Scotty’s Music Monday Tuesday: Outpost Relay

By on April 19, 2011 in Music, OUTPOST1

Sup its Mycon!!!!!!!
Hope everyone liked Ghosts On Tape as much as us DJs did. When he dropped ‘Wouldn’t You Like to be a Hoe’ by DJ Slugo I was the happiest man in the club. The next day we took him to Miss Albany for a taste of that Mad Irish business, and dug through old rave 12″s at Last Vestige. He was down with our fair city! Really one of the pioneers in the new wave of US house/bass – check out new Ghosts On Tape records coming out in the near future.

Going right into next months Outpost1 guests so you have an idea of what’s going on. We got our fam Dwell coming through. Dwell lives around the corner from me, where he has awesome BBQs that I always miss cause I’m out riding mopeds. He started DJing in Albuquerque, but in our city is big in both the DJ and art worlds; It’s really thanks to dudes like Dwell that those are the same thing in Albany. Dwell gets everything in from Rare groove to dubstep, he’s a crate-digger in the classical sense of the word. Check this mixtape of the former. It’s that goodness.

mixone, funky groove, diggin in a digital world by dweller518

Mike Q is headlining our party in May, coming off an XLR8R podcast that blew up the world, he is now everywhere. The background of his sound (BALLROOM!) deserves a good story, and I suggest you check that out here… this music is like the best elements of classic rave and NY house, baltimore club sampling fun, and Detroit/Chicago booty raunchiness.

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Bassnectar at the Armory: KAB Ticket Giveaway. RT to enter!

By on April 19, 2011 in Events, Music

So you slept on tickets and now the show is sold out, and you were going to go to the Rebecca Black concert or Shoenice standup show instead? Yeah right, KAB has your back and is giving you the chance to get your bass face on.

CONTEST IS OVER


photo michael holden

It’s guest list business so don’t even bother entering if you can’t go or if you plan on flipping the tickets.

The tickets (as well as the entire show) are courtesy of Guthrie/Bell Productions, show them love on their facebook page!  Also, if you want to say thanks, or just be a nice person, remember to vote for us in the times union poll! The contest ends at noon on April 20th, winners will be announced later that day. Get tweeting!

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Andrew’s Music Monday: Dubbel Dutch

By on April 19, 2011 in Music

Ever since Scotty’s post a while back, where he introduced me to Dubbel Dutch, I’ve been hooked.
Scott posted the news that Dubbel’s EP is going to be released very soon (tomorrow) and he’s got it up, in it’s entirety to stream. Check it out below, it’s incredible. Buy it if you’re into it!

DUTTY ARTZ – DUBBEL DUTCH WHITE LABEL (DA-011) by dubbeldutch
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Not your average comfort food

By on April 18, 2011 in Food & Beverages

Chickpea Cutlets with Maple Mashed Sweet Potatoes and White-Pepper Gravy

Lately, I’ve been craving a big, savory, southern-style vegetarian dinner. This recipe made a large amount, enough to feed about 6 people at under $5 a person.

Wanna try it out? Shopping list and step-by-step instructions after the jump!

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Interestingness in the local news vol 12

By on April 18, 2011 in News

it’s tax day. [KAB]

bbq wars are beginning [tr]

dude who stole two polos at the mall had a loaded sawn off in his backpack [tr]

cp woman charged with falsely reporting assault [saratogian]

some dude made cars drive somewhere else and now is a hero for making the air cleaner [ynn]

dude got caught by a k9 after trying to evade a traffic stop [tr]

woman who got attacked by a bear (?!) says she hopes they don’t kill it [ynn]

there’s free burritos at bombers on april 20th [KAB]

rennsselaer looking to say fuck you to the westboro baptist church [tr]

part of the albany rail trail may open finally [tr]

one person mooning someone is apparently the same as destroying cars, rioting, etc [TU]

h&m is expanding, opening a 2 story store [TU] h&m is downsizing, moving [TU]

an overly complex story with no details and a lot of politics about a cop hitting a cab [TU]

more pine hills cleaning [TU]

drug raid money is used to buy cops personal cars, no lights or sirens [TU]

there’s a rad exhibit going on at the nys museum [TU]

dude jumped off a bridge to evade police, gets arrested [saratogian]

i don’t care about sports, at all.

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You Can’t Always Get What You Want And I Didn’t

By on April 18, 2011 in Life, the Universe and Everything

Date 1
It was as if Salvidor Dali’s and Ambrose E. Burnside’s facial hair had met and made sweet, passionate love to one another. I was outmustached by half the men in the room. My hair wasn’t long enough. My pants weren’t tight enough. My sweater vest wasn’t sweater vesty enough.

My coffee was sure as fuck black enough though, and quite cold. My waiter was too busy trying to look ironic to notice me so I drank it and thought about strangling him with the chain from his own fixed gear bicycle. Actually, this clown looked like he probably rode to work on a unicycle. He was that cool. Seriously, his shirt said, “I’m That Cool.” I thought about what that meant, decided I didn’t know, then hated myself for thinking about it. That’s just what he wanted.

My date was saying something about drawing on mirrors. Things had gotten awkward earlier when I told her the only thing I knew how to draw were stegosauruses. She didn’t seem to know whether or not I was joking, which made me realize I had no idea whether or not I was joking either. I couldn’t remember ever trying to draw anything other than a stegosaurus so I decided it must be true. I’m really bad at flirting by the way.

I told her my apartment came with obnoxiously large mirrors in the dining area and she was welcome to come over and draw on them whenever she liked. She would actually be doing me a favor. All I have on them so far is a bunch of poetry and physics equations which makes me seem both emo and insane.
“Oh, that would be awesome! But, you should know, I’m not looking to get involved with anyone.”
“Errrr… what? Okay. You can still draw on them if you want. I mean, I have dry erase markers and they don’t care whether or not we’re dating.”

It always seems like I’m missing something when I talk to women – like I’m reading a book but every fourth word is blacked out. I try and fill in the gaps but it doesn’t make any sense and sounds crazy. I wonder if she thought this was a date. Afterwards, I would end up walking her to her car, and I’m under the firm belief that if you walk a girl to her car, it’s a date, and you’re a goddamn gentleman.

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OUTPOST1: April Roundup

By on April 15, 2011 in OUTPOST1

Tonight is the night! If you’re not sure what this “OUTPOST1″ is, this will help you out, as well as get you ready for tonights festivities. OP1 is a dance night that we (KAB+Deep Children) put on every third Friday at Fuze Box.

Here’s the lowdown for tonight, via the facebook event:

For this month, we’ve got WCDBs Andrew White on some Detroit & Chicago sounds, new and old. Then we’re going into the sound of Deep Children’s Mycon who will be rinsing his signature taste of bmore, house, funky and the like. The mighty GHOSTS ON TAPE from SF will then be keeping everyone moving! Then to keep the night heavy, we’ve got some Party With Tina and Looney of Deep Children b2b dubstep action. It’s going to be the absolute realness.

With that, we have a bunch of goodies for ya to check out:

Word up! Hope you all come out and have a super fun night tonight. That’s the point, come enjoy the vibes, and get there early so you don’t miss out on any of the DJs!

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