to buy stones throw stuff if you want to get extra things in your package. jeff jank went to heroic efforts to drop off quas & med posters and stickers + a few stones throw 2005 samplers while he was in the bay area. BUT we are still waiting for our quas vinyl & fan club 45s along with the new tee (nosimoto), so actually, you might want to wait a few days before ordering. we'll set some parameters on what you have to buy to get what once we receive everything. if you've pre-ordered quas, don't worry, you'll be the first to get the 7".

answers to other recent st questions:
we're trying to order some of the european/australian stones throw cds that have the vocal + instrumental versions.

madvillain remixes not allowed to be shipped to u.s. stores (yet?)

Sound Directions is a project with Madlib + real live musicians in the vein of Yesterday's New Quintet. it WILL be released as a regular release on stones throw later.

amp stopped by, lateef stopped by, dj phatrick stopped by plus...

it was all about the sweetness today in the office...bubble tea, presents from visitors and our own tea! FRRRRESSSSSSSSSSH!

Jasmine Bubble Tea, Doll-transformer-pen from Billy Jam, Giant Peach - the satisfier (toot toot me horn)

from Mike the Poet...

The LA underground is bubbling with great artistry & music. Here is a Giant Peach exclusive sneak peak into a week of LA’s underground.

On April 17th Kajmere Sound, Stonesthrow Records & Ubiquity were joined by over 20 other indie labels & local record stores @ the Little Temple in Silverlake for the first Annual LA Independents Record Fair. It was a dream day for beat diggers & music lovers. Loads of vinyl, CD’s, DVD’s, t-shirts & other musical memorabilia were available. In addition to the three labels mentioned above, vendors included Dublab, Mush Records, Sealevel Records, Plug Research, Upon Shop, Glow in the Dark records, Soulphonic, Temple of Boom & several others. Each label/shop got to spin a half hour set. It was a day of community building. Everyone came together in the name of independent music.
Artists and dj’s stopping by included Afrobeat star Rocky Dawuni, DJ Drez of Aceyalone & Project Blowed fame, the lovely Dj Rashida, Shakespeare from Chocolate Bar, Carlos Nino from Build An Ark/Ammoncontact, Little Sci from Sol Uprising, DJ Jeremy Sole from Chicago, house dj Aztech Sol, Anthony from Samurai Records & many others. The architect of the event was Philipp Hoffman from Plug Research. Thanks for putting it together Philipp, let’s do it again soon!

It was the exclamation point on another magical week in the LA underground. A week before, many of the same folks were attending the Digable Planets/Breakestra show. Digable were in sharp form, showing no signs of their decade long hiatus. Their hour-long set included songs from both of their albums. The encore was “Cool Like That,” followed up by some freestyles over the Jaylib beat “The red.” Up-and-coming LA Dj Jedi spun with them. Jedi turned more than a few heads with his scratching ability. Before Digable, the Breakestra got the room rocking as usual. By the time DJ Dusk introduced Digable Planets, the El Rey Theatre was reaching a fever pitch. Dusk is the voice of the Root Down & a truly great rabble-rouser… “If you like hip-hop music make some mother#u##ing noooooiiiiiiissssssse & let me knooooooooooooow!”

The next day there was an epic barbeque in one of LA’s most covert neighborhoods Mt. Washington. Mt. Washington is a hilly area in Northeast Los Angeles above Cypress Park. Some of the large homes are slightly run-down, this is part of the charm. With the thick chaparral foliage cascading the hills, Mt. Washington is truly one of the most beautiful ‘hoods in the City of Angels. The party was held in a hilltop home once owned by Charlie Chaplin & used for old Hollywood parties in the ‘20’s & ‘30’s. The view from this crib is incredible. On this Sunday, it was a birthday party for DJ Jeremy Sole & Chris Haycock. Dj’s included Jamie Strong from Ubiquity, Damon Bell, DJ Dusk, DJ Expo, Mixmaster Wolf of the Breakestra, Nobody & Kutmah. The sounds were an irie collage of Sunday funk, reggae, dub, dancehall & downtempo. The party began @ 3PM & went well past midnight. The band Burning Star played, there were many freestlye ciphers & some people were even getting frisky in the several tents set up along the hillside. The climax of the night was when singer-songwriter Megan Jacobs & soul singer Bintu did an improv set with Burning Star’s rhythm section. The prevailing spirit of this event was sharing.
Much like the vibrant scene up in the Bay, The brilliant artists of LA’s underground are building coalitions to spread the word of good music around the world. Every night there is something goin’ down…
To the Giant Peach family, thank you for your support & if you’re ever in LA, holla!!
There’s something beautiful goin’ on!! Signing off from the LA underground,
Your friend,
Mike the PoeT

Our man, Lyrics Born, will be singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the 7th inning stretch at tomorrow night's Giant's game at Pac Bell Park.

i had to see the photos to believe this...Copywrite getting smacked down by Camu Tao. According to hhdb, "ODOT (Kingdom, Tage Proto, and others) stood around and watched. Copywrite came equipped with brass knuckles but they backfired when he used them incorrectly and broke his finger". is this a joke?

