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Artist:  Husky Brown

Music Artist/Producer: Auto Kid 

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STEP INTO THE WORLD OF GHOST POET

TOUR DATES

1/03/11 - King Tuts

(Supporting Jamie Woon)

Glasgow UK // Tickets

3/03/11 - Nation of Shopkeepers

(Supporting Jamie Woon)

Leeds UK // Tickets

4/03/11 - The Grand Social

Dublin Ireland // Tickets

6/03/11 - Cardiff Arts Institute

(Supporting Jamie Woon)

Cardiff UK // Tickets

11/03/11 - Lefto Presents.. w/ Kode 9, Kid Koala, Jamie Woon

Vooruit 

Gent BELGIUM  //  Tickets

08/07/11 - Worldwide Festival

Sete FRANCE  //  Tickets

Spiritual's i-Pod Playlist

Above: 

1: Spiritual Album Cover 'Crusader       

2: Spiritual, Mr FX, Pete Rock, Husky Brown    

3: Spiritual & Husky Brown

PLAYLIST FROM THE iPOD

1: PJ Harvey – Words That Make the Murder

2: Miles Kane – Inhaler

3: Chilly Gonzales – You Can Dance

4: Archie Bronson Outfit –Cherry Lips



5: Pulled About By Horses – I punched A Lion in the Throat

6: Playaz Cliq – Hip Hop Rebels

7: The Black Keys – Next Girl

8: James Blake – Limit To Your Love

9: Beady Eye – Four Letter Word

10: Gil Scott-Heron And Jamie XX - I'll Take Care Of You

Photo: Bobby Pavarotti & Husky Brown

Bobby Pavarotti  Song Choice

Death From Above 1979 - Dead Womb (Live) RARE HIGH QUALITY
More of the same from Death From Above 1979, playing the song Dead
Womb from the slightly less mainstream; Heads Up EP. Enjoy!

INTERVIEW: EMEK

THE MAN BEHIND THE CREATIVE ARTWORK CD COVERS


Abandoned at birth, Emek has lived a difficult, often tragic life. After being forced to work for years as a child-laborer in a plutonium mine, he won a rare mining scholarship to attend art school. Little did he know, his troubles were only just beginning. In art school, he fell in with a rough and dangerous crowd. Upon graduating most of them pursued lives of crime as freelance graphic artists, and were never heard from again. For Emek, the only hope of escaping the fate that befell his doomed peers -- advertising -- was to become a rock 'n' roll artist.

Emek now lives in many worlds. His art shows it. Born a decade after the '60s, he was nevertheless influenced by '60s culture and counter-culture. Emek was raised in an environment that supported his crazy artistic aspirations as both his parents were artists, too. He grew up listening to their music, their ideals, and their divorce. Yet, he is also a product of his own "Who, Me?" generation.

Emek graduated with a Major in Art, and a Minor in Unemployment. His first poster commission was done immediately after the L.A. riots/uprising of 1992, for a unity rally and concert held on Martin Luther King Day. The poster was a success and from then on, Emek was hooked on the art form. 

"I appreciate the flexibility this medium allows me because the bands generally give me total creative freedom (as long as I include the show info). I am allowed to dip into the recesses of my own imagination and see what spills out onto the page. I am my own art director so I can experiment with different concepts and styles to keep things fresh. Today's disposable culture paves the way for tomorrow's collectible nostalgia... I'm just trying to keep it interesting."

In Emek's posters, psychedelic '60s imagery collides with '90s post-industrial iconography. To this collision of the organic vs. the mechanical worlds he adds humor, social commentary and fantasy. Even in the smallest details there are messages. All of Emek's artwork is originally hand-drawn and then hand- silkscreened for each actual concert or event, usually in limited editions of around 300.

