Heidi Barton Stink: A Charming Gut CD Release Tonight!

 
Heidi Barton Stink
See More Perspective
Desdamona
Guante
With DJ Ganzo Bean

Hell's Kitchen
Thursday May 17th
10pm 18+ $5

RSVP.

"Heidi Barton Stink is a transgender community organizer, activist and hip hop artist based in Minneapolis. While it’s true that those words don’t often go together, Heidi is developing a career around the idea that there can be both beauty and power in breaking molds, blazing trails and not being afraid to stand out. Whether rapping about queer liberation, music industry politics or the importance of love (or just engaging in some good old-fashioned raw, mic-ripping hip hop) her work is explicitly political, deeply personal,
often hilarious and always sincere."

Empty's Tapes Presents IV: Hell's Kitchen Underground

Empty's Tapes Presents IV:

City on the Make
No Bird Sing
Guante

Hell's Kitchen
80 S 9th St
Minneapolis, MN 55402

10pm | $5 | 21+

$3 PBR tallboys
$4 taps/rails
$5 Jameson
$7 tall boy & choice of shot (Jameson/Jag)

"Late Nite" food menu.

Social Networking opportunity.

Guante & Big Cats! @ The Fine Line

Photo: Justin Schell
A .RAR file containing this recording is available here.

Guante & Big Cats!
The Fine Line
Minneapolis, MN
Saturday February 12th 2011

Taper: empty (emptystapes AT gmail DOT com)
Location: AB, FOB, 30' back, ~7' ^
Source: AKG 414B-xls (Hypers) > Silver Quad customs > UA-5 (BM2p+) > iRiver h120 (Optical @ 16bit 44.1kHz WAV)
Transfer: h120 > USB 2.0 > PC [WAV > RazorLame> 320kbps mp3]
Edit: tracking (CD Wave) compression + fades (Sound Forge 10)

This Recording is for Promotional & Archival Purposes Only.

01. Just a Song w/ Claire Taubenhaus
02. Intro > Talk
03. The Ripple
04. Bring Out Your Dead
05. The Hero
06. Some Random Punchline Verses
07. Dragons
08. Red States
09. One of These Mornings (Remix)
10. REACH (spoken-word)

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Guante rises above his contemporaries no matter want he's getting into that particular day. A couple of years ago when Guante & Big Cats! joined forces I knew it meant trouble for those who had gotten used to being at the top, whatever that means these days. If you're not familiar with Big Cats! production you can get familiar at bigcatsbeats.com. Thanks to The Fine Line for being cool with me recording.

Douchelords And The Affliction Spring Collection: Saturday Night Downtown

All snide hyperbole aside last night was well worth the effort. With a half dozen choice shows to attend last night I devised a plan to keep it Downtown for maximum documentation. Guante & Big Cats! and Kristoff Krane were playing the Fine Line as part of Botzy's annual The Best Love Free is show. I was glad I got down to the Warehouse District in time to catch the Wesley Opus & Botzy set. Be sure to check them out if you haven't. No slight intended to Soulcrate Music or Culture Cry Wolf but after Guante & Big Cats! left the stage in smoldering ashes it was time to head to Hell's Kitchen aka the Downtown safe house.

Got downstairs just in time to hear the last couple Ill Chemistry numbers. I've been a supporter of Desdemona and Carnage for years but unfortunately it's impossible to capture all of the 1s and 0s in this city we love. I knew I had seen Wizards Are Real once before at The Turf Club but the details of that evening were foggy at best. I was really impressed with their set and would definitely enjoy seeing them again. They delivered a much needed jazz cut wormhole into the end of the night. And then now? The Book of Right On, the band that drew me in. A band whom if you've poked around this site for the past six to thirty six months you know comes highly endorsed. Recordings to follow.

Guante & Inky Midwest Tour.

Guante: Two-time National Poetry Slam Champion
Inky: founder of MN Mic and slammaster of Punch Out Poetry

10/14: Still Waters at Sweet Black Coffee in Milwaukee, 8pm
10/15: Voltage! at Milwaukee Public Library, 6pm
10/16: Genna’s Lounge in Madison, 7pm
10/18: Mental Graffiti at the Butterfly Social Club in Chicago, 8pm
10/19: Young Chicago Authors workshop and feature, 6pm
10/22: Root Note in La Crosse, 8pm
10/23: Indianapolis, details TBA
10/24: Green Mill in Chicago, 7pm

FREE Download of the new Guante & Big Cats! mixtape, "DON'T BE NICE"

If you don't know about Guante & Big Cats! you should. Like the Facespace? If you so choose you can like Guante & Big Cats! on there.

