012 West Coast Jewish Hip Hop

In this feature I am going to introduce you to another Judaen exile making his musical mark on the planet who hails from the West Coast of the United States of America. I stumbled upon his music on Myspace a few years ago and have I have followed his career since and today I am happy to be able to introduce him and his arts to you.

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MC Arson Wells

JM: Who are the Jews in your family? Both Mother and Father Jewish?

I get my Jewish Heritage from my Father’s side of the family. All of my family on his side are of Jewish Descent.

JM: Any interesting Jewish family? Interesting lineage?

My Great Grandfather was a Russian Jewish who came to the US when the Czar was kicking Jews out of Russia. The story of Fiddler on the Roof is a lot like what happened in my family. My Great Grandfather made the Journey to the US on a freshly painted cattle boat. The fumes were very toxic and everyone was sick the entire trip from what I understand. He actually was traveling through the woods to stay off the main roads because he was with another family who had a sick child that was crying and they didn’t want to be caught. They missed the first boat because of the detour. Thank God they missed it because the first boat sank and everyone on it drowned. I wouldn’t exist if it were not for that detour.

JM: How do you define yourself? A rapper? A hip hop artist? Producer?

An MC

JM: Where did your “name” come from?

I used to just go by the name Arson or the Unknown Arsonist. I was signed to a local independent label along with an artist RicaSShay. One day he said “yo you should go by the name Arson Wells” an ever since then that shit just stuck with me.

JM: Are you signed to any labels?

I am independent/unsigned right now.

JM: How many CD’S/Albums have you released so far?

I am just about to finally release my debut project “ The Trials and Tribulations of Arson Wells ”

JM: Who were your biggest musical influences when you started?

Geto Boys, Ice-T, N.W.A., Above The Law, EPMD, Organized Konfusion, Digital Underground, Public Enemy, 2Pac, KRS-One & LL Cool J. That was my era. To me it won’t ever get better than that.

JM: Whose music influences you today?

Local San Diego Artists who bring heat time and time again and are still under estimated in the Hip-Hop world.

JM: Where did you grow up, where were you raised and where is home for you?

I was born in Southern Oregon and then moved to South San Diego California. Both of these places I will always consider home. I’ve got a lot of homeboys that live in both places that I got a lot of love and respect for.

JM: Is Tupac really alive?

NO. When you get blasted there ain’t no coming back.

JM: Whose music rubs you the wrong way?

I can’t stand most of the rap music that comes out today. I won’t even call it Hip-Hop because that shit is dying. I can’t stand the D4L’s and all that other glitter and glam cornball bullshit you hear on the radio. That shit makes me sick. They have destroyed something I have cherished and loved since I was 12 years old and made a mockery of it. Real Hip-Hop is found in the streets and neighborhoods and underground clubs. The airwaves are filled with the same commercial bullshit. “It’s the Ice age and nobody realize what they doing to Hip-Hop’s gonna make it die”

JM: How did you get to where you are now? What were the big breaks and events?

I’ve been writing rhymes and rappin since I was like 12. I been in a few different crews; the shit always falls apart do to one thing or another whether it’s jealousy, lack of commitment, money, etc. That’s why I’ve realized it’s all about me now. I’ve wasted so much time Fucking around, waiting for other cats to fulfill they part of the bargain and do they thing, and to come with there part of the money to put out projects and this and that, I’m just over it. I been making chips on the streets for years, so I guess I got no one to blame but myself. I could’ve been put my shit out a long time ago, I just keep getting caught up in another hustle, and another hustle. You know. My album is 11 songs done right now. I only need like 4 or 5 more joints to finish up and I got popped with a case. Now I’m f acing two felonies and the pigs got my ass for like 14 g’s. Its all good though, I’m trying to beat they bullshit case, I got me a dope lawyer on the mix so I’m crossin my fingers. But listen to my music, its real life shit. What I say in my music is real talk. I do what I say in my rhymes and that’s just the game we play in.

JM: Has there been anyone who has mentored or really helped you along the way?

There have been a few cats, but I won’t mention names because I did a lot for these cats to and in the end they all just snakes in the grass. Backbiters and backstabbers.

JM: When did you first start getting into the performance side of music?

Around 2000

JM: Who do you hang out with, anyone noteworthy?

