The only way to describe the city of Austin during SXSW is a Music Utopia. SXSW is different than any concert/festival experience due to the fact that shows span throughout the entire city. This allows for not only a bevy of great venues to be seen but also the capacity to actually tour the town. [...]
Snowball in a nutshell! (Photo Credit: David Rodman) Held a few weekends ago in Winter Park, CO, the third installment of the Snowball Music Festival can only be described as a raging success – heavy emphasis on the “rage.” Like 2011 and 2012 before it, Snowball 2013 remained heavy on the EDM when putting together [...]
RZA’s new movie The Man With The Iron Fists (co-written with Eli Roth & presented by Quentin Tarantino) drops next week, November 2nd. Universal Pictures and Ignition Print are commemorating the official release with an exclusive poster series designed by artists from around the world. What’s more, MJF has been given the opportunity to give [...]
The man on the boards for the Snoop Lion album, Diplo, takes a spell from his dancehall/electro lane to record a 30 minute mix of classic 60′s and 70′s tunes aptly titled Got Stoned And Mixed Really Old Records For Half An Hour. Listen to the mix below while you get some work done (or [...]
Railroad Earth – Storms by xmaslights Railroad Earth took the stage to a nearly full Red Rocks last Friday night for their first ever co-headline with prog-rock gurus Umphrey’s McGee. The crowd came early and stayed late for the diverse duo, who combined for more than 5 hours of live music. Comprised of some of [...]
From Thom: “I have a new project, it’s called Atoms for Peace. You may remember the name from some shows of The Eraser that happened a couple of years ago with Mauro, Joey, Nigel and Flea. We got a big buzz from them and discovered loads of energy from transforming the music to live from [...]
Young Veggies has improved from showing promise to becoming consistent to being an artist to watch. He shut shit down at LA’s Mad Decent Block Party and seems poised to make noise. Check out Rich Kidd-produced “Summer, I Suppose” below: Casey Veggies – Summer, I Suppose
This is the first I’ve heard of Toro Y Moi’s side project Les Sins, but Chaz Bundy’s more dance-y venture has been around since summer ’09. The new single from this project is coming soon via Jiaolong, the label run by Caribou’s Dan Snaith. “Fetch” is the 80′s discotheque A-side and “Taken” is a bouncy [...]
LBC native Jay Curry put the knock in two of our favorite Jealous Guys songs, “Love & Other Drugs” and “Life.” He made waves with his complex instrumental EP CheetahPrintRose$ at just 19. I’m getting ahead of myself, by the way he can rap. Jay is poised to be the next breakthrough artist out of [...]
D.O.P.E. (Doing Our Part as Emcees) is the latest tape from Florida duo, the Educated Hustlers, who enlisted quite the group of special guests for this project. Features include Le$, Laws and fellow newcomer, Joe Cool, as well as production from Taylor Gang’s Cardo on the Beat. The Educated Hustlers – Pimps Up Hoes Down [...]
Friday night was nothing short of spectacular as Zion I, MJF regular MiMOSA, and minimalist prog-rock duo Ghostland Observatory took stage at the greatest venue on Earth. Doors opened at 6, with a pair of openers even before Zion I. MJF hit the scene around 7:45, just in time for one of hip-hops growing names [...]
In case you haven’t been paying attention to your calendar lately, 2012 is halfway over. Here at Mostlyjunkfood.com, besides blowing our New Year’s resolutions by Valentine’s Day and consuming mall Japanese food every day on our lunch break, we’ve been paying close attention to the quality of music that’s been released during the first six [...]
