Attention Marijuana enthusiasts: Hunnypot are again presenting a special event on Monday May 29th (Memorial Day) to bring you a Marijuana consumption-friendly, Sample gathering.
Selected marijuana distributors and merchandisers will be showing off their current and upcoming products. This month's Sampling Sessions is co-sponsored by Scorpion 420 (drinks, seeds, vaporizers, delivery) and will be held at the Mid-City Music Lounge located directly behind The Mint. Don't miss this unique music and marijuana related co-branded event. Their will be surprises and give-aways throughout the night.
***You will be required to provide your Prop 215 medical recommendation and ID in order to have access to the Mid-City Music Lounge. You will not be allowed in without it.***
7-11pm
Mid-City Music Lounge (behind The Mint)
6010 W. Pico Blvd.
LA, CA 90035
Scorpion Global was created by Scorpion Crew, a veteran international group of growers, processors, and experts in the medical and recreational marijuana fields. Founded by Michael Teague, the Scorpion Crew is an international brand with a presence in Canada, Spain, Holland, and the USA. All partners in the brand are committed to organic and bio growing methods, traceability from seed to sale and beyond, and to delivering a repeatable product that is the same no matter where you are in the world.
To this end, Scorpion Drinks, Seeds, and Venom were created. From branding to product development, the Scorpion Global is expanding its reach by partnering with local producers to bring the same consistent product to a legal market near you.
We're partnering with the filmmakers at Media Liberated to bring you the chance to win a fully produced music video filmed at The Mint in Los Angeles. Click here to enter no later than March 24th. Shit I Would!
Once you click play, you will be greeted with a big smile from our LGBT+ queen CupcakKe in her fur boots. Like her usual viral rap videos, we have heavy beats, arresting lyrics and dazzling colors, but this time CupcakKe amazes us with smoke grenade of colors. We do not want to get smoked, but totally want her kind of smoke out.
You may be able to sense it from the song name, this upbeat tune is written in dedication to a huge part of her fans (Slurpers) and the LGBT+ community. CupcakKe is a female artist, she’s free. And she openly supports her fans to be free.
Last month, according to BuzzFeed, one Twitter user hailed CupcakKe as the “queen of kindness, talent, and support.” People are loving her kind gesture towards her gay teen fan who got kicked out of his house because he was gay. 17-year-old Christian tweeted CupcakKe about his situation out of desperation and guess what? CupcakKe offered him a hotel, and made sure he was warm and safe. “The first thing that came to my mind was not that ‘this is a fan’, but this is someone who is in need,” CupcakKe said. “Someone that’s about to be homeless just like I was at 13 years old.”
Her career being a rapper all started from the $50 her mom gave her to book a studio session for CupcakKe. She made it real by exposing the financial hardship and physical abuse she suffered of her childhood, and pairing them up with heart and creativity.
This 19-year-old Chicagoan is caring, innovative and unstoppable. So far, she has been writing her own songs, directing her own videos, and managing herself as an artist. She got acclamations from Rolling Stone, and listed in Rolling Stone's June 2016 listing of the "Best Rap Albums of 2016 So Far,” as well as recognized by well-known music publications such as Pitchfork, Complex, and The Fader. She went viral by simply being herself.
Her “LGBT” video has over 939,000 views on YouTube, make it a million in dedication to CupcakKe and the LGBT community she supports!
“The LGBT community is human and every human being deserves love and that’s what I’m here to spread at the end of the day.”
-CupcakKe
All water on earth has always been here. Every drink of water you've ever had was once dinosaur urine. If you come out to Hunnypot Live you know urine for an amazing time. Monday night Hot Tub Johnnie roared right in to a killer set of curated music. Jeff Miller guest DJ'd and dug deep in to the mantle for his musical past. Stephen Day Chakra'd the stage, Susy Sun sang with new day solar rays, Reverie partied hard, Mario Jose let his soul music glow, Amy Guess left us with no questions about talent and the world famous dance party book-ended our "epoch" party. 3/06/2017
Jeff Miller is the senior city editor of Thrillist LA, one of the stars of Travel Channel's "Trip Testers," the guitarist/frontman for Black Crystal Wolf Kids, and a longtime music journalist: his byline has appeared in the LA Times, Rolling Stone, Spin.com, and Billboard. Jeff got his start in music in the promotions department at Interscope before seguing into the journalism world, and has covered major music events all over the globe, from Coachella to SXSW to the Red Bull Music Academy in South Africa. He's also dabbled in music management, working on building small local bands' base, and booking, with successful nights at LA venues like The Mint and the Satellite. You can often find him at a show or a new restaurant or a comedy show, where he's always identifiable by a huge laugh -- and a huge beard.
