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MJ A ROCKER

In honor of his birthday next weekend!

Some of you thought it was a joke ... but it's very very real ... and finally here ... ! Our tribute to Michael Joseph Jackson .. imagine Sir Coxsone in the engineering seat instead of Quincy and your about half-way there ... Included are I Want You Back, Rock With You, Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough, Billie Jean, Smooth Criminal, and The Way You Make Me Feel ... These aren't instrumentals or covers-per-se ... you just gotta hear it to believe it ...

as MC Zulu would say ...
SPREAD THE WORD!
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blogs from the dub side

Strictly Vinyl Reviews #004
This time around on the review block ... Edikanfo, The Esquires and Oscar D'Leon ...
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Third Thursday, Free Mixes, Part 5
Ongoing monthly series ... this month download "Cool Down The Pace"
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Drastic Vinyl
Shameless self-promotion here ... we got new vinyl coming in ... 2 different 7"s both featuring MC Zulu on "Love is War" and "Lonely No More" ... find out more!
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updates from the drastics blog

Third Thursday Free Mix, Part 2

This month I've profiled Drastic bassman, bassie, bassist Chris ... Definitely more on the heavy and dub side than Bijan's mix ... we open this collection of jams with Chris explaining how to properly drink a bottle of cognac we stole obtained legally after we opened for Mad Prof. After that it's more or less just that gangsta style ... read more/download


Strictly Vinyl Reviews #003
Up for grades this time: The Mighty Sparrow, The Soul Children and Laura Nyro ... read more

[The Drastics]

Things to share ...

Ok, well, it looks less and less likely I will actually chronicle my journed to Alabama a few weeks ago. This has been compounded by my more recent trip to New Mexico to play drums for JT & The Clouds. We did 4 dates opening for Canadian folksters Po' Girl ... like my Alabama trip, I got the call about 18 hours before I was to be on a plane without hearing or rehearsing with the band once! Huzah! Anyway, it went good ... good times. Got to hang out in some natural hot springs about 2 hours away from anything and see the Milky Way like I never saw it before, play to many people who were amped about chill music, lost my hoodie, and ran my entire lower leg against some cactus while running through the desert brush (it's still bright red and bumpy)!

So, in lieu of actually writing anything out, I put my best photos up ...

Phenix City Sound

New Mexican Clouds

And I also uploaded a new Drastics mix-tape ... this month profiling Chris, Drastics bassman ... get that here

bam!

april 3rd

Third Thursday, Free Mixes!

In our tireless effort to give YOU the people more of what you want, I'm introducing a new series on the ol' Drastics blog ...

Third Thursday DJ Mix ... Some of you might be aware of the mixes I put together under "The Blends" ... a couple are posted on our myspace page ...

Anyway, I decided to start a collection of reggae mixes each profiling a member of the group here ... We all (obviously) like Jamaican music but we all like certain styles a lil more than others ... This month to kick things off I humbly offer The Bijan Mix.

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[The Drastics]

Wow, seriously ?

A whole freakin' month without a post?
We have become the blog we all hate. No updates, no posts, just deadweight in the blogospheric ether.

Well, I have been blogging, but on the Drastics blog ...

Strictly Vinyl Reviews #002 ... in this installment, Con Funk Shun, David Axelrod and Rockers International!

Hey, someone post here already!

Never trust a mummy with your 9 month old daughter

Let's get this straight for once. If you find a tomb in the back of a cave that happens to be filled with mummies, get the fuck out of there!! For real....that shit is bad news. I used to know this guy and he told me never to let this shit happen right before he died. Like....he was dead before he said that but I could sense it, you know? So anyway, this is some straight up Egyptian Mrs. Doubtfire shit. For real! I was straight up returning phone calls from responses I got from the want ad I put in the reader about needing a nanny. Anyway... more

[The Drastics]

new site!

New Drastics' Site ... LIVE!
And look at that ... We got a BLOG now too! But see, I BUILT that blog. like Jon Henry built the Grand Canyon by dragging Johnny Appleseed though the La Brea Tarpits before sticking him to Pecos Bill and forcing The Jolly Green Giant to ride him across the American southwest while high on PCP. So yeah, expect some cross-action-blog-loving between The Drastics and Bluntest blog. (ie; links to to drastics entries from the bluntest and vice versa)

What's that you say?
Oh yes! There is already CONTENT over there! Huzah!

SO GO READ IT ALREADY, OK!!?!?!

NEW DRASTICS SITE

folks love injured musicians

The Onion's Decider talked with a bunch of Chicago Reggae peeps including yours truly and MC Zulu ... and seriously, I mentioned the injuries cause HE ASKED ME ... I'm not trying to play the sympathy card ... read all about it.

