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  • From: "dukecoffeehouse AT gmail.com" <dukecoffeehouse AT gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Sat, March 28 DUKE COFFEEHOUSE presents: Juan Huevos, Ear Power, The
  • Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:15:56 -0700 (PDT)

show starts at 9:30
BYOB
come one, come all!!


The Durham based eX mONKEYS INFLUENCES ARE DEVO, darwin, huxley,
twain, john brown.
They sound like "...mankind originated from a bunch of deranged ex-
monkeys with a propensity for drink. So raise your glass and think of
the fall from the grace of the trees, the descent of monkey into
man ... monkey tasted the fruit of the tree and devolution began." --
salamander

"Durham's Juan Huevos makes hip hop in the classic street journalism
sense: That is, the 10 tracks on MC People Magazine detail familiar
episodes in his life and among his scene with wit, candor and a dose
of braggadocio. Well, sort of: The situations Huevos wades in aren't
quite as street as N.W.A. or Jeezy or even an underground firebrand
like Sage Francis: Rather, Juan Huevos=97the outlet of Jon Gregory, a 28-
year-old white dude from Durham with a killer moustache=AD=97raps about
falling off bar stools, turning Friendster photos into late-night
pornography and wanting to quit bad jobs. Huevos' scene is one of
alternating socializing and ostracizing. Either he's with friends and
too drunk to sit on a bar stool, or he's smoking grass late at night
by himself, using his roommate's computer. He delivers those tails and
his social diagnoses with sinewy semantics, bouncing it off of synth-
snare-and-sample beats that suggest Gregory's always ready to party."




  • Sat, March 28 DUKE COFFEEHOUSE presents: Juan Huevos, Ear Power, The, dukecoffeehouse AT gmail.com, 03/24/2009

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