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DOWNLOAD: The Carps - Heaven's Gate Hell's Flames Remix w/ the Cool Kids (MP3)

It was early, but it was fun. The Carps were one of the first bands to hit the main stage (12:45) at the Brooklyn Vegan Day Party at The Knitting Factory on Oct 25th, but that didn't mean they were, or left anyone else, half-asleep. The bass/drums duo brought their infectious R&B meets Gang Of Four meets DFA1979 funk keeping the early crowd enthused, and their storytelling interludes about homicides kept the crowd engaged. The thing that impressed me the most was drummer Jahmal Tonge's awesome ability as a singer, passionately crooning away like some sort of bastard child of Keith Sweat and ?uestlove, all while while blasting on his kit. More pictures below...

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photos by Leia Jospe

During the Cool Kids' set Mickey Factz came out for one song.

They had a dance contest to win copies of their album and a "best joke" contest to win two NBA xbox 360 games. Jokes included: "So a mushroom walks into a bar and the bartender goes, 'hey! we don't like your kind around here.' the mushroom replies, 'but i'm a fungi!'" He won for "having the balls to come up and say that on stage"....So many fangirls..." -Leia

The Cool Kids are going on tour with Q-Tip. More pictures from Tuesday night's show below...

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DOWNLOAD: The Carps - Heaven's Gate Hell's Flames Remix w/ the Cool Kids (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: The Carps - "Veronica Belmont" (a link ro RCRDLBL)
DOWNLOAD: The Carps - "All The Damn Kids" (a link to RCRDLBL)

The Carps

The Cool Kids are riding their "Black Mags" all the way into the Blender.... Theater, I mean, when they hit the NYC stage on Oct 21st. Tickets are on sale. Also playing the CMJ show: Free Sol, (the artist formerly known as Mad) Skillz, and The Carps.

The Cool Kids are also on board to support the Abstract Incognito aka Q-Tip when he hits the Nokia Theater on Dec 2nd! The show show is part of a TBA 2K Sports Bounce Tour. Tickets for the NYC show go on sale 10/18 an noon.

And as discussed, The Cool Kids recently dropped "Delivery Man" as a free download. Matt and Kim are giving away a song at the same site.

This isn't the first time that The Cool Kids & The Carps have crossed paths... the two crews have toured Europe together in addition to their collaboration on the "Heaven's Gate Hell's Flames Remix" from earlier in the year (download that above).

When The Carps aren't touring with The Cool Kids, they can be found promoting their Waves and Shambles EP which dropped earlier this year, and they'll be keeping, like totally-super-busy during CMJ this year - 5 shows busy to be exact. And one of them... is...well... (we'll get our act together soon and announce the whole thing, I promise)...The Carps are the first (ok, second) officially announced artist for our BrooklynVegan Day Party on Oct 25th at the same venue Q-Tip recently played a free show. Stay tuned for more details. There are lots of them. Check out more free tracks at the RCRDLBL links above. Check out more dates below...

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The new space at Webster Hall is hosting free shows all week long during CMJ 2008. More details below...

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