Wednesday, November 28, 2012

New interview series

I wanted to take a few miutes and let you all know about the work I am doing with Faygoluvers.net.  A few months ago I was asked to send in a review of the Mighty Death Pop as a try out for a spot reviewing CD's on Faygoluvers.  I sent it in and a few days later was asked to join the team!  To say I was excited would be an understatement.  Well over the past several months I have done a lot of CD reviews including Twiztid's Abominationz which has gotten the most views ever for an album review on the site.  A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to interview Potluck at the Abominationz tour stop here in Tucson.  Now I had been trying since May to get an interview with those guys and our schedules didn't really line up until then.  The interview itself was around 20 min long and that got me thinking.

So this upcoming weekend at Kung Fu Vampires Love Bites tour stop in Mesa, AZ I will sit down with the man himself.  This will be the second interview I do for Faygoluvers.  Since the first one was 20 min I decided that this one will be 20 min as well.  This being my second of what I hope will be many interviews I made the decision to call my interview series "20 Min with..."  So all of my interviews will be about 20 min, give or take, and be in a continuous series to set mine apart from the other guys on the site.

So be on the lookout for that interview this weekend and keep checking the album review section over on www.faygoluvers.net for all of my most current album reviews, many of which are from underground artists you may not have heard of before but will still dig.  My reviews are my honest opinion of the album and I tend to not sugarcoat anything.

MMFWFL,

Juggalotus

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Twiztid Abominations Tour review

  It has been like 20 days since my last post on here, but I have been hella busy and trying to do a lot for Faygoluvers!  On Nov 17, 2012 Twiztid rolled through Tucson, AZ on their Abominationz tour and I was there to interview Potluck and check it out!  Here is what went down and how I think the show went.

My wife and I left the house and got to The Rock about 20 min before the doors opened.  Twiztid had tweeted out earlier in the day the venue was tiny but having never been there I had no idea.  I do gotta give a shout out to the Potluck Street Team leadership as they supplied my ticket for the show!  Anyway the doors opened and when we got inside I could see what Mono was talking about, the place was tiny!  I think it maybe could hold 300-400 people if they were packed in wall to wall.  We checked out the merch booth and saw some cool stuff but didn't have any $$ to get anything this time.  Then it was showtime.

The first group up was Cultivate Creative Sounds or CCS Crew, a local staple here in Tucson.  I have to say that my experience with Faygoluvers has been a blessing and a curse.  It has been a blessing because I am getting to hear a ton of music from smaller acts and it has shaped my ear if you will to be more astute, a curse cause it has made me listen to music different and be more skeptical of new groups I haven't heard.  That being said I was cautiously optimistic when they went on stage.  My wife and I were blown away.  These guys knew how to put on an energetic show that kept the crowd into it and definitely set the show off on the right foot.  After their set we went and talked to them and set up an interview with them for later in the night.  I will have that interview posted here in the next few days.  They definitely gave me a good feeling about the music scene here in Tucson.

Next up was Potluck and I was very excited, I love these guys.  Let me say I have now seen them twice live and they have yet to disappoint me.  They did a ton of classics like "Stoner Bitch", "Hotbox Anthem", and "STFU" while adding newer flavor like "Pot City".  They threw down a hella tight set and made themselves available after for autographs, pics, etc.  I hit em up and got to sit down with them for an interview!  You can see that here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAzn66C8mD8&feature=plcp.

While we were in back talking with them Lil Wyte went on stage and did his set.  We missed all but the end of his set so I can't say if he did well or not.  The crowd seemed to really like his set though.

Then it was time for me to interview Potluck.  We went outside the venue and found a spot under a streetlight.  Did the interview for about 20 min and during that time Hed PE came on stage.  We caught the end of their set and while it did have people moshing and had decent metal I did not enjoy the Liberal interludes Jerod put in.  I remember a time when Anarchists hated all government and fought the man, not sided with one or the other parties or affiliations.  Kind of a let down but the crowd was digging it.

Then it was time for the headliners, Twiztid.  We worked our way like 2 rows back from the stage middle.  They came out and kicked it off with Bad Side off Abominationz.  They worked a lot of classics in their set and added 5 tracks from the new album, "Bad Side", "Unstoppable", "Rep That Wicked", "This is your Anthem", and "LDLHAIBCSYWA"  This set was not quite as good as the one they had for the American Psychos tour but it was still hella cool.  The boys know how to set the crowd off and make the show hype as hell.

When the show was over we left and headed home.  All in all another great show.  My one complaint was the crowd.  This had to be one of the worst crowds I have ever seen a show with.  The venue being small was bad enough but it isn't like the extra 3 inches someone would get from crushing my wife and I was going to make Twiztid stop the show and be like "Hey come on stage with us you are so flipping cool"  The crowd was rude, self absorbed, pushy, and willing to do things like pull my wife's hair to get her out of the way to get closer to the stage.  For those that follow my blog you know that I am a huge supporter of the Fam, but I draw the line when the fam intentionally hurts another to "get closer" to the stage in a club where Twiztids sweat would hit you no matter where you were!  The crowd was a lot of younger Juggalos and I think that was the problem.  I have found as the years have gone by that younger Juggalos have less respect for the traditions of the Family.  They feel entitled to everything from spot in the crowd to basic respect.  They think being a Juggalo is a fad or something cool to do, they don't understand we as Juggalos/Juggalettes look out for one another and make sure no one gets hurt.  I am hoping it was an isolated experience but fear it isn't.  That alone did not take away from the fact the show was the bomb.  Twiztid did it again and I cannot wait  for their next album, tour, or whatever they are gonna do.

That's it for me fam.  Lets remember what being a Juggalo or Juggalette means and show love at these shows.

MMFWFL,

Juggalotus

Monday, November 5, 2012

Changes, Moves and making moves

Sorry I have been away for a minute!  Just moved to Tucson and getting grounded here.  This month we got some big things coming up over at Faygoluvers.  I have posted a ton of new reviews.  But I will be doing a special interview with none other than Kung Fu Vampire and it will be posted over on Faygoluvers.net the first week of Dec!  Black Project is on schedule to get their album "Highly Classified" released on 04/20/2013.  There will be some great featured artists on there so you wanna check it out.  Also will be posting my reviews for the Twiztid and Kung Fu Vampire shows this month here on the blog!  So there are big things happening, stay tuned for more to come!!

MMFWFL,

Juggalotus