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Sarod player, singer / songwriter and composer Stephen Day writes songs and compositions inspired by his many music tours around the world.
Born in California, and raised in Canada and France, Day began as a guitarist, then studied sarod in India with world-renowned award winning sarodist Amjad Ali Khan.
Day describes the 21-stringed fretless silver-necked sarod as being like the ‘granddaddy of all guitar like instruments’ and playing it as being ‘like taking a rocket ride for the inner soul’.
After India, Stephen spent time touring in Europe and America where he played premier venues including the Kodak Theater in L.A. and Town Hall in N.Y. He then settled in Los Angeles and began to write music for TV and film. His body of work now contains music in 7 films, 4 music libraries, 4 albums and hundreds of television shows.
In 2007 Stephen organized and performed in a concert at the United Nations where his music was featured as a uniting force for ancient civilizations and modern countries in the East and in the West. A return visit is pending.
His latest album, Namaste, a collection of songs about adventure, mysticism and the road less traveled, is produced by two-time Gold Disc Award winner Matt Forger (Michael Jackson, Stephen Spielberg, Paul McCartney), and Shenkar (John Mcglaughlin, Peter Gabriel, voice of NBC's smash hit “Heroes”). It features musical appearances by Matt Malley (Counting Crows), Daryl Jones (Miles Davis, The Rolling Stones), Satnam Singh (Nikka Costa, Hans Zimmer), and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (Ry Cooder) among others.
Stephen is the founder of “Ombience” a 501 c3 non-profit organization dedicated to self-reflection through the Arts. In addition, he co-founded Arts & Entertainment Radio (AER), the most listened to station in the IBS network of over 45 mostly college radio stations, with well-known broadcaster and musician John Tesh.
Stephen currently resides in Los Angeles where he composes, records with his band and launches music tours.
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Susy Sun road trips South to find her new sound in sunny Los Angeles. From drizzly Seattle to the Golden State, Susy Sun's self-titled EP is a compilation of songs fueled by love lost, a move to California and a newfound sense of freedom. For this project, Sun dropped her traditional classical piano roots, and partnered with LA producer Benjamin Greenspan to create a pop masterpiece that's as catchy, as it is whole-hearted -- From "Girls", a peppy feminist piece, to "Selfish Love", a satirical beachy throwback, to "Pretty Baby," a heart break piano ballad, don't be surprised if, while listening to Susy Sun, you find yourself whistling and shedding a tear all at the same time.
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A San Francisco Bay Area native Mario Jose is a seasoned singer/songwriter, session vocalist, and true entertainer.
Mario has had the privilege to share the stage and studio with music icons including John Legend, Pentatonix, Prince, Meghan Trainor, Justin Bieber, Michael McDonald, Philip Bailey (of Earth, Wind & Fire), John Elefante (of Kansas), Jim Peterick (of Survivor), Bill Champlin (of Chicago), Paula Cole, Lalah Hathaway, Ben E. King, Post Modern Jukebox and many more!
Mario released his first EP of original music ‘Heart Of Gold’ in October 2016 and has just finished as emcee and featured vocalist on Post Modern Jukebox’s US winter tour.
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The family moved to Las Vegas when Guess was 12. She played the lounges in cover bands and landed a job as a singing gondolier at the Venetian Hotel while still in high school.
One of the demos she made using karaoke tracks got the attention of Darren Sher. He produced her first album, Coming Up for Air, a collection of rock tunes that got local attention, but she was already moving on. “I wanted to blend EDM and pop to write songs with a big, emotional sound.”
A meeting with producer Rusty Varenkamp led to “Moonlight,” the single that put her on the map. They began working on Ten Times Out of Ten soon thereafter. Guess will spend most of 2017 on the road with her band, touring to support the EP.
Hot from her success as a Top 12 finalist of NBCs ‘The Voice, singer songwriter Ohio native Emily Keener is on her own with her new record, “Breakfast.” On the first video single “Elevator,” the 18 year old sings with a depth that belies her age. The stark imagery of the video is a perfect match for the simple, concise arrangement and sets the mood for this intimate break up/kiss off song. Come hear Emily at The Mint as she joins the Hunnypot Live line up on 1 May!