Just thought you'd like to check out these recently release images from the upcoming videogame, Bad Day L.A. featuring art direction by kozyndan. There's a link to an interview with the game's creator following the images.

Interview with American Mcgee at GameSpot.

Ok, sorry for the lame title. But check out D-Nice, formerly of BDP, on his newfound blogging website. My mans has been keeping busy as a photographer and journalist, and it's nice to see homie still doing thangs:

http://www.d-nice.com

it's not too late to get tickets for the grand slam finals of the 8th annual international youth poetry slam festival featuring teams from ann arbor, chico, ft lauderdale, new york, & san francisco

7:30pm (Doors at 7:00)
Masonic Auditorium 1111 California St. in San Francisco
$5 Youth (under 20) | $15 General
Advanced Tix:nobhilltickets.com
or charge by phone: 415.292.919
With a Special Performance by: Danny Hoch

aya de leon rocks rough & tough with her afro puffs...she ripped the mic alongside bamuthi, beau sia, denizen kane, ishyle park, paul flores & suheir hammad.

sara carlson, the lovely wife of youthspeaks' founder james kass.

saul. okay, the stage was hella dark...

and this is what happens when you send the shortest person to take photos...a barely recognizable photo of dead prez (stic or m-1? you make the call).

a couple of the gals from the youth team from leeds, uk. they put it down with excellent pieces & delivery. i was most impressed by their team. they have also recorded their work with beats and pressed cds-we're trying to get some copies of the site...so sorry i didn't get more photos of the teams from other cities...forgot the camera during the semi-finals...

Friday, April 22 at 111 Minna @ 2nd St./ 10P-2A / 21+

Connect presents:
Peanut Butter Wolf (Stones Throw)
Romanowski (Soulation/Future Primitive Sound)
DJ Design (Foreign Legion)
alongside residents Papi Chocolate (worldwide) and DJ Mr. E (papalot hi fi)

Brazilian Breaks, Latin Beats, International Flava

June and the WE NOD crew from Japan came by yesterday. Have a safe trip back! If you're ever in Tokyo, check out their store:

We Nod Records
2F 1-13-7 Ebisu-Nishi
Shibuya-ku Tokyo
Japan

peach recently ran into award-winning documentary filmmaker casey peek, and he let us know that his next project may be a film about worker owned collectives in venezuela. after that he'll be working on stories of 9/11 detainees who were held in brooklyn. aah, to travel the world making films...you can check out the rest of his work here www.progressivefilms.org

It's the most talked about follow-up LP by a cartoon band released this
year - yes the Gorillaz are back with Demon Days due on May 28th, and
to coincide, Pictures on Walls has four exclusive new prints
from creator Jamie Hewlett. Each one is lovingly handscreenprinted
blah blah blah and the first 150 off the press will be signed.

They also have an interview with Jamieclick here.

Upper Playground in association with Fifty24SF is proud to present
original works by Rob Mars and Adam Harteau.
April 21, 2005-May 15, 2005
OPENING RECEPTION:
Thursday, April 21, 2005: 7-9:30 pm.
Fifty24SF Gallery
248 Fillmore St.
San Francisco, CA 94117

www.fifty24sf.com
www.upperplayground.com
www.adamharteau.com
www.constructclothing.com

Suzu from Fresco dropped by with the Spring line, which will be up shortly.

BOSA 1177 Polk st @ Sutter,suite 310,SF
NOON UNTIL 6PM
for sale:LPs,12"s,45s (of all genres) cds,clothing,art,photography,posters,etc,etc..

vendors:Rascue,Ales,Teeko,B.Cause,Spair,Lymus,Mr.E,and many more

The National Youth Poetry Slam Festival is in SF again....find out more information at www.youthspeaks.org or here

jeff chang, adisa banjoko & oliver wang doing a panel on sat 4/23 and saul williams & dead prez will be making an appearance on 4/22.
karen is djing (and i use this word loosely) at the semi finals on thurs 4/21 & friday 4/22. come out!

Murs tells all in an update on his website murs316.net (check it out for more info). It seems he has a lot in store for 2005. Below is the cover art by Jim Mahfood for a Felt 2 comic book, which will be out in late May called "FELT: True Tales of Underground Hip Hop Starring Slug and Murs". Felt 2 will be out on Rhymesayers July 12th.

Who's the tribute to??????

Adisa came by with his book Lyrical Swords: Hip Hop and Politics in the Mix , which you can now purchase here at the Peach.

