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Shining Like Rasheed Wallace's Bald Spot

Night and day with LA's next breakout rap group, Brother Reade

By Peter Relic

Hip-hop recordings can serve up heady thrills. There's the jolt of adrenaline from beat-borne boom-bap, and the slaw-jawed guffaw induced by a particularly lascivious punch line. But nothing compares to the rarer experience of witnessing a telepathically linked DJ and MC cold kickin' it live. That live hip-hop bears a stigma is due to the difficulty of its real-time execution — a lot of rap acts just can't cut the mustard without the safety net of studio punch-ins and ProTooled track-tightening. The duo known as Brother Reade — beatmaker Bobby Evans (real name Erin Garcia, age 26) and rhymesayer Jimmy "Jael" Jamz (James Jolliff, 27) — don't suffer from this disparity. The group's phenomenal records are matched by their transcendent live experience. Old school, gold school, new school, true school — Brother Reade takes what's great in rap history and renders it fresh, in every sense of the word.

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The Brother Reade show at milk was a blast for us, the Instant Messengers demonstrated that not only Los Angeles knows how to party. And of course, we were right at home in a city where ignorant rap music and canvas skateboard sneakers go hand in hand.

While in town, we were lucky enough to catch more than a few hangouts with our boys the messengers from SF, a killer Whispertown 2000 show at the Bottom of the Hill (where they made that live avail record), and Despot at Bimbo's with Ratatat. Did I mention we popped hella tags at thrift town? Thanks again to the people's Cafe.

Clever lines

Alexander (IM)

Whispertown

Dad, is that you?

It was a killer party a few weeks ago. Brother Reade, Evans and Eagles, Them Jeans, Royal Rumble, Screenprinting etc...

You can check out the rest here...

Here are some more... Thanks to Drink Moloko

Brother Reade info:


Evans and Eagles info:

Thursday, March 15th

3:00pm to 6:00pm
Evans and Eagles DJ at the Fader Magazine House. RSVP required.



8:15pm
Evans and Eagles DJ at NASA/Dance Right party with NASA, A-Trak, Brother Reade, Spankrock, Kid Sister, Bonde Do Role, Simian Mobile Disco, Pubes, and Diabetic. RSVP required.



Friday, March 16th

8:00pm
Evans and Eagles DJ at Beauty Bar for Record Collection showcase featuring Brother Reade, The Walkmen, and others.

Saturday, March 17th

4:00pm to 5:00pm
Evans and Eagles DJ at URB magazine party. RSVP required.

You already know what it is... Brother Reade was selected by URB for
their next 1000. We're among some pretty respectable faces and names,
we're quite honored. Check it out for yourself, it should be on
newsstands now. (Be sure to peep Them Jeans in there too.)

We played a the Premier Magazine party for our friend Steve Berras' movie The Good Life. Pics from party town here...

I played Dance Right the other night solo, pretty killer. You can see them Here...