And remember me mentioning about printing a handful of shirts for the Drastics' first show back? Well here they are ... some obviously better then others, but the whole thing was an experiment ... Only got about 10 left of the initial 20 ...

bizarro day

So in a strange twist, Pimpernel yelled at me about my lack of posting. Well, ain't that a kick in the pants. I will admit I have been somewhat of a scofflaw in my posting frequency as of late, but with good reason. Mostly just been busy on other work, as well as some silly shit. So here we go on a short list of things ... cause the world needs LAUGHTER.

First off, we released another-couple-of-new tracks on the ol' Drastics myspace. Check that out here ... The tracks are (collectively) called "Fraudulent Parts 1 & 2" and are probably different then anything you've heard before. Kind of a modern rocksteady with hiphop rhymes on top of it. The second part is some dancehall, but like ... I dunno, if The Roots played dancehall? Cause it's live. So yeah ...

Let's see ... oh, also on the music tip, ex-Drastics guitarist Elliot Ross finally got around to puttin' up some tracks from our hip-hop project. Moongriffin. Phantom Crew of Intelligent Robots (yours truly) is on them beats ... ya heard? Again, you probably never heard some shit like this before ... think outsider artist hears one track by the Beastie Boys and one track by Kool Keith and decides to record some hip hop ... plus we gonna be puttin' some tracks up soon with the Intelligent Robots on the mic ... oh my! If you go listen this shizz start with "3 Dolla Bus Trick" ... that's the hit!

and then ... well, it's been a lot of freelance design work and thing ... the Drastics site is getting a complete overhaul, plus I've completed work on some websites n things. I gave my new buddy JT Nero a hand with his myspace page. He just had his CD release show last Saturday at Schubas (and was a Chicago Reader's Pick) and it was a darn good time. Well except for this wasted girl picking a fight with me and then her boyfriend getting into it. Fuckin a.

oh, and then for those of you who don't know, Drastic Bassman, Chris Merrill, was in a mighty strange accident as we were leaving the Hideout two Thursdays ago. Ol boy fell on some ice and broke his legsicle and tore a ligament. Damn. Chris went under the knife las Friday and is recovering (albeit painfully) from what he tells me. Why is the Drastics cursed?

and finally, here is a bitchin' font i found on my work computer labeled "TcatsHo" which is exactly what you think. A dingbat font of characters from the Thundercats. brilliant.

look at this guy!

Drastics' singer/frontman/life-coach MC ZULU was the feature in this weeks Sharp Darts in the Chicago Reader ...

hah!

saturday

Saturday, July 26, 10pm
1621 N. Kedzie (corner of North and Kedzie)
3rd Floor
5 dollars
Kegs

DJ Jean Shorts
Crooks + Children
The Drastics w/ MC Zulu and Fada Dougou on the mic

... and i've found that the drastics be the ill funk freakers ... fada dougou said so

hey, here i am

EVERY FIRST THURSDAY
DRASTIC DUB NIGHT
AT
REGGIE'S MUSIC JOINT
2105 S STATE ST, CHICAGO IL

TONIGHT!
JULY 3rd
9pm 'till CLOSE
ONLY FIVE BUX

ON THE MIC
MC ZULU
FADA DOUGOU

ON THE DECKS
BOSSLADY DJ
ANTRON9K
SPIN REGGAE + DOWNHOME SOUL

ALSO FEATURING
-> GIANT SPIDERS IN SHORT PANTS
-> CHARLIE MCCARTHY LOOK-A-LIKE CONTEST
-> HEADLESS HEROES OF THE APOCALYPSE
-> DRIVE BY LAUGH-OUTS
-> WORKS ON SAND PAPER
-> REPLICA TROUT MASKS
-> PLUS SIZE PENGUINS
-> TAR + FEATHERING CONTEST
->ONTOLOGICAL CRISISESES
-> ERRRRD FEEEEEFTEH FERRRRRRRR
->VACATION SLIDE SHOWS
->MINIATURE RECREATION FIREWORKS

tonite ....

ITS TIME...
THE REGGAE CHIMERA IS BEING LET OFF THE LEASH
SEND THE KIDS TO THE NEIGHBORS CAUSE TONITE ...



JUNE 5th
AT REGGIE'S (21st + STATE)
CHICAGO, IL
9pm ... ONLY $5

THE DRASTICS
HANGING OUT IN ABANDONED SUMMER CAMPS ON THE LAKE

FADA DOUGOU
BACK FROM THE DEAD FOR REVENGE!

MC ZULU
CONJURING NECRONOMICAL SPELLS FOR THE KIDDIES!

DJ CHUCK WREN
SPINNING ROOTS + CULTURE

FOOD + DRINK SPECIALS ALL NIGHT!
CHEAP EATS + DRINKS!

shameless

NEW TRACK!
THE DRASTICS + FADA DOUGOU + ZULU
live in st. louis
PROPHET SONG
... if you ever diss BARACK OBAMA ... YOU DEAD!

special thanks to ron shoemaker of GREEN ROOM ROCKERS for getting this recording to us