This video pick is coming at ya via young artist Jane Ellen Bryant, hailing from Austin, Texas. The song, “Twenties” released last year explores the universal trials and tribulations of Western young-adulthood verging on the cusp of full fledged adulting. Bryant’s music is a melodious blend of pop and rock, tied together with her strong, twangy voice. Navigating the turbulent waters of social lives, full time jobs, bills, the marriage of your peers, moving back in with parents, and college (or lack thereof), Bryant speaks to the confusion of the 20s in a person’s life. In her mid-twenties herself, Bryant possesses a first hand insight to this age of transition. The video is a visual representation of all this, cut together with shots in a bouncy castle and on a velcro wall to help accent the contrast and serve as a reminder that not so long ago, people in their twenties were in high school with much different concerns (and may be nostalgic for childhood).
Jane Ellen Bryant has three releases currently, including her most recent single, “All In My Head” which just dropped on February 17th. Her talent attracted Grammy-nominated producer Chris “Frenchie” Smith (formerly of the band Young Heart Attack) who touts her incredible voice. Bryant will be performing at Hunnypot Live on May 1st, come out to The Mint and hear it for yourself!
Were you unlucky enough to miss our Sampling Sessions on January 23rd 2017 at the Mid City Music Lounge? Our event was co-hosted with Hey Jackpot and featured products from sponsors Sensi-Chew, Evoxe Labs, Califari, and Verde Essentials. Watch this teaser shot by Jeano Brooks and Ryan Taalbi (Media Liberated) and edited by Jeffrey Perez de Leon to catch up on some of the action.
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Seeing temples on stage reminds me of how I imagine a 70s British rock band to look—the band members spread the stage all standing tall and lanky with eyes half hidden behind variously styled mops of hair, oozing cool composure with every note. Their visuals consist of the classic liquid light shows that my lyft driver said he remembered from his childhood weekends spent at the Fillmore and Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, and their stadium-scale lights were all at once exciting and blinding. You could feel the fuzzy bass vibrating through the floor.
Their newest album, Volcano, follows in the same self-produced vein of their previous work, but with much more evolved, beefed-up tone than their debut album, Sun Structures. They had previously been described to me as “Tame Impala light,” but, after seeing them live, I might say Tame Impala is “Temples light.” Their sound live is surprisingly grittier and more drum heavy than I expected, making the show feel like an old-school rock show. The audience was clearly on board too, each dressed in modernized flare leg jeans, denim jackets, and braided, flower-filled hair.
Playing the Chapel as the first night of their “Desert Daze” tour, the production was definitely scaled up compared to the previous bands that played. Having been there since 7:00, it wasn’t until Temples came on at 11:00pm that I really felt like I was at the festival Noise Pop 25 tries to be. The crowd transformed from that just chatting with friends, having drinks, and watching some music to one that had all their attention focused on the stage.
Lead singer James Bagshaw and drummer Sam Toms carry the show, the first of who’s slightly cocky attitude commands respect while Toms smashes away and provides a driving beat set that drives the band from one song to the next. Thomas Warmsley and Adam Smith carry up the sides of the stage, both giving more introverted but still incredibly cool and laid back performances. Overall, the band glows the ultra-hip personality I would expect of a British psychedelic rock band, serving up enjoyable and agreeable fare for their attendees. Fans who have bought tickets to their tour certainly have something to look forward to.
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If there is a better way to launch your new record than by crushing on the hot guy at the local laundromat, then Betty Who doesn’t want to know about it. In her latest video, “Some Kinda Wonderful” the Australian singer / songwriter turns the weekly chore into a dreamy disco dance party full of bubbles, dancing, and roller skates. This fun, infectious electro pop slice of ear candy is sure to get your boogie shoes sparkling! Her new record “The Valley” is out in March.
Today’s video pick is “Keke Taught Me” by eleven-year old dancer, singer, actress Brooklyn Queen. The kid sensation explains “Beyonce has made me smile, dance and cry and I want fans to feel me the same way, I want to make it clear to young girls that anything is possible if you just follow your dreams.” This ridiculously catchy tune is a ready-made dance party, just add disco ball! Catch it while it’s hot!