You can order one of these before he becomes really famous, or really homeless. So far, his unique visual style has graced music posters on a diverse musical spectrum, from Blues legend B.B. King to the Beastie Boys. He has painted album covers for Neil Young and Pearl Jam as well as for many punk and alternative bands. He was invited to exhibit at the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame "History of Rock Posters" exhibition and has been featured in national and international magazines. As you read this, his work is permanently displayed in Hard Rock Cafes all over.

EMEK

Emek's typically detailed artwork for Erykah Badu

​Not all of us are as audacious or as talented to only be known by one name, but there is an LA-born poster maker who gets away with being both. You may recognize EMEK's work from the LA Weekly's political art pages in 2004, but more likely from the early Coachella posters and the myriad of rock and roll art he produced in the '90s.

EMEK helped usher back the popularity of rock poster art and perhaps reminded us of its cultural importance right on the heels of iTunes and the impending disappearance of "the album cover".

In his new book, Collected Works of Aarght! (Ginko Press) EMEK's macho rock sensibilities are evident in the extensive projects he has filed with Queens of the Stone Age, TOOL and Nine Inch Nails. However, his collaborations with Eryka Badu and an exquisitely intelligent Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "Map" show his ability to soften and extend his reach to other audiences.

EMEK's favorite subject matter includes skeletons, nature, industrial contraptions and a political combination thereof. His painstaking, hand-drawn detail work harkens back to Rick Griffin's psychedelic Fillmore posters of the sixties, albeit with a punk rock edge, earning him praise from early artists like Stanley Mouse and Art Chantry as well as his contemporaries Frank Kozik and Shepard Fairey.

EMEK will be signing regular and laser etched copies of his new book, "Collected Works of Aaarght", Saturday, Dec 4, 2010, at Mr Musichead Gallery, 7511 W Sunset Blvd, 7-10pm. Original art and prints will be on display at the gallery through Dec 18th.

We spoke to EMEK, who was preparing for his signing event at Mr Musichead tomorrow.

Inspired by your fossil piece for The Flaming Lips, I have to ask, do you watch TV?
My parents made a conscious decision to throw out the TV when I was young, but they encouraged my brother and sister and I to experiment and create with all varieties of art media and book reading instead. We never felt we missed out on anything and subsequently, we are all professional artists now.
Of course, now I watch Nick at Night obsessively to try to recapture my lost childhood.

If you weren't making art, what would you be doing?

Watching TV.

What was the first thing you ever drew?
The first drawing I ever spent a lot of time on...my parents saved. It's an anatomically correct skeleton with a penis. I still have it.

EMEK

​What was the first concert you saw?
Growing up, my parents were friends with a lot of artists and musicians, so I went to a lot of performances at a young age without thinking it was a big deal. Jackson Browne, Peter Paul and Mary... it was fun to listen to the music and hang out backstage.
The first concert I went to on my own, I snuck out to see The Descendents.

If you got stranded on a deserted island, what album (yes, album), would you have with you?
I'm so glad you asked, it just so happens I was recently stranded off the coast of the Seychelles - a long story. Thank goodness I had my Justin Bieber megamix.

Honestly though, it changes every day - yesterday it could of been the Clash's Sandinista, today maybe The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs and tomorrow maybe the best of Blaxploitation soundtracks.

What's your favorite poster done or not done by you?
My posters are my babies...so I hate them all...but really, I always make my next poster my favorite. I love the deceiving simplicity of Small Stakes (designer Jason Munn) posters.

What's your fantasy concert lineup and what would the art concept be for the poster?
Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. Conceptually, the duality of them then and now -- young and old, dreams realized or unfulfilled. I like making posters for some of my cultural heroes.

EMEK

​Why did you leave LA for Portland?
LA has been very good to me, and there is still so much to immerse yourself in there. But once I realized that I could do my art from anywhere with internet and Fedex, especially once we had kids, I wanted to move somewhere with less traffic, less pollution, more greenery, more water, a large backyard, etc. The young energy of Portland, lots of artists and musicians and families, feels very positive. I still visit or do business in LA about 4 times a year or more.

