Ty G and Ced No recorded this lil joint called ‘Solar Madness’ a couple days ago at the Hawthorne studio. Check it out and bump it on the July 4th weekend.
Ty G and Ced No – Solar Madness
News
Bonne fête, Quebec City!!
Today is the 400th birthday of Quebec City. HVW8 Was born in Montreal and have painted a few prominent Quebecers in our day ….
Romeo Dallaire
Rene Levesque
Pierre Trudeau
Charlie Biddle
Blues Legends, Funk Stars and Song Writers
Some recent icon pieces in the HVW8 tradition painted live by Gene Starship and Luc Paradis at the Bonnaroo music festival.
Blues Legends – BB King, Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley;
Funk Stars – Maceo Parker, Chaka Khan, George Clinton;
American Song Writers – Woody Guthrie, Bill Monroe and Willie Nelson.
Canada day, eh?
Oh geez its not that time again! Sorry, but yes it is! Canada Day July 1st!!
If in the Hollywood area come down to Citizen Smith for a Canada Day in L.A. with Ty G. The event is put on by Canadians Abroad. info below —
Tuesday July 1st, 2008, 7pm
Citizen Smith Restaurant
1600 N Cahuenga Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028
www.citizensmith.com
Celebrate Canada Day on Canada Day
Featuring Canadian DJ Tyler Gibney (www.hvw8.com)
Drink specials will be offered. Full menu with 1/2 price specials.
No Cover charge, however we expect to reach capacity so arrive early!
Any question, contact executivedirector@canadiansabroad.com
Valet parking available out front, Street parking also available
Arclight Theatre parking (Sunset & Vine)
Live at the BBQ: Season 2, Vol. 2 at the Beat Swap Meet
A Diggers delite! Max held it down last week at the Beat Swap Meet and recorded some of the vinyl enthusiasm. Have a listen to Live at the BBQ: Season 2, Vol. 2 at the Beat Swap Meet.
Also you can always subscribe the the HVW8 podcast via iTunes.
Salon Style
A salon style of work currently on display from past HVW8 Gallery shows including Parra, Brent Rollins and Kevin Lyons as well as new HVW8 A.I. pieces including the new the Obama and Allen Ginsberg featured in the Juxtapoz article.
New galley summer hours, open Wednesday through Sunday, 1 – 5pm, or by appointment, 323 655 4898.
a hilife – Sonny Okosuns.
Though he passed a few weeks ago, still wanted to pay trubute to the liberator Sonny Okosuns.
GoTellMama!
The HVW8 Art + Design Gallery is proud to host a three day showing of GoTellMama!, an exhibition in support of Barak Obama curated by Ray Noland. More info below.
Opening Reception: Friday, August 8th, 6 – 10 pm
Show Dates: August 8th – 10th.
The GoTellMama! Officially Unofficial Show is brought to you by artist Ray Noland aka CRO. The traveling art show is part of a two year long artists run and operated independent political art campaign in support of Barack Obama. It is focused on communicating with voters in an array of contemporary grassroots methods such as a national street campaign of posters and stencil art, animated viral videos, and creative use of internet technology.
GoTellMama! was created in November 2006 while Noland was recovering from a severe bicycle crash–jaw wired shut for six weeks and mending a dislocated shoulder. The Chicago-based artist devoured Senator Barack Obama’s book, ‘Dreams from my Father’ and became consumed with the man and his story, but also the potential of his [Obama’s] window into the 2008 election.
What began as the simple production of 25, pre-ordered, limited edition ‘Dream’ screen-printed posters has grown into a collection of prints, stencil graphics, fine art pieces, animated videos, an aggressive national street campaign and a series of art exhibitions across the country.
The ambition of the GoTellMama! campaign is to heighten awareness of Barack Obama using non-traditional tactics. GoTellMama! will be exhibiting the collection of screen-printed & offset posters, stencils on canvas, and original videos dating back to 2006.
10% of show sales donated to Obama for America.
More info at GoTellMama!
