xxx

What's up, crew? Just got the day kicked off after yesterday's gig at the Beauty Shop -- an epic throwdown between Ill & Natti, Imperfekt and Colorless, Coolzey, and of course, that P.A.C. clique.

Solid night -- met a couple of nice peeps, got the word out about C.C.I., and had ourselves a nice little hip-hop of an evening. Good to see we've still got a nice scene around here.

With all of that energy out and about, today feels much more like a Sunday than a Saturday, but y'know how we do.

Big things coming from our 420chan.org fanbase -- we've got an overflow of mixtape submissions, ranging from every genre, and our traffic has seen a bigger spike than norm', so that's definitely something we'll be taking in to consideration.


Abigail Frerichs, one of our absolutely favorite featured artists, has a show today! Click here for all the official details. Hopefully we'll get her down here to our territory for a Beauty Shop showcase in the near-future. (Look to ze right, find her photo, click on it, and that'll take you to one of our first musical highlights in CCI history.)

Utopia Park Bro's + Dan Deacon tonight in Iowa City! Should be absolutely electric, and I really hope that a yearly Deacon/Utopia show is a continued tradition. Can't make it this year, but they've got the support goin'.

☮, y'all.
C.C.I. xxx

Coyote Slingshot, The Shakies, and their gold-plated swag.

Through the mystics of FaceBook, Dominic Rabalais, a.k.a Mr. Coyote Slingshot, a.k.a. Mr. Utopia Park, sent me a trip of a video with a colossal musical concept -- Let me try explaining this without a generic copy/paste...

Alright, so in this video, each of the three notes in each chord garner their own color, which means that when these chords are played, there are three colors layered on top of each other. Followin' me so far? When a bass note is played, in correspondence with the color patterns, there's a texture for each one of those bass notes. Then, the images in the foreground each correspond to a note in the melody that the main guitar is playing. That last sentence was basically copy/paste. I tried.

I give my nod of approval, a thumbs-up, and a tip-of-the-cap to this vid' + concept. With no further ado, Captain Captain Industries presents :

Coyote Slingshot + The Shakies -
"Go To The Place Where Everything Sucks And Leave Again"

BONUS VIDEO!

You can catch Utopia Park @ Gabe's in Iowa City, slated to do what I believe is their second I.C. show with Dan Deacon. You could Power a train with all of that Sweat.

For more sweet schwag on those Coyote Slingshot characters, go ahead and swing on over to SlingshotShot, where you can find a nice chunk of Coyote Slingshot downloads via SoundCloud.

Two articles about local swaggin' in two days. Somebody better get at me so I can go for the hat trick tomorrow. 'Til then though, I'm out. Enjoy your Friday + weekend, and be on the look-out for that devious stranger that is Little Ruckus.

C.C.I. xxxx