RAD 10 YEAR PARTY IN NYC

Mon, 18 May 2009 08:36:00 +0000

Circle the date - June 10th, Sullivan Hall NYC where we'll be throwing a party for ourselves in celebration of our 10 year anniversary. A house band that includes John Medeski on keys; Billy Martin on drums; Charlie Hunter on guitars; John Rllis on horns; DJ Logic on the ones and twos and a whole bunch more surprises for me and you. All to benefit The Scotty Hard Foundation. Get tix now before it's too late.

ANOTHER KICKSVILLE MONDAY

Mon, 18 May 2009 08:28:00 +0000

Kicksville's Singles Series V.2 rolls on with The Last Step. Remember Bob The Pusher and Candy The Evil Temptress from Evil Demon Weed?. They're baaaaaaack along with Johnny The Good Kid. In "next step" we find Johnny has become a hopeless junkie, Candy has taken the vows, and Bob has fallen into the depths of a drug-induced psychotic break, but it's all about the music and here the band sites Frank Zappa as it's main influence along with nods to Captain Beefheart. Mix in some Tom Waits, and Jim Jarmusch and you got one hell of a tune. Dig it.

RAP CHOP

Mon, 18 May 2009 08:24:01 +0000

Featuring Vince the Slop Chop Man and more, making yummy food has never been easier. So stupid that's almost brilliant. Do the Rap Chop remix here; original Slap Chop here.

POWER GOLF

Fri, 15 May 2009 09:41:00 +0000

It's Friday, you're ready to smoke up some free time. Let's start on the fake golf course - nothing like your typical video golf. This is more maze-y with tricky holes and weird physics. And of course, balls!

CELEBRATE SOULIVE

Fri, 15 May 2009 09:32:00 +0000

The class of '99 was a great one: of course that's the year Ropeadope was born, but our classmates include Okayplayer who started the same year and our old friends Soulive. I'll never forget the first show we did together - double bill - DJ Logic's Project Logic and Soulive at the now defunct Baby Jupiter. 5 folks showed up including me and my sister. We've come a long way baby, from Glide Magazine, dig into the last 40 minutes of Soulive's final gig at Wetlands in September of 2001.

MELVIN GIBBS = BOSS OF THE BASS

Fri, 15 May 2009 07:27:00 +0000

Speaking of Soulive, the bass player in the Project Logic Band referenced above was none other than Melvin Gibbs hailed by New York Magazine as "The best bass player in the world….period!". His new project is Elevated Entity which is being described as "when Holy Ghost guitar meets Brazilian spirits….reuniting the diaspora on Ancients Speak". Hear it here. Buy it here.

MOSCHAM CAN

Fri, 15 May 2009 07:24:00 +0000

This from my man Jeff Mattheis: "Found anouther cool concert stream/arcive site lots of diffrent bands I'm watching Ben Harper/Relentless 7 show from Australia like a week ago HOT! and Sound QT. is krushin' good!. Keep doin' what you're doin' Ropeadope rules". So do you Jeff.

MOSCHAM CAN

Fri, 15 May 2009 07:24:00 +0000

WHAT’S IN YOUR CABINET?

Thu, 14 May 2009 09:38:00 +0000

I was looking for the right ingredients in The Cabinet. Found a little bit of rust belt bluegrass, a tasty blend of banjo, and scraps of mandolin, fiddle, upright bass and acoustic guitar. Planted it all in the yard, woke up one morning and BAM got a bluegrass revival right here in Pennsylvania. Dig into the first bluegrass band to join our land, Cabinet- the band's Ropeadope 4/20 debut (was self titled from me to you). Taste some.

Miles Davis’ ‘Kind of Blue’ at 50

Thu, 14 May 2009 09:36:00 +0000

Kind of Blue was both a radical stylistic experiment and an album parents could put on after dinner without waking the kids. It's a manifesto, a meeting of musical minds, and it's moved millions of copies to remain the bestselling jazz record of all time. Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue," released in August 1959, featured what might be the finest group in jazz history; it virtually founded a new musical style -- called modalism -- but it also marked the beginning of the end of the genre's mass popularity.