You can get free tickets to this event if you are 21 or older. Just
send us (illphonics@gmail.com) a message back with the number of tickets you want.

We will be going up against Midwest Avengers, Rhyme or Reason, and the
Dusty Brothers.

My first time playing on the Pageant stage was one of the most
exciting experiences of my life, so I’d love it if you were able to
come out and make this second time even greater!!

The Pageant is located east of Skinker, in the Delmar Loop.

Thanks for reading!!

Best,

Kevin

P.S. We will have our album, Illphonics present SOUND, for sale at the
show, and you can still get it online at iTunes, Amazon, Napster, etc.

REMEMBER: if you’ve stated you are attending on the invite you are already on the list. If not, please give us your name as well as the number of tickets you’ll need.

The Gramophone was packed last Friday with music lovers who came ready to rock out. RFT’s best new band The Northwoods started the night off and really got the crowd going. They had funky percussion paired with beatbox and their guitars. If you can’t put that together in your mind than you should really go and see them. They were damn funky! Spark1duh? gave us some of his lyrical genius and the Chalk Boyz performed songs off their new mixtape, “Chalk Dirty to Me”

Altogether it was a fun night. DJ Spec, Midwest Avengers, DJ Who, IllSpitta and many more were there to rock out!

More details about the battle at The Pageant to come soon.

The competition comes at an awesome time too. We’ve been changing up and working on our show productions like crazy. You guys know we just have to experiment with everything we do so the Gramophone and Pageant (should you come and cast your vote!) are going to be super exciting.

Also, The Pageant competition marks the one year anniversary of our very long necked guitarist Tim Edwards. No serious, look at his neck. Tim you’ve been a blast man. We’re glad to have you around. Happy anniversary dude. Stick around, more great to come!

So with that said, be sure to bring your bodies out to the battle this year. The winner at the Gramophone this year will pioneer on to the Pageant. From the Pageant the final contestants will head down to the Taste of St. Louis for the final round and to open for a national recording artist.

Details:
The Gramophone
4243 Manchester, 63110
8pm, 21+, $5 to enter

Contestants:
The Northwoods (myspace.com/thenorthwoodsmusic)
Spark1duh? (myspace.com/spark1duh)
Illphonics (myspace.com/illphonics)

Live music is where its at and we aim to keep it alive!

July’s project is Illphonics’ own Fallout Flows With the Fource Mix(tape)

Download here: http://www.zshare.net/download/626257696aae1065/

Fallout steps outside the boundery of the band and stretches his legs in this 8 track re-introduction of himself. With some flexibility and eagerness Fallout’s Mix(tape) is a gentle reminder of his freestyle roots that reach back to his freshmen year of highschool at University City. “It was all about the senior cafeteria.”, Fallout smirks as he reminisces about his beginnings in rap.

Fallout Flows with the Fource is also a leg stretcher for Illphonics guitarist Kevin Koehler and Keith Moore. Moore’s beat production company, Black Lion Beats furnished a few tracks while Koehler engineered the entire project.

N: First, how did your mixtape cover come about?
L: its just a representation of my quirkiness. I’m smart but I don’t take the world to seriously, ya know. I know gravity effects me but its kinda like eh…
N: What was the goal of Fallout Flows With the Fource Mix(tape)?
L: I feel like there is many different aspects to me as a person. There’s complexity, vagueness, ah-ha moments and sometimes stupidity. And with the mixtapes I want people to get a chance to see the human aspect of the emcee. I feel like its taboo in rap to be yourself. That’s why the music suffers.
N: What was the funnest part of this project for you?
L: Actually getting a change to work one on one with Kevin. We always planned on doing it but it actually taking place was great.
N: This being your personal project and doing none like it, were you nervous or did you have reservations about its reception?
L: Always! I will always have reservations because I always feel like I can make something better. I always want my next project to be better than the last. That should be the goal of every artist. I’m just obsessive as heel about myself.
N: In three words, describe your mixtape.
L: different. honest. enjoyable.
N: Do you have a favorite track? Why?
L: Though I love them all it would have to be Ventil8. It was fun. That songs very reminiscent of the freestyles I use to do. A little trash talking and flexing, ya know. Plus, I live Anita Baker. I hope she calls me to say she loves the sample. ha ha ha ha
N: Whats next?
L: Writing new material for Illphonics and growing our fan base. We want to have fun. We’re creating fun.

