Common Folk Thurs, Feb 28,

Tonight is going super. So much so, it does not even need the blog help.

There will be a girl to boy ratio of 3 - 1.

Just Awesome

YELLE "ACDG" Tepr Tecktonik Single sortie le 17/12



As a fan of Pumps, Yelle, and awesome dancing, this video does it for me.

- Johnsville

Legs at Hugs, Our New Party!

I found this awesome ZZ Top - Legs LP a few weeks ago while digging and the cover had a crazy graphic. Like Diddy, I poorly sampled another artist work for my own demise. In any sense, here is the original image that is on the back side of the LP. I think I did a pretty interesting interpretation of the image.


We are reintroducing ourselves to Hugs with a new Friday dance party called Legs. It will be a mix of, Disco, Electro, dance jams you forgot about and rare dance records. For example, the ZZ Top record I mentioned has a intense remix of Legs.

Here is a sample of what Legs will be like.

ZZ Top - Legs


Greg Kihn Band - Jeopardy


Punks Jump Up - Dance to Our Disco


Bruce Springsteen - Cover Me


Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor


Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady


Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face



Just for kicks.

Kids Incorporated - Cover Me


Come and out dance it out. Second and Forth Fridays at Hugs. 108 N6th St. NK NYC.

- Johnsville

Common Folk, Thurs Feb 21, 2008

This weeks Common Folk is pretty large and in charge. Firstly, Lucas did an amazing job on this flayer. Secondly, our guest are dope as all hell. We have Bradley D the resident DJ at the ever growing Famous Friends party that we are playing next week along side him, Purple Crush, and Le Castle Vania. Something like 150 people have RSVPed for on Going.com. Which are big numbers for a gig that is more than a week away. You should do the same and not be lame. RSVP here.


Our other guest DJ is Prince Terrence (shown above) who is the new resident DJ at Dimitry's infamous High Voltage party at the Annex every Wednesday. Terrence is also the drummer of Young Love. I chatted with Dimitry recently, who had write up in Spin Magazine, about his new DJ partner in crime and here is what he had to say.

Johnsville: How did you meet Prince Terrence?

Dimitry: Though my friend Nick Hook, who played in a band called Men, Women and Children

J: What is it about Terrence that made you want him to be the resident DJ at High Voltage?

D: Just an all around awesome dude. Great taste in music. I was also tired of doing everything by myself! Ha ha ha ha!

J: When you say "great taste in music" was there a specific moment or mix that made you realize he had a good ear?

D: I had him guest DJ at High Voltage a couple of months ago and his song selection was the closest that I've heard any guest DJ to being on the same page as me. So that got me really stoked. we just kinda became friends from there...and the rest is history.

J: Since you linked up with him how has it changed or not changed High Voltage?

D: I just feel like Terry brings allot to the table. for example a couple of weeks ago he helped book the Cool Kids to come do a guest DJ spot. also, like I said before...it's just easier to have a party when you have someone else helping with things. I was always the resident DJ by myself and it would wear me out but now I can let loose a little bit more. He's also a great positive energy as he likes to have a good time just as much as I do. so we bring that energy to the party together.

J: If you had to pick the funniest moment you have had since working with Terrence what would it be?

D: I saw him crowd surfing at High Voltage like 2 weeks ago while I was DJing...that was ridiculously fun. and we also have a bunch of inside jokes that nobody would get even if I tried to explain them on here.

J: Which famous duo are you guys mostly like and why?

D: Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant. Mostly because of the hight difference. Ha ha ha ha. Oh and because we're both British

J: If Terrence was not your resident DJ, who would it be and why?

D: Duh, Eli Escobar, that guy inspired me to DJ. Everything he touches is gold. Most consistent dude in the game.

J: I think we are all done here, anything you want to add?

D: Anyone reading this should go out and try to support any party they can...the NYC nightlife is slowly dying because people refuse to go out and try new things. they want to hear Blister in the sun 1000 times or they wanna go to some model and bottle service place. try to seek out new parties and new things to do. support the scene...GO FUCKING DANCE!!

Tonight you can see both Bradley D and Prince Terrence at Common Folk. 131 Chrystie St. 21+ free Shango Rum from 10:30 - 11:30 as always your resident DJ's Sweatshop Labor will be there killing shit.

- Johnsville

New Wednesday By-Weekly Party SCRAPS!!!

