Ropeadope

if you're still looking for post-rock guitar driven madness, blazing horns and soul stirring strings all mashed up and ironed try ropeadope digital's larval  (beginners should start with larval 2).  the seminal detroit band is led by bill brovold (who john zorn calls "one of the most underrated musicians on the planet") will be making a rare east coast appearance at monkeytown in wiliamsburg on june 3rd with an allstar band. special treat not to be missed.

this tip from canadian correspondant jay newton about a slightly scary canadian piece of legislation which seeks to cut the fun out of ipods and digital music.

monkey rides bike through pencil drawings and makes you not want to do any work, just play more pencil racer.

okay, so there are no big labels anymore, no-one is buying cds, at least your band can make a living on the road right? wrong.  gas prices are wreaking quit havoc on all your favorite bands.

the denver westword posts this long and luscious ccnversation with ahmir ahmir ?uestlove thompson where he, amongst other things discusses his upcoming project producing.....tom jones (!?!?!)

stumbled upon this photo, poem and related comments on flickr.com and was moved enough to share it with you  

while we flaunt our united states trademark to the name ropeadope, we do let certain folks (like ali) slide. dig it - the rope-a-dope jump rope.

kudos to ropeadope digital stars the frequency who are now shining on the new blackberry commercial with the tune jim gordon part ii. you can download the songhere or visit the frequency on their myspace here.

back before the ipod, there was the music vest

this from former ropeadope intern turned beat maker larry legend: "hey andy - this nerd music compilationthat i did a track for came out. check it out....it doesn't suck!"