TheThrowAwayDays issue #3

     So I was going to scan in issue #3 of TheThrowAwayDays that came out in May of 2014, but I took pictures instead. I couldn't install the scanner that I bought a few months ago because I don't have enough free space on my computer right now. After I took the pictures on my cell phone, emailed to myself, then started uploading them I realized they were blurry. So then I decided to bust out my external hard drive and find the files that I sent to print. I feel like something gets lost in translation when you're looking at a zine online, so I wanted to at least scan or show pictures of it so you could see that it's a real thing you can hold. But I blew it. At least for now. :/

Stillborn Identity/MC Homeless split cassette

It's about time I shamelessly promote myself. I(Stillborn Identity) did a hand numbered, limited run, split cassette with MC Homeless at the end of last year. Since the release, MC Homeless has "retired" but I still wanna keep this release in circulation because I think both sides are awesome. As far as I know this is the last release he did as "MC Homeless." I think there is a Brain Busters(MC Homeless and Joey Silva) release out there, and he started doing some non-hip hop project.

MC Homeless' side starts off with a track Imaginary Audience, a track by Brain Busters.

The second track is 66 featuring Me, Stillborn Identity. It's produced by C Money Burns. Homeless and I drive from Youngstown, OH to Austin, TX after he moved there and needed his car. I was super pumped to hang out in Austin, TX, but Homeless started a new job during the day and was gun-ho about hanging out with his at the time lady friend at night. So most of my time was spent trying to figure out how the bus line there worked only to instead walk 5 miles to a skate park, drinking Mad Dog20/20 by myself, and writing this track. Homeless had a half finished verse and polished it up in like 3 takes after I took over a half over to record my verse I had been working on all weekend. We're both kinda Vincent Gallo geeks and titling the track was never even a question after we put the quote from Buffalo 66 in there.

Breathe was originally released free online on his Wild At Heart ep produced by Johnny La Rock.

This fourth track on his side is almost to good to believe. MC Homeless toured with Illogic and Baker a year or two ago, and they had a day off in CT during their tour. During their day off they wrote and recorded this song with Ceschi.

My side starts off with Artist Wishlist produced by Pat Urn of 7718. I think I also wrote most of this song at Homeless' place in Texas. I didn't finish it until weeks later when I was in New Jersey "working" as a videographer on a freestyle motocross tour. That night one of the best FMX photographers (at least in my opinion), Chris Tedesco talked to me about what he had to do to "make it" in the industry. The only direct quote from that drunken hotel foyer conversation was, "just don't sell out, whatever that means to you." Ironically enough, I think that was my last weekend working on that tour.

Jack Wilson played me CREAM sometime in the beginning of the year when I was couch surfing in Baltimore and I was so pumped on his verse, and the beat by Visionary Brotherhood, that I demanded that he let me collab with him on it... and luckily he did.

I'm leading Me Down produced by Tybo Beats was the last track I wrote for the release. I thought it sounded like something HW would fit in with, so before I was finished with my second verse I sent him a text seeing if he was down, then emailed him a rough copy. Within hours(before I was finished with my second verse) he sent me his final version of the track.

Photo from left to right: Cathy Cathodic, HW, Stillborn Identity, Eric, Baker


Pitseleh's a Goner produced by JE Double F is my favorite track. I never knew that Pitseleh was Yiddish for "little one" but after I figured that out when I opened for Height with Friends at the 31st Street Pub it made the title even more fitting. Originally the titled was inspired by an Elliott Smith song. http://www.pghcitypaper.com/FFW/archives/2012/10/22/mp3-monday-stillborn-identity-pitselehs-a-goner

I wrote 1,000 Miles(produced by Zoen) away when I was living in Nevada and still in love with a girl in Pittsburgh. After I wrote this song and sent her the demo, I thought she would ask me to come back to her. But she didn't. She just said it was another really sad song I wrote, and asked what it was about.

Physical copies of the tape are available through this blog, Milled Pavement, Harford and Rekords, and whatever hard copies the artists have left.

