Photos / video from Sound Set 08

We should have more clips soon - but in the meanwhile, here is an Atmosphere snippet from Sunday's Sound Set:



And some pics we took of Muja Messiah, Doomtree, & Atmosphere:

Sound Set 2008

My sister sat me down on Monday and gave me a lecture about how I need to start dating nice guys. I know I should, but I have found nice guys in the past, well, a little boring. "You have a problem," she told me.

I found myself at Sound Set on Sunday, feeling the same way about Minneapolis hip hop as I do nice guys. I know I should like it - I really know I should like it, but our local genre’s expressive feelings irritate me. It is super uncool of me, but I just don't want a man to be sensitive in hip hop.

It's the bravado, theatrics, confidence and swagger I love most about rap, and I suppose its glimmer of danger. My sister will tell you the qualities I find myself attracted to in men are the same, and start exciting and end destructively. What I haven’t wrapped my head around yet, is why misogyny and violence are integral to my favorite songs and why –aholic has become such a familiar suffix. I do have a problem.

Her advice was to practice dating nice guys, by going out with nice guys - that perhaps through the act of getting to know them, I'll find someone who likes himself, has a job, calls his mother (not too much, just enough), and is fun to hang around with. "Ok," I promised her, "I'll give it a shot."

Likewise, I am going to start practicing listening to local, sensitive rappers. Hey, nice guy, burn me some Atmosphere and Brother Ali – will you?

I don't know if this is going to work.

Sound Set This Weekend!

With Sound Set coming up this weekend I thought I'd post an Atmosphere video! I saw Slug perform this song acousticly at The Current's Fakebook a few weeks ago, and it was chilling and amazing!! Let us know if you are going to the show. Take lots of picts!