Political Minded – Zimbabwe
image dstrbo — Political Minded 2003
The Zimbabwe elections are in 2 days but it looks to be a sham. Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF are in a campaign of violence and reprisal attacks against the civilian population. The Sokwanele website shows how much violence that has been going on in Zimbabwe (warning — some of the photos are not for the faint of heart!). Lucky we have free and (somewhat) fair elections — so use it and vote!
The Heavyweight Tradition
Ten years ago the original idea behind the a HVW8 composition/piece was to pay hommage to someone deserving in their field whether it was musically, such as Miles Davis, Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone, Augutus Pablo; politically, like Shirin Ebadi, Noam Chomsky, Romeo Dallaire; a tribute to other artists, like Malike Sibyde and Mies van der Rohe; or just persons deserving of being called ‘heavyweights,’ like Richard Pryor and David Suzuki. HVW8 would take the iconography and sample it like a jazz standard and freestyle around it, building something to call our own and proud to represent.
You will not see a Paris Hilton, Marilyn Manson or any of these other ‘15 minute celebrity’ portraits, but you might just see a George Carlin sometime soon.
Whether its art or music there is enough crap out there that we don’t need to contribute, let time be the judge.
Respect is paid when due
dstrbo
“This piece is Ian Curtis, not so new, I did it in the fall, the worst live painting experience I’ve ever had. It’s the only time in 10 years I was prevented from finishing a piece. I had to add that yellow after, and I would have done a darker blue, but I kind of liked the simplicity and lightness of the whole piece, so I left it. I donated it for auction to an event here on the anniversary of his death called Grey Sunday, a tribute to Joy Division, and the proceeds were given to a suicide prevention hotline. I have no idea how much it went for, the event was kind of depressing so I left early.”
-dstrbo
HVW8 in Juxtapoz
Big thanks to our friends at Juxtapoz for the HVW8 feature, have a look or even better go buy it at your local news stand. Here it is …. article by Lindsey Caldwell.
HVW8 Photo gallery 2002 – 2007
Until everything is updated — click HERE for the HVW8 photo album form 2002 – 2007
HVW8 at BEAT SWAPMEET Sunday
Come out and check us at the beat swapmeet sunday in Echo Park. Max and Ty G will have a crate of goodness to get rid of and we’ll also be recording a podcast with Marvski. More info below :
The BEAT SWAP MEET is back! Thank you to everyone who supported round 1 back in March.The Los Angeles BEAT-SWAP-MEET is a Record Swapmeet consisting of over 20 invited vendors & collectors from the LA and surrounding areas vending music genres of a wide array. An event considered to be the 1st of it’s kind in the LA area, The Beat Swapmeet hopes to reunify LA in a way that is long overdue. Come through, listen to Beats, Swap records & Meet some new people..
This Sunday Afternoon June 22nd, 2008. We invite you back out to the Echoplex in Downtown LA’s historical Echo Park for the 2nd Official Los Angeles Beat Swapmeet.
BUY SELL TRADE
Jazz, Blues, Hip-Hop, Funk, Disco, Rock, Soul, Reggae, and World
12″ and 45 Records
12noon-6pm $5 entrance
The Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles 90026
Some of LA’s most legendary Dj’s will be live in the mix:
ABEL – AC THE PD – C-LOS – COUNTERSTRYKE – EXPO – GABE REAL – KIDRAGON
LISTEN RECOVERY – PRYVET PEEPSHO – RENATO – SOURCE – 671
your host with the most – DJ MARVSKI
All Ages are welcome
Casual drinking for the 21+
VENDING IS OFFICIALLY CLOSED.
For more info: call 714-404-7568
email Utmos@beatswapmeet.com www.beatswapmeet.com – myspace.com/beatswapmeet
This event is being brought to you in a collaborative effort by:
671 (Station 23 Radio), Abel, AC The PD (Hiphopphilosophy.com Radio), Aesthetics Crew, Armand Lewis, Blessaid (Blue Key Coretet), Bobby Quevedo, Budda Co., Buttonpusha, Charlie Rock (Rock Steady Crew), Christine Suh, C-Los (Stacksvinyl.com), Counterstryke (DFR 90.7), Daz, Don-Q (Foundation Funkollective), Eshil Omar, Expo (Root Down), Fusicology.com, Gabe Real, Hahk2 aka Warpnt, HVW8, Ice (Wilshire District), Jextraterrestrial, Kidragon (Table Manners), Listen Recovery Crew, Live Mechanics, Ludini, Marvski, Midnight Architects, Mike Vague, Natural Habitat Inc, Oddsequence, Patternz, Pozuno aka Doc Dollabin, Pryvet Peepsho, Quiet Doings, Record Collector News, Remode, Renato, Rikka Venturanza, Rob Burnett, Solofhiphop.com Radio, Sound Trolley Records, Source (Dick Nose Monkeys), Subtrakt, Truth Seekas Radio 90.7 (KPFK), Turntable Lab, U-Sho, Wax Poetics, & Utmos One.