Mostly my patna RicaSShay and Ceke Blanko from Bike Choke Family. Also my Engineer Steelz.

JM: What song has had the biggest impact on you personally?

Geto Boys- My Minds Playin Tricks On Me

JM: What do you write about in your songs?

I write about the hood, my hood and what I’ve seen coming up, hustling, revolution, anti-government, anti-police hardcore money motivating HIP-HOP!

JM: What bothers you about the music business?

It’s so commercial and nobody buys records anymore. Everything can be downloaded. Fuck it, I do it to. Shhhhhhhhhh…….you gotta love this shit to still do it

JM: How has being a Jew or in other less popular words, has having Jewish blood in your veins made a difference in your life?

It’s shaped who I am as a person. Once people find out you’re a Jew they can act like it doesn’t bother them, but I think deep down inside most of them they have a astigmatism about our people. The negative stereotypes, which are utter bullshit, always come up so whenever you have a run in with someone they are quick to bring up your heritage. Right off the bat “the stingy or greedy Jew muthafucker did it”. People start trying to throw the same old shots like “your people killed Christ” as well as a long list of other derogatory bullshit. I always know that no matter what the only people that will ever understand our people is our people.

JM: Is being a Jew important to you? Please explain.

Like I said it defines who I am as a person. We as Jewish people all know who we are and what is expected of us. The Torah is set in stone. Whether we choose to follow it or how strict we follow its laws are our decisions. I wouldn’t say I am the best example of a practicing Jew, but I try to my best and keep my head up while living in this dog eat dog world we reside in.

JM: Is there anything today about Judaism and the Jewish world that really affects you or really bugs you?

The thing that bothers me the most is all the end fighting between our people. No matter what synagogue you go to or what sect of Judaism you follow, you’re still Jewish. That means represent your people to the fullest no matter what. We all came from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; Period…end of story.

JM: What do you do for beats?

I work with a few different local producers as well as a producer in New York for my beats.

JM: Do you play any instruments?

My voice.

JM: What is your favorite city?

Sunny San Diego California

JM: Have you been to Israel?

Unfortunately no. I am going no matter what within the next couple years. If your Jewish, you have to make that excursion sometime in your life. It’s just a necessity.

JM: Do you know what tribe you are from? Levi, Judah?

My Grandfather told me we were from the tribe of Levi.

JM: Do you pay attention to what is going on with Israel?

Yes. It’s a shame to see all of the fighting over OUR land. Things seem to only be escalating. It has been this way since Israel was declared a nation. Right away here comes Egyptian fighter planes trying to bomb us. Then it was Syria I believe. We are surrounded by the Enemy. All we want is our land. The whole Middle East is filled with Islamic countries. We deserve our place. Israel will always need freedom fighters to stand up and represent the Jewish people like David Ben-Gurion and Simon Weisenthal. If you’re a Jew be proud of it. Stand up and speak up for your people no matter what criticism you’ll get.

JM: What’s coming up for you?

I’m coming close to dropping my album “ The Trials & Tribulations of Arson Wells”

I just came out on DJ Green Lantern’s newest mix-tape “Myspace Invasion 3” as well as having 2 features on RicaSShay’s album Enough is Enough. Which just dropped this month. I am also featured on the new Proof of Life mixtape coming out later this year

JM: What’s your favorite piece of musical equipment?

I like stringed instruments. If used right over a hard drum track you can make a banging ass beat.

JM: Any tours and if so, with who and where are you touring?

Everyone on the Proof of Life mix-tape will be going on a West Coast tour to promote the album and radio station. Proof of Life radio can be heard Wednesday nights between 9-11 PM Pacific Time at the following address: proof-of-life.net/radio

JM: Which one of your songs do you like the most and why?

Man I have a lot of favorites. It’s hard to tell which one I like the most. It changes every time I do a new song that becomes my favorite until I top that with something even better.

JM: How do you feel about the state of the world, life and shit?

I think the state of the world is fucked up. The Middle East keeps getting worse and worse. As for my neighborhood muthafuckas is broke, starving, strung out and shit. Cops stay harassing me and my boys. It’s like every week another one of my boys gets locked up, or catches another case; including myself. We wouldn’t be out there on the street doing what we do if we had better ways to feed our kids and shit. We all just stay hoping that this music grind pays off in the end and we don’t have to put our lives in jeopardy no more. The economy’s all fucked. Everyone losing there houses and shit. Unemployment’s at an all time high. When cats can’t get a job what the fuck do they do to get dough….rob, steal, sell drugs, whatever the fuck. That’s just life.