We are starting a by-weekly Wednesday party down in the dark and dirty basement of Lit. All week I have been telling people about it and many have cringed remembering what they have done down in that grimy ass cave. This party is not about photos for blogs, or celebrity guest DJ's or what kind of Dunks you have on, it is all about low lights and loud beats. Come get hammered. Also, I will be hand drawing theses flayers and many flayers from now on. Tell me what you think.

It is going to be loud and dark, and I am going to mix the wildest shit, that will flat out rape your ear holes.

It will be nuts.

- Johnsville

Mr. Spriggs BBQ

My friend sent me this strange video today. It is really uncomfortable to watch. Usually I am very supportive of cultures and subcultures colliding but in this case, no dice. The mix between white trash obesity and slutty ghetto R&B should never happen. Ever. Mr. Sprigg's BBQ commercial is Kelis' Milkshake music video gone completely wrong.

Anyway, check it out, I can't stop watching it.

Unknown - Mr Spriggs BBQ



"Falls off the bone!!!!"

(Did you see that huge dude raise his eyebrow in delightful surprise after bitting into that burger?!)

Kelis - Milkshake



- Johnsville

Lohan Naked, Big Fucking Deal.

"So what, she is nude. Big fucking deal I watched her squirt all over my friend in LA."

- A message from Boy Boy

Welcome Boy Boy to the Sweatshop Labor Family. He will bring us to a new low.

- Johnsville

Bathroom Etiquette

After several lowly bar-back sessions, i found out that people are downright disgusting. And not in the lovable way we are. As soon as people get a few drinks in them their level of domestication drops three rungs on the stepladder of comme il faut behavior.

Here are some recent examples of horrendous drunken debacles: the office of home sweet home is situated adjacent to the men's bathroom. Now, our walls are sturdy, but they can only stand so much abuse before they cave. Some drunken brute managed to kick a hole (or maybe punch in a Hulk-like fashion) through the men's bathroom into the office. Now, there is absolutely no practical reason for doing so, as the hole was too small to fit through and there was nothing of value in the immediate area of convergence. The thing that confuses me the most is that this hole took about 3 weeks to create; the tunneler came back several times to continue bashing through the wall. If only we could find him!

Last night someone indescribably violated the same bathroom. I understand that, sometimes, when the drinking gets rough so do the bowels. It's a pretty standard procedure, the drug and alcohol-induced splatterings. It's an ugly side of the nightlife that should stay on the downlow, expressed only through whispers and winces. But what this man did to that toilet was uncannily disturbing. The poop was so rotten it brought me to tears. I am amazed at my hardy constitution because I kept the rare vegan dinner still inside me. Granted it's vileness, I could deal with the poop. I couldn't deal with the pooper's handling of the situation, however. To cover it up, he thought it would be novel to throw in a few rolls of toilet paper. Not just balled up clusters, but thick, full rolls. It was like a cylindrical ivory tower of soggy rising out of a Cocytus even more dreadful than Dante envisioned.

I stormed the tower and crumbled its droopy walls with much animosity and even more mop. What went through the person's mind after such a shameful deposit? "Maybe if I dump everything I can get my hands on into the toilet no one will notice? I guess it's better if I ruin this toilet for everyone else who needs to piss. Fuck you home sweet home! Feel the terrible wrath of my asshole (my favorite of course)!" This, among a few other reasons, is why I pushed hard for the installation of cameras in the bathrooms. According to my pal Rosie, this was well-documented in an episode of Law and Order and resulted in some hefty jail time. Note: She is also the primary suspect.

All I'm saying is that everyone should be more respectful towards the bathrooms, and those who are paid very little to clean a whole lot of messes. And, I think, it'd be better for mankind if we washed our hands and abided by the unwritten code of bathroom morality.

- Cory

Camel Spiders, America's No. 1 Threat in Iraq.

Camel spiders scatter all over the Iraqi dessert and pack a nasty bite. Their bite is not lethal for humans, just painful and really ugly . They deposit a poison into their prey with their bite. The poison numbs the helpless little creature and the Camel Spider eats the shit out of it. No wrapping it up with silk and saving it for later like you may think. For people their poisonous bite becomes a hard puss deposit under the skin that has to be removed like a giant pimple or splinter. I will spare you bite videos I found, they are really gross. Our brave men and women who are deployed out there spend what seems to be a considerable amount of time playing with these hideous creatures.

