If you’ve been up to date on your Hunnypot from the past few months, you’ll know about our rapper from Seattle, Michete! Even if you don’t, this is the perfect opportunity to get to know them from our interview at Hunnypot Live #351 on October 3rd, 2016. In this interview preceding Michete’s first Hunnypot performance, John and Jeff sit down with the gender-queer rapper to talk Pacific Northwest, high school experiences, and of course, the music.
John points out all the love Michete has been getting from SPIN magazine and other publications, for Cool Tricks and Cool Tricks 2, which features Hunnypot favorite “Come Get It, Daddy.”
Watch to learn Michete’s thoughts on growing up “weird and gay” in Spokane, visiting LA, the great Uber VS Lyft debate, and the burgeoning Seattle rap scene. Gain some insight into the process of making the catchy tunes we like so much.
Thanks to Justin Martin (Editing), Media Liberated (Cameras) and Hot Tub Johnnie (Hunnypot)!
Listen to the full Michete Interview and live performance here.
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Dance music duo Jake and Sam make up Shy Luv. This project out of England features the two producers creating awesome tracks. Their first EP released last year, and this year heralds the release of a new one, titled “Shock Horror.” Their first song off this upcoming EP, “Joyrider” was released a few months ago, and now we have the title track in video form to entertain your ears AND your eyes. The music video for “Shock Horror” features tiny bodies reminiscent of the love child between Reed Richards from the Fantastic Four and a crash test dummy. What does that look like? Watch the video and you’ll see what I mean. The little guys synchronize swim through the air to form shapes, bump into each other, bounce off a normal sized woman (British pop singer JONES, who lends her beautiful voice to the track), creating a delightfully trippy video.
Look forward to the new EP this spring and keep an eye on their social media for an exact release date!
Never forget a new song again! Hunnypot is back again in 2017 with our BEST OF Spotify Playlist! If you come home from Hunnypot and find yourself humming a tune or singing a few lyrics but just can't remember what they're from, you'll find it here. Keep track of this year's freshest jams, updated regularly, so give us a follow!
Fake news massacres & football championships don't compare to the drama and theater that was Hunnypot Live #359. Hot Tub Johnnie immediately jumped from the roof to deliver a scorching opening set, Rich Goldman funked the whole place up with his origins stories with a musical score of his past life, Miken & Nordstorm gave us Swedish dance pop power, Ghost rapped tighter than two locked helmets, WARGIRL played a musical global thermal nuclear game with Joshua and the crowd and The Mighty Tears of Joy provided power in positivity. 2/16/2017
Rich will be spinning the FUNK HITS recorded at his legacy “5th Floor Recording Studios” featuring: Midnight Star, Ohio Players, Bootsy Collins, Zapp, Sheila E!, Prince and more!
Rich Goldman is President of RipTide Music Group, a leading music synchronization, publishing and administration company in Los Angeles. He is also President of Pacifica Music, a modern genre production music library. He’s is a lifelong musician who has amassed a broad range of industry credits as a producer, composer, sound designer, and recording studio operator.
RipTide Music’s “sync flavored publishing” credits range from the commercials for “iPhone6s”, “Google Chromecast” “, “Chico’s” and “Pepsi”, movie trailers of “Dr. Strange”, ”Jungle Book”, “Star Trek Beyond”, “Kubo and the 2 Strings”; TV shows “”, “Ballers”, “Empire” and “Lethal Weapon”, films, “Concussion” and ”Central Intelligence”.
With his wife Ellie, Rich started a rehearsal studio in Cincinnati and grew it into the legendary Fifth Floor Studios, one of the major centers for recording in the Midwest. At Fifth Floor, Rich engineered albums for clients including Bootsy Collins and the Ohio Players and collected gold records for his studio’s work with Sheila E, Prince, Midnight Star and Zapp.
Rich is a frequent speaker at various music events including ASCAP: I Create Music, PMA, Billboard Film & TV Conference, Game Developers Conference, British Sync Mission, Durango Song Expo and co-organized and moderated the MIDEM “Sync” panels from 2009 through 2015.
On monthly basis, Rich gigs with the Goldman Family Band that includes his wife Ellie, son Scott and daughter Jess.
Swedish duo Alicia (Miken) & Oscar (Nordstörm) met last fall in Los Angeles and started writing music together. Their first release, “Playing With Fire” (Box4Joy Records) was co-written by Icelandic DJ & Producer Ingi Bauer and has since the release in June 2016 reached over 110 000 plays on Spotify.