How do you see your work evolving? I notice many sculptures and
installations in the book, as well as new videos on You Tube.
After doing hundreds of silk screened posters, I asked myself, how can I still make art but incorporate some of the cool things that I saw my parents doing in their studios while we were growing up? Posters still make up the majority of my output, but I have managed to incorporate embossing, lasercutting, embroidery, resin casting, burning and other experimental printing techniques into my work to keep things fresh. My motivation is to mix it up and see what happens.

What are you working on right now?
Helping my dad build a tree house for my kids.

MUSIC NEWS: Alex Turner To Release New EP Next Month

THE RETURN OF ALEX TURNER

Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner is to release a new six-track EP comprising of original material recorded for Richard Ayoade‘s forthcoming film Submarine.

The EP is set for release through Domino on March 14th, and will be available in CD, 10″ vinyl and digital formats. Submarine, a Welsh-set comedy/drama starring Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Sally Hawkins and Paddy Considine, is due for release in the UK on March 18th.

Alex Turner is currently based in Los Angeles with his Arctic Monkeys bandmates as they continue work on their fourth studio album. According to reports, the Sheffield band are recording with Klaxons producer James Ford, and are said to be aiming for a Spring release.

The album will be the follow-up to 2009′s ‘Humbug‘, on which the band also worked with James Ford, as well as Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme.

Submarine EP tracklisting:

‘Stuck On The Puzzle (Intro)’
‘Hiding Tonight’
‘Glass In The Park’
‘It’s Hard To Get Around The Wind’
‘Stuck On The Puzzle’
‘Piledriver Waltz’

I'm not in it for a career, I'm here to touch people.’

Being delayed for half an hour by US immigration officials at JFK airport and spending the next day throwing up in his hotel room was not exactly what Liam Gallagher had in mind for his recent trip to New York City. Although his bout with food poisoning forced Liam to cancel high profile promotional appearances including a segment on the Jimmy Fallon show, you shouldn’t necessarily feel bad for him. In February Liam accepted, on the behalf of Oasis, the Brit Award for best album of the last 30 years for the band’s 1994 record (What’s the Story) Morning Glory, and just as he was arriving in New York, Q Magazine announced that its readers had voted Liam the greatest frontman of all time (beating out such rock luminaries as John Lennon, Freddie Mercury and Bono!).

While fans anxiously await to savor the fruits of Liam’s post-Oasis musical endeavors (new single hitting the shelves this fall!), the rock megastar is not content to limit himself simply to rock n’ roll. Having conquered the musical world, Liam has branched out , launching his own clothing line Pretty Green in the summer of 2009. Nevertheless, although Liam was in New York to promote the redesign of Prettygreen.com and US online store launch, music is never far from his mind.

In another Live4ever exclusive, we sat down with Liam in a posh midtown Manhattan hotel. Clad in a Pretty Green camouflaged parka, perched on an antique Victorian armchair and surrounded by tea-sipping, elderly matrons, the ‘Rock n’ Roll Star’ dished candidly about the clothing line, the spoils of the Internet, the big Apple, his newest band member, being deemed the greatest front man in history and the current void of inspiring music and true rock stars.

Live4ever: OK Liam, So how are you today, good?

Liam: Feel a lot better than I was yesterday. Yesterday I looked and I felt like I was a vampire man. Wasn’t too well. Throwing up a lot. Still a little bit dodgy but other than that I feel good man.

I hope it wasn’t a hot dog from JFK. I heard they gave you a bit of trouble out there, an extra wait of some kind when you flew in?

Nah Nah, I signed a wrong piece of paper.

A wrong piece of paper?

I’ve got a visa to come here. I don’t know…what was it Steve?

(Pretty Green’s CEO Steve Allen explains that it was just an immigrations officer doing his job and that they had to fill out a form again.)