JM: Have you been in the media yet, and if so, how so?

I’ve had small little spots in magazines hear and there. Getting a little pub from time to time. Nothing to major. I’ve been on local television a couple times. I get a lot of love on the Internet. I have met a lot of contacts by having writes up and features on different sites out there. This year I just barely stepped my myspace game up. One of my boys was trying to get me on that shit for a couple years. I wasn’t trying to hear it. To caught up in the day-to-day struggle to be dealing with games and shit; but then I opened my mind and just started politickin and have gotten a lot of love and response from the myspace joint as well. www.myspace.com/arsonwellsmusic

JM: Are you a spiritual or religious person?

I would not say that I’m religious by any means. Religion is just another way for organized groups to try and control people and brainwash them into their way of thinking. As for being spiritual; definitely. Life would seem hopeless if I didn’t have faith that Elohim was watching over me. I see so much negativity all around me that I have to go to synagogue just to release some of the pressure and get some of the pain off my chest. It’s a good counterbalance to the rest of the world that eats away at your soul on a daily basis. I try to observe the high holidays, eat kosher, and live righteously as much as possible. It’s just hard when you live in Babylon society.

Thanks

Joshua Andrews

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012 Hamas is entering the world sexual prosthetic industry?

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Hamas leaders making penis casts and sell dildos at Gazan markets to raise funds for war on Israel

According Jewish Mayhem’s Gazan media sources; due to Israel’s successful crippling blockade on Gaza, coupled with Egypt’s recent construction of it’s ground-breaking, underground, Arab-Apartheid wall, Hamas is resorting to using extreme measures in order to generate needed funds for it’s war effort on Israel: Hamas is entering the world sexual prosthetic industry by marketing it’s first line of dildos to Gazan women in late 2010, called Pal-Esnises.

Seeing their income dwindle from the smuggled import of drugs and white prostitutes from Eastern Europe in the last few months Hamasa has ahd to come up with new means of income. Hamas ordered Hamas’ most well endowed men to appear to the Koos Amak Mosque in Gaza city, and drop their drawers for Palestine in order to be casted as molds for the new line of sex toys. Inside sources in Hamas that need to remain anonymous told Jewish Mayhem via intermediaries, that the due to the small sizes of the Hamas members penises the entire project was in jeapordy; but the project was rescued when they finally settled for purchasing three generic models that were already available in China, which ironically were modeled after Jewish xxx legends Ron Jeremy, and Even Stone.

According to Jewish Mayhem’s sources in American Intelligence Community, this move by Hamas is direct retaliation to Hassan Nasrallah and to Hezbolla’s fighters recent acts of insulting Hamas fighter’s honor and dignity at joint terrorist events, parties and functions. “Hamas vows to be the biggest dicks on the terrorist block.” Is how Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal put it one insider claims.

The Pal-Esnises come in two colors black and flesh colored, and in one size, large. They should be available for sale off of Hamas official website

Palesnis Palestinian Dildo

012 Ami James of Miami Ink – unplugged

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Jewish Mayhem Online Magazine

In our holy Torah, in sefer Leviticus (Vayikra) 19:28, it is explicitly written that Jews are not allowed tattoos. Why tattoos are forbidden to Jews exactly is not explained anywhere else in the Torah but the topic is elaborated on in numerous locations in the Talmud, which only compound the gravity of violating this prohibition.

The Levitical prohibition is a non-sensical prohibition in the sense that we do not know why the Creator forbid us from getting tattoos because it is not explained explicitly like in the cases of other laws mentioned. We are able to deduce notions as to the Creator’s reasons, such as that it is an abomination or that it is what the Canaanite nations did in those Biblical times and we had to be different from them, but we do not have a specific, simple explanation. In leu of this law’s simplicity, it is completely fair and proper to deduce and to state that tattoos are utterly and completely not Jewish, or Judaic or Hebraic in any sense or capacity based on the ultimate Jewish source, the Torah.

