SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT: JAN. 20TH AT THE NECTAR LOUNGE

This is going to be a big one y'all! I am honored to get the opportunity to share the stage with some great Seattle artists; Type, The Bad Tenants & Fictitious as well as the eccentric Minneapolis native, Prof. This show will be held Friday, Jan. 20th at the Nectar Lounge in Seattle. Tickets are available now through ticketweb, you can find the link here. More info on the flyer below!

 

 

A SLANTED ROOM HOLIDAY GIFT

In celebration of a wonderful year filled with tremendous growth, both in our musical and personal lives (shouts out to baby Parker, the first baby of SRC!), I am going to be offering up my latest record, "Hero(in) Music", for free for the remainder of this month. So from now until Jan 1st, 2012, head over to my Bandcamp page to download the album.

This has been quite an amazing year. We have learned many lessons along the way and we are definitely heading into 2012 with a lot of positive momentum, I can't wait to see what the future holds! The support from everybody has been overwhelming and I can't thank you all enough. We've already got some big things lined up to kick off the new year, so stay tuned for some big announcements coming soon. I am very excited about the way things are headed. Thank you all so much for taking this journey with us.

Download link:
www.t11music.bandcamp.com

SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT: NOV. 9TH AT THE RENDEZVOUS!

I am proud to announce that I will be playing November 9th at the Rendezvous - JewelBox Theater in Seattle with the homies Sarx, Third Eye Theory and Atlantis Rizing (San Diego). It shall be a great way to kick off the fall season, hope to see you all there! Check the flyer for details!

HOT NEW MUSIC OF THE MONTH: MJ-12 - THE BEST IN OURSELVES

What up y'all?? It's been entirely too long since I have posted anything so I'm going to hit ya with a few things today. The first (and most exciting) is some new music from the homeboys mj-12. Let me give you a fair warning: this is not rap music. This music is probably not for everybody, but if you are somebody that can enjoy it then you are in for a real treat. 

This album has that good problem of being hard to classify. It's not rock/punk, it's not really electronic and it's definitely not hip hop, but it has hints of all of these things. The best I can do is; ambient guitar-driven indy rock with a sprinkle of metal. I've never heard bad music that was hard to classify. To me that usually means that the artist is pulling creative influences from many different places to create a new, wholly unique, sound. That is definitely what is going on here and it is a beautiful thing.

mj-12 describe themselves as "a collaborative music project, initiated for the love of music and for the never ending quest of 'truth'". When I first read this I thought it was kind of funny, but that statement came into focus more and more and I listened through the songs. This album bleeds of truth. You can hear that the artists did not set out to create anything in particular. There is no formula to this album. There are no standards or rules. They simply made the music that they felt like making the way they felt like making it. It's honest music and it feels good, what more could you ask for?

Please enjoy this 7 track ep here.

mj-12 is: Anthony Wendelboe - guitar, noise. Cornell Brantley - drum programming.

the idea by mj-12

NEW SINGLE - UNIVERSE FEATURING ARALESS + SUMMER UPDATES

What up y'all? I hope all is well out there in the blogosphere. I know it's been a minute since I've posted anything but that doesn't mean that I've been sluffin' on the work. In fact I've been hard at work; recording some new material and preparing for the dopest show happening this summer, AUG. 29TH AT STUDIO SEVEN WITH MAC LETHAL (hit me up for tix, $8 adv!!!). Tickets are gonna go fast so hit me up soon if you wanna come party! These two things have been occupying the majority of my time but there is still a lot of other exciting things going on in our little slice of the world as well..

For one, after a couple months lay off, the homie DJ Corndogg got the infamous Jade Garden shows back up and running. Some concessions had to be made (it's now 21+ and only once a month) but in the end these changes are probably for the better. The next show will be held this Saturday, August 13th! Check the Black Magic Noize website for all the details.
In other news the homies DJ Corndogg and Nocturnal released the summer rendition of their Militia Mixtapes entitled "Little Homies/BMN Perverts". One half of which is a bunch of young up and coming emcees from the area and the other half is the dirty side of Black Magic Noize; including songs about love, thick women and oral sex. If you need some fun Hip Hop that will definitely make you laugh, check it out HERE, I highly recommend it!

As the summer rolls on and the barbeque's continue we are always in search of that one song to become our soundtrack for this special time of year. I think that me and my homie Araless just might have crafted a joint that very well could become your summertime jam.. A song to listen too while you're laying in the grass, staring at the stars next to that special someone. A song that forces you to question the philosophy of life and begs you to answer the question of "why are we really here?" A song about rap, for rappers, made by rappers. Without further ado, I present to you... Universe.

I WILL BE OPENING FOR MAC LETHAL!!

That's right yo, it just got confirmed. When Mac Lethal heads to Seattle in August I will be among the opening acts! Also on the bill will be Seattle artists Sadistik and Sarx. This will be by far the biggest show I've ever done, I am very much looking forward to getting the opportunity to play in front of one of my biggest musical inspirations and getting a chance to rock in front of a bunch of new faces. The show is going to be August 29th at Studio Seven in Seattle. Tickets are on sale now through the Studio Seven website and I will have them personally within a week. Mac Lethal is touring in support of his new mixtape, North Korean BBQ which you can find HERE. I highly recommend checking it out, it is truly some of his deepest most heartfelt work to date. I will post when I've got tickets. They will be $8 straight up, no stupid fees or anything, if you get them from me personally. Hit me up if you have any questions, more info coming soon. In the mean time.. LETS CELEBRATE!!!!

SHOW RECAP/NEW MUSIC

First off, thank you to everybody who came out to the show last night and helped make it a giant success. The Shipwreck Tavern is a super dope venue in West Seattle and they played a great host to our event. Props to the owner Chip for the welcoming hospitality. What a super cool dude he is. Big ups to the AudioDose Crew for putting it together, it looks like this is becoming a monthly affair so be on the look out next month for a similar event. 
It was fun to get away from my familiar stomping grounds of Everett and play a show in front of mostly new faces. The support out there was great and it was good to have some of some of my Black Magic and Slanted Room family in the house. I look forward to getting down south more often and meeting more fans, friends & fellow musicians. 
All of the artists killed it, props to the homie Moth1ne for delivering an inspiring performance, Auraswon for being the flyest dressed host in the whole damn city and to the whole AudioDose crew for putting on such an important, amazing event. Our scene needs this, the sense of community at this show was through the roof. Such an amazing night. Thank you to everybody involved!


On a separate note, I have put together a little sampler containing snippets of 3 new songs that I've been working on. They are all rough drafts at this point and will all probably change a lot before I ever put them out for realsies. I just thought I would share with you a little sample of what's to come. Enjoy!
2k11 Sneak Peek by t11
1. All I Know How To Be
2. Purpose Redux w/ Danz Kalbern (on the beat)
3. Keep Fighting w/ Auraswon