Bacon Shoe

nobody@vox.com(W♥M) — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:52:45 -0500

05/11/2008 01:48:18 ♥ written by vu ()

Bacon Shoe

Sounds Like

Finally, at around the same time, MC Frontalot emerged on the scene, and actually gave the genre ...

I love bacon, and I love sneakers.... so by transference, I would also love Bacon Shoe. These two MCs (Lethal D and Mr. Ruggles) and one DJ (DJ SKU), are a comedy hip-hop crew from rap hotbed of Kansas City.

I couldn't find any information on their debut album, Ass, originally released in 1997, but obviously that's a decade (!!) prior to Back from Stinktion (that's extinction for you non-hipsters).

Although there's no pending pressure that they're on tour or are in need of promotion, I was inspired enough after watching their misadventures in SXSW 2006 (their album came with a bonus DVD) to write about it.

It seems to me that they only had a few booked/confirmed shows in Austin, because the time that they weren't booked, they drove to various bars and started playing music and rapping. What's really interesting is that in one of the videos, you can see the slow buildup of passerby people actually stopping and watching them perform.

They're incredibly mobile and, watching their behind-the-scene stuff, they're quite funny.

Bacon Shoe (live at the Record Bar) Jan. 13, 2006

The music portion of the album doesn't quite capture their live energy, it makes it up with various comedy bits. Like on "Toine in the Studio" doing some intentionally horrible unrhyming freestyle or on "A New Discovery Shed" where Lethal accidentally dropped "sometime you gotta bend over and take it up the a** a little bit. Erm, no you don't. I'm sorry, That's not true. I never done that before, so don't think I'm like..."

My favorite song is "Cheesedick", mostly because I think of Aqua Teen Hunger Force whenever I hear it.

Bacon Shoe's Back from Stinktion is a great album to have right next to your MC Frontalot collection. The bonus DVD added a nice value to the album, so get the physical copy from CD Baby.

Links: www.baconshoe.com myspace.com/baconshoe last.fm/music/Bacon+Shoe

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Boo and Boo Too

nobody@vox.com(W♥M) — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:32:19 -0500

Couch on Fire

Boo and Boo Too

Artist: Boo and Boo Too
Album: Boo and Boo Too EP
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Label: Ironpaw Records
Location: Lawrence, KS
Genre: Indie, Rock, Experimental
Similar: Desaparecidos, The Strokes, At the Drive-In
Listen: David Turns a Mystic, Couch on Fire
Purchase: Ironpaw Records, Amazon

Upon first listen, the vocals reminded me of Conor Oberst's days with Desaparecidos (more apparent on "David Turns a Mystic") and The Strokes (though what band with noisy guitars and pop riffs hasn't been compared to them?). Though the suggested tracks were the first three, it was the fourth and final track on the EP, "Couch on Fire", that really grabbed my attention. Right from the opening, Barrett Emke howls "There's a couch on fire!" and the song gradually becomes wonderfully instrumental. Their music doesn't sound like something I would associate with a children's book, but I was surprised by how their band name came about. This is what they had to say about it in an interview with Lawrence.com:

April Fleming: Where did your band name come from?
Barrett Emke: It comes from a book. It’s a children’s book and there are two ghosts. One of the ghosts is named Boo and the other ghost is named Boo Too. They live in this house together and they have this costume party, and they eat a bunch of cake and play hide and seek and Boo Too gets stuck in the chimney.

April: Oh no — what were they doing?
Barrett: She hides and then because she ate too much cake so she gets stuck in the chimney — then they find her and pull her out.

April: I didn’t know ghosts could get fat.
Derek Solsberg: Ghosts love cake.

Their debut EP is available through their label Ironpaw Records or you can get it from Amazon (Sellers).

Links: Official Site | Virb | MySpace

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