weworemasks presents: sunbear’s year-end lists (2009)

9 01 2010

in blog world, one hour = one week. those not first are surely last. in sunbear time, time is limitless and knows no deadlines. it’s all relative. with that said i offer no apologies for the extreme late pass on my year end list. for all we know some album could have dropped december 31st at 11:59 pm that would have blown my list out of the water. that didn’t happen of course, but we still have 2012 to look forward to for blowouts. as the self affirmed hype-feeding hipster of the bear collective (foreshadowing!!!) i offer my pitchfork approved lists for your eyes, my dear weworemasks readership. go forth and spread word of the second-coming decade of indie music to come, and the michael cera movies that they will inevitably be in.

toddle-oo, motherfuckaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas!

- sunbear

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weworemasks presents: grizzly’s year-end lists (2009)

30 12 2009

and now we’re finally getting to our personal lists. we’ve decided to do a separate post for the each of us, so as to kindly not overshadow one another. for me, 2009 was a hell of a year musically. i discovered a lot of great new artists and even got into some artists i never would’ve never thought i’d be listening to.

i’m glad to say that i didn’t give into any of the overbearing hype of the band that shares my weworemasks pseudonym or any collectives this year, if not only for the principle. i saw a lot of great shows, and it’s safe to say that we’re all ready for 2010. let’s kick the new decade off correctly.

thanks to all the readers and especially all the loyals out there for sticking around after all this time. we’re going to do our best to kill it again this year.

-grizzly
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weworemasks presents: user-submitted year end lists for 2009

27 12 2009

merry christmas, happy hanukkah and all of that tis’ the season business. hope you all are having a warm, fuzzy and drunk holiday season. we may not mention it often enough, but all of you are the reason why we do this. we don’t make a cent off this and at best, we’re getting into some shows for free and getting the opportunities to chat it up with some artists we admire. but again, none of that is possible without the following we have developed over the last two years. we’ve had the platform ready for all of you good lookin’ animals out there to submit, and as always, some of you came through and delivered.

hit the jump for some of the user lists.

-grizzly c/o weworemasks

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video: mos def interview with dj semtex [part II] (2009)

14 12 2009

part II of a three part series. semtex runs through 2009 and all of dante’s favorite songs, albums, producers, movies and beefs and much more. this is a good one.

-grizzly





video: bet awards cypher #3 [mos def, black thought, eminem and dj premier] (2009)

27 10 2009

this shit is unbelievable amounts of nasty. every single person has gone in on this. i’m having a difficult time deciding who wrecked this the hardest, but i’m gonna go with eminem > black thought > mos def. can’t hate on preemo scratchin’ either.

i missed the bet hip-hop awards tonight, so there shall be many a video posts. i think.

edit: there are two other cyphers, but i don’t even give much of a shit about em, so hit the jump.

-grizzly
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video: jay-z – empire state of mind f. alicia keys [live at the VMAs] (2009)

13 09 2009

young hov in the house it’s so necessary.

download:

jay-z – empire state of mind f. alicia keys

-grizzly





mtv vma awards: a live blog (2009)

13 09 2009

what up, ya’ll? i’m bored, so i’m gonna try something new. i’m gonna live blog the VMAs. stay tuned for more. this year’s lineup isn’t nearly as good as prior years, but i’m looking forward to young hov, muse and gaga. and of course, the mj tribute.

edit: show’s over. jay absolutely killed it. everyone i expected/wanted to see did a fine job at reppin. kanye acted a fool and it was cool to see wale get it done. if you wanna peep the show’s blog, hit the jump.

-grizzly

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weworemasks.com interview: saosin (july 3, 2009)

5 07 2009

part III of the warped tour series brings us to cove reber of saosin fame. i’m sure a lot our readers out there don’t really listen to this band for whatever reason it may be, but i’ve always enjoyed them. they put on a great live show (which, for the record, i missed due to the fact that i was interviewing thrice at the time).

not to mention, cove is easily one of the most pleasant and positive guys i’ve ever interviewed to date. after we finished the interview spot, he mentioned the fact that he loves interviews, and that fact was apparent throughout the 15 minutes aj and i hung out with him.

hit the jump for the interview, where cove speaks on the new album, wanting to tour for the military, and the ladies of the warped tour.

-grizzly

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nba playoffs (2009)

15 04 2009

hell yes. so excited for the next few months of the playoffs. naturally, there are a lot of cavs/lakers predictions but that’s too obvious. if you’re alive out there, let’s hear what you think.

/another main reason for posting was that this promo is set to yeezy’s amazing.

-grizzly





mixtape: weworemasks presents: sxsw 2009

19 03 2009

so your favorite bears will be at sxsw starting tomorrow (jerome on friday) and we decided to do something nice for the readers since there will be a lack of posting from now until sunday. anyway, us three bears put together this little “mixtape” with some of the artists that we will probably see or are planning to see this weekend.

it recently was confirmed by the associated press that kanye west is doing a not-so-secret-but-still-a-secret performance this year. so if you love us, cross your fingers in hopes that we’ll get in to the show and catch yeezy and the G.O.O.D. crew.

anyway, enjoy the tape. when we get back, we’ll have a huge round-up of everything we saw, much like last year. grizzly is also the champion of the planet and landed an interview with P.O.S. and a post-sxsw interview with dan keyes of young love/recover fame, so be on the lookout for that.

tracklisting + download after the jump.

<3 the bears

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ncaa march madness (2009)

16 03 2009

for any of our readers that have been scrapping your ncaa brackets together, my cousin started a wordpress for 2009′s march madness. hit that up for your march madness needs and get in on the action.

his blog is here: march madness 2009//wordpress

enjoy.

-grizzly








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