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JE Double F interview from May 19th 2012

JE Double F is a tour-monger. He's a multi-musically talented, incredibly smart, nonstop, touring machine. A few months ago when he was in Pittsburgh I interviewed him about his hip hop music, as well as his other music projects, tour plans, thoughts on "real" hip hop, and more. Unfortunately I sat around doing nothing with this interview until after the full US tour of his I was hoping to help promote making certain parts of this interview irrelevant. I suck, Jeff rules, check it out.

TheThrowAwayDays: JE double F, how did you go from being in a punk band to rapping?
JE Double F: I've always listened to hip hop, I've always been into the music itself. Just like anyone else you want to be like the people that you like. Listened to a lot of Aesop Rock and Wu Tang as a kid so i wanted to be like them, and rap. And that's why I tried it, and that's it.

T-TAD: What do you when you're not rapping? For work and for leisure?
JEFF: For work I have a degree in computer science and minor in mathematics, so I usually get a job in that field. Pays the bills and allows me to tour whenever I want for the most part.
Leisure, yanno I play a lot of chess, star craft 2, video games, yanno, read. That's it, I play in a couple bands, GraveYard State and Cut it out, that's it.

T-TAD: Is Grave Yard State the one for your solo stuff?
JEFF: Yeah, it's like a melodic rock band, probably more along the lines of Hot Rod Circuit or Archers of Loaf. Yeah bands like that.

T-TAD: And what does Cut It Out sound more like?
JEFF: Cut It Out is like a hardcore punk band, kind of like Black Flag meets Black Sabbath usually what people say. It's fast but with a lot of riffs.

T-TAD: What do you do in each of those bands?
JEFF: I play guitar and sing in Grave Yard State and I just play guitar in Cut It Out.

T-TAD: Back to your job, how do you balance a super serious sounding job with all your touring?
JEFF: I guess I kind of just use the degree to "fall back on" per-say in terms of I just quit jobs to go on tour, and when I'm gonna be home for a few months just get a new job and then just kind of grind it out to the point where I'm basically quitting jobs and getting new jobs pretty often. Like twice to three times a year. So it doesn't really balance out naturally, you just do whatever it takes to keep playing music. that's what I want to do, it's not paying the bills yet, so I gotta do something to do that.

T-TAD: What do you think it would take for you to make music full time and not sweat a job anymore?
JEFF: Umm, I'd probably have to touch into Europe a lot more. I'm doing my first European tour this year in a couple of months. but I'd probably have to go over there a lot more because i don't feel like the type of music i do is really ever going  to be able to pick up n the United States. I don't feel like the mentality of people here is right to be able to make a living off playing. In Terms of getting enough people to come to every show in every city to make enough money for when I come home to be able to pay my rent for X amount of months or whatever. So I'd probably need to go to Europe more which I'm working on. and just more hard work I guess in general, so I'm working on it.

T-TAD: You got a full US tour coming up, what are you plans with that?
JEFF:  Yeah, it's a full us tour with Greenlander and MC Homeless, the first 10 days of it, it's just gonna be me and Greenlander. we're doing the whole east coast, all the way from Jersey, we're doing Baltimore, Richmond, Greenville(North Carolina), etc, etc. just me and Greenlander. Then we're hitting New Orleans and meeting up with MC Homeless and going all the way to the west coast, pretty much playing every single day at this point, 35 days straight. Just full US, just a big loop around the whole country.

T-TAD: How do you feel about "real hip, hip hop"?
JEFF: Real hip hop? I hate it, I think it's disturbing.

T-TAD: Why, what about it?
JEFF: just people that think a genre of music has to be a certain way, and anything outside of that certain way isn't "real." It's s. stupid. the point of music is to take you somewhere right? You're here, we're suppose to go here, and we try to stay here with "real hip hop." First of all it's just boring for me, and second of all you're just holding back.
     I feel like most people who say anything "real hip hop," just want every record to sound like Illmatic, or 36 Chambers, or something. and anything that sounds like that and doesn't break that mold.

T-TAD: Something that's already been done.
JEFF: Yeah basically, and I love those records and they're great and it's what got me into hip hop. When I make music I just make it. I don't try to sound like this, or try to sound like that. you just go make it and write the songs, and the way it comes out is the way it comes out. I feel like it's way more interesting that way, to see other people play, and yanno. It's way more interesting when it just happens organically, and not like "we gotta make this song like a real hip hop song" or something like that yanno.

