Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Sole and Lil B / New Bleubird Album


MTV Iggy premieres CGI video for "Bad Captain Swag" by Sole and the Skyrider Band
featuring Lil B & Pictureplane!

 


MTV Iggy premiered the completely CGI video for Sole and the Skyrider Band's "Bad Captain Swag" featuring Lil B and Pictureplane from the band's Hello Cruel World album released last year. The video was produced by a team of game industry veterans from theRaleigh, NC area, from such design firms as Red Storm Entertainment/UbiSoft, Insomniac Games & Virtual Heroes. Their work wasdone on their own free time - out of love for indie artists - and is not an officially sponsored product of their respective firms. The video takes place in a not so distant dystopian future full of robot soldiers and a totalitarian computer system from which Sole, the band, Pictureplane and a katana wielding Lil B must free humanity.


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South Florida rapper bleubird releases Astronautalis & Radical Face produced
CANNONBALL!!!
and Blaxsploitation inspired, 8mm shot "Pimp Hand" video!

 

This week Fake Four, Inc. released the first official US release by rapper journeyman bleubird, CANNONBALL!!!, produced entirely by Astronautalis & Radical Face.

Potholes In My Blog recently premiered the Blaxsploitation inspired, 8mm shot video for 'Pimp Hand' - which they said, "If you’re not digging this, you don’t love music videos." We agree. The video was funded by his devoted fans and followers via Kickstarter and was made possible by calling in favors to the rest of the people he knows in his home town of Ft. Lauderdale, FL. The Miami New Times tagged along for the shoot and wrote a detailed article about it's inception (and bird, of course). Read it here.

Watch 'Pimp Hand', directed by Chris Hill here:

 
Ex-Ex-Expat Florida rapper bleubird returned to the States after a few years of foreign grind and took to the road. He began crafting an album with fellow road warrior Andy Bothwell aka Astronautails with the goal of venturing both of them into some new territory. If Andy is the Tom Waits of hip hop, bird is the Iggy Pop. In the dead of winter, they locked themselves in Bothwell's Seattle basement studio and fought through their differences to create something neither of them could say was uniquely their own. In the end, the two called upon the help of Jacksonville pop prodigy, Radical Face, to pull everything together musically and apply his signature gritty shine. By taking a leap of faith with his friends, CANNONBALL!!! is bleubird's most clear and cohesive album to date.

Track Listing:

01 Fog Rollin
02 Hand Holdin
03 Giehe 1977
04 Black Sandcastles
05 Hello Hallow (feat. Astronatalis)
06 Christian Wife (w/ Lynne Piper)
07 Down Like Brothers (feat. Radical Face)
08 Pimp Hand
09 Dead Homes
10 Time 4real (feat. Ceschi) [Download/Stream via Soundcloud]
11 Rubberbands

Bird is currently on tour in Europe with Astronautalis:

FEB 07: Innsbruck, Austria – PMK
FEB 08: Faenza, Italy – Il Clandestino
FEB 09: Budapest, Hungary – Dürer Kurt
FEB 10: OUR FIRST DAY OFF!
FEB 11: Heilbronn, Germany – PlemPlem
FEB 12: Weikersheim, Germany – W 71
FEB 13: OUR SECOND DAY OFF!
FEB 14: Berlin, Germany – About Blank
FEB 15: Leipzig, German – Ilses Erika
FEB 16: Frankfurt, Germany – Lvi
FEB 17: Bremen, Germany – Lila Eule
FEB 18: Hamburg, Germany – Hafenklang
FEB 19: Arnheim, Netherlands – Willemeen
FEB 20: Köln, Germany – Aetherblissement
FEB 21: Oberhausen, Germany – Druckluft
FEB 22: Münster, Germany – Gleis 22
FEB 23: Aachen, Germany – Az


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