(Grins) Considering I can’t write it took me a long time to fill it out – it took me all day.

Well I hope they treated you OK? They can get a bit uptight sometimes?

Nah, they were good, it was alright.

So you’re in New York to promote Pretty Green? As of today US residents can purchase your items using US currency in your online store, right?

(Steve jumps in and explains that all items are priced in US Dollars with no Import Taxes. The Items are distributed from the UK and delivery normally will take around 3 days.)

Did you talk to any New York department stores about carrying your line of clothing?

Our people back in the UK have been doing that and there is a store in New York, ‘Any Old Iron’, who will be the first store to sell our line starting in the fall.

Where you not interested in one of the bigger stores such as Barneys?

Oh yeah, I like Barneys but I heard it’s not so good at the moment. I’m easy I’ll put it anywhere. I’m not that precious about where it goes, you know what I mean? The main thing is to try to get our own little store, our own little shop out here at some point, if all goes well.

You already have your own stores planned elsewhere though?

We’re looking at a place in London – and Tokyo would be a good place because we have a bit of a fan base out there as a lot of people are buying from out there. Definitely New York, if you do one out there you got to do one in New York, yeah?

Absolutely.

So as you’ve said before you are not trying to reinvent the wheel here with your line. It’s a priority for you that this is a top quality product.

Top quality yeah.

I feel when people can get past the ‘Liam Gallagher’s clothing label’ they’ll realize it’s top top gear, you know what I mean?

Obviously a lot of Oasis fans are buying it – and it’s just normal people who are buying it, it’s good gear man.

Would you consider releasing a sub line of clothing that is less expensive and would be available in cheaper clothing and department stores such as Target or H&M for example?

We’re doing a green label, but I don’t want to do a whole collection of cheap, not so good gear.

Your either doing good gear or not so good gear.There’s no point in having a split personality, you know what I mean? I don’t expect everyone to be able to afford it but you get what you pay for, you know what I mean? But we are definitely doing a cheaper version of still very good gear.

Can you recall the first time you had the idea to manufacture your own clothes? What item did you think of producing first?

Basically all this Pretty Green stuff started over desert boots and shoes. I’ve got a load of desert boots at home that are on their last legs and we were sitting around thinking about making our own shoes one day,

So the shoe came first?

Yeah , like a desert boot. We brought a guy in to sort of make a couple of samples and they weren’t quite right so we binned that for a bit and started the Tshirts and Jackets and stuff, that’s how it fell into the clothes. Now we’re doing everything.

You have a deal going with Clarks, right?

(Liam gets up from his chair and points at his shoes) This is them yeah, Clarks.

Very nice. We’ve been following your shoe line in our newsroom, yeah.

It’s always good to be working with Clarks cause they are the Godfathers of shoes as far as I’m concerned so hopefully that will be good.

Are you really going to be making women’s handbags?

Not Yet, Bullshit. Some girl asked me if I was making handbags so I said yeah.

Right?

“Knickers and thongs and all sorts of fucking vibrators (laughs) Pretty Green fuckin’ soldier boy – Do I look like I make fuckin’ handbags?”

Bikinis perhaps? What about Pretty Green Furniture?

The thing is if we do our own shop, we’ll have furniture in there you can only get from Pretty Green. But we’re not gonna start like DFS, you know what I mean? We wanna do everything but one thing at a time man.

Well we for one are looking forward to your first shop opening in NYC.

If all goes well mate. Something small, nothin’ big something cute and cool man.

Maybe down in Soho.

Yeah, yeah.

So can we switch gears a bit Liam and talk music?

Yeah mate.

As you know, Live4ever has been reporting all about you since 2002 and we recently launched another site to cover the Brit Rock scene .

Excellent, yeah.

You’re not too happy with the current music scene in general are you? Except for maybe with Kasabian?