T-TAD: What's your formula for making a song?
JEFF: Usually I'll just write a lot of lyrics. It's kind of two separate things since I make the beats, and write the lyrics. But usually making the beats and writing lyrics are totally separate. Then it just kind of like works out, cause i make a lot of beats, so eventually something I write is gonna work of to a beat, and I kind of just change it to make it into song that cohesive and makes sense to a point, usually I just write  a lot of lines, in my notepad in my phone. Eventually it all comes together in a  verse, and usually right around that time is when a beat will surface, and I'm like oh this works, and something like that.



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January 7th at Hamilton Arts Collective

   
Saturday January 7th I was in Baltimore and decided to check out an underground hip hop show some of my friends from various cities were playing at The Hamilton Arts Collective. I arrived just in time for the third set, JE double F, of Atlantic City, to start. Anxious to get home after the last day of a 13 day tour Jeff was still able to deliver the intensity that he's been spreading across the country with his relentless touring promoting his ep Paganomics.

     Next to play was local rapper DP the emcee who I was unfamiliar with but had a positive message to convey wrapped in a smooth laid back flow, and somehow was even nicer when he went off the top. My good friend Jack Wilson, originally from Pittsburgh but now residing in Baltimore, played next and was accompanied by a DJ whose stage name I can't remember, but considering he was the only one with a DJ next time some ipod rappers it made his set aesthetically more pleasing and his songs never slack either. Last to play was local rapper Trace Blam. Trace's set suffered slightly from a cold, but when I looked some of his stuff up online after the show I wasn't the least bit disappointed. Plus he approached me because I was carrying a skateboard and said that he skated, which made me even more of a fan.

     The first two sets I missed were by Jumbled, who I've seen perform before at Charm City Artspace, and Avant-Garde originally from Delaware who I heard of prior to the show and was pretty bummed out when I missed his set. However during every set that Avant-Garde heard someone he liked on the mic, which seemed to be every set, he demanded a cypher session with them after the show at the end of the night.

Je Double F music video and tour

JE Double F is about to embark on a solo South East tour. Check the schedule and go to the show if he rolls through your town. This will be his last tour to promote Paganomics.

12/27/11 - NIGHTLIGHT (Chapel Hill, NC)
12/28/11 - COTTAGE (Atlanta, GA)
12/29/11 - BURRO BAR (Jacksonville, FL)
12/30/11 - SWEAT RECORDS (Miami, FL)
01/01/12 - UNCLE LOUS (Orlando, FL)
01/03/12 - SQUEAKY LIZARD (Ocean Springs, MS)
01/04/12 - SIBERIA (New Orleans, LA)
01/05/12 - 3 BROTHERS (Murfreesboro, TN)
01/06/12 - SHAMROCKS (Huntington, WV)
01/07/12 - HAMILTON COLLECTIVE (Baltimore, MD)
Following this tour he will be releasing his first full length, Half Man. Here's a video of a song off the upcoming cd.

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JE Double F - Paganomics

JE Double F of Atlantic City, New Jersey sets his punk band, Cut It Out aside to pursue the uncertain life of an avid touring underground rapper. Maintaining his DIY ethics he produced, made the artwork, and recorded his first ep, Paganomics, just as he plans on doing for all his releases. This forward thinking hip hop ep is a must for anyone who doubts punks ability to influence hip hop artists.

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buy it
stalk his website
check out his reverbnation if you're into sites that are worse than myspace
have grandma like him on facebook
follow his every move on twatter
also check out his acoustic music on soundcloud

MC Homeless, PT Burnem, and JE Double F in Dover, NH.

Hand Written Fliers Always Seem To Say It Best

Dope fliers are always promising leads to good shows, and in the 21st century hand drawn ones are even more few and far between.
Raymond Strife 
JE Double F
Morning Starz 
Local Demise
Greenlander 
Stillborn Identity

Skate ditch, eat food, rap show, get drunk, drive somewhere, sleep maybe, repeat.

 

 

Don't miss it in Pittsburgh.