DIRTY KICKS RECAP | 7 APRIL 11

It felt so good to see so many friends + family in the basement of The Del Monte Speakeasy for
the debut of DIRTY KICKS.  Thanks to Grillade for going super hard w/ an amazing performance.
This Thursday we have  have a special treat from Diplo’s Mad Decent roster to come rock with us.
Scroll down to see who!

:: April 14th 2011 ::

DIRTY KICKS
Vices, Booze & Beats served every Thursday night
Speakeasy Gems | Leftfield Funk | Soul 45′s | Rock N Roll | Nu Disco |
and everything else with a beat.

w/ KCRW Dee jays Anthony Valadez & Mario Cotto

Special live performance w/ Bosco Delrey (Mad Decent)

21 +  Cover $5
52 Windward Ave Venice Ca.

:: How we do ::

This Thursday night we welcome the electro/rockabilly sounds of Bosco Delrey to DIRTY KICKS.

Hailing from New Jersey by way of Memphis, Bosco’s sound references the sounds of Sun Studios-era recordings, updating the lo-fi guitar twang with the use of an MPC drum machine and vintage synthesizer emulators to create a wall of distorted dance/grunge, with other apparent influences ranging from southern rap to church hymns and dancehall. This seemingly impossible alchemy was recently manifested on wax when Diplo’s Mad Decent released a stellar pair of Bosco Delrey 7-inches earlier this year, “Wild One/Evil Lives” and “Space Junky/My My Racecar,” both of which are also available digitally.

Bosco has just finished recording his debut album, “Everybody Wah,” which is slated for release on Mad Decent / Downtown Music in early 2011. He spent the past summer in Memphis, TN recording with Doug Easley at his acclaimed studio whose alumni include the White Stripes, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Wilco, and Cat Power. Also, the legendary Beastie Boys have recently taken a shine to young Bosco with both Mike D and Ad Rock pledging remix work due later this month.

In person, Bosco performs abstract narratives that exist somewhere between electro-psychedelia and distorted grunge-hall. Audiences in Philadelphia, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles witnessed this sonic amalgam first-hand this summer as Bosco played the Mad Decent Block Party series. With so many conceptual hybrids existing in the same aural and geographic space, a Bosco Delrey show is steeped in possibility, the feeling that anything can happen.

“[Bosco is] a sort of garbage can Elvis from New Jersey… teaspoon craziness, a pinch of rockabilly, and full cup of soul dressed in a leather jacket. He can’t be topped as far as song writing…  He’s doin’ the music I wish I could if I had bought a guitar.” -Diplo

“The future is looking bright for this hillbillyhall pioneer.” – Dazed & Confused