She Wanna
Tyger back in stock
Tyger Tshirt back in stock tomorrow for a limited time. Check HVW8 Shop.
Housepaint photos Toronto
a funky bornday
Ron Trent aka the Black Punk Sound System, stopped by the Studio yesterday.
…… and then later it was down to Carbon for Dâm Funk’s Birthday.
J-1 from Trip Boogie rocking a classic HVW8 logo.
Billy Goods and Randy Watson from Funkmosphere
PB Wolf holds it down.
The Bday man himself, Dâm Funk.
Tom Noble Exxxclusive Birthday Joint.
….fun times!
HVW8 x K Lyons shirts and print in Shop
Kevin Lyons x HVW8 Silkscreen print, 1/30 edition
Are now in the HVW8 online shop., along with original artwork.
Pay Day!
FRIDAY, JUNE 13TH 2008
PAY DAY!
W/ SPECIAL GUEST: BILLY GOODS (FUNKMOSPHERE, 1983)
SPACE FUNK, BOOGIE, LATIN, DIRTY DISXO, & MORE…
DJs:
DAM FUNK (STONES THROW, FUNKMOSPHERE)
TY-G (HVW8)
COMPUTER JAY
JA$ 1000
RANDALL X
9-2AM/ 21+/ NO COVER
EVERY 2ND & 4TH FRIDAY(S)
LOCATED AT VINE BAR
1235 VINE ST.
HOLLYWOOD,
CALIFORNIA
SUPPORT BY: HVW8.COM + DRAFTSMEN/ KEEPDRAFTING.COM
Noelle podcast, LATBBQ Season 2, Vol. 1
New Live at the BBQ: Season 2, Vol. 1 with Noelle Scaggs and DJ Rhettmatic is now posted. Recorded live at the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery, Los Angeles.
You can also subscribe via iTunes.
Oddisee artwork
Some new artwork by G. Starship for Oddisee on Mellow Music Group.
adidas New Originals timelapse by dstrbo
Timelapse by DSTRBO for the New Originals Series by HVW8, music by Waajeed from Platinum Pied Pipers.
Live at the BBQ flicks with Noelle
Lot’s of fun in the sun recording and bbq-ing at the HVW8 Gallery with Noelle and Rhettmatic this past Sunday. The podcast should be posted tomorrow, until then here are some flicks. More photos on Solid State LA.
Brent Rollins x HVW8 prints available at Turntable Lab
Live at the BBQ with Noelle Scaggs
So it seems that summer is upon us so we’re reviving our Live at the BBQ podcast series!!
This weekend, our friend Noelle Scaggs will be breaking it down for us with a very exclusive set of her new solo material. As a bonus, she’s bringing along friend DJ Rhettmatic of the World Famous Beat Junkies – nice!
You’ve heard her with the Rebirth and Quantic, now come through to hear her all the way live right here at the HVW8 Gallery!!!
We’ll have the grill going and a few beverages on hand. You know you’re welcome to stop on by!
Never heard Noelle? well here you go!
Bo Diddley and Yves
HVW8 Gallery Life
Visiting artists that came by the HVW8 Gallery this week ….
Coleman from Mochilla with Flip from Brazil.
and Usugrow from Japan.
Photos from Toronto Gallery 381 show
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Never Alone
381 Projects has curated ‘Never Alone,’ a group exhibition that opens next week in Toronto. The show features works by Dennis Chow, HVW8, Paul 107, Marco Cibola and Tracy Maurice.
The exhibition explores the affects of music on visual artists.