Yeah Kasabian. I don’t like scenes anyway. Scenes kill music coz all these other dicks get on board because they think it’s cool and then they take over the scene and before you know it, the band that was cool is getting surrounded by 20 idiots and they’re just doin’it coz they think it’s a cool thing.

Kasabian are the best band in England at the moment. Until my new band comes out … and that’s the fucking end of that.

Do you know what I mean? Because that’s the way it is because they are the only ones who look cool, they are good live.

You like their album too?

Yeah I like ‘em both live and the album, I think Kasabian are great, There’s enough shit you know – I say enough about bands. They are good band, a top band.

Anyone here in the States we can talk about, you used to be into the Strokes and BRMC I recall?

Yeah they’re alright, they’re alright but they’re not writing fucking proper tunes, they’re not writing classics – anything that can stand the test of time like the Beatles or the Stones. The only people that were doing that was us and we will continue to do that in different ways but ehh the scene in England, there isn’t one man. They’re all fucking into careers man, they’re all just like fast food, havin’ one hit.

On the cover of NME one week and the next….

Yeah, and then they’re gone. They go and have one fucking hit and the next week they’re in fucking rehab. ‘My Fucking Drug Problem’, by Tom Chaplin or somethin’.

Throughout your time with Oasis you seemed to have a love / hate relationship with the Internet?

Too right.

You and Noel. One would read quotes like: ‘Kids should turn off their computers and pick up a guitar’.

Yeah, I think so, without a doubt.

You still think the same today?

Yeah, completely without a doubt. Computers are good for getting in touch with people around the world but as for living your life on your computer you got to be insane. Where’s that going to end up? You’re gonna end up derranged.

So what about Twitter and musician blogs?

Musician blogs are ridiculous. They’re giving too much away.

Twitter? I only use my twitter as a weapon or to say thanks to people or if people are gettin’ a bit fresh if you know what I mean.

Instead of waiting 6 months to do an interview to put them in to place do it on twitter. All that – I went for a poo the other day or I just had a beer or I’m scratching my ass watching neighbors or..
this is ridiculous. Who wants to know all the ins and outs of everything?

I believe Tom from Kasabian was quoted as saying that the Internet killed the myth behind the rock-star.

Yeah?

Is too much available about stars on the Internet?

No, well I don’t know about that.

No? Don’t agree?

Nah, well I mean, I know what he’s saying. But there is no myth.

There are no rock stars in England anyway.

And if you’re cool and you know what you’re doing it doesn’t really matter if other people are exposed to it or not. I think that’s just a blag that. A Myth? Nah.

Imagine the Internet we have today would have existed at the height of, let’s say, Led Zeppelin’s career. We all heard the so called rock n roll stories that have been told from those days….

Yeah but people do behave in that way. I live my life in a pretty rock n roll kind of way and I’m sure that people who are working normal jobs have a rock n roll life style on the weekend or whatever but there are always gonna be people who live a certain way. Just because the Internet is involved doesn’t mean you have to stop and if you do then it’s silly init?

Let’s Switch to the subject of Tabloids, they suck everywhere. But do they really suck the most in the UK?

Yeah they do. I mean, but that’s everywhere init? But that’s what they do isn’t it, you know, they write crap about you but I don’t even read them so I don’t care what they write about me. No, not at all. I pretty much agree with half of this they write about me.

LAUGHTER.

Basically any kind of publicity is good publicity?

Nah, nah whatever. I know exactly who I am, I know I can be a knob-head at times but at least I’m a proper knob-head when I am one.

There you go.

And I know I can be a c#nt sometimes and all that stuff and again I can be the biggest c#nt in the world if I want to be but a lot of times I’m an alright guy so, it doesn’t really matter what the press say about me. The people who I know they know me, they know what I’m like and they’re all I need to impress, not impress but those are the people who I need to look up to, the people who I like and care about. I don’t care what that person over there thinks about me, or that geezer over there, I’m not interested. You’d go mad wouldn’t you? Thinking about what everyone thinks about you?