The FREE MIXTAPE DOWNLOAD is available here.

Here are some words from Guante regarding this release:

Me and Big Cats! just put out a mixtape. And it's free. It's a mix of brand new songs, a few older tracks and some great live audio of our band. All original beats by Big Cats! Progressive politics, storytelling, punchline raps-- lots of fun. We're proud of it. We hope you like it.

If you've never heard of us, a quick refresher: Guante is a rapper, two-time National Poetry Slam champion, activist and arts coordinator of the Canvas, a St. Paul teen center. Big Cats! is a producer and multi-instrumentalist who has worked with Sage Francis, P.O.S., Toki Wright, Abstract Rude and more.

"Guante and Big Cats! create intelligent, political hip hop that mercifully doesn't come off as preachy or self-righteous. It's sobering, demanding your attention like a car crash, yet emotional and alarmingly intimate at times." --Michael L. Walsh, City Pages

"Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right." --Sage Francis, Strange Famous Records (on the duo’s last album, “An Unwelcome Guest”)

"Giving you something to think about while nodding your head to his nimble, casual flow, Guante could very well follow Atmosphere and P.O.S. in the long line of outstanding rappers to break out from the Midwest." --CMJ Artist Spotlight

Guante & Big Cats - "Dragons" @ The Entry

Guante & Big Cats - 7th St. Entry (Live) from Pure Optics on Vimeo.

Last Saturday I partnered up with my friend Colin, founder of Pure Optics in an effort to help document Kristoff Krane's CD release at The Entry. Chris always picks out choice support which included Guante & Big Cats, Big Trouble and Ecid. Brett Spurr was behind the additional camera and Tony Rohr mastered the audio capture. Thanks to Ron for doing what he does. Here's to Dragons.

Guante & Big Cats! Live on The Local Show

Guante & Big Cats backed by members of Dragons Power Up! recently hit the 89.3 The Current studios to record "The Damp Foggy Midnight" for The Local Show hosted by David Campbell. You can check out more of Guante's music through Tru Ruts Speak Easy Records or on iTunes.

Junkyard Empire "Rebellion Politik" CD Release

Download V0 mp3s here.
And for all of the people in the know about FLAC files.

Junkyard Empire
"Rebellion Politik" CD Release Show
The Cedar Cultural Center
Minneapolis, MN
Friday September 4th 2009

Taper: empty (emptystapes AT gmail DOT com)
Location: DINish ( cm, º) FOB, DFC, 30' back, ~9' ^
Source: MBHO 603a KA200N > Silver Quad > UA-5 (BM2p+) > iRiver h120 (Optical @ 16bit 44.1kHz WAV)
Transfer: h120 > USB 2.0 > PC [WAV > TLH lvl 6 + Tested > FLAC]
Edit: CD Wave (tracking) Sound Forge 10 (fade out)
TRT: 54:54

This Recording is for Promotional & Archival Purposes Only.

01. ...Carnage's beatbox intro
02. Casualties of War
03. Original Assumption
04. Rebellion Politik
05. Snake in the Grass
06. open jam with RDM and Carnage
07. Back to the Basics feat. RDM and Carnage
08. Conflict, the History Part I
09. Catharsis
10. ...Rock el Imperio intro
11. Rock el Imperio (Rock the Empire/Alternative Energy medley)
12. ...band intros
13. Manifest

Brihanu - Vocals
Christopher Robin Cox - Keyboard/Trombone
Bryan Berry - Guitar
Dan Choma - Bass
Graham O' Brien - Drums/Laptop

www.myspace.com/junkyardempire | www.MediaRootsMusic.com

Pick up your copy of "Rebellion Politik" today. It's available on all major online stores right now. Carnage, Guante, Samosa and Dahr Jamail supported the evening. Thank you to the bands and to The Cedar for being down with taping.

Tracks coming soon from...

So the virus that my pc contracted last week has slowed me down a bit (along with work & being a bleeding human). With that said, full sets and or individual tracks from your favorite local bands are on their way. We're talking some No Bird Sing, Junkyard Empire, Guante & Big Cats!, Samosa, Carnage, Ela (reunited w/ original members), Roma di Luna (duo), Building Better Bombs, Communist Daughter, Big Trouble, Black Blondie and Kristoff Krane.

Enjoy the weekend. See you on the West Bank.

