So in the battle for the night of July 31 st between Opus One Productions (Girl Talk Concert) and Joker Productions (Neko Case concert) it seems as if the final tactical maneuver on behalf of Opus One has rendered the Neko Case show (in my opinion anyway) obsolete. Opus One (most likely at the behest [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Girl Talk’
February 23, 2009
Grand Buffet Baffles Me
It’s intimidating to stumble across a rap group that has as much history as Pittsburgh based Grand Buffet. Underground rap artists are notorious for pumping out crates of impenetrable mix tapes, remixes, 12” vinyls and any other self-produced materials hungry heads at indie-hop shows are ready to devour. Grand Buffet is in no way the [...]
February 12, 2009
The Girl Talk Post
I had read about his shows. I had seen the YouTube clips from Chicago, New York, Coachella, and Pitchfork. I even heard a first hand account of how he played, quite illegally(though I highly doubt that fazed him), through a sweat drenched night at a frat house basement in the middle of St. Louis, after the cops shut down his show, literally cutting the power off, on the campus Washington University of St. Louis earlier that night. But even after all this hype, the many glowing reviews and my own ridiculously high standards; I wa.s still unprepared for how much undiluted, visceral fun I was about to experience
