I know a little about Baltimore: it’s the setting for The Wire, which is, y’know, the best thing since Shakespeare, Eminem, TV on the Radio, and whatever else the middle brow loves. It’s where the much-hyped Dan Deacon got together his faux-psychedelic Wham City collective and it’s where B-more, the chopped-up hip-hop/house hybrid, originated. In this country (well, Nottingham at least), B-more seems to be mainly popular with slightly posh students at hideous bars with horrendously cheap drinks offers, but I’m willing to believe it has a different audience over there. Read more »
Posts Tagged ‘Mi Ami’
Buenvenidos a Mi Ami
Mi Ami are one of the best live bands I’ve seen this year. I saw them manage to make a whole room of hipsters, fat people who’d grown beards so that people at gigs will call them ‘beardy’ rather than ‘fat’, and muso blog bastards dance violently to the visceral rhythms of their live show. It looked like shit, but it was still an achievement. You could totally tell that two of them used to be in legendary chaotic punk band Black Eyes, especially when right at the start of the gig frontman Daniel ran straight into the crowd spilling lots of other people’s beer, knocking people over and treading on the Pitchfork vibes. Read more »
20JazzFunkGreats - Mi Ami
Mi Ami raise from the ashes of Dischord knuckle-duster disco dudes Black Eyes like a Nubian phoenix of percussion. Shrieking they crash past the beyond of a space which is most definitely the place. Their debut album Watersports, out on Touch and Go sounds like Eno and Byrne’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts after two months spent crawling in the mortar-shelled trenches of some apocalyptic grindcore jungle. It grabs your throat with a deft bass hand and slices your eyeballs open with shards of serrated guitar. Cultural tourism my ass, this is total pow.
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Also, if you’re about, we’ll be DJing at Mi Ami’s Upset the Rhythm show in London on the 10th April.
