Festival Review: CoS at The Great Googa Mooga
“Food is the new rock ‘n roll.”
- Justin Warner, chef at Do or Dine
“A knife, a fork, a bottle and a cork /That’s the way we spell New York.”
- Escort, “Cocaine Blues”
“You’re going to what?” The Great Googa Mooga doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but “music”, “food”, and “festival” do, and that’s about all I needed to tell people about the eponymous inaugural festival this weekend in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. If that wasn’t enough to win over the skeptics, I broke it down by the numbers: 75 food vendors, 35 breweries, 30 winemakers, 20 bands, and 40,000 general admission tickets that sold out in a few hours. That’s what happens when you bring together Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio, David Chang of Momofuku (or alternatively, Jimmy Fallon’s fried chicken throwdown against ?uestlove’s “Love’s Drumsticks”), Anthony Bourdain, and James Murphy under Superfly, the events and marketing company behind Outside Lands and Bonnaroo.
The intersection of food and music is nothing new—I Like Food, Food Tastes Good tells you how to make your favorite bands’ favorite foods, James Murphy is an unabashed food enthusiast, and Sammy Hagar has his own restaurant, to name just a few favorite examples—but thanks to Googa Mooga’s advertising in every New York subway stop in the weeks leading up to the event, it’s recently been both lauded and vilified as the ultimate Platonic ideal. Admittedly, $ 250 per day is a hefty price tag for the Extra Mooga tickets, which allowed you to see panels like “Noshing with…” James Murphy, Aziz Ansari, and David Chang or eat brunch to the dulcet tones of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. It’s hard to argue that there’s anything wrong, though, when you’re sampling three different kinds of pork sandwich while watching Fort Lean, or sipping Thai basil lemonade while Peelander Red plays guitar on top of a Porto-Potty.
Like any festival, there wasn’t nearly enough shade or free water (for once, there were plenty of bathrooms); the festival’s parameters were hard-pressed to fit so many people; and the hottest dishes, like Tom Colicchio’s pork belly tacos and Baohaus’ fried chicken Bao buns, sold out within hours of long lines that just kept getting longer. But concertgoers and foodies alike made up for it by sharing bites, wiping sauce off each other’s faces, and handing out extra water bottles to small children. The thing overheard most, however, was: “What is that, and where can I get it?”
Inside Louisiana Rapper Lil Boosie’s Grisly Murder Trial
Lil Boosie attends the 2009 Ozone Awards in Houston, Texas.
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The murder trial against Baton Rouge, Louisana rapper Torrance Hatch, much better identified as Lil Boosie, is at present underway in the city’s 19th Judicial District Courthouse. Hatch is charged with very first-degree murder in the 2009 death of Terry Boyd.
According to opening statements delivered on Saturday afternoon by the prosecutor, Assistant District Lawyer Dana Cummings, the killings were a $ two,800 murder-for-employ ordered by Boosie and executed by his henchman, 17-year-old Michael “Marlo Mike” Louding. The defense alleges that the slaying was the work of a teen hitman with the thoughts of a maniac, a rogue gunman haunted by a demonic choir of voices hollering, “Kill.” In an impassioned opening salvo, Jason Williams, one of Boosie’s attorneys, steadfastly maintained his client’s innocence, alleging that Louding acted only in concert with Michael “Ghost” Judson and Adrian Pittman. In the weeks before the slaying, Williams claimed, Boyd robbed Judson for $ 720, even though Pittman allegedly harbored a prolonged-time grudge against Boyd.
Williams also argued that Boosie is being unfairly persecuted for his gangsta rap lyrics, which are laced with accusations of racism aimed at law enforcement officials, such as Parish District Lawyer Hillar Moore III.
It was half past midnight on October 21st, 2009, when a 9 mm handgun fired 6 bullets by way of the front window of a property on Vermilion Drive. By the time police arrived to the residence in East Baton Rouge, 35-year-old Terry Boyd was dead, his entire body staining a brown leather couch the colour of crimson. A neighbor spotted two guys sprinting towards the train tracks close to the residence of Ben Hawkins, wherever Boyd had been staying ever considering that he completed a five-year stint at the Winfield correctional facility, just one particular month prior. Boyd left behind a disposable camera, $ 402 in cash and a bloodstream spiked with morphine, marijuana, and codeine.
With no DNA proof or eyewitness to the shooting, the prosecution is hinging its situation about a taped jailhouse confession from Louding and telephone records that trace him to Boosie’s recording studio during the hrs just before and after the murder. Also presented as proof: a tattoo that Louding allegedly obtained two weeks immediately after the murder – a depiction of an AK-47 accompanied by the phrase, “Yo Boosie. Who’s Subsequent?” – and the lyrics to Boosie’s songs “187″ and “Bodybag,” which Cummings says have been recorded on the night of the murder.
Coachella 2012: The antics of Le Butcherettes make a mom worry
Teri Suaréz is trying to finish a record. Her cellphone, nonetheless, will not quit interrupting. It really is her mother. “She’s freaking out,” Suaréz said.
This previous Sunday, Suaréz sent her mom into a state of panic when, at the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, she walked away from her guitar and keyboard and climbed to the top rated of a lighting rig. Then she locked her legs around it and leaned above backward.
“That is why my mom is calling me,” Suaréz said. “She said, ‘Please don’t ever do that once again!’ I mentioned, ‘Oh, no, Mom. I won’t do that ever again. I’ll be a lot more careful. I swear.’ But she’s nevertheless really scared about it. She keeps calling to see if I’m Okay.”
