Camp Bisco Color War Results

not like i do this, as i am most likely sleeping or something but read this.

As another year of Camp Bisco and Color War have passed us by, we are happy to officially announce PURPLE as the winner of this year's war! Every team showed up to play, and we had our biggest turnout ever this year, solidifying Color War's home at Camp Bisco for years to come. Final breakdown of points is as
follows:
PURPLE: 297
YELLOW: 194
GREEN: 186

ORANGE: 148 We started again with our campground marathon, our 2nd year doing it, and the second year of Purple victory. A video was taken from the back of our pace car, which should surface shortly. Thanks to ALL our runners for coming out in the heat to start our games off the right way! As always, ladies arm wrestling was a fan favorite, and drew in huge crowds to see the GrooveBot ALMOST take it down for Yellow, until getting destroyed by Dana from Purple. Oh yeah, there were a couple guys that wanted to hold hands. I was a bit disappointed in the showing for the mustache contest but as you can see, there were a FEW notable entries, without spacebirdjosh showing up to ruin it for everyone. I really have no idea what's going on here. I can only assume that Aaron needed more sunscreen, and Bassel offered to help. My own beautiful addition to the games, the Bacon-Off, was a smashing success again! Pictured here are our esteemed judges (from left) Shannon, Tyson, Evan, and Stubbs, pondering the entry from Yellow, a bacon pot pie of sorts. It was absolutely incredible, and won the contest...though Purple's purple bacon pasta with bacon meatballs was pretty good too. (All recipes available at a later date) Orange showed incredible prowess at the Human Knot, and came in 2nd in the spelling bee and best shirt, but fell short in a few other events. Don't worry Orange, there's always next year! Purple DOMINATED the JOUST, and shortly there after we were asked to please remove our cans from the field...so we did in the only way we know how. (thanks to mike wren for the video) Green team brought it HUGE in the spirit department, bringing their own mascot and cheering section, as well as keeping my and my refs quite hydrated and happy all day. No Color War is complete without a visit from Magner, who showed up to judge our "Best Nughuffer Story" contest. This video needs no intro...the winning story starts at about 6 minutes in. LINK Overall, everyone had a great showing this year. We kept some new games, and lost some old ones, but next year will be BIGGER THAN EVER. Watch out for Green team next year, they won't be rookies anymore!!

Girl Talk's Label "Illegal Art" Signs Junk Culture

Illegal Art, home of Girl Talk, Steinski, Bran Flakes and more, Signs some dude named Deepak Mantena going by the name Junk Culture. His EP is called “West Coast,” it mixes distorted vocals with pop hooks and samples, all run through a handheld recorder, giving a lo-fi, loop-based sound. Leading up to this release, Deepak would capture field recordings, samples of songs he really liked, and samples of himself playing instruments on a cheap pocket recorder. "West Coast" embodies these "fresh" sounds, and employs them for what Deepak describes as "a love letter to outer space -- it gets desperate and schizophrenic as the record plays out, but is a sort of celebration of spirit as a whole."


Like pretty lights and other borderline hipster/jamband electro music Junk Culture goes for more of a live band than an electronic act, the Junk Culture live show also involves Deepak's younger brother, Nitin, on drums. The performance includes the Mantena siblings jamming to a tight string of sequences that involve sampled patterns, live percussion, synced visuals of films from the 50's/60's, and Deepak's singing. Live, the “West Coast” tracks have him singing on top of sampled voices, while material already being developed for the subsequent EP involves a more traditional vocal approach, further bridging the gap between sample-based production and songwriting.

Born in Idaho in the mid-80's shortly after his family immigrated from India, Deepak grew up in several locations ranging from Texas to Michigan, and ultimately he enrolled at the University of Mississippi. He recently relocated to Portland, Oregon to pursue graduate studies, and while his sound collecting process is removed from the computer, his research focuses on interface design. Besides composing and performing music, Deepak has been involved in producing short films (and curating a film showcase), photography, writing (at one point for the nausiating blog, Brooklyn Vegan), developing apps for the iPhone (awesome), and even acting on stage and film.

The first Junk Culture EP, “West Coast,” will be released October 27, 2009, with another EP following in the spring of 2010. Junk Culture will play select west coast shows with Girl Talk this fall.

download the title track off of the "West Coast" EP here

Tour Dates:
Fri. 09/18/09 Seattle, WA @ Showbox Sodo w/ Girl Talk, Brother Reade
Sat. 09/19/09 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom w/ Girl Talk, Brother Reade
Sun. 09/20/09 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom w/ Girl Talk, Brother Reade

Allman Brothers NY Tour.

In Honor of the Allmans Passing through. and the fact that I talked to Gregg in my dream last night. Here is a recording of a very rarely performed Gregg Allman Song.



Saratoga Performing Arts CenterSaratoga Springs, NY
07:00 PM
The Allman Brothers Band with the Doobie Brothers Find Tickets »
• Aug • 19 Wed

PNC Bank Arts CenterHolmdel, NJ
07:00 PM
The Allman Brothers Band with the Doobie Brothers Find Tickets »
• Aug •21 Fri

Susquehanna Bank CenterCamden, NJ
07:00 PM
The Allman Brothers and Widespread Panic
• Aug •22 Sat

If you don't laugh you are an android

Saw U-Melt this weekend at Sullivan Hall. Case is closed on N20 Mafia, A lot of it was all hype its a lot less organized then expected. i got to the bottom of the story. The band was amazing I'm so impressed with how much better they are getting. in other news

phish getting long overdue music industry love

I love how phish has finally become accepted by the music establishment, as is displayed by this article in Rolling Stone on the Phish Halloween show and also many other Rolling Stone articles. The truth is they are finally realizing this is what the people want and how active the community is. Watch a comment thread light up whenever the band is mentioned.

thanks to yemblog for the heads up