There have been a few instances in Jewish history and culture that we know of when multitudes of Judaeans were tattooed in such numbers as they are today, but in stark contrast to today’s phenomenon which is by choice, every other time in Jewish history, Judaeans were forcefully tattooed en masse by Gentiles as sign of shame and a marking of a slave or as a prisoner of war or of a concentration camp. What the Austrians and the Germans did in World War II, was not the first time that Judaeans were hunted down, murdered or gathered up brutally, chained up and shipped off as captives or slaves, and then eventually tattooed. The Romans tattooed designations onto slaves, gladiators and soldiers [1] as a matter of regular practice in the Roman Empire until until around 325 CE, and when Judaea was wiped off of the map by Vespasian and Titus in 135 CE., hundreds of thousands of our great-great-great-X50 grand parents were led off by the Romans in chains into slavery and tattooed with markings to identify the Judaean slaves from the non-Judaean slaves for a Judaean slave was only worth a horse in value.

For the last two thousand years, the tattoo has been universally recognized as a sign of shame to the Tribes of Israel and for thousands of years a symbol of everything that is vapid, corrupt and finite about the Gentile world. In sharp contrast to our past, today we have tens of thousands of Jews around the world getting tattooed with every kind of image under the sun for every reason under the sun and the irony is that so many of them are getting tattoos of Jewish pride style imagery and of Biblical verses, it is simply astounding. This change in behavior and mentality all happened in a span of less than one hundred years.

The people of the book have become the people of the tattoo flash book.

Jews have assimilated so much into the Gentile world in the last couple of century that the origins of modern, electric tattooing has a Jew by the name of Lew Alberts to thank for it’s evolution and it’s course, ironically. Lew was directly responsible for introducing a wealth of new types of tattoo designs into the variety of tattoo styles and designs that were available such as the black panther for example, at the turn of the century.

Miami Ink

Today on television we see another Jew involved in the tattooing world helping shape it, and his name is Ami James, who is the star of his own hit reality TV series called Miami Ink. When the Miami Ink television show was first aired it became an instant and total success across the world. It was one of TLC’s most highly watched shows attracting between 5-6 million viewers a week and continues to air in syndication worldwide. TLC also capitalized on the success of the show with a Miami Ink Clothing Line and many lucrative licensing deals.

Ami immediately comes across as a pushy, edgy tough guy with a short fuse of a temper and if he didn’t mention that he was Jewish or Israeli, you’d probably never know it based on anything that you see. Ami is a very good artist, a very good tattoo artist and he has a head for business as well which is rare among artists. He wears no visible Chais around his neck, he has no magen davids tattooed on his elbows, he does not have an overt Yiddish or Hebrew accent, and his mannerisms belay nothing Judaic or Israeli. In other words he looks like a Goy, acts like a Goy, but since his mother is Jewish, he’s a Jew, but you’d never know it using the “You Look Jewish Test.” But don’t immediately assume that just because he seems so sanitized of his Jewishness or his Israeliness on the TV show that he is not proud to be a Jew or to be Israeli, because he is in his own way. Since actions speak louder than words, Ami already has proven his care for Am Yisrael, when Ami was eighteen he left America and joined the IDF when he did not have too, where he trained and served as a fighter, putting his life on the line to defend Jews in the Jewish State.

Is Ami James a Jew or an Israel to admire? That is for you to decide.

This is a video of a candid interview of Ami James done in NYC .

1. Jones, C.P. “Stigma”: tattooing and branding in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, Journal of Roman Studies, 1987, 77, 139-55: facial stigma represented extreme social degredation.

011 Leaked Palestinian Psychology Report Causes Political Rift!

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The Palestinian Dream

According to sources in Israel’s Judenrein (Built and assisted by Jewish money) Bir Zeit University, numerous conclusive studies that were about to be published in America’s leading journal on Psychology on the psychological effects that 9/11 has had on Hamas, PFLP, Al Aksa Martyrs and El Fatah fighters since 9/11, have been confiscated by Hamas and the Professors silenced.

However the digital age outfoxed Hamas and copies of the studies conclusions were leaked to news sources before they could be taken, quickly proliferating around the world. According JM’s Psychology expert who has read the leaked report, “Apparently, a particular psychological trauma has manifested itself commonly among all of the Palestinian militant groups since right after 9/11, it resulted from their perception of how the 9/11 hijackers aka Al Qaeda in the simplest of terms, “out-terroristed” them. In other words Palestinian terrorists are suffering from acute inferiority complex and low self esteem issues.”