Following up their summer-hit and with a new collaboration together with Ingi Bauer, the Swedish duo has produced 5 new original songs that they’re showcasing at “Hunnypot Live at The Mint” the 6th of February in Los Angeles.
Their sound is a blend of Nordic Pop and Electronic Dance that has a sense of mystic to it. Coming from two different genres, Oscar with a long list of Techno releases worldwide and Alicia as a Pop & Folk-Music vocalist for several well known bands in Sweden, their sound is truly unique but with familiar analog attributes, classic original elements and a pulsating beat.
Meet Ghost, the Bryan, Texas native was raised in the dangerous community of "Kurrupt City." His vivid lyrics will haunt your thoughts, as he shares his life and experience with his music.
Inspired by Tupac's song, "Ghost" - Roderick W. Harris Jr. took on the moniker but gave it a different meaning. Motivated by Psalm 124, Ghost stands for "God's Human Outlaw Speaking Truth". Ghost received words of encouragement from Shawty Redd and Scott Storch that kept him focused and driven. With that, he began pursuing his dream.
Now living in Miami, FL, he launched Life Art Music Group. The company currently manages various artists including Ghost himself. In 2016, he graced SXSW and recorded enough material for a stash of mixtapes. As Ghost puts it, “the proof is in the pudding”, and he will be serving all of this content in 2017.
His first EP and same titled music video “Nina’s Son” is available on his website www.KurruptCity.com, Soundcloud, YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music. Ghost’s album titled “Kurrupt City” will be released in March 2017.
To know Ghost, means to simply understand, the melody of " life.."
Direct from Long Beach CA comes WARGIRL, Garage rock, afrobeat, and dubby smooth jazz played through broken speakers with some pop thrown in. With Marika Dahlin, Enya Preston, Tamara Raye, Matt Wignall, Erick Nieto, Jeff Suri, Anne Dereaux and other friends.
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The Mighty Tears of Joy, with their own brand of rich nostalgic soul/rock/pop are quickly becoming the next universally respected band to emerge from Los Angeles's indie scene. As American as apple pie, the powerful vocals and rhythmic mixtures resonate with the times, the feelings, the experiences of us all. These sounds can be felt feverishly brewing throughout their recordings, with an electro-psychedelic twist of throw back soul music. The Mighty Tears of Joy is a band of composers; together at the helm, Khalfani Saint Blanc and Gerardo Morales, venture to reintroduce authentic soul vibes, meaningful lyrics and hand clapping fun back into our lives. A community of world class composers/producers/players came together to make this sound possible. Names like Cyrus Melchor, Killa Karma, Christian Wunderlich, Mateo Amper, King Ahmos, Lala Mckay and those crazy kids over at D2 Mastering, helped bring to life this genuinely California feel.
With their own style of modern Beach Boy reminiscent melodies and Doo Wop Rock, The Mighty Tears of Joy breach topics of love, loss, and economic triumph, while evoking a spirit of movement. They are a romantic reminder that music teeming with anguish, passion and joy, can find its way to the heart and spirit of any listener.
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(INCEPTO RECORDS) Underground wiz producer & DJ Oscar Nordström (Nordstorm) have a long list of dance tracks and international shows in his duffel bag. With support from legends like Armin Van Buuren and Claes Rosén (L-?wiz) to shows in London & Los Angeles, Oscar always delivers something unique and colorful. Starting off his DJ career in Stockholm at numerous underground parties like “We Luv Bass” & “All Out Dubstep” and later taking over in Stockholm´s Dance & Techno -? scene at infamous Stureplan, a residency at “Spy Bar”and playing clubs like “Collage”, “Hells Kitchen” & “Solidaritet” he now focuses on spreading his original material with shows all over Sweden
YG, Tyga, Ty Dolla $ign, 2 Chainz… They are all his pals. Songs he produced peaked at charts like Billboard and were certified gold by the RIAA. Oh, and he also DJ-ed at the age of eleven.
He is DJ Mustard. Notable tracks he produced include Tyga’s “Rack City,” which peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and #2 on the Hot Rap Songs chart; 2 Chainz's "I'm Different,” charted at #6 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and was certified gold by the RIAA, selling over 500,000 copies digitally; Kid Ink’s "Main Chick" that featured Chris Brown, peaked at #3 on the U.S. Rhythmic Billboard chart.
Convinced? We are not done yet. While we were having fun at parties, Mustard was taking down the first trophy ever at Steve Lobel's "Battle For Beats" event, and even collaborating with Rihanna and TDE camp. His production style, which he calls “ratchet music,” has been described as “an up-tempo, club oriented, catchy yet rudimentary melodic hip hop style.” Here is a song he produced from last summer, Rae Sremmurd's Set the Roof feat. Lil Jon. Totally “DJ Mustard On The Beat!”
