Link for the (gruesome) video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcqk0tEwGjw

Shabazz Palaces announce May tour

25 Feb, 2012 blog

Shabazz Palaces will tour the UK in May.  The newly added dates - highlighted below - are part of a wider international tour and follow a short run of UK gigs with THEESatisfaction in November last year.  Shabazz Palaces’s recently unveiled video for Are You… Can You… Were You? (Felt) is online here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUEXhQEtMTk , and their visionary debut album, Black Up, can be heard in it’s entirety here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67cx9M2c51M Shabazz Palaces live dates:    Fri, 24th Feb – Palace – St Gallen, Switzerland   Sat, 25th Feb – Stall 6 – Zurich, Switzerland   Wed, 29th Feb – Astoria – Turin, Italy   Thu, 1st March – Circolo degli Artisti – Rome, Italy   Fri, 2nd March – Bronson – Ravenna, Italy   Sat, 3rd March – Studio 2 – Vigonovo, Italy   Tue, 3rd April – The Whole – Minneapolis, USA   Wed, 4th April – Mad Planet – Milwaukee, USA   Thu, 5th April – Lincoln Hall – Chicago, USA   Fri, 6th April – Magic Stick – Detroit, USA   Sat, 7th April – The Horn Gallery – Gambier, USA   Sun, 8th April – The Shadow Lounge – East Liberty, USA   Tue, 10th April – Lee’s Palace – Toronto, USA   Wed, 11th April – II Motore – Montreal, USA   Thu, 12th April – Iron Horse – Northampton, USA   Fri, 13th April – SOB’s – New York, USA   Sat, 14th April – Brooklyn Bowl – New York, USA   Wed, 25th April – Gabe’s – Iowa City, USA   Thu, 10th May – Great Escape – Brighton Fri, 11th May – Start The Bus – Bristol  Wed, 16th May – Islington Mill – Manchester  Thu, 17th May – XOYO – London Fri, 18th May – Twisted Pepper – Dublin Sun, 19th May – Pavilion – Cork Mon, 20th May – Arches – Glasgow Tue, 21st May – Brudenell – Leeds  Wed, 22nd May – Harley – Sheffield  Fri, 25th May – Sonique Festival – Parc de la Villette, Paris       Praise for Shabazz Palaces and Black Up:    “a thrilling space-age vision of modern hip-hop” 4/5  Guardian   “hip-hop’s most inventive album of 2011” 4/5  Mojo   “one of the most forward rap albums of 2011…imagine Outkast produced by Flying Lotus”  Dazed & Confused   “one of the most interesting and heavy hitting hip-hop records of recent years” 5/5  Stool Pigeon   “inventive, bold and brilliantly fresh” 8/10  NME   “The only thing worth asking is, how can this be bettered?” Line Of Best Fit   “the most transcendent, forward leaning, future dictating, engrossing, and all around masterful hip-hop album out this year”  Prefix   “not the best hip-hop album of the year so far, it’s the best album of the year so far“  Consequence of Sound   “a superbly inventive album”  Clash   “brilliant sonic eclecticism” Gig Of The Week  Time Out    CD Of The Week  Observer   Album Of The Week  Metro    Album Of The Year  Gorilla vs Bear   4/5 The Times -- 4/5 Uncut -- 4/5 The Fly -- 4/5 Artrocker -- 4/5  Time Out -- 4/5 Resident Advisor -- 4/5 Financial Times -- 4/5 Daily Mirror -- 8/10 Loud & Quiet -- 8.8/10 Pitchfork

THEESatisfaction

10 Feb, 2012 blog

 THEESatisfaction Announce Sub Pop Debut awE naturalE out on April 9thTHEESatisfaction are  Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White. Stas was born and raised in Tacoma, Cat in Seattle and Hawaii. The pair live/laugh/love/dance and create in Seattle, WA. They write, produce and perform their own material, funk-psychedelic feminista sci-fi epics with the warmth and depth of Black Jazz and Sunday morning soul, frosted with icy raps that evoke equal parts Elaine Brown, Ursula Rucker and Q-Tip. They met by what was clearly cosmic happenstance at the University of Washington and haven’t stopped the flow since.

Guardian New Band of the Day - February 2012

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/20/new-band-theesatisfaction?newsfeed=true