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Justin Dean Thomas Is A NYC singer/songwriter, actor. singer and lead guitarist of The Bowery Riots, Published Poet and Has Residencies Djing all over New York from The Kenmare, La Esquina, Mulberry Project, & The Electric Room. His list of Dj Clients include, Dior, Rachel Zoe, Gq, Tod’s, Milk and various events that include New York fashion Week. He specializes In Early Rhythm & Blues, Early and current Rock N Roll, garage, soul music, early ska, Jamaican soul and modern dance music. He got his start mixing hip hop and dance music entering DMC competitions all over Massachusetts and parlayed that to NYC learning quickly how to play to any and every type of room.
1 Meat step Lively: The Oh sees
2 Can’t Catch Me: The Bowery Riots
3 Ace Of spades: Link Wray
4 Always something There To Remind Me: sandy shaw
5 Egyptian Reggae: Modern Lovers
6 Fort Rock shock: Prince Francis
7 Primitive: The Groupies
8 Pas Gentile; Francoise Hardy
9 Train Kept A Rollin’: Johnny Burnette
10 Ultra Twist: The Cramps
11 Stars are Stars: Echo & The Bunnymen
12 What Do I get: The Buzzcocks
13 Sweet Musille: The Corporation
14 Who Do You Love: Bo Diddley
15 Springtime in New York: Jonathan Richman
16 Favorite Thing: The Replacements
17 Have Love Will Travel: The Sonics
18 What Am I Going To Do: The Dovers
19 Tornado: Dale Hawkins
20 I’m shakin: Little Willie John
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Along with the emergence of indie hip hop labels like Cold Chillin’ and Wild Pitch Records, emerged Rawkus Records. Though the label didn’t achieve a large level of sucess, it did have one of the stronger rosters around. Releasing tracks by Reflection Eternal, Company Flow, the High and Mighty, Mos Def and Talib Kweli (as Blackstar), Eminem, Common, Pharoahe Monch, and Skillz.
But just like I said yesterday every company usually has a story. Rawkus was searching for a new sound at first, with initial releases ranging in genre from Hip Hop to Drum & Bass. Rawkus Records was established in 1996 by Brian Brater and Jarret Myer, with financial backing from James Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch. Nike does DIY and Rupert Murdoch does indie Hip Hop.
Rolling Stone fans know Ronnie Wood works wonders with a guitar. Few are aware he’s also great with a paintbrush.
The legendary rocker and bad boy is a renowned visual artist, having painted portraits of famous friends like Jack Nicholson and Slash. A chunk of his work can be seen in the exhibit “Faces, Time and Places,” opening Monday at 498 Broome St. in SoHo.
Wood, 64, has even drawn his fellow Rolling Stones Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts, who were once among his toughest critics.
“Well, Keith being an artist, and Charlie, they were kind of, ‘Oh, you’ve done it wrong, you’ve overworked it, blah blah blah,’” Wood tells the Daily News. “That was in the old days. But now they’ve kind of owned up to, ‘Wow, you’re pretty good.’”
They’re not the only ones who think so. English art critic Brian Sewell and English artist and collector Damien Hirst are among his fans.
“I have studios in all my houses,” Wood says. “I’m sitting in Holland Park in London in one of my studios now and it’s all decked out with stuff that Damien Hirst got me when I came out of rehab.
“There are brushes, easels, canvases, paints, aprons, first aid kits, eyewash, everything,” he adds. “He managed to supply me with enough stuff for an art college. He said, ‘Come on, you’ve got no excuse now.’ So I’ve been painting up a storm for the last few years.”
The art exhibit, presented by the Symbolic Collection, is timed with Wood’s second induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame April 14 for his other band, the Faces. He was previously honored in 1989 with the Rolling Stones.
“I’ll be more coherent this time because I was drinking last time and it all went in a mush,” Wood admits. “It was a bit of a, ‘What was that? Wow, that was great fun. But I don’t remember much about it.’ ”
Wood’s decades-long battle with alcoholism and multiple rehab trips have been well documented. He plans to enjoy the induction ceremony in Cleveland sober.
“I’m going to treasure it more this time,” Wood says. “And with my pals Slash and Flea because Guns N’ Roses and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are being inducted as well. I’m sure we’ll have a good old jam.”
He’ll also be playing with the surviving members of the Faces, Ian McLagan, Kenney Jones and Rod Stewart. The band, an offshoot of the Small Faces, was formed in 1969 and active until 1975.
The Inspiral Carpets are one of those great English singles bands. Up there with Madness or the Kinks or The Buzzcocks those effortless purveyors of a machine gun rush of fine three minute statements.
In the late eighties and early nineties The Inspiral Carpets hit the chart far more consistently than their fellow Madchester travellers the Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses.
Playing their psychedelic punk pop in the mid eighties way before anyone was putting the ’Mad’ into Manchester.
They had the trippy light show, the short snappy songs and the frazzled fringes of prime time garage gonzoids. Maybe that was because The Inspirals were always a punk rock band at heart and cranked the energy level accordingly