Missy Thangs / Raleigh, NC

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05/25/20 • 49 min

It's Memorial Day. A day we honor heroes. And who better to honor than musical powerhouse Missy Thangs. And what better way to do it than stay inside and listen to a podcast as our fellow Americans are out rampantly spreading coronavirus.

Missy and I have been tight since, I dunno, 2006? 2007? We kinda met when she would buy pork chops from me at the meat counter at Whole Foods but we soon realized we were both cute upstarts in our local music scene. The only thing bigger than her smile was her earrings and maybe her hair. She's been a great friend and we were even roommates for a flash but now she is a mom and a superproducer/engineer at Fidelitorium Recordings so she stays pretty dang busy. Her list of credits is numerous but you can check out some projects she was involved with (and some of her own jams) here.

She was just profiled in this book so obvi I'm lucky to have her on this show. And, like, she's in Birds Of Avalon yo. Plus she used to play in The Love Language with previous guest Stu McLamb. She got chops!

#poop

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Our theme song is me crooning over "Neg-Fi" by Modern Leather

Our outro music is "One Story Diamond (DEMO)" by Missy Thangs

#poop

Please send any correspondence to [email protected]

Our theme song is me crooning over "Neg-Fi" by Modern Leather

Our outro music is "One Story Diamond (DEMO)" by Missy Thangs

Previous Episode

INTER-REVIEW "Death Cash America" by Boy In Sleep / Asheville, NC

There is a band from Asheville, NC that I have been obsessed with since the Myspace Era (sidebar: I just went to the site, they actually have, like, current pop culture news on there LOL who is looking at that??) called RBTS WIN and one of the founding members (Javier Francisco Bolea) dropped a solo record on 4/20 of this year called Death Cash America under the name Boy In Sleep. And I love it.

I wanted to connect with him and talk about the record, essentially review it while he was there to offer up little gems about the tracks and confirm or deny my opinions. Of course we discuss his "creative process" and his "mindstate" while working on these "tracks" in the "studio". (Even if the "studio" was just him working on his laptop in a coffee shop or on his porch.)

I highly recommend copping this album and letting it be a part of the soundtrack of your life. Javi is a super sweet dude and really smart and he was a pleasure to talk to. And this album has greatly improved my otherwise-impaired Spring season.

PS shout out to Spring for hanging out so long this year. It ain't hot and humid in NC yet WTF let's enjoy it while we can.

To holler at me with any thoughts/feelings/issues or to ask me out, slide into [email protected]

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Mother Hood Bandcamp
Spaceman Jones And The Motherships on YouTube

Our theme song is "Neg-Fi" by Modern Leather

Our outro music is "I Got Problems" by RBTS WIN

Next Episode

Choo Choo Tane / Chicago, IL

Today's date is Tuesday, June 16th, 2020. And it's been challenging to get back on the ball with Coronatose after all that has been happening in America. You can tell by my intro that I wanted use my voice to say something, anything, but that I am still learning how to do it confidently. I think a lot us are in that state right now.

And while we all probably know the names George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery by now, even in the time I have been preparing this episode for upload more Black people have senselessly died: Rayshard Brooks was killed by police in Atlanta, and two men were found HANGING FROM TREES IN CALIFORNIA: Robert Fuller and Malcolm Harsch. If you think those were suicides, you's a mother fucking fool!

This show is meant to be entertaining, but it doesn't mean I can just shy away from real life shit. And while we will continue to keep it entertaining, I had to hit pause for a minute.

The guest on this episode is someone I have known for a really long time and while there are so many ways that we could have cut up on a podcast, I wanted to take advantage of the fact that he lives in the heart of Chicago where there was a lot of protest and looting action the past few weeks, and to have him describe what it's been like. Marijuana is also legal there so we talk about how cultivating his own personal garden has been a major stress reliever during quarantine and the unrest that has surrounded him. I know him as my Uncle Tane but to the rest of the world he is often referred to as Choo Choo Tane or Top Heavy Gazelle.

He made a short video exploring a post-George Floyd Logan Square that you can watch here. Be warned, there is some audio from Floyd's murder present in the video.

#blacklivesmatter

Thank you to everyone who has been listening. Please address any questions or comments to [email protected]. That is also the only place I will accept requests to be on the show. Don't hit me up on Facebook talking about your latest project when it's obvious you haven't even listened before.

Our outro song is "Chiraq (Remix)" by Montana of 300 from Chicago and is one of my favorite hard rap performances of all time.

Other music featured in this episode:

"Lost At Birth" - Public Enemy
"Brooklyn Zoo" - Ol' Dirty Bastard
"FDT" - YG ft. Nipsey Hussle
"Sweet Home Chicago" - Robert Johnson
"Friday" - Ice Cube
"Funky Dividends" - Three Times Dope
"Hits from the Bong (Instrumental)" - Cypress Hill