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Get to know J-Live (What Didn't Make It)

  • J-Live: You got me right when I was about to get my Instagram on with this record I found.
  • Me: Haha, oh, have you seen the AT&T commercial where two guys were tailgating, had their iPads out tweeting and on Facebook, beating everybody to what was going on at that time. Someone would run to them screaming about the mascot being stolen, and they already twitpic’d the scene and went “oh, that was so 56 seconds ago!”
  • J-Live: No, I need to check that out. It seems like everybody knows about technology and the ways, the language too. My mom knows about LOL now!
  • Me: Yeah, I was just talking to my sister this morning about how kids will use acronyms to cuss now. Like if they wanna say “oh, that’s badass,” they’ll say “that’s so BA,” or if they wanna say punk-ass they’ll say PA.
  • J-Live: Oh, really? This is all new to me so I gotta watch out! I hear them say that, I’ll say “what you call me? I know what that means!” Those could be fighting words. When I was teaching in Brownsville, they used “ABG” for “anybody could get it.”
  • Me: Oh yeah, fighting words for real!
  • J-Live: It tripped me out because one of the older gods I knew went by ABG. When I heard kids shouting ABG, at first I was like “yall know ABG? Oh, that’s not it.”
  • Me: Haha, completely wrong acronym right there. But to get back on track...
  • Check out the actual interview here! http: //www.examiner.com/local-music-in-atlanta/get-to-know-j-live
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A photo I took this past weekend at their SXSW send-off party. I wrote a review of the show here.
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'Reggae Got Soul' (and it's spreading through the A)

I interviewed one of my all-time favorite reggae artists Sister Nancy (you know, that chick who made “Bam Bam”?) about her performance tomorrow at Five Spot in Atlanta for Reggae Legends Week. She was so adorable!

Plus, I interviewed Slick & Rose, two of the baddest hiphop/new wave chicks I know, and not because I don’t know that many, but because they’re actually pretty good!

So read the story. And if you’re in Atlanta, go to the show!

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Benefit Show at Star Bar Features AM Gold, Scandinavian Cock, Gargantua (Examiner)

I’m back with Examiner so that I can begin to really write for Atlanta, on the local tip…

My first article of the year is a benefit show for Ed Waller and Kari Smid. They’re member of Turbojugend and they were in a motorcycle accident with a police officer, and have been intensive care since October. This show is so they can pay the mortgage and bills, but the lineup is so sick you gotta read the article!

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Q&A with Weapons of Audio

Weapons of Audio, a quadruple times dope hiphop duo, got an album out today and I got to chop it up with them about who they are

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