The Cool Kids
Enjoy the Summer.. Hot Weather.. Beaches.. Road Trips.. and all that shit.
Hopefully this will be the soundtrack.

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Yes. More video from SXBW, but this is just pure dopeness.

Ash Roth hops on stage with The Cool Kids to perform “Black Mags,” off their album, The Bake Sale.  Mikey Rocks and Chuck still get in their verses and Ash tops it off with his own verse that he featured on The Greenhouse Effect.  Check it out below.

HipHopOfficial does an official job shooting the performance, from the crystal clear picture to the range of video effects.  Shouts.

Asher Roth- Black Mags Remix. Download HERE.

You should know this by now.

just downloaded the cool kids’ new album The Bake Sale

it’s the perfect pre-gaming music

New video release from there upcomming set “When Fish Ride Bicycles” it also featuresd on the game soundtrack for NBA 2K9

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Sometimes happens that you are listening to a crappy radio station (just because you don’t feel like listening to the same “top ten” s**t everyday) and …TA TA!!!(that’s the sound of surprise:))…boom boom boom, wow wow wow, yeah yeah yeah …that’s what happened with The Cool Kids…LOVE LOVE LOVE ! So much love deserves the first CCC rmx of 2009!!!

As usual, feel free to play it, share it, post it, mix it,  burn it…

Love, CCC

http://www.zshare.net/audio/54190701df2032dd/

The Critically Acclaimed Cool Kida,My Dudes lol

Tracklist:

1. (00:03:00) The Cool Kids – What Up Man
2. (00:03:33) The Cool Kids – One Two
3. (00:03:27) The Cool Kids – Mikey Rocks
4. (00:03:47) The Cool Kids – 88
5. (00:02:28) The Cool Kids – What It Is
6. (00:03:11) The Cool Kids – Black Mags
7. (00:02:52) The Cool Kids – A Little Bit Cooler
8. (00:03:48) The Cool Kids – Gold and a Pager
9. (00:03:27) The Cool Kids – Bassment Party
10. (00:02:48) The Cool Kids – Jingling

The Cool Kids – The Bake Sale 2008 [RS]

Simply, this is getting ridiculous. I’ve been dreading the September edition of my self-imposed project to account for every album I buy this year because it gets me all that closer to the October post. We’re not even half-through and yet I’ve already amassed 22 albums. Isn’t there an economic collapse going somewhere?  

Oh wait, that’s everywhere. Perhaps I’ll spend an impoverished 2009 reassessing my accumulated purchases and frittered wealth. 

Only 17 albums for this entire month. And there’s kind of a theme or three to my purchases: back catalogues and wordlessness (or at least English wordlessness).  And also Bill Callahan-like sounding front(wo)men. And I liked most of it!

• Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar – Go Marko Go! A great Serbian brass band (Caveat: I’m not confident I could tell a great from a good Serbian brass band) and this is a great album. Passionate and funky folk jazz. They got kind of dampered by rain at this year’s Pitchfork, but rumors of their raucous rowdy live show abound. A bonus: Serbian words can kind of sound like English, which leads to fun mishearings. Like on the outro for “Bubamara , Ne kuni me , Kalasnijikov” sounds like they’re passionately and repeatedly intoning that “Carl likes people.” He may very well, but not as much as I like this.
• Breathe Owl Breathe – climb in I liked the Ghost Glacier EP so much, I felt obligated by that discovery to buy more of this guy. This is his last full album that came out a few years ago (2005). Just as great as the EP. A little more Bill Callahan this time. But like a camping and high Bill Callahan.
• Chicha Libre – Sonido Amazonico I don’t anything about these guys, but I know they’re based in Brooklyn. Any band based in Brooklyn makes me suspicious. But they do a competent, nay…exciting…job of jazzy folk latin. It was also recently touted by Sound Opinions’ Greg Kot on their “buried treasure” show.
• Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People Apropos of nothing (or was it the Brendan Canning album…alas, purchases beget purchases), I realized I didn’t have enough Broken Social Scene. So I went back to their so-called “breakthrough” album. It’s great and is exactly what is to be expected. It’s so much easier buying thoroughly vetted albums from 2002.
• Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton – Knives Don’t Have Your Back Part of the campaign to fill my Broken Social Scene bucket. And now I’ll probably have to fill me up a Metric bucket. Emily’s in both bands. And she has this excellent solo album. I need to blog less. Unlike BSS, you can understand the lyrics here. They’re pretty saucy and pessimistic with wry deadpan humor (the Bill Callahan of chix?). Not a whole lot of romance here, unless you consider romanticizing nihilism romantic. Still, it’s great. Wouldn’t buy it for a depressive, though.  
• Giant Sand – Provisions It’s the Southwest version of Bill Callahan, but I think this guy precedes Bill. So maybe Bill’s the Pacific Northwest version of Giant Sand. Either way, both are worthwhile. Great collaborations here, too. Isobell Campbell, Neko Case, and a great PJ Harvey cover to boot.
• Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter – Gentleness of Nothing EP I’m onboard with Jesse, so this EP works as the other ones do. Does not sound very much like Bill Callahan.
• Justice – ? (Cross) Apparently, “D.A.N.C.E.” was one of the most overplayed anthems of this summer. I haven’t heard it once before downloading it this month. I’m not “dialed in” anymore I guess.  Nonetheless, great to run to. Hey fatboys, before mocking my belated electronica purchase, do 50 squats. I could squish you.
• Lindstrøm – Where You Go I Go Too Chill electronica/house long compositions to drowned out the returned student horde. Cheesy in parts, but very worthwhile for having only 3 tracks.
• Mates Of State – Bring It Back Not sure why I was moved to buy this one. I know most of these songs and have seen them twice live. I already know what they have to offer and it’s okay.
• Mitch Hedberg – Do You Believe In Gosh? Not as polished a performance as on the other 2 comedy albums, but the guy’s dead. It’s still funny as hell and worth repeated listens. Like the other albums, the jokes are only alright. Ridiculous observations and reductions to the absurd (“Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus or a really cool potamus?”). But clearly the key to Mitch is his delivery. This manic burnout jumping from one-liner to one-liner. I could probably listen to this guy talk about anything.
• Okkervil River – Down the River of Golden Dreams Occaisioned by the release of the new album, went back and got this nifty set of tunes. Not as solid as the more recent releases. Nonetheless, worthwhile nuggets abound.
• Okkervil River – The Stand Ins Will Sheff makes me feel extraneous. It seems like he’s doing everything I would do if I were in a indie band. I guess that’s a little self-aggrandizing of me to say.  Pardon me. I’ve been at this for 2 hours. The defense against my inflated self-assessment is wearing down.
• Rhymefest – Mark Ronson presents Rhymefest: MAN IN THE MIRROR It’s available for free so I don’t feel obligated to write much about it. Just know that it’s worth the download effort. Despite his implosion at the  Hideout Block Party.
• The Cool Kids – The Bake Sale I was turn on to them by an article in the NYTimes, which is about as cool as checking out what your mom listens to. So I’m kinda behind the trend. I like the idea of it. Nostalgic low-fi hip hop. But I’m not sure I’m completely sold on this one example yet. 
• The Uglysuit – The Uglysuit The band I saw at the Hideout Block Party, who’s performance was only remarkable for the fact that each band member seemed to be wrestling with their own unique hair issue. The album’s alright. Kinda like an earnest Flaming Lips?
• Clinic – Do It! I’ve been buying Black Angelsalbums so I wouldn’t have to buy Clinic albums. But I broke down, as I always do, and here we are. Can’t say I was that far off on my earlier assessment. Both are garage rock psychedelia.  But you can tell Clinic songs apart. So both bands aren’t that alike. And there’s something still appealing to the saminess to the Black Angels. Clinic may be reaching too much. And they probably have better albums,

Just a few hours ago, I was proofreading a resume for a friend of mine* while listening to some music.

Windows Media Player was breaking me off with Gnarls Barkley’s “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” when something came up, requiring me to go outside and move my truck. The second I started up the truck, the same exact song came on at nearly the exact same point in the song.

I was taken aback by it for a second before laughing at it. I had completely forgotten I had switched The Cool Kids’ The Bake Sale out yesterday in place of GB’s The Odd Couple.

It felt like I was in a movie and the music was playing over the top of the scene, regardless of my movements within the scene. Well, except for the fact that sitting down to proofread a resume and getting up to move my truck would be the most boring scene ever in a movie, and I’m not sure “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” fits it at all.

* – How ironic is it that I was proofreading a resume for someone else while I’m currently unemployed and seeking writing/editing jobs? I think it’s a cruel joke of some sort.