After YouTubing most of my day away on these Camel Spiders vs. US Soldier relationship I can't help but think these solders behaved similarly as boys playing with bugs in their backyards in Missouri. Finding an unhealthy amount of enjoyment watching ants fry from the hot beams of a magnifying glass. That obsession then turned into killing an animal in the name of sport. Which then turned into giving a homosexual a good beating because they are really homosexual. At some point this unfortunate, right wing, god-fearing, home-schooled, redneck feels the need to use this built up frustration and anger and instead of shooting up a Walmart with the gun they bought at Walmart they join the army. To kill poor helpless people. How my mind wanders.

More realistically, I think that a boy with a bug fascination is more likely to grow up and join the Army to eventually become a man fascinated with bugs, in this case Camel Spiders. In other words, a kid that likes to play outside in dirt and with bugs are more likely appreciative of the depressing lifestyle the arm services has to offer. Here they are thinking they are going to do awesome shit like in the commercials and now they are getting their laughs off watching a mouse get strangled by a Camel Spider. Can we bring these guys home already. It is costing me money.















- Johnsville

P.S. - When I lived in LA, I saw this girl who was bitten by a spider, like right next to her vagina, and it literally looked like there was this demon testicle growing out of her thigh. What would manifest next? I never found out! - Cory

Super Cow Nuts in a Vile.

These Cows kicks so much ass.

Valenties Day, Hey Lover.

We took a page out of the U.N.I.T.Y. party playbook this week for Common Folk. JD Samson and Lauren Flax have blown fresh air into the lungs of 90's music with their by-weekly U.N.I.T.Y. party at Hugs. Since then the party has been incredibly successful. Like Picasso said: "Good artist borrow and great artist steal." We are stealing the theme for this Thursday's Valentine's Day love-fest titled Hey Lover. We are putting a twist on the 90's theme by narrowing it down to strictly R&B music from that decade. So get ready to hear ODB over Marah Carey, Silk The Shocker over Mya and even Biggie over 112. It will make you relive junior high school love.

We got some amazing people involved for the lovefest. The event is a CD release party for our guest DJ's Around The Way Girls mix Hitting The Skins. A pretty ideal release party for a 90's R&B theme. We also have our friends at Yume sponsoring a makeout contest. I have no idea how to judge first and second place but for some reason I feel like we will know the winner when we see it. Yume is bringing out some great prizes for first and second place so I am sure the kissing will be getting sloppy. See you there.

Some Preview Tunes.

Scraps!!!! At Lit Lounge.

We are starting a new monthly Wednesday party at Lit. I can tell you the god's honest truth, I have done some terrible things to some good girls down in that basement in my hay day. Luckily those days are not over, be warned.



We got the name from a running joke that Lucas and I had while in LA. Apparently on the west coast the Bloods call the Crips Scraps, and Crips call Bloods Slobs. Both are insults to the other. So in LA Lucas would dare me to yell Scraps really loud in public places to see if maybe I would unknowingly get shanked. What a crewel joke.

Anyway, the Lit basement has a great stage so expect us to be booking some crazy live acts and ease up on the guest DJ's. it will be better than those over hyped Wednesday parties and Nikki Sneakers is bar tending, she is awesome.

- Johnsville

I'll Crush You!

I ran into the Purple Crush duo about a week ago in the mean streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I was on the way out of my house with my younger brother they were in the process of picking up laundry. Being that the laundry mat is in the same building as the Sweatshop Labor headquarters they ended up chatting about music at our place. Jared gave Lucas a very helpful Serato lesson, and Isla baked cookies. Or maybe she just baked. Overall the hangout session quickly turned into a revelation. Air Jared's amazing music productions only complement his seasoned DJ's skills. Why would I not realize that earlier? There are no real answers for my mental negligence.

Come out Thursday and listen Air Jared shred the 1 and 2's like a true turntablist.

Also, Alt + Click to Download...

Don't Mess With Me - Purple Crush

visit Purple Crush.

- Johnsville

I love Live Sports. Part 2.

Bobby Knight is just a fucking freak if you ask me. This clip makes me envision him as a boy stroking a teddy bear very nicely then suddenly ripping it's head off and chewing on the fluff guts.

- Johnsville