“To All My Friends” originally debuted at Soundset 2010, but was officially released today to kick off Atmosphere’s To All My Friends tour.
The song has a laid-back vibe reminiscent of the group’s latest album, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold. Leave it to Slug to lay down some sentimental goodness. He talks about his earlier years, wanting to be an artist: painting & drawing, but dropped it after he fell in love with the turntable. Somehow he’s stayed humble through it all and sure shows it through his lyrics.
The tour runs through September into October mostly covering the West and Midwest areas. Hopefully, I can hit up the Chicago set, there isn’t anything in Minnesota this time around (I guess we have it good enough).
On a side note, what do you all think of FELT? I can’t seem to get into ‘em like I do with Slug’s & Murs’s other projects…
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Atmosphere Info.:
Genre: Hip-Hop
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Members:
Slug (Sean Daley): MC
Ant (Anthony Davis): DJ, Producer
Label: Rhymesayers Entertainment
Albums: Overcast | God Loves Ugly | Seven’s Travels | You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun We’re Having | [...]
Similar Artists: Doomtree | Mel Gibson and the Pants | The Dynospectrum | Brother Ali | Felt | Living Legends
Links: MySpace | Wikipedia | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter | Last.fm | AllMusic
To All My Friends Info.:
Release Date: August 13, 2010
To All My Friends Tour on Rhymesayers.com
Buy Links: iTunes
swangin, nice one
lovin the heads up of the tour, slug live is incredible.
about felt- yeah some of the albums aren’t (as) easy to get through (as slugs solo stuff). you have to roll with the shining moments.
(check out felt 1: a tribute to c. ricci and the track ‘hot bars’… they both kill that track and it blows the rest of the album away)
thanks for the post!
i got to see the aforementioned performance… so stoaked the tour is stopping through my city.
Thanks silk, I’ll check it out.
Glenn, ur a lucky man.
Give FELT another chance. Listen through to their first 2 albums. Great narrative in their and Murs’ style compliments Slug’s really well.
I was already a pretty big Murs fan and had most of his albums before I had discovered Felt though, so I think that made it easier for me to get into it.
I love the Felt series…but it’s a different vibe for sure. I’d have to say I prefer Felt over Slug and Murs solo work…
but it’s a close call.
Such a dope track by the slugster, so tight about the smoking and wanting to be like DEL.
Thanks all for the FELT suggestions, I’ll give ‘em a listen later.
1000 Goodbyes – Yea, I loved that Del part too, did not expect that.
make sure to check out Felt’s latest album (a tribute to rosie perez).
Some good tracks:
G.I. Josephine (Grouch Remix)
Ghost Dance Delex
Glory Burning
She Sonnet
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