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G-Side played Pitchfork, on tour now (pics & updated dates)

photos by Dominick Mastrangelo

G-Side @ Pitchfork Fest
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“…The Alabama hip-hop duo bobs and weaves across the stage. Live rap is often knocked as being lesser than rock & roll, but the MCs at Pitchfork have always been a highlight. Even when they suck up to the crowd, as G-Side does, with a call and response of “Ain’t no party like a Pitchfork party, cuz a Pitchfork party don’t stop.” I’ve been to those parties. People go off in corners and debate Animal Collective too much at the Pitchfork parties.

But G-Side provokes an array of synchronized arm activity in the audience–fist raising, finger pointing, palm pumping. I don’t see Woods doing that. Even if they’re a touch awkward coming from a horde of white kids, the chants of “We get money!” and “Lean to tha left!” raise the energy to at least four levels above chillwave.

ST 2 Lettaz, in a black muscle shirt, jumps off stage and leans into the crowd. He flows a little more poetically than his gruffer partner, Yung Clova. Lettaz begins one song a cappella, breathtakingly, and it connects better than anything else in the set, divorced of the towel-waving and slogan shouting. Overall, the tracks mix of early Outkast and early T.I. Definitely Southern, with slow-roll soul samples and tumbling synthetic snares. “I’ve got a jones in my bones for the street,” goes one refrain. It’s kinda cheesy, kinda dated, but charming in a throwback way I haven’t really heard since Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. An underused female backup singer, with shaved temples and a feather earthing, pumps up the emotional level, belting a bit operatically at the smokedout opening, and slipping into Kayne’s “Power” refrain later. If it wasn’t for that inevitable “swag” blurting, and the Yeezy reference, this could be 1997, Piedmont Park, Atlanta. And I’m nostalgic.” [Time Out Chicago]

G-Side played day two (7/16) of the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, as described in that review. Pictures are also in this post.

G-Side are now on a short tour and play NYC at Tammany Hall this weekend (7/23). The Tammany Hall show is either free or $3 before 11pm (depending on where you look) and $6 after. White Ring are one of the many DJs also on the bill (G-Side is the only live act of the night). Flyer below. G-side also play “Mad Decent Mondays” in Philly (on Monday).

ST 2 Lettaz of G-Side recently contributed vocals to Montreal producer Lunice‘s track “Get Her High.” Listen to that, with the flyer, all dates, and more pics from P4KFest, below…


G – Side “Run Things” (Roll Tide Roll) Produced by Block Beattaz

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Lunice ft. ST 2 Lettaz and DaVinci – “Get Her High”
ST 2 Lettaz and DaVinci, “Get Her High” (Prod. by Lunice) by The FADER

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G-Side — 2011 Tour Dates
07/22 Asheville, NC – Hole In Da Wall
07/23 New York, NY – Tammany Hall
07/25 Philly – Mad Decent Monday @ Fluid Night Club w/ Kristmas
07/26 Greensboro, NC – The Clubhouse