The expert goes on, “The Palestinian report accurately details how many Palestinian militants are functionally ineffectual fighters and useless civilians and for all intents and purposes, with most suffering from acute sleep deprivation and incontinence. The absence of any kind of counselling infrastructure to handle the post traumatic stress that the fighters suffer coupled with the Palestinian society’s denial of P.T.S.S, aggravates the problem. “

Also according to the report, ” Hamas fighters have ceased doing joint terrorist training seminars and information sharing chat forums with Hizbolla almost completely because Hizbolla fighters routinely make references to the small sizes of Palestinians sexual organs and lower brain capacities.” However the Palestinian Psychology report’s most interesting point is found in a story which one of the interviewed terrorists tells. In it he alleges that while he was stationed in Arafat’s Muqata guarding Arafat during the 9/11 attacks, Arafat was tremendously vociferously angry at the success of the twin tower attacks, bu nott because he felt bad for America or the victims, but because he was not able to achieve such a historical feat in thirty years of diabolical schemes.”

JM’s senior sources in Israel’s Peace Now (Shalom Achshav) Organization report that, “members of Peace Now’s elite were horrified to hear about the sad psychological state of affairs of the Palestinians and many have since donated large sums of Jewish money to help rehabilitate the Palestinian fighters, with some elites calling for ceasing funding for Israeli war veterans and diverting Jewish communal funds to helping the Palestinian terrorist veterans.

009 One Of The Men Behind The Music That You Love

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Nasty Little Man

Interview with Steve Martin, President of Nasty Little Man

By Dustin Herlich

Jewish Mayhem had the opportunity to chat a bit with the Beastie Boys recently before their concert in Brooklyn, New York. The press conference was organized by Nasty Little Man. Nasty Little Man is a New York based public relations firm that represents a pretty impressive set of clients. From Jimmy Eat World to Beck, The Foo Fighters and of course, the Beastie Boys, musical acts big and small know they can turn to Nasty Little Man.

Steve Martin is the founder and president of Nasty Little Man and guess what, he’s Jewish too! Jewish Mayhem was lucky enough to secure a little of Steve’s time for an interview. You can read it all right here.

Jewish Mayhem: For the record how about your name and position at Nasty Little Man?

Steve Martin: Steve Martin. I started and own the company. Not really big on titles but I guess that makes me president.

JM: Can you tell us a little bit about what you do there, and what your company does overall?

SM: I run the place basically. I sign the clients, come up with the strategies and targets for the campaigns. As for what we do overall, my company’s function is to look after the media profile of my clients. This means pitching and/or deciding what they do in the magazines, newspapers, weeklies, zines, blogs and late night tv shows.
JM: Nasty Little Man is an interesting name for a PR firm. How did you come up with that?

SM: It was something really ridiculous that someone said to me at the first and only record label job I ever had. The company had been purchased by Sony and was starting to put out a lot of crappy music. I was getting grilled about why the crap wasn’t getting as much positive press coverage as the good stuff that I’d been working on before. I told them in all honesty: because it was shit. Someone said “you don’t like anything! You’re just a nasty little man!” Which I thought was hilarious because I knew for a fact that I had a bigger and more diverse knowledge and collection of music than anyone in the room. So I quit really soon after that, sort of drifted a little, played some music for money here, did a bit of writing there and ultimately started getting excited about a few artists who were up and coming–this was pre-Nevermind, mind you–like Helmet, Ween, Smashing Pumpkins and Guided By Voices. I incorporated under the name nasty little man when the company became a full time thing.
JM: Your client list is fairly impressive. Beastie Boys, Rammstein, Beck, Radiohead… why do you think such big ticket names turn to you for your services?

SM: Some turn to me, some I chase. Honestly I never go after the biggest flavor of the month or whatever. You mention Rammstein. I went after them in 1997. I had no idea their first U.S. record would sell so much.

I think at this point whenever I sign a new client, which isn’t that often, it’s because they know that they’re one of a kind on my roster. Know what I mean? They also know that my firm does really quality work for a select few clients. It might sound elitist but I only want the best. I’m honored to work with Radiohead, Beck, Beastie Boys and all my clients. That has a lot to do with why I have no interest in working with the “next” Radiohead, Beck or Beastie Boys when people try to pitch me clients as such.
JM: Can you tell us a little bit more about how you got involved with the Beastie Boys in particular? I understand they were with you from very early on.

