Have you caught the infection? Or should we say affection for Kink Not? We know it's gone a lil quiet over here at PopLife, but Kink Not is still live and in effect... slowly infecting the Chicago scene with shows & appearances like an ill virus. So if we're not present here, trust that our presence is being felt elsewhere, beyond the computer.
2008 Fiesta Puertoriccanea in Humboldt Park, Chi
Chivas hitting that hot spot...why did this one college-kid-couple we know spend hours during our photo shoot "caking" in front of a computer like that's the new way to watch TV?... that's a whole nother blog, but the point is: at some point you gotta get out & connect with the world. For us, It's those personal connections that go a long way. We're always excited to meet someone new who can vibe to our music–– from the nite-lifers, crate diggers & taste-makers to the trunk rattlers, potheads & tini-boppers.
Lela always reps Kuuma Lynx but today she was all about Kink Not
It never gets old seeing the reaction of a first-timer who, when dragged out to one of our shows on one offbeat nite, finds something fresh and completely iller than what they had expected. Those little crack-nugget moments keep Kink Not jonesing to find more "Kink Not Heads". We love nothing more than putting on shows for those who support and respect the Chicago music revolution.
The new growing trend is music events & shows in random spots: Galleries, Festivals, Boutiques, Hair Salons, Ball Rooms, Lounges...you name it, Kinky Notti's rocked it! The energy is always super dope so we decided to kick off our own series of "rocking shows in arbitrary places type events" we call
The Beat Boutique.
Kinky Notti at the Building on This Block Gallery
The first installment of Beat Boutique at Silver Room was a win-win situation for ourselves, who walked away with "used to be lost but now I'm found fans"... and Eric the owner, came up just by keeping the store open for a few extra hours for shits-&-giggles. So if you find yourself taking a stroll up Milwaukee Ave in Chicago, be on the look-out for our "Beat Boutique" posters so you can come see us get live :D
Banging flyer courtesy of Kinky Notti's own, HavMax After our photo shoot at Una Mae's Freak Boutique we really felt like we were onto something big. The next day we were all like, "so what now?" then we thought,"Damn if two million people are gonna be reading about Kinky Notti this July, we better get our asses up and finish this album we've been working on all year!!"
Originally we had planned on dropping a full-length album. That was before we got six-songs deep into the project and found our chips going down fast... so we decided to go with an EP release instead. Sounded great in theory, but we also knew that without a decent way to promote our new project, we would need something to help swing a bit of synergy our way.
That's when the Lollapalooza "Last Band Standing" contest appeared before our eyes in the form of an email from Sonicbids. We jumped right on the opportunity with an inkling that if we could just make it to the final round and perform at Double Door, the contest would be had.
Round one was a madhouse with thousands of bands all scrambling to collect email votes all at once like some sort of digital egg hunt. We chilled and remained confident in our strategy to calmly qualify for round two... We had read that the winners of round one would be selected by celebrity judges, who would have to funnel 100 qualifying bands down to just 20. Simple math showed that if we just depended on family members and friends from our personal email accounts, we would rank in the top 100. We figured all we'd need after that was for the celebrity judges to hear our music, because once they did we'd be chosen for round two without a doubt. It's not like we're really that arrogant, but we just stand behind our work like a muffoccur.
Even though we felt pretty confident at the time, we almost wet our pants when we found out we were on of the top 20 chosen bands for the next round–– we're talking about thousands of bands worldwide who participated in this contest and here we were, standing that much closer to the Lolla stage! Soon all that excitement turned serious... right away round three proved to be more beastly than the other two. We needed to collect votes again, but this time only five bands with the top votes could move on to the next round. ((That's when shit started getting crazy wild!))
Can you believe someone had the f*cking balls to send us this email?
First of all, that's the oldest trick in the book: trying to psych out the offenders...so obviously this email came from another band in the Lolla competition. But didn't they know that Kinky Notti has deep connects? Contrary to popular belief, Chicago actually does support its artists. All we had to do at that point was let the dogs out... our special promoter friends that is. A total of 75,000 emails went out all over the city in three days! Quickly we saw our votes push us from 14th place up to 9th place. The rest is history, or shall we say
present time?All we wanna do is express musically and do shows–– that's it! That's what we love to do, but even more than that we love the people who help create a music scene that's open to bands like us & who want us to bring fresh & memorable experiences to people all over the world. It's a damn shame that some people have a hate for our mission and don't support it. But contest or no contest, please believe we already won... BUT OF COURSE WE WANNA WIN THIS LOLLAPALOOZA CONTEST LIKE A MUFF-OCCUR!! Somehow this very situation feels like one of those R.L. Stine books from back in the day that allowed the reader to decide the fate of the characters ((for Kinky Notti to win & give their all at Lollapalooza, turn to page 128, lol))
Bottom line: we need your vote. IT'S A VOTING COMPETITION! To further entice you to vote, we now leave you with this vision ((Please click on the image or go to sonicbids.com/lollapalooza08 to VOTE NOW!))
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Happy Voting :)
We finally got to meet Peanut Butter Wolf at BK Studio last month. We didn't realize that PBW had this whole throwback-video, mixed-media set til we got to the party. HavMax snapped some shots of the video screen, capturing the exceedingly fun moment. The halftone-pattern effect is a just a plus-up for visuals... the videos to go along with em make the moment real again.
The purple one
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