Yes yes y’all RockersNYC T.V. is proud is present the uniting of the hip-hop Golden Era giants! Broadcasting from Rock the Bells 2008, we captured the new & improved Pharcyde, A Tribe Called Quest, Q-tip & Mos Def. Now enjoy real hip-hop up close & personal!
For all those of you who still think Gang Gang Dance are a bunch of freaky downtown weirdos, their new album Saint Dymphna is about to blow your puny, tight-assed brains (yes, your ass-brain is TIGHT). It comes out in October and we’ll have more to say about it, but in the meantime, the gentlemen over at Street Carnage have put up the latest episode of their podcast, with guest DJ Lizzie Bougatsos, who plays a bunch of songs that are quite obviously influences on GGD and a few new jams from Saint Dymphna and her other band IUD (dual metal drumming badassedness).
Our story begins some years ago when we co-existed in different groups in the very same country.
PEYR was a band that gained a reputation in foreign countries, but when they had had their name spelled in Japanese they tactfully ceased to exist and left God Krist. and Tryggur floating in the Ether waiting to make themselves manifest.
PURRKUR PILLNIKK was another band, never too bothered but quite possibly too concerned. They played with FALL in England, then they too ceased to exist and Einar kept spinning around hoping to hit someone.
TAPPI TIKARRASS was still another band. When their charm became stagnant Bjork decided it was time for an evolutionary leap and sent us a bright smile that opened our hearts.
Birgir caressed his bass in a band called MED NOKTUM, but when the call came he knew he had to obey and left his fellow workers in the Vineyard for the Cosmic Unity of KUKL.
K.U.K.L.
SALMUR.323.
And there was one with the name of Melax who had spent his time within the framework of the surrealist group MEDUSA, alternately making phallic Bird Cages and Music for Miro on the Moon. He too heard the call and obeyed.
KUKL thus became the logical conclusion of the Icelandic Musical Evolution. They depict the Marriage of Heaven and Hell: the Union of Opposites, Cold Claustrophobic Winters with the Agoric Midnight Sun of the Summer Months. Snow fused with Vulcanic Activity: A Cold and Calm Outside covering Catastrophic Aliveness that may tear the ground from under your feet.
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