{"id":6180,"date":"2010-05-24T15:31:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T20:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6180"},"modified":"2010-05-24T23:58:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T04:58:34","slug":"music_monday_fo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/24\/music_monday_fo\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Monday for the Mutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mutineers, it’s been a minute since I’ve blogged here – I’ve been traveling and collecting stories from the motherland for a project (which I’ll catch you up on a little later). Since I’ve been back, I’ve been downloading new music with a frenzy and it seems that quite a few musical friends of The Mutiny have been busy while I’ve been gone. Chee Malabar<\/a> dropped a free EP (The Burning Tire Artisan<\/em>) <\/a>and the ENTIRE Das Racist <\/a>album Shut Up, Dude<\/em> (including the infamous Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell<\/em><\/a>) is downloadable for free off of their Myspace<\/a>. Sub Swara<\/a> remixed a Balkan Beat Box<\/a> song, also downloadable for free.<\/a> All songs are in heavy rotation on the ipod. Riz MC<\/a> is streaming his new album MICroscope<\/em> in it’s entirety for a limited time and tonight Arthi Meera<\/a>‘s band Fair and Kind<\/a> is uStreaming a live show tonight at 6pm PST<\/a>. Not to mention M.I.A.’s latest XXXO<\/em> is my greatest jam<\/a>, no thanks to Lady Gaga<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Since it’s “Music Monday” I thought, I’d share some finds and see what you think.<\/p>\n\n

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The above video comes from Koom the Ripper<\/a>, a new kid outta Southern California with a first album dropping some time this year. I heard of him through the guys of Slant<\/a>, (who also are the back up dancers in this video) and I gotta admit, the song sounds like it belongs at a college Asian American talent show competition. But I thought the video was cool and Koom has definite potential. You can download his entire LP American Muscle<\/em> for free here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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I’ve been loving the new Das Racist <\/a>album Shut Up, Dude<\/em> – the hooks are catchy and Heems drops lyrical references to V.S. Naipul, Dinesh DeSouza, and John Abraham. Though sometimes the lyrics are coded in subtext atop subtext. I’m completely mesmerized by the above video to Fake Patois<\/em>.

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While in Delhi, I went dancing at a drum and bass party thrown by the D&B collective called BASSFoundation<\/a>. It was there that I met Taru aka Delhi Sultanate<\/a> and he has the fake patois down to a T. He jumped on the mic and I was instantaneously a big fan. He’s working on some really interesting music collaborating with grassroots activists in the villages of India. Keep an eye on this one.<\/p>\n\n

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In Abu Dhabi last month, I was able to make it out to the WOMAD festival<\/a>, which was one of the highlights to my adventure. Though there were many performances, I was drawn to the dynamic stage presence of Transglobal Underground<\/a>. Though their latest album dropped a year ago, it’s new to me. I bought it.<\/p>\n\n

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Though it’s an old song, The Kominas<\/a> released a new music video to Shahria Law in the USA<\/em>. I love the campy old skool feeling in this video – and have been curious where they got the footage from, though it’s a deep dark secret. The band is busy recording their second album and will be going on tour in the United Kingdom sometime in June. And as much as I love this “official music video” I’m a much bigger fan of the latest KTV episode where the boys get ‘Aunty Advice.’<\/a> It’s too classic.<\/p>\n\n

Well there you have it – enough free music to download and videos to keep you occupied musically until the next Music Monday. Stay mutinous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mutineers, it’s been a minute since I’ve blogged here – I’ve been traveling and collecting stories from the motherland for a project (which I’ll catch you up on a little later). Since I’ve been back, I’ve been downloading new music … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6180"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}