SM: I would say beastie boys were the pivotal client that turned Nasty Little Man into a full time enterprise for me. I knew those guys in a couple of different contexts. I would see them around when I used to play music back in the New York hardcore days. Then, when I was writing, I did a few major pieces on them. Finally, in the Check Your Head days, Mike D just called me at home one day and asked if I was still doing the PR thing. They were looking for an indie firm. The company that had been repping them was run by a mutual friend who was folding her company. So anyway, we met up during that tour, like ’92-93 and before I knew it, things were in full swing. Working the set-up for the ill communication record, Luscious Jackson, Ben lee, the whole grand royal label and magazine. Crazy busy times…
JM: What’s the best part of what you do? What keeps you doing it day in and day out? Is it still fun?

SM: The best part of what I do is achieving the biggest goals. Getting a client their first major feature or magazine cover, or TV show. Saturday Night Live in particular. Growing up watching that show and being turned on to so much great music by it, there’s a magic about seeing my people up on that stage in that studio that never goes away.
JM: I understand that you yourself are of Jewish heritage (which is a big reason for this interview in particular). Do you feel that this has factored into your success in any way? Some of the people claim that having Jewish heritage is part of the “required street cred” for your side of the business. Some joke that if you’re a star and you’re not Jewish yourself, your agent has to be.

SM: [[laughing]] that’s something of a cliché’ I’m afraid. Sure there are plenty of Jewish people in high places in the entertainment business. But, in my experience, it hasn’t really been a factor. The majority of the members and managers of Radiohead, Foo Fighters, AFI, Spoon, The Strokes aren’t Jewish, neither are Ryan Adams, Damon Albarn (Gorillaz, The Good The Bad & The Queen). So honestly that stereotype has never held true in my professional experience.
JM: Any other thoughts on your heritage, or how it affects your life? I hear a lot that growing up immersed in Jewish culture taught them the values of hard work, learning, etc. Any thoughts on that?

SM: I can relate to that. There was definitely a big sense of Jewish work ethic in my family, emphasis on education and so forth.

I’d say the biggest impact it had on what I wound up doing with my life was the sense of being the underdog. Maybe some of that came from just being an outsider altogether, which I definitely was in my musical tastes. I think the Jewish experience played into that as well–like being in Hebrew school on Saturday mornings when the goyim were watching cartoons! Whatever the case, I’ve always felt most comfortable on the fringe; doing my own thing, not working for anyone else’s corporation, not letting anyone tell me what music I have to work.
JM: You’re probably saturated with music day in and day out, do you ever actually listen to music any more?

SM: Oh hell yeah, I listen to music all the time. Whether it’s discovering new stuff and rediscovering classic stuff, I’m always listening to music. I choose the clients I choose because I love their music so you’ll always catch me listening to them and going to their shows. As for what I’ve been listening to lately… Over the last few days, on these flights and at the hotel: Bob Dylan, Beatles, Ryan Adams, Steve Reich, Uncle Tupelo, e-40, Arcade Fire, Beck, Modeselektor, Blitz, Ulrich Schnauss, Spoon, Beastie Boys and advances of the new Foo Fighters, Jimmy Eat World and PJ Harvey, among other things I’m sure I’m forgetting. I guess I have musical ADD and I guess that’s a good thing.
JM: You’ve got your share of A-list clients, but what about the “little guy” do you still work with any lesser known bands? Do you still find it fun to work with them?

SM: Oh sure. One of the most gratifying parts of my job is that discovery process, then taking someone from total or relative obscurity to some kind of profile. There’s usually one a year, give or take. This year I’d say it was Andrew Bird. In the past it’s been Sigur Ros, Rammstein…
JM: Any words of advice for inspiring musicians out there?

SM: Just be yourself. Don’t try to be someone else or some hybrid of some other artists. Do what comes naturally. And do it for the love of music, do it because it’s all consuming and the only thing you can do. Otherwise you shouldn’t be doing it at all.
JM: Have any advice for those out there who’d like to get into the business side of music?

