Initially, Ike Yard really does sound like Factory should be their home, easily paralleling the death disco prowess of Public Image Limited or [...]Communications Major, English Minor15 May 2012
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This Week's Best Album Streams: 8th May 2012 ..I won't be alone in saying the only music I've cared about since Friday has been the Beastie Boys' back catalogue. As I charged along Camden's pavements during the Crawl it was the Beasties I was listening to; even while watching the bands, I was just waiting to put my iPod back on. Adam Yauch's death was truly devastating, not since Kurt Cobain's suicide has someone so embedded into my musical upbringing, died. It was 1992 when my Nirvana obsession was broken by Yauch's Gratitude bass riff, then, two years later Sabotage's groove ...The 4058 May 2012
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Feature: In-Frequencies #9: Lakes, Bad//Dree ..Our irregular round-up of some new-ish cassette, CD-R and vinyl releases featuring Ghastly Spats, The Galaxy Folk, Bad//Dreems, Mad Nanna and the best punk band Australia has produced in ages, Helta Skelta. Words by TIM SCOTT . Ghastly Spats We're Breaking Through the Hymen (EP, Heinous Anus Records) Two dudes and two gals who break out smeared mascara and chipped black nail polish rock. It all sounds kind of feral. The music that a Hollywood production company would use for the soundtrack of an apocalyptic film shot in Marrickville. 'Sordid' has a pulsating and droney vocal chant/mumble while ...Mess and Noise7 May 2012
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Feature: Track By Track: Catcall“I feel like my brattiness was seriously lacking on the record,” admits Catcall aka Catherine Kelleher about her long-awaited debut album ‘The Warmest Place’. In this track-by-track guide, Kelleher speaks about her many collaborators, inspirations and influences – from Roxy Music to The Go-Gos and ESG. ‘The Warmest Place’ This is an a cappella track that opens the record and leads into ‘August’. It was written in 2006 after my dad died very suddenly of a heart attack, sort of a cathartic exercise which I think became a catalyst for me trying to do something solo (which at the time was ...Mess and Noise30 April 2012
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ESG finally have 'Closure', announce final N ..Bronx disco-punk legends ESG, who have called it quits a couple times throughout their career, most recently in 2007 only to reunite in 2008, are once again announcing their end as a group. They'll be going out with the...brooklynvegan26 April 2012
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ESG x 4Remaining far ahead of its time during its conception – let alone their quality in sound; Emerald, Sapphire and Gold (ESG) were the original originators of art-funk inception embracing a superior sister-ship by all of the multifaceted polyrhythms and bass … Continue reading →aerial noise16 April 2012
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ESG x 4Remaining far ahead of its time during its conception – let alone their quality in sound; Emerald, Sapphire and Gold (ESG) were the original originators of art-funk inception embracing a superior sister-ship by all of the multifaceted polyrhythms and bass … Continue reading →The Noise Collective16 April 2012
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Live AloneDebbie Harry & Franz Ferdinand – Live Alone – dOP Remix from the limited edition 12″ Franz Ferdinand Covers – Remixes Vol. 2, with a Brennan Green remix on the flipside. Vol. 1 has Toby Tobias remixing LCD Soundsystem, Wild Geese taking on ESG, and David Maloso vs Peaches. Get them both from Domino’s webshop.Fuck You On Friday14 April 2012
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Friends - Mind ControlThere's worrying hints of 80s synth retro creeping in around the edges of this third single, plus the dread spectre of Paul Epworth mixing, but Friends keep their skeletal block party space-funk intact by thickening up the carrier from which ESG achieved vertical takeoff, keeping the cooler-than-cliche vocals, gang shouts and flexible bass as intact as possible. And then, a percussion jam. Album Manifest! is out June 4th.Sweeping The Nation12 April 2012
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Stream: Friends, “Mind Control”Brooklyn’s Friends are starting to sound a lot like their fellow outer borough dwellers ESG. They’ve also just announced their debut LP, Manifest!, and if all the songs sound like “Mind Control” with singalongs, sharp … read more »The FADER12 April 2012
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Songs For A Future GenerationIn one sense Athens, Georgia is your typical college town—40,000 students thrown into a town of 100,000 or so people, always in flux, always the same—but in a musical sense the place is extraordinary. You’d have to go 1000 miles west to Austin, or 1000 miles northeast to New York City, to find a music scene that even begins to compare to Athens, a town that’s half the size of Swindon, and one-eighth the size of Nottingham. For better or worse, the history of Athens music—The B-52’s, Pylon, R.E.M., Oh-Ok ...Clash Music5 April 2012
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Watch: NYC No Wave CollectionNetwork Awesome has curated a truly awesome compilation of NYC No Wave videos in one massive video spot. The thirty minute video, titled The sound of Manhattan before it got boring. Bush Tetras, ESG, James Chance, DNA and more!, was curated by Whitney Weiss and features a who’s who of the No Wave scene. No [...]Seattle Show Gal.15 March 2012
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This Week's Best Album Streams: 13th March 2 .."Just be nice." Even in 1995 Dave Grohl was staking his claim to the nicest frontman in rock, as he appealed to the 20,000 crowd in a 10,000 capacity tent at Reading Festival. I was there, at the front barriers, for what is the best and scariest gig of all time. So when a stream of the show emerged at foofighters.com , the memories and the bruises came flooding back. Of course this was a thinly disguised hint to their headline slot at this year’s Reads - you got it right? But as good as the Foo’s ...The 40514 March 2012
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Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Las ..Sizzle • New York dance-punk pioneers ESG rolled through Mezzanine on their final tour of a 34-year career, and packed the house with an unusually diverse crowd. ...SF Weekly - Music7 March 2012
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Greatest Independent HitsKoch Records2009TRACK LISTING- Swangin And Bangin
- G-Ride
- Smoke On
- Grippin Grain
- Drop Yo Top
- Realist Rhymin'
- Stay Player
- Superstar
- Come With Me
- In My Cadillac
- Thug It Up
- Get Yo Hands Up!