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For now, yes, Suaréz is fine. If anything at all, the 22 year old is a small nervous herself. Even though Le Butcherettes concerts are acknowledged for their unpredictability, Suaréz has no intention of placing her lifestyle — or at least a few of her bones — in danger at Coachella on Sunday. On stage, as Teri “Gender Bender” Suaréz, the artist is reckless, abusing her guitar and her voice with delight. Off stage, Suaréz constantly laughs at herself, apologizes immediately after virtually each and every sentence and admits to getting paralyzed with shyness.
Nicki Minaj’s ‘Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded’ Album Track-by-Track Preview
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Nicki Minaj’s sophomore album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, leaked a week before it’s April 3 release date, and was quickly branded a mediocre LP. There is a lot to listen to. Minaj’s second effort should be a double album, maybe even a triple disc. It clocks in at 19 tracks, 69 minutes and crosses three genres: hip-hop, pop and EDM (electronic dance music). Tracks 10 through 15 are an all-out dance party — a place Minaj’s full-length debut didn’t dare to go — thanks to club-friendly production from RedOne.
Despite being named after her troubled and flamboyant alter-ego Roman Zolanski, Minaj’s sophoore album doesn’t conceptually rely too much on her inner man — only a handful of tracks are belted out in character. The 29-year-old MC does return to her early rap roots singing more explicitly and along with more experienced players — Nas, Beenie Man, Young Jeezy and Cam’ron — and the usual cast — Drake, Lil Wayne and Rick Ross. Truth be told, Roman Reloaded doesn’t have the same continuous start-to-finish play objective as its predecessor — diss tracks get repetitive and one-too-many “let’s get wasted at the club” bangers make fingers wander toward the skip button — but the album does have something for everyone. The BoomBox listened to Nicki Minaj’s album non-stop for two days straight. Here we provide a track-by-track breakdown of her genre-bending and fun sophomore album.
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Oscar 2012: Two nominated songs, lots of questions
With all due respect to all these involved in the original composition of this year’s Oscar-nominated songs, the Bret McKenzie-penned “Man or Muppet” and the Brazilian-tinged “Real in Rio,” producers have done viewers a favor in trying to keep the songs off the telecast.
When music gets tangled up in award exhibits, the results aren’t constantly quite. Remember all individuals all-star Grammy mash-ups? But with only two songs nominated for an Oscar this year, the show’s producers have thrown it in viewer’s faces: “This is all voters could come up with?”
It wasn’t for a lack of alternatives. A complete of 39 tunes have been up for consideration for the greatest authentic song Oscar. Up to 5 songs can get nominated, and academy rules make certain there will either be zero songs or a minimal of two. This year, the field pits “Guy or Muppet,” from Walt Disney Pictures’ “The Muppets,” against “True in Rio,” from the 20th Century Fox film “Rio.”
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What follows is a search at who stands to win, how this occurred, who should have been nominated and what, if anything, should be performed to modify the process so more songs are considered.
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Summer Camp on Brian Krakow, America and the Internet
It’s no secret that we’re fans of the output of English duo Summer season Camp their nostalgic aesthetic, familiar pop sound and playful pop culture references have struck a chord with us considering that we initial discovered their track Round The Moon back in 2010. On their return to the stage at Mercury Lounge last night—they very first played the venue throughout their final tour of the United States—we had the possibility to catch up with Elizabeth Sankey and Jeremy Warmsley.
The conversation was filled with references to 80s movies and Television shows, like the ones from which they’ve taken samples to pepper during tracks with names like Jake Ryan (the really like interested of Molly Ringwald’s character in Sixteen Candles), Brian Krakow (the dorky but effectively-intentioned neighbor and admirer of My So-Known as Daily life‘s heroine Angela Chase) and Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder’s dark well-liked outcast in Heathers). Their stage display is no diverse: footage from movies like Footloose, Dirty Dancing, The Breakfast Club and Rather in Pink are projected behind the band, interspersed with vintage images of families and teenagers.
Right after busying themselves on stage setting up two guitars, drums, a sampler and the projector bearing the picture of the ‘Welcome to Condale’ album art (a vintage photograph of a lady carrying out a keg-stand), Elizabeth and Jeremy disappeared from the stage. Prior to lengthy, the sounds of Jeremy’s acoustic guitar and Elizabeth’s sweet, raw voice rang out from the back of the crowd as they wove their way back to the stage, serenading audience members with an an unplugged rendition of album opener Better Off With out You (they would repeat the functionality at the end of the set, this time with the track Losing My Thoughts).
Whilst anyone who showed up expecting to see 90s alt-pop band Summercamp might have been a minor confused and disappointed, they would have been alone. We spoke with Elizabeth and Jeremy ahead of the display to speak about how they made the transition from anonymous “internet band” to Moshi Moshi label signings, wanting to be very best buddies with Carrie Brownstein, and their interpretation of classic Americana that permeates their lyrics, music video clips, album art and stage show. Study about what we learned from the year’s sweetest band under.
Sasquatch!’s 2012 Lineup: One Day Later
Sasquatch!’s 2012 lineup is officially one day outdated and that indicates it is time for some post-reveal analysis. In the pages that adhere to, we run by means of the biggest highlights and surprises appearing on this year’s bill, in addition to the most glaring omissions. We also highlight 5 names worth realizing as you put together for Memorial Day weekend at the Gorge.
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