I’d have to say, Fallout created some fun with this mixtape. He reminded most of us that he is human, educated, and everlasting. My personal fav happens to be his, Ventil8.

Judge for yourself though and let Illphonics know. Download here: http://www.zshare.net/download/626257696aae1065/

Cheers for now!

We want to see you there. So come out. Bring ya friends and come here a few of the new tracks at Vintage Vinyl.

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WE HAVE A NEW PRESIDENT that is ready and dedicating his all to the difficult task of rebuilding OUR American Dream.

We just wanted to say; There is no greater day then the day we decide to put our selves aside and work together toward a common goal.

Our prayers and congratulations to President Barack Obama and his family.

~Illphonics

*Supporting local music because local music supports us*

This show will air LIVE.
Wanna be a part?

Easy!
Send your reservation request to bryante@stlouiscity.com to be a part of the LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE!!!

Its being filmed at MY46/WRBU station:4971 Oakland Avenue…

And Webster Friends, You’re on Fall Break so bring your tail!!!!

stltv. net

See you ALL there! Seats fill fast. Don’t wait!!!

again, not the direct thoughts of any member of Illphonics

The Situation ‘On the Ground,’ Music and $

Reply to: anon-875122663@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-10-11, 11:15AM
I’m a drummer and singer/songwriter, but mostly a drummer. I grew up in St. Louis and I’ve lived in a few different places, experienced their music scenes.

I see all this talk here and I wanted to weigh in because I think the discussion could use some points from the big picture. I think craigslist is a valid forum for this and I’ve seen a lot of great points.

Here are some more.

1. The American Economy

If you are not in the military or construction, America has been in a recession for about 5-10 years. Art, including music, painting, writing, movies, whatever is making less money every year per capita. Even if there is a slight rise in gross revenue, it’s not keeping up with the increase in population.

Basically, there are fewer clubs/galleries/theaters and the suburbs extend further into nowhere. A lot of this trouble has nothing at all to do with the failures of musicians.

2. St. Louis is a Suburban Economy

This means it’s decentralized and everyone considers going out to be irritating. There is a central west end and soulard and a waterfront, but the vast majority of the population cannot go there with any convenience. And they don’t have the money to spend there, either, see point 1.

3. Suburban Economies do not fully participate in Local Economies

This mean that they consider bands on MTV more important than the bands in the Riverfront Times. Nellie is therefore a greater artist than anything else in St. Louis. This means that the vast majority of people do not consider it any priority to ‘support’ anything that local artists do. In fact, they consider us pitiful. Because we are not on MTV, we must suck. (to be fair, often we do) Local Artists must compete against national artists, often prodigies with wealthy parents groomed for stardom from a young age(and, to be fair, completely devoid of any connection to the real American experience)

4. American is in Decline and American Art is in Decline

Pick up a newspaper, listen to how the president can barely complete a sentence without screwing up a word. Then look at the artists that have been ‘hits’ over the last couple years. Is Britney Spears as good as Madonna? Is Limp Bizkit as good as Nirvana? Nope, and the whole world knows it. Are the Jonas Brothers as good as Hansen(trick question, lol)?

If you want backup for these points, I recommend reading authors like Wendell Berry, James Howard Kunstler, Douglass Rushkoff and Derrick Jensen. A member of the nobel prize commitee for literature, a similar form of art to music, recently said that American society is too ‘insular’(read: closed minded, ignorant, sheltered) to create great works, so keep that in mind as you’re looking around.

Greatness is out there, but America ‘pop’ just doesn’t get it anymore. Modest Mouse, one of my favorite bands, fits into this category. Hardly a month goes by where I don’t find some great act on myspace, working their day jobs, while the rich and famous youth culture and/or rage rock spewers get a new hello kitty themed bus.

