This whole next month of
SCOUT shows is gonna be sw-eet.
First of all, due to popular demand, Variable Unit will be jamming a lot more on its own.
Another change: We’re having a different DJ every week now for the opener.
This week, DJ Quest. Next week, DJ Marz (another of the Space Travelers). The week after that, we don’t know yet…
Here’s the line up for tomorrow night’s show. (Wed June 1, 2005)

DJ Quest – Opening from 9-10pm
Guest MCs:
MC Link-Letterz
(Ctrl Z)
Paulie Rhyme
(Finless Brown)
JBo
(Nightcrawlers)
Zealous
Special Guests TBA

It would be great if you headed down to the Red Devil Lounge this Wednesday, May 11, for SCOUT. (And do please stop by and say “hi,” if you do come by. I’m easy to find 🙂
We’ve just announced the
line up of MCs for May 11th, and it’s a goodin:

Celsius 7 and Spidey of Psychokinetics
Mic Blake and HoFlow

(Bopcity/Alphabet Soup)
All four MCs from
Felonius: One Love Hip Hop
D.Wolf, Soulati, A kid named Keith, and Infinite
All three MCs from The Greans (Oposit, Cold Showda, and King Solomon)
The Genie-scratch guitar
(thegeniemusic.com)
Proficy
Special Guests TBA

The
May 4 show was incredible. here are some photos.
I’ll be putting up videos and mp3s right here in a bit…

Hi guys. Sorry I’ve been away for so long, but the reason I’ve been so busy is that I’ve been planning and organizing SCOUT, a nine week series of concerts at the Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco that will be going on every Wednesday night in May and June.
Here’s the deal: MCs can show up and freestyle, or bring prepared lyrics, and they get to perform with Variable Unit a band that Straight No Chaser called “The most talented band the States has to offer.” We’ll be recording the show every night (all nine of em) and the best tracks will be on a SCOUT CD that comes out in October.
We just landed international distribution this year, so SCOUT will be released in the UK, France, Spain, Japan, and many other countries when it’s released in October.
VU’s new album, Mayhemystics OutBreaks just came out today, and I’m particularly excited about it for purely selfish reasons. It’s the first “real” record that I’ve been on — singing background vocals on the track Black Gold, which is a song about the Iraqi war and the U.S. exploitation of Iraq for its oil. (Although based primarily on a frightening dream that Gregory Howe had one night, it was also inspired by this Bill Moyers program about the real “Iraqi Gold Rush.”)
So that’s the scoop guys. Email me at scout@widehive.com if you’re interested.
And everybody should come to the SCOUT shows in May and June at the Red Devil Lounge.
Cubik and Origami will be opening the show every night. (More on them later.)