Where is the best dosa in New York? Awl pal Amrit Singh has made Dosa Hunt, a short film about the quest to discover an answer to that question, which features an all-star cast of local musicians. Says Amrit, "The full film will premiere this spring in NYC. I hope to have dosa at the first screening, which should give everyone plenty of time to refine their palates/learn what dosa even is." Here's a start.
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BUY OUR SINGLE 'MICHAEL JACKSON' ON ITUNES OR AMAZON.COM… WOULDNT IT BE NARLEY IF WE HAD THE NO. 1 RAP JOINT OUT OR SUMFING…Tue Aug 02 18:20:21 via webdas racistdasracist
In a bold move, incredible "rap-type" outfit Das Racist is releasing new music—and they're not giving it away on the Internet. That's right. They're asking that people make a one-time gift or donation of a set value of actual valid currency in exchange for set amounts of their music. After this first experiment, selling just one song, in September they're [...]
after work i walk to the whole foods in tribeca where you can just walk in and go upstairs to the seating area and use two hours of free wifi, even if you don't buy any food, and i post a blog entry and then mike meets me and we eat dinner and then he brings me to an art party in Nolita, on Prince St. and either Elizabeth St. or Mott St., and when we get there i see some fashion models smoking outside and i try to comb my hair with my hand but it won't stay in the position i move it into so i put [...]
Since I'm a graduate student and drunkenness on a Thursday night is practically required, last Thursday I was terrifically far from sober and, as a direct result, read an article about Das Racist. I read this article because whenever Das Racist pops up on my radar, I read about them, like I read about MGMT even though I've only ever listened to MGMT once, and that was their song “Kids,” and, when I listened to it, it was about two years after “Kids” was a hit. I try to avoid dwelling on Das Racist, but, like I said, last Thursday I was drunk. Even when I'm not drunk, [...]
Das Racist (America's best rappers? You decide) recently played at Carleton College and of course hijinks ensued: "After their show I walked up to Victor who was being accosted by fangurls and I was like, 'Hey these chicks are weird come hang out with my friends our hotel room is right by yours' and he said, 'Okay' so we went back to our hotel and did a bunch of fun and weird stuff like playing chicken in the pool and watching The Nanny and four-way spooning and jumping on beds." Naturally. And then an interview ensued on the nature of philosophical problems with Das Racist's Victor Vazquez: [...]
last week Das Racist's new mixtape got a glowing review and a score of 8.7 out of 10 on pitchfork, and a coveted Best New Music designation, and then the next day i was in central park seeing Pavement and when Pavement was finished playing, i texted Himanshu, one of the rappers in Das Racist, to see if i could ask him some questions. like a month ago i did this reading that Das Racist also did, and after the reading ended everyone went outside and i talked to Himanshu and i said i wanted to write something about Das Racist and asked him if i [...]
An artist out of Brooklyn by the name of Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire has his borough in his blood—a little of Biggie's deep-lunged authority comes through in his style, and a little of Ol' Dirty Bastard's unhinged perviness, too—and he has an underground hit on his hands with a song called "Huzzah," which was produced by the death-obsessed hardcore veteran Necro. For the remix, he gathered an impressive collection of avant garde MCs—Queens' Despot, Detroit's Danny Brown, hometown faves Das Racist, and the venerable Def Jux Records founder El-P (who wears a large mustache and reminds us again how terrific and ahead-of-its-time his old group Company Flow [...]
Our hometown hiphop heroes Das Racist have been denied entry to the U.K. and deported back to Switzerland. They apologize to Londoners: "Sorry to everybody who was planning on coming to Cargo last night, it was a show and city we were all incredibly excited for and it was a shame yr govvy doesn’t like us! Because of our POLITICAL VIEWS! We’ll be back soon, maybe we’ll leave the airport next time."