SM: Not really, other than that my advice to aspiring musicians goes for would-be businesspeople too. The business is changing, shrinking. It can’t afford to support the number of fair-weather types it once did

Here are some select campaigns nasty little man has run:

1992-1993
Helmet: Meantime
Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream
Luscious Jackson: In Search of Manny
Guided By Voices: Propeller, Vampire On Titus
Jawbox: Novelty
Shudder To Think: Get Your Goat

1994-1995
Beastie Boys: Ill Communication
Foo Fighters
Helmet: Betty
Luscious Jackson: Natural Ingredients
Shudder To Think: Pony Express Record
Sick Of It All: Scratch The Surface

1996-1997
Foo Fighters: The Colour & The Shape
Beastie Boys: Aglio e Olio
Cibo Matto: Viva la Woman
Luscious Jackson: Fever In Fever Out
Sick Of It All: Built To Last
Atari Teenage Riot: Burn Berlin Burn
The Tibetan Freedom Concert

1998-1999
Beastie Boys: Hello Nasty
Foo Fighters: There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Rammstein: Sehnsucht
Rancid: Life Won’t Wait
DJ Shadow: Brain Freeze
Asian Dub Foundation: Rafi’s Revenge
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros: Rock, Art & The X-Ray Style
Rockstar Games
The Tibetan Freedom Concert

2000-2001
Radiohead: Kid A, Amnesiac, I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
Jimmy Eat World: Bleed American
Sigur Ros: Agaetis Byrjun
At The Drive-In: Relationship Of Command
Alkaline Trio: From Here To Infirmary
Rammstein: Mutter
Aphex Twin: Drukqs
Supergrass
BS 2000: Simply Mortified
Dark Days
The American Astronaut

2002-2003
AFI: Sing The Sorrow
Foo Fighters: One By One
Radiohead: Hail To The Thief
Coheed and Cambria: In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3
The Mars Volta: De-Loused In The Comatorium
Sigur Ros: ( )
DJ Shadow: The Private Press
Alkaline Trio: Good Mourning
Cursive: The Ugly Organ
Rancid: Indestructible
Sparta: Wiretap Scars
Supergrass: Life On Other Planets
The Directors Label: The Works of Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham
Andrew W.K.: I Get Wet (Island-Def Jam)

2004
Beastie Boys: To The 5 Boroughs
Jimmy Eat World: Futures
The Blood Brothers: Crimes
The Comas: Conductor
Junior Boys: Last Exit
Rammstein: Reise, Reise
Probot
DJ Shadow: In Tune & On Time Live
Sparta: Porcelain
The Good Life: Album of the Year
Now It’s Overhead: Fall Back Open
Beep Beep: Business Casual
Son, Ambulance: Key

2005-2006:
Foo Fighters: In Your Honor, Skin and Bones
Beck: Guero, Guerolito, The Information
Gorillaz: Demon Days, Demon Days Live shows and DVD, Slowboat to Hades DVD
AFI: Decemberunderground, I Heard A Voice DVD
The Strokes: First Impressions of Earth
Thom Yorke: The Eraser
The Mars Volta: Frances The Mute, scabdates, Amputecthure
Jimmy Eat World: Stay On My Side Tonight EP
Alkaline Trio: Crimson
Mates of State: Bring It Back
Bob Mould: Body of Song
At The Drive-in: This Station Is Non-Operational – Anthology
deadboy & the Elephantmen: We Are Night Sky
Shooter Jennings: Electric Rodeo
Alexi Murdoch: Time Without Consequence
Phoenix: It’s Never Been Like That
Peeping Tom
Blood Brothers: Young Machetes
Rammstein: Rosenrot
DJ Shadow: The Outsider
THE DIRECTORS LABEL (Series 2): The Work Of Directors ANTON CORBIJN, JONATHAN GLAZER, MARK ROMANEK & STÉPHANE SEDNAOUI
Beastie Boys: Awesome… I Fuckin’ Shot That
Cursive: Happy Hollow

CURRENT CAMPAIGNS 2007:
Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
Ryan Adams: Easy Tiger
Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha
Beastie Boys: The Mix-Up
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Albert Hammond, Jr.: Yours To Keep
Dax Riggs: We Sing of Only Blood or Love
Cortney Tidwell: Don’t Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up
Rammstein: Volkerball

COMING 2007-2008:
Blaqk Audio
Foo Fighters
Jimmy Eat World
Radiohead

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