Category Archives: Wide Hive Records

Come To SCOUT Tonight – Nice Review Of Mayhemystics OutBreaks In San Francisco Bay Guardian

Variable Unit just got a great review in the San Francisco Bay Guardian for Mayhemystics OutBreaks.
See Variable Unit for yourself at tonight’s show!
Featured MCs include: Wonway, Conceit & Top.r (Strangeface)(Hardly Celebs), Wordsmith, Boac (Earthlings), Rush, M.C. Mars, the Supah Intergalatic Street Poet, Amuzition, Hall of Fame
(Eboo, Exec D, Da Kid St. Nick, M.O.B.) and Ryan Greene.
See you there!

Nice SCOUT Line-ups For June 8 and 15

These last 4 shows are looking good — and they’re filling up fast — we only have a few slots left on June 22nd and 29th. (Which is great for me, because it will give me more time to promote the participating artists if I know who they are weeks in advance.)
MCs for this Wednesday, June 8, 10 pm

Red Devil Lounge, 1695 Polk Street, San Francisco

DJ Mars – Opening from 9-10pm
Guest MCs:
Wonway
Conceit & Top.r (Strangeface)(Hardly Celebs)
Boac (Earthlings)
Rush
M.C. Mars, the Supah Intergalatic Street Poet
Amuzition
Hall of Fame
Eboo, Exec D, Da Kid St. Nick, M.O.B.
Ryan Greene

MCs Announced for SCOUT Next Wednesday, June 15, 10 pm

2 Fresh – Opening from 9-10pm
Guest MCs:
Noble House Records recording artists:
Foreign Legion
(Zach Turner, Marc Stretch)
Gennessee
Cait La Dee
L*Roneous
Dogwood Speaks
Also appearing:
kero one
Jesse Seaver (a beatboxing comedian)

Come To The Show Tonight At The Red Devil Lounge

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

Feedback Welcome On Experimental Wide Hive Media Player

For those of you who are interested in such things…
Here’s a link to a prototype of a
Wide Hive Media Player
(Thanks Nacho!)
So far, I was just planning on making all of our samples available via the media player, so that cover art and purchase info could be displayed while the songs played. We’re also going to make it so you can just start at one song and have the player keep going through our entire sample library.
Love to hear your other suggestions for this.
thanks,
lisa

SCOUT Reviewed In East Bay Express

Here’s a very funny and accurate review of the evening’s events of May 18, 2005.


Rocky Types with Rocky Flows
By Rob Harvilla for the East Bay Express.
Here’s a quote from the article:

But who wants absolute confidence and total success at a hip-hop jam session anyway? Embrace this experiment’s danger and uncertainty, which can only magnify its high points. Beatboxers are Scout’s secret weapon — Howe raves that the prior week featured the talented crew Felonious, which valiantly challenged McCree to a Live Drums vs. Beatboxing battle. This time out, Each of the highly talented Vowel Movement crew took on both McCree and VU turntable expert DJ Quest, and though he lost on both counts, he tackled the job with admirable enthusiasm. As did Tha Archivez, a robust pirate radio dude who launched into a spastic, hilariously unhinged freestyle that seemed to last a half-hour, to the point where he was forced to rhyme Frisco with Crisco.
Will any of these performances make the Scout CD? Perhaps not, but quiet excellence gets old fast — Scout’s awkward humanity and human drama make it both fascinating and slightly more authentic than your typical polished MC flow.

Here’s some feedback from us at Wide Hive on the Rob’s constructive criticism.
We were generally very pleased with the article.
(And it’s pretty funny too!)

Continue reading →

First Of Many SCOUT Performer Interviews Just Posted

I’m starting to post video and mp3 clips of my interviews with the SCOUT performers over on the Wide Hive Blog.
The first is of Each the Beatboxer. He’s really incredible. I’ve got a clip of his performance around here somewhere…
Each will be performing with Cubik and Origami from 9-10 pm at this week’s SCOUT, and he might even jump in a bit with Variable Unit during the night’s main set.
EACH

Ed note: I’m really having a blast documenting hip hop subculture. I mean, I’m a part of it, I suppose, running a record label and all, but there’s a part of me, perhaps the media researcher part of me, that will always feel more like an observer, and an archivist of, this very unique time in our history.

Line-up of MCs For May 25 SCOUT

We could use some more people at these shows! Please come by.
Mention the blog and get free CDs 🙂
This Wednesday At Wide Hive’s SCOUT
WIDE HIVE RECORDS PRESENTS SCOUT
A LIVE PERFORMANCE SERIES FEATURING VARIABLE UNIT + SPECIAL GUEST MCs
This Wednesday, May 25th, 10 pm
The Red Devil Lounge
1695 Polk Street, San Francisco
Cubik and Origami Opening from 9-10pm Special guest
Each the Beatboxer:

Video and MP3 of Variable Unit and Felonius from May 11 Show
Variable Unit
w/Guest MCs:

reMo’Conscious