This is all the downside.

The Upside.

1. The Internet

With some effort, you can now own and operate your own promotion and distribution.

That’s it. That’s all we’ve got. Everything else is worse. But think about it, that’s big. The internet is huge. It’s global. It’s audio and video. It’s friends networks. It’s collaboration. It’s tour booking. It’s festivals. It’s instantaneous.

The internet is magic. And we may be in it’s golden age. Plenty of business types are looking to make it suck, by making media more difficult to download.

A musician telling me they are disillusioned because they can’t make a hundred dollars playing for ignorant people at a crummy bar, lugging their shiznit all over some cockroach infested sleaze joint, is like a kid being upset their swing is broke at school when they’ve got six flags in their back yard.

But it depends on what you want. Not everybody wants to tour the world. A lot of musicians really like their day jobs and steady lives. Some Musicians just want the kind of fame where they invite some family and friends to watch them play some songs and supplement their income, and we should let them have it.

But if you want to be the other kind of Musician, writing new music every day, touring the world, pursuing originality, pushing the envelope, then you should just forget about those bars and that 100 bucks entirely. Leave that to those other guys, who are probably going to give the crowd what they want anyway.

Make yourself a myspace page that will get you booked at SXSW and that Pitchfork magazine will like. Consider what people in London and Madrid and Rio De Janeiro will think about your music. That’s the pool you’ve got to swim in, otherwise you really should rethink the use of your time.

There are a lot more people on this planet than their were in the British invasion, you don’t have to get the whole national attention to be great.

But you have to sound fresh at Ibeza or Bonnaroo. You have to be a global artist, ready to make sound tracks, teach clinics, be at the forefront of sex and fashion and have something to say when people look at your lyrics sheets. It’s very extroverted and broad, open and loud, it’s not for everybody. It’s a lot of pressure and it takes a lot of study, because you’ve got to know what’s out there or you’re going to get squashed by someone who does, and you’ll look like yesterday. Think of StL hair bands in the 80s, how they were derivative of coastal culture. Don’t do that. Make something new. The Midwest is the most difficult artistic place in America to call home, so you’re going to have to stare that down.

So STL Musicians, figure out which of these you are and then stay out of each others hair. Cover bands, don’t go around thinking you’re all of that, and original bands, don’t play places for free.

And let’s have respect all around. Anybody who’s playing music or expressing themselves, for free, at all, in a crappy time like this is to be admired. Competition comes with the territory, everyone on the planet gets to choose what they’re going to listen to every day. The market will decide and it’s not a zero sum game, so let’s not get in each others’ faces.

Thanks for reading, I hope this helps provide some perspective.

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We have recorded here and there, and we do have one collection of songs available on iTunes (hint hint).  The title of that project was “Fallout and Friends present ‘Walkin’ the Mason-Dixon Line.’”  Recorded in the summer of 2006, it is a portrait of the very beginning of our group which is now known as Illphonics.  There is no doubt that the finished album we end up with early next year will sound like a completely different band.

Not having the means to record and release anything the last two years has been frustrating, since we are always writing new and better music (and it’s good to document growth).  But we finally have a plan to have a full-length album done soon!!  The icing on the cake is the fact that we have the honor of working with Gary Gottlieb.  He’s actually a former professor of Larry and I, and he will be producing and mixing the album.  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Gary has worked with a number of important musicians, including Grandmaster Flash.

We are in a pre-production stage right now, thinking about how to make the most out of our time in the studio.  Along with that comes song selection; we’ve got a lot of songs, but only so many can fit onto a CD.  Yesterday we revisted some older songs we had never played with Tim, our new guitarist, yet: “Don’t Want That,” “Leave ‘em Bloody”, and “Hall of Mirrors.”  I am almost certain these songs will make it on the album, they all sounded great!  Tim really breathed new life into them.

That said, start getting pumped about having a new Illphonics CD early next year.  We are THROWING DOWN!!!

-Kevin K.