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Because I enjoy the video to it (it’s one of the more creative and interesting ones I’ve seen in a long time), here’s “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul”:

I was at her crib and straight up jacked this. Not gentlemanly but hey!

DL Link ->: The Cool Kids – Don’t Trip (U.K. Bonus Track)

A cut track from “the Bake Sale”. Enjoy.

The Cool Kids -  Schoolin’ (unreleased)

Another month, and another collaboration with my man Steve. This time, Steve has produced a fresh illustration to accompany my review of ‘The Bake Sale’ by The Cool Kids.

Fly, right? We’ve got a ridiculously BIG collaboration brewing under the surface, but more on that when the time is right. Watch this space.

Step through the door of this bakehouse and you’ll find yourself bombarded by unabashedly stripped down beats flying in all directions off the numerous shelves. Before these thumping sonic bombs explode in your ears though, you’ll notice great slabs of thick, drawled lyrics generously spread over those beats. For this blast of aural tastiness, you can thank beat baker Chuck Inglish and his culinary partner in rhyme Mikey Rocks. Collectively known as The Cool Kids.

Hailing from Chicago, Illinois, The Cool Kids started recording music together after Rocks found a beat on MySpace that Inglish had produced. The pair met up to talk business, Rocks spat a few verses and what started out as a simple exchange of cash for beats turned into a two hour session that saw the lyricist rhyming over a smorgasbord of Inglish’s production.

The duo have a predilection for that fly, old school flavour; just listen to ‘The Bake Sale’ and you can immediately hear their influences. Traces of Run DMC, Eric B & Rakim and The Beastie Boys are all evident in The Cool Kids’ sound, but the record isn’t a mere regurgitation of 80s hip-hop. Rather, they take that old school vibe and pair it with a modern club sensibility that results in a bizarre amalgamation of vintage hip-hop and production that wouldn’t be out of place on a Neptunes or XXXChange opus. The beats are sparse. But, zoom in and subtle noises make themselves apparent. Metronomic cowbells, back scratches and car horns interpolate themselves between the drums to make ‘One Two’ a multi-textured donut worth listening to. Similarly ‘88’ revels in its industrial drums with nothing more than a rhyme as companion but the song boasts so many changes of drum that anything more would turn it into an indescribable auditory mush.

Refreshingly, The Cool Kids ooze fun. They rap about fun things, like cruising down the street on their BMXs, rocking Jordan Vs and macking on girls. Executed with a certain braggadocio – “Suckers they wanna fight me/ ’Cause they girlfriends want a guy just like me/ You know what, bite me/ Hey, they all like me” – it makes the pair all the more charming, and all the more listenable. The only thing that stops the bread from rising as high as it could is the tempo of many of the songs. At 80 BPM or less they drag along, begging for the heat in the oven to be cranked up. If it weren’t for the frenetic break of ‘What It Is’ and ‘Bassment Party’s’ booty bass coupled with the pair’s charisma and charm, ‘The Bake Sale’ would be in danger of having people impatiently flee to the nearest Krispy Kreme.

Despite the slow pace, there are plenty of delicious and nutritious treats on offer – from simple beat heavy buns to elaborate multi tier cakes brimming with synthesized chocolate and sprinklings of electric guitar icing sugar – for all. Even the most perspicacious rap fan will have their appetite satisfied; so go ahead, pass me that Danish.

The review can also be found at 3 Bar Fire, a most discerning music portal, and Steve’s blog can be found HERE.

Check out this video of Jusitn Timberlake introducing “The Cool Kids” for their first ever nationally televised performance on JImmy Kimmel Live.  Chuck Inglish rocked the CHAUNCE PISTONES SHIRT!!!! 

The Cool Kids… Chaunced Up.

Their recently released EP, “The Bake Sale”, has been met with great reviews… here are some from pitchforkmedia.com and metromix chicago, and an interview in a frat house basement from Panda Toes

Lately, my rotation has consisted exclusively of these two discs:

For bumpin’ through the neighborhood:

That’s Stupid! (The Mixtape) by The Cool Kids.

Finally, some talented rappers have infiltrated the world of hip hop.

Go to their myspace blog and click through to download it (for free) for yourself. And don’t forget to go check out The Bake Sale…

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And for chillin’ out:

Little Dragon

Check ‘em out. And go buy the album…