- Ride Wit Us
- Bring Gangsta Back [*]
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South Bronx Story 2Soul Jazz2007TRACK LISTING- Bam Bam Jam
- Erase You (Puppy To Your Side)
- In The Streets
- Dance To The Beat Of Moody
- There Was A Time
- You're No Good (Alternate Version)
- I Wanna Dance
- Moody (A New Bood)
- Standing In Line
- Earn It
- Like This
- Six Pack (Original Version)
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Screwed Up MovementSure Shot Recordings2006TRACK LISTING- Intro
- Hold Up
- Back in the Building
- Gorilla Music
- Ride Wit Us
- Purped Out
- Keep Getting It
- No Matter What
- Not a Workout Song
- Southside Pop Trunks
- How We Swang
- Gotta Shine
- Gangsta
- Grand National
- Interlude
- Watch Yo Back
- Revelation
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Sailin' da South (Chopped & Screwed)Perrion Records2001TRACK LISTING- Sailin' the South (Intro)
- 187 Skillz
- Crooked Streets
- R.I.P.
- Swangin' and Bangin'
- Let Em Know
- Beauty and the Beast
- G-Ride
- Baller of the Year
- For All the G's
- Swangin' and Bangin' [Screwed]
- Smoke On
- Murder Outro
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South Bronx StoryUniversal Sound2000TRACK LISTING- You're No Good
- Moody
- UFO
- It's Alright
- Moody (Spaced Out)
- Tiny Sticks
- My Love for You
- Come Away
- Dance
- Parking Lot Blues
- Chistelle
- About You
- Erase You
- Get Funky
- Hold Me Right
- I Can't Tell You What to Do
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Ocean of FunkPerrion Records2000TRACK LISTING- Intro
- Swangin' and Bangin' [Screwed]
- The South
- Crooked Streets
- If It Ain't One Thang It's Another
- Anticipation
- Flipping
- My Real Niggaz
- Ocean of Funk
- How Many Hoes
- Birdies That Don't Chirp
- Two Clocks Two Hoes
- 9-Trey
- Swangin and Bangin
- Smoke On
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Shinin N GrindinWreckshop Records1999TRACK LISTING- Realist Rhymin'
- Do You Wanna Ride
- Stay Player
- Who's Next 2 Plex
- Ball Till We Die
- Gangsta Bitch
- Shinin and Grindin'
- Courtroom Skit
- Responsibility
- Where da Hoes At
- Boys n da South
- Jumpin on It
- Braids n' Fades
- Hold On
- Slow My Roll
- Ain't 2 Be Fucked With
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Sailin Da SouthPriority Records1995TRACK LISTING- Sailin' Da South (Intro)
- 187 Skillz
- Crooked Streets
- R.I.P.
- Swangin' and Bangin'
- Let 'Em Know
- Beauty and the Beast
- G-Ride
- Baller of the Year
- For All the G's
- Swangin' and Bangin' [Screwed]
- Smoke On
- Murder Outro
Rasmus Seebach
Marvin Gaye
NOFX
Joni Mitchell
Dave Matthews
Sex Pistols
Bad Religion
Adele
Estelle
Tom Waits
Stevie Wonder
Jason Mraz
Cee-Lo
Iggy Pop
Michael Jackson
Duffy
Bouncing Souls
Smooth Criminal (Live 1992 Dangerous Tour) and Michael Jackson
Erykah Badu
MELANIE FIONA
The Stooges
Colbie Caillat
Jamie Lidell
Jazmine Sullivan
Rasmus Seebach
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