Clapperclaw '09 Mixtape

V0 mp3s on emptystapes.com - email me for FLAC files.

Clapperclaw Festival 2009
(Outdoor Stage)
Intermedia Arts
Minneapolis, MN
Saturday September 5th 2009

Taper: empty (emptystapes AT gmail DOT com)
Location: DINish (cm, º), FOB, DFC 30' back, ~9' ^
Source: MBHO 603a KA200N > Silver Quad customs > UA-5 (BM2p+) > iRiver h120 (Optical @ 16bit 44.1kHz WAV)
Transfer: h120 > USB 2.0 > PC [WAV > TLH lvl 6 + Tested > FLAC]
Edit: CD Wave (tracking) Sound Forge 9 (omitted some between the tracks 1s & 0s)

This Recording is for Promotional & Archival Purposes Only.

01. No Bird Sing - Land Mines
02. No Bird Sing - Night at Arms
03. No Bird Sing - ars poetica?
04. Guante - The Hero
05. Guante - One of These Mornings
06. City on the Make - Massive Project Engineering
07. City on the Make - You Got The Juice Now
08. City on the Make - Money Is My Friend
09. City on the Make - Chicks on Bikes
10. Kristoff Krane - Proud To Be An American > BeMeTooConfused
11. Kristoff Krane - Little Willy
12. Kristoff Krane - This Will Work For Now
13. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin 1
14. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin 2
15. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin 3
16. Free Energy 1 *
17. Free Energy 2 *

* sbd

A huge thank you to Matt Perkins and much respect to ALL of the people who help to put Clapperclaw together and keep it going year after year. Unfortunately this compilation does not include any of the music from the electronic stage. It does include tracks from; No Bird Sing, Guante, City on the Make, Kristoff Krane, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin and Free Energy. Please support the artists by purchasing the official releases. Please support Clapperclaw by coming out next year. The weather was perfect. It was one of the best Saturdays of the summer.

One Day In July...

Going to hop the train to check out some of the One Day In July Street Festival.

Brother Ali featuring BK One, Guante & Big Cats!, Mic Crenshaw, The Brass Kings, Ellis, 2 Tone Runts, City on the Make and Best Bitch in Show are all throwing down to make sure people don't forget.

"ONE DAY IN JULY"
A Street Festival for the Working Class
Remembering 1934--When Minneapolis Became a Union Town.
Saturday, July 25
7th Ave N & 3rd St N, Minneapolis (Warehouse District)
2pm - 10pm
FREE ADDMISSION

El Guante & See More Perspective - Direct Download

Download a .RAR containing the FLAC files here.

El Guante & See More Perspective
The 7th St Entry
Minneapolis, MN
Saturday December 27th 2008

In anticipation of the party being thrown by millcityscene.com this Thursday at the Barfly I present this direct download (no messing with torrents). On the bill are El Guante with Big Cats!, Kredentials, Hy-C Tha Image and Simply Us with DJ Swee2th.

This is the same recording that was offered via torrent here. If you're not familiar with extracting files from a .RAR I use WinRAR which is available here. If you need help converting .flac to .wav or .mp3 check out FLAC Frontend. There are PC, Mac and Linux versions available. Traders' Little Helper is also a good FLAC converter. I want you to hear the best possible quality, that's why I'm a fan of FLAC. MP3 downloads are on the way though.

El Guante & See More Perspective @ The Entry

Here's a link to the torrent.

El Guante & See More Perspective
The 7th St Entry
Minneapolis, MN
Saturday December 27th 2008

Taper: empty (emptystapes AT gmail DOT com)
Location: AB (cm, º), left drink rail, 20' back, ~8' ^
Source: MBHO 603a KA200N > Silver Quad customs > UA-5 (BM2p+) > iRiver h120 (Optical @ 16bit 44.1kHz WAV)
Conversion: h120 > USB 2.0 > PC [WAV > TLH lvl 6 + Tested > FLAC]
Edit: CD Wave (tracking) Sound Forge 9 (7dB boost to t10 + fade out)
TRT: 31:00

Please Do Not sell this recording. Share & trade it freely.

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www.myspace.com/elguante | www.myspace.com/seemoremusic

www.truruts.com | www.millcityscene.com

This was the release party for Mill City Scene's first issue with performances by El Guante & See More Perspective, Carnage, Hyder Ali, Kristoff Krane and Big Quarters. If you don't know about El Guante & See More Perspective you should check them out. The LP "El Guante's Haunted Studio Apartment" is available now.