Check out Dijon (Mustard) McFarlane’s intensely filtered video accompanied by his equally wild lyrics. We are expecting a “wow” here.
Stephen Perkins returns to The Mint tonight to celebrate the release of his collaborative brew Perkins Pale Ale. You can try the new collaboration between Temblor Brewing Company and Absolution Brewing Company tonight while listening to Hellride at 8pm and Tabitha at 8:45pm. The show is free, with doors opening at 7:30pm. Hellride is a free form jam featuring Stephen Perkins (Jane’s Addiction), Mike Watt (Firehose, Minutemen, Iggy Pop), and Peter Distefano (Porno for Pyros). Tabitha features Stephen Perkins and the Okai Sisters. (You can listen to Tabitha’s live hunnypot performance here.) As if tonight weren’t going to be awesome enough, Hot Tub Johnnie will fill the interim and your ears with awesome tunes. You don’t wanna miss this!
Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears have a new video out for their song “PTP.” Originating in Austin, Texas, Joe Lewis released his first EP in 2005 and full album in 2007, and then under the “and the Honeybears” name, a second EP in 2009. The track “PTP” comes off of the fourth full length album under the Honeybears moniker, set to release February 10th and titled “Backlash.” The band has since seen success in performances at major music festivals and on popular late night television programs.
“PTP” is an animated video, illustrated and animated by Roger Haus, and colored by Anna Curto. The video features cartoon renditions of the band, an 80s logo, and a rollerskater. With its bold colors and tube-socked skater, PTP is a cool video to watch while grooving to the bluesy rock track. If "PTP" is any indication of the album to come, Backlash will be one to buy. Catch Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears on tour this Winter/Spring all over the US!
Actress, model, Hunnypot alumna, Veronica Loren. Loren is best known for her acting work in acclaimed movie August Evening, and movies Without Men and Five Thirteen. She is back with her debut single “Bear Hands” from her music project “V.” From her website, “Deep beats, Hard synths, V’s voice melts right in / Giving you delectable sounds to dance to, music to vibe to, & frequencies to flow to.” The song is certainly entrancing, and when coupled with the video, you just can’t look away. V’s costumes are all avant garde fashion, often with a BDSM twist. Sexy and a bit weird, watch “Bear Hands” and hide your man (or yourself).
Listen to her performance at Hunnypot Live #333 from January 2016 here
Listen to her performance at Hunnypot Live #345 from July 2016 here
Reverie is at it again with her new single "Just Wanna Love You." On a rainy day in Berlin, Reverie navigates through the streets, subways, and parks with a tranquil fluid and her own "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" spirit. Reverie pays homage to the victims of the tragedy in Berlin with the hashtag #PrayForBerlin. "Just Wanna Love You" shows off a softer side of Reverie with an alluring vocal track backed with a smooth sexy groove. The song provides a yearning sentiment while remaining true. Reverie asks for no excuses or apologies.
Reverie is heavily involved in the creative process of her videos, and this one is no exception. She co-directed “Just Wanna Love You” with LA-based photographer Enkrypt. Don't miss out on her Hunnypot debut March 6 live at The Mint.
He’s Ghost (La Familia). Motivated by Psalm 124, Ghost stands for “God’s Human Outlaws Striving Together. Once posted on his social media platforms, “don’t bitch about minor skirmishes, don’t fight wars that cannot be won or are irrelevant,” Ghost has kept to his words. He has now made his own rules in the music business by launching his own Indie label Life Art Music Group, and most importantly, made himself someone.
Born Roderick World Harris Jr., aka “Ghost,” the Texas native currently resides in Miami, Florida, and has achieved aspirations in the rap world. In 2016, Ghost set the stage for it by gracing SXSW and recorded a stash of mixtapes. Being the son of NFL player Rod Harris, Sr. and Nina Goosby, he honored his mother with a new video for the track “Nina’s Son.”
Ghost rapped out the arresting lyrics like no one else does in the track “Nina’s Son.” Even better, this promising video of Ghost produced by Brandon Bxtes, directed by Fxrbes and engineered by grammy nominated Dyryk, drops the visuals of Ghost’s life struggles into our minds. Like he said, “the enemy is you, your brain, which prevents you from thinking different, which believes doors are closed and you’re constricted.” We shall breakthrough whatever walls we made up by invent our own creative ways.
Catch Ghost alive in our next party, Monday, February 6. This one is for Kurrupt #Psalms124KJVPrayForUs.
