Well, the CD is out in the world…  Crown City Rockers’ “The Day After Forever” took forever and a day to make.  The new live set took countless hours of rehearsal, but our CD release party was TRULY a monumentous expierience for us.  It is life affirming to work so hard and to have it pay off with a party like October 2nd at the Independent in SF.
The night started with Spaceheater’s Blast Furnace (featuring former Mission: drummer P-DuBBL Chops AKA Pat Korte).  Their set was a tasteful blend of propulsive funk & latin rhythms, and progressive, intricate arrangements.  They were the perfect welcome mat for the evening.  Congrats to them on the release of their new self-titled album on Rope-a-Dope records.
http://www.jazzmafia.com/family/spaceheater/
Between ALL the sets we had… DJ D-Sharp spinning rare groove funk & classics.  DJ D-Sharp = party.  Getting him on the night was a no-brainer unanimous decision.  Thanks homie.
http://djdsharp.wordpress.com/
Next UP, the world-famous Breakestra… (L.A.’s all-live rare-groove mix-tape, and one of the best funk bands out there).  They of course tore the place down in celebration of their new album “Dusk til’ Dawn” (in remembrance of the homie DJ Dusk)…  We feel extremely lucky to have shared the night with them.  Thank you.  they will be playing the El Rey in L.A. Oct. 6th.
http://www.breakestra.com
The night was masterfully hosted by (the one and only) Lyrics Born.  his party-rocking skills are un-beatable.  He goosed up the crowd all night, and right before our set, he brought the audience to a frenzy performing a collection of his classics.
http://www.lyricsborn.com/

…and then…
BLAM!!!

Thanks to everyone who came out and supported.  Big high five to the Jazz Mafia Horns who sat in with us on 4 songs (ya’ll ripped it)  (trombone-Adam Theis, trumpet-Mike Olmos, and sax-Spaceheater’s Evan Francis)… and special thanks to everyone who helped make our album.  It was ALL of our party, and it was great to have you all there to share the night.

-Ethan aka Headnodic of the Crown City Mickey Fickey ROCKERS!!!

Working out our parts to the song “Soul” from the album “The Day After Forever” dropping September 29th on Gold Dust.

in this episode:
Kat O1O - on the Crumar Orchestrator
Headnodic - on the Ernie Ball 5 string Stingray electric bass.
Max MacVeety - on the acoustic and triggered drums

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We couldn’t be more juiced to announce that Raashan Ahmad’s new video for his track ‘Peace’ has finally dropped and is ready and waiting to be consumed by the hip-hop loving public. Throughout his new album, “The Push,” Raashan echoes the themes and sounds of the roots of hip-hop music, intertwining social and political trials and tribulations with personal struggles and discovery. The ‘Peace’ video’s vintage vibe runs smoothly together with Raashan Ahmad’s thoughtful lyrics and classic beats. With the world in a current state of panic, Raashan is preaching peace on an individual and a global level. Combining the creative forces of director Eric A. Leppo and the passion behind Raashan’s lyrics leads to the creation of this dope video. When describing the collaboration process Leppo has said, “We realized we were both independently trying to get some similar messages across so it made a lot sense to combine forces through this project. To do justice to the topic of peace in our war- filled times, I could see from the start this would need to be a dense four minutes of animation visually and ideologically. After listening to the song and talking with Raashan about it, I came to see the song as an appeal for peace to the world, and at the same time as also a huge thought provoker, doing everything from prodding us to think about why someone might say “Peace!” instead of “bye,” to making us consider the general concepts of peace and conflict in and among different countries, classes, religions, time periods, races, species and beliefs.” There is no doubt that the song and video do the message of ‘Peace’ mad justice! 

The Mighty Underdogs released a new video with MF DOOM for the track “Gunfight”. This is from their album “Droppin Science Fiction” which drops worldwide on Oct 14, 2008.

Produced by Headnodic - The Piano Guy!

Directed by John Mazyck

It was a beautiful Oakland Day. The BBQ was hot and the dancers were even hotter, getting down to DJ Platurn spinning the fresh grooves! Everyone who’s anyone showed up to hang with us as we shot our video in the backyard of our homegirl Jennifer John’s house.

The graffiti artist, Heat-1, started in the morning (when we started filming), and finished up the dope B-Boy piece (when we finished filming).

Thank you to everyone who helped make the day possible!

Perfect timing as the sun was setting.

Directed by “Jim Beam”

We had the opportunity to be a part of the Jim Beam Campaign, “The Stuff Inside”

Here’s a short documentary about us and the campaign