It’s a Sunday night, The Knitting Factory, downtown Manhattan. 9/11 was four years ago. New York City is fighting to get passed the cutting down of its two middle fingers. Ground zero is still a gapping wound. In response, America has dropped cluster bombs on children, invaded Iraq under false pretense, and rolled tanks down Broadway. Taps are on everybody’s phone. Show goers at the Factory are looking to combat the worst of human behavior. They’re here to see Swamburger, …
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It was a busy 2013 for Orlando, Florida’s music collective Solillaquists of Sound. First, they toured France, came home, raised $16,393 through their kickstarter campaign with a goal of $12,500, and then they released, The 4th Wall, a double album box set. Talk about “Everyday I’m hustling,” just in the second week of the new year: Swamburger, the MC of the group, had a solo art show at downtown Orlando’s Peacock Room, B-Side Artists Apparel is putting out a collaborative series …
Let’s get it. Solillaquists of Sound is at $8,563/$12,500. $ 3937 to go. Swamburger, the MC of the crew, has been my friend and personal motivational speaker ever since I was a kid. This half-breed (half-man/half-alien) is forever in perpetual motion and wears sweaters in the summer. I’m watching him sweat cats and dogs as we walk around, when I ask him why, he says, “njvi5$bhlnjlnlewa” and I took his word for it. I seriously thought he was doing some sort …
Solillaquists of Sound is an enigma that has managed to comfortably exist just within the peripheral of pop-culture’s enveloping eye. Based in Orlando, Florida, S.O.S has been touring the world and hustling by their own code for a decade. Right now their trying to get their latest project funded through Kickstarter. Earlier this year we interviewed the MC of the group, Swamburger, here. Also, check out The Giver Series vol. 1, here. The 4th Wall is S.O.S’s third album and it’s the …
Asaan Brooks a.k.a. Swamburger a.k.a. Swam, 1/4 of Solillaquists of Sound, rapper, artist, skateboarder, writer, teacher, student, community organizer, and entrepreneur. I met Asaan when I was a senior in high school. 1998: putting a show together that never happened, illuminati, Jason’s Moms gave me a couple Dr. Malachi Z. York books, Saul Williams in the film Slam Nation debuting at the Florida Film Festival, Patrick Scott Barnes features Beau Sia at his open mic, Ras Kass released the classic …
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