Hey y’all I’m honored to have my book “Lyrical Swords Vol. 1: Hip Hop and
Politics in the Mix” up here on The Giant Peach!! It covers Hip Hop and it’s
relationship to Islam, yoga and other spiritual and political philosophies that
surround it. You can read interviews with Russell Simmons, Q-Tip, Dilated
Peoples, Everlast, Encore, Royce Gracie, Helio Gracie, Paris and many others.
I signed these bad boys just for y’all. So get your knowledge on and I’ll see
you on the have soon- aiiiight?!??!
--Adisa

Amp Live

Zion-I's getting ready for their upcoming tour. They just got back from Japan and in their down time, they've come thru the office to sign copies of their new album True & Livin'. Get yours now!

The Rhymesayers Tour stopped in SF for two back-to-back sold out shows at Slims and Bottom of the Hill. I think the fans were pretty satisfied. Pics provided by Jeffy again. Enjoy!

Crescent Moon

POS, sorry no pics of the Boombox taken...

Grayskul @ Slims

Grayskul @ Bottom of the Hill. They opened their set by playing the "Prom Quiz" music video from their album Deadlivers.

Meet Eric...the dope ass keyboardist for Atmosphere.

Slug at his best. Some of the highlight favs that nite were, "God's bathroom floor", "God loves Ugly", "Guns and Cigarettes", and many others...

Of course, some of the peachers were pretty happy by the bar as well. :)

or, i should say, i'm way too old for this...anyway, these are a very small fraction of the photos that were taken yesterday at the cresent moon/p.o.s./greyskul/atmosphere show at bottom of the hill in sf. these were just a few candids i took before the show. there are plenty of performance shots yet to be posted.

randy, the man in charge...hard at work.

pat has been playing drums with not only atmosphere but a number of other well respected acts. i'm sure this is not the last you will hear of him...

i should have known upper playground was going to go bananas with a rse photo shoot (i believe i was the one who told j-bird, "there won't be any lights or anything"...wait til you see the pictures dylan took!

recluse from greyskul modeling some upper playground/ricky powell.

the bartenders at b.o.t.h. were so nice...especially since we were posted up at the bar for the greater part of 7 hours (um, i thought we were going to go eat). jason brought us drinks, and he wasn't even working...

MF GRIMM just wrote a message, and damn...you need to read it here

The Bay Area is booming with great authors...add Adam Mansbach to your list of people to check. Adam dropped by the office to drop off his new book "Angry Black White Boy" book. You can meet him personall if your in Oakland tomorrow (see details below).

Angry Black White Boy Novel by Adam Mansbach
Reading/Youth Speaks Fundraiser in Oakland
Saturday, April 9, 7:30pm
Barnes & Nobles, Jack London Square
98 Broadway, Oakland,CA

Reading/discussion of new novel, ANGRY BLACK WHITE BOY, OR THE MISCEGENATION OF MACON DETORNAY, and also a fundraiser for Youth Speaks, Inc -- a portion of the proceeds from all sales at Barnes & Nobles that night goes to benefit the organization.

I'll be joined at the event by Youth Speaks poets, and also by special guest ADISA BANJOKO, author of LYRICAL SWORDS.

Musical accompaniment by Chicago's own DJ MAX CHAMP.

While us peachers are trying to make our customers happy in a room with stale air, tons of shirts and music, our Peach affiliates are happy exploring other continents...it's okay though, cuz we live thru your emailed photos...thanks! :)

Gabe and Doze Green at the Pyramid of the Jaguar Star -Coba ,Yucatan

Pictures from the show courtesy of Jeffy:

Steve Cabellero

Cabellero

Jeremy Fish

Andy Jenkins

CLAW and RENOS

DIET

Nate Crane & Chris Patras

Revok

REYES

SEVER

a last-minute message from Andy Mueller:

Wednesday, April 6th, the Drama Magazine presents "A to Z" a one night only art show at The New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles from 7 to 10pm.

The Quiet Life is proud to be sponsoring this show.
For more information about this show check out http://thedrama.org/

We hope to see you there!
Andy + Jennifer
THE QUIET LIFE
http://www.thequietlife.com

bump records, youth movement, youthspeaks, REAL HARD present:

true to life-best of bay area youth hip hop cd release party

performing at the party:
emcees from all of the youth groups
crown city rockers
hosted by ise lyfe

friday, april 8th
2232 mlk, oakland starts at 9pm all ages $5

XL Recordings artist, Dizzee Rascal is currently on a U.S. tour, and made his way to L.A. last nite, where our regional correspondents managed to grab quite a few flicks of the U.K. garage m.c.

Thanks to DJ DMT for use of the pictures.

"I'm Just sittin' here."

Soulspazm recording artist (and Philadelphia native), Hezekiah's "Soul Music" Video.

windows media

quicktime

FRI. 4/1
at South Paw
www.spsounds.com

LYRICS BORN
9PM

Add Vice/Music for Robots/Quannum AFTER PARTY
featuring:
Low Budget (Hollertronix)
Cosmo Baker (The Rub)
DJ Ayres (The Rub)
complimentary drinks from Tito's Handmade Vodka