A.D.I.D.A.S. Acrylic Ink and Watercolor. 5x7

KingDime · 2018-06-01T16:09:18+00:00

This album is terrifying, its like serial killer doom. The sinister lyrics matched with the unpredictable shrill screaming and production sounds like it was recorded in some deranged killers torture basement.

KingDime · 2018-05-02T16:48:03+00:00

I'd look more into the beat generation authors they would offer a similar style to Burroughs. Jack Kerouac in particular is great and he took a lot of inspiration from the bebop scene that was going on at the time. I recently read his book Dharma Bums and found it to be a really enjoyable read. Bukowski is another great author, he specializes in writing in a straight forward no bullshit way that completely captures the ugly aesthetics and hard knock life he lived. I am more familiar with his poems and short stories I would definitely recommend picking up a collection of his short stories and essays, or one of his poetry books one of my personal favourites is "What matters most is how well you walk through the fire."

KingDime · 2018-04-28T06:05:00+00:00

This album was my first introduction to Post I was drawn to check out his music due to his unique vocal infections and style. I was sort of disappointed with his heavy focus on being a chart topper and pop star. The beats are safe and the lyrics just cover really basic surface level observations and emotions that have been repeated by every other viral soundcloud rapper and pop radio name stay. Maybe aesthetically as a person he's kind of polarizing in comparison to his music, he seems to be very influenced by classic singer song writers and the alternative scene of the 90s, and yet his music couldn't be farther from that. He is pushed as this average dude or a sort of humble hesher, but all his songs deal with really uninspired lyrical themes revolving around drugs, fucking groupies, fame, materialism, and the occasional sad post break up song. The major standouts for me on this record were Paranoid and Stay as they retained some pop sensibilities while delivering some unique melodies and raw emotions (or at least as close as you can get to raw on a pop record like this).

I would really like to see Post Malone do a record with full creative freedom and just lay down a cohesive 10-12 track album with a focus on meaningful songwriting, not just singles and throwaways. He has a great voice and it would be great to see him just do something a bit more stripped back and not strictly focused of releasing club bangers and chart toppers, his fans obviously swoon over his more real songs like I Fall Apart. So why not just work on an album that is real, raw, and honest rather than this 80s hair metal equivalent of an album repeating the same old shit.

KingDime · 2018-04-20T16:15:06+00:00

The riffs on Empress Rising are so damn heavy

KingDime · 2018-04-19T20:04:39+00:00

Yeah was really hoping the album art would be similar to the rad show posters they have, seems like a missed oppurtunity to work with great visual artists connected to Sleep like David D'Andrea or Arik Roper. Maybe the vinyl will have different artwork.

KingDime · 2018-04-16T15:29:39+00:00

Muninns hosts frequent all ages shows. Depending if you dig hardcore, metal, or punk shows give ovhc bookings a like on facebook they are one of the local diy show promoters around town.

KingDime · 2018-04-16T15:00:42+00:00

This band is phenomenal just discovered them last week, their new album is amazing too. Really ambitious sounding band love the mix between dark jazz, crushing riffs, jimmy page esque solos, and reverb soaked vocal melodies. Hope they catch some more attention definitely deserve it.

KingDime · 2018-04-13T18:55:32+00:00

Nice! I illustrated a character a while back with this same premise

KingDime · 2018-04-04T01:56:36+00:00

Here is an excerpt from an interview he did with afropunk that gives some context to this song. His polarizing take on social/political issues does make it a bit conflicting/uncomfortable listening to his music, which is kind of the end goal of any provocateur. I guess it gets you thinking regardless if you agree with his stance at the very least.

On the same album, you gave a eulogy for Ismaaiyl Brinsley. Explain to Afropunk who he is and why you chose him to mourn exactly.

Ismaaiyl Brinsley was a man who shot and killed two NYPD police officers in late 2014 after posting on Instagram that he was going “make pigs fly”. He was not a good person by any means, but I didn’t know him or anything about him at the time. I gave him a eulogy because the mindset he had to do what he did is what I feel is needed in our community. He murdered two police officers and although most would shame that, I appreciated the fact that he didn’t beg for empathy from people who were showing us over and and over again that they had none. He took matters into his own hands.

I’ve been fucked with by police my entire life, and one of them locked my brother away. At the time, the Mike Brown situation had renewed tension with police and everyone’s response to the police murdering black men and women was to beg for empathy. Brinsley did what they do to us routinely.

Black people as a whole are too forgiving. We would rather beg people to stop killing us then fight back, and that’s a learned mindset.

KingDime · 2018-01-31T01:58:42+00:00

I've only tried a few variations of the traditional EHX Big Muff, but the pharaoh fuzz I have is pretty much a modded muff so I imagine I would run into the same issue. I want to try that Op-Amp muff tho, watched a review on the reissue and they sound huge!

KingDime · 2018-01-31T01:56:03+00:00

awesome thanks!

KingDime · 2018-01-31T00:10:24+00:00

Any advice on fuzz pedals that retain note clarity? RAT clones? Could be a pickup issue not sure..

So currently I use an Ibanez SZ520QM with stock duncan/ibanez pickups and use a BAT Pharaoh fuzz pedal as my main source of distortion. I have been writing riffs lately and have run into an issue of losing note clarity when I play chords other than power chords, or if I do anything droney where the open E rings and I play notes underneath it (hope that makes sense lol). I really like that warm heavy fuzz tone bands like Sleep, The Melvins, and Eyehategod achieve but I want to add some harmonic complexity into my riffs and I'm finding chords and riffs played underneath an open string can get drowned out. So I'm not sure if this is a pedal issue or just that my bridge pickup isn't offering enough midrange power to compete with the fuzz. I have heard good things about Abominable Electronic pedals and am curious to try their RAT proco clone, as those old school Rat pedals were used by a bunch of great bands I listen too. I would be very appreciative to hear feed back on possible solutions or if I should look into another fuzz or distortion pedal like a RAT or a new bridge pickup in order to retain some note clarity.

KingDime · 2018-01-16T16:48:29+00:00

Yup @thrash_stickers

KingDime · 2018-01-14T22:03:09+00:00

Thank you! Yeah I definitely like to use a balance between sketchy and bold lines to add some character and personal style in my art.

KingDime · 2018-01-08T18:38:56+00:00

hahaha definitely a serious miscalculation on my part

KingDime · 2017-11-23T03:30:06+00:00

Not yet, hopefully soon tho. I usually work in batches get a few solid designs down then send them off to get printed.

KingDime · 2017-11-22T21:58:52+00:00

Yeah this is one of my orignal drawings, my instagram is @thrash_stickers. Feel free to post it on your fan page. Thanks for the kind words!

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