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 "Everything that Columbus' Ocean Ghosts have released has been one big ol' party-time, hip-hop cruise through groovy, hilarious waters. But the group's new CD, Pepperoni Lovers, casts a large shadow over all of their previous work. Biker Woman Recipe, Is This Your Wife, Good Girls Don't Do That and Big Daddy Kane (named no doubt for one of Ocean Ghosts' prime influences) -- this is a grade-A pizza pie." - The Columbus Dispatch 3/29/07 |
PepPeroni
Lovers - 2007 Pepperoni Lovers is a self-produced compact disc featuring sample-based party music dipping into the realms of soul, disco, calypso, and progressive rock with lyrical content that explores the themes of profligacious excess, existential realism, and personal healing through high-living. Self help music for the self hater in all of us. 1. Stay Away from Gangs and Drugs 2. Trick Rhetoric 3. Biker Woman Recipe 4. Quit Freaking Out 5. Let It Rip 6. S my D 7. Good Girls Don’t Do That 8. Big Daddy Kane 9. Don’t Die Tonight 10. Extreme Ball Pressure 11. Pepperoni Lovers 12. Is This Your Wife? 13. Summer Snow 14. A Diamond is for Never |
 "...a sometimes crude, sometimes lewd tribute to this nation and a citizen's right to make a complete mockery of it... Lyrics discuss nuclear war, God and President Bush alongside sex and getting piss drunk. The result is a passive-aggressive critique that uses hedonism as a subversive force... a fascinating, blurry-eyed stare straight back at a country that can seem confusing and unfamiliar... The record works as a critique of American weirdness because the songs are largely a celebration of it..." - read the full article here by the Alive's John Ross 6/29/06 |
Stars &
Stripes Forever- 2006 Stars and Stripes Forever incorporates soul, disco, hip-hop, and funk soundscapes with purposeful turntablism and interrogating lyrics about socio-political rhetoric and partying hardcore to the maximum limit ever. 1. White People Blacked Out 2. Out of the Night 3. King Cobra and Box Wine 4. Where's My Brother? 5. Atomic Bukkake 6. Bill Goodman's Gun + Knife Show 7. Life Guidance 8. Beating Bush 9. American Patrol 10. Hitchcock 11. Party Trauma 12. Death Medication 13. Yellow Cocaine 14. Recommended Dosage 15. Magic Jackson 16. Stars and Stripes Forever "...the album is a paradox, a reflection
of The United States in all it's diverse glory. When people are
truly free to do what they want, that's America, and you don't
have to like it, but you have to respect it. ...just like America,
and like our country, the Ocean Ghosts new album is a true celebration
of freedom. The freedom to do and say what you want. What a country." |
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2007 Year In Review - Columbus
Alive – "Trick Rhetoric" was named to the “20 Songs That Blew Our Minds" - DEC.07 TOLEDO LIVE FOOTAGE: Trauma YouTube'd by Jeff Beach FILM APPEARANCE: "Eat Me Johnny" by Chris Hlywiak Charlotts NC Photos: Get Bombed 3, Charlotte NC - RT Photos: CD Release Party Photos 2007 - JD Alternative Press CD Review: 3 of 4 Stars (8/1/07) { web version (JPG) | print version (PDF) } Melt Magazine CD Review: 4 of 5 Stars from May '07(JPG) Columbus Alive CD Release 2007 Preview - 3/29/07 { web version (JPG) | print version (PDF) } Columbus Alive Interview & Preview - 6/29/06 { web version (JPG) | print version (PDF) } UWeekly "Stars and Stripes" CD Review - 7/5/06 { web version (JPG) | print version (PDF) } Columbus Dispatch CD Release Blurb - 6/29/06 { web version (JPG) | print version (PDF) } Columbus Alive "Band of the Week" - 8/10/06 { web version (JPG) | print version (PDF) } Honorable Mention: Song of the Year, 2006 by John Ross, Columbus Alive, for "Party Trauma" { listen to the podcast here - 23MB } HipHopColumbus.com - Artist of the Month { January 2007 | Read the Interview } Stars & Stripes CD Release Party Review { 614HipHop.com } |
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