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Mayer Hawthorne: Not Your Typical Soul Singer...really my game plan. I moved out to Los Angeles about three years ago to pursue a career in hip hop music. And I ran into the CEO of Stones Throw Records, a gentleman by the name of Peanut Butter Wolf, and I knew about Stones Throw. It was... In this article: Public Radio, Peanut Butter Wolf, Stones Throw Records, New Orleans, All rights reserved, and Ann Arbor, Michigan |
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | November 13, 2009
Mayer Hawthorne interview
Wogan isn't widely known for his support of underground West Coast hip hop labels. But A Strange Arrangement, released on LA's respected Stones Throw imprint, recreates the Motown sound pioneered by Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye with a...
In this article: Motown, Detroit, Mark Ronson, Stones Throw, Back to Black, and Curtis Mayfield
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BC Heights | November 11, 2009
Dam-Funk Arrives With Sprawling Debut
Dam-Funk (pronounced "Dame," as in Damon) is from Los Angeles, Calif. His debut album, Toeachizown, is out now on Stones Throw Records, a prominent haven for forward thinking, experimental hip-hop. The result is a behemoth 139 minutes long.
In this article: Funk, West Coast hip-hop, G-funk, WC, Westside Connection, Mack 10, and Ice Cube
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PopMatters | November 03, 2009
Mayer Hawthorne: A Strange Arrangement (Review)
...would believe anyone would devote this much time and energy in jest-the album was picked up by California experimental hip-hop label Stones Throw after the label's chief, rapper/producer Peanut Butter Wolf, heard only a snippet of Hawthorne's...
In this article: Smokey Robinson, R&B, Stones Throw, Peanut Butter Wolf, Isaac Hayes, Motown, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, and Bar-Kays
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L.A. Times - Music News | November 01, 2009
Dam-Funk: In with the new, out with the old
...you are / You hold the flame of the funk and that's real / You know who you are / Live your dreams, don't let no one take them from you." Stones Throw Records last week released all 139 minutes of Dam-Funk's full-length debut,...
In this article: Peanut Butter Wolf, Funk, Leon Sylvers III, E mail, and God
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PopMatters | October 28, 2009
BK-One: Radio Do Canibal (Review)
Sole-source albums such as Radio Do Canibal aren't anything new. Stones Throw mad scientists (and brothers) Madlib and Oh No have both tackled this concept in their careers. Oh No, for example, released two albums of this kind; Dr. No's...
In this article: Brother Ali, P.O.S., Raekwon, Phonte, Dr. No's Oxperiment, Oh No, Scarface, Rhymesayers, and Black Thought
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Pitchfork | October 12, 2009
Peanut Butter Wolf - 45 Live
...collector's item-- a stack of newly-pressed 45s of these edits, stacked inside a PiL-style circular metal box and sold through Stones Throw's site-- yet is there really any benefit to hearing your favorite hip-hop classics, but...
In this article: Peanut Butter Wolf, MC Shan, DJ Shadow, Fearless Four, Old School, Just-Ice, T La Rock, Cut Chemist, Juice Crew, and Run-DMC
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True/Slant | October 04, 2009
Top ten non-chiptunes musicians inspired by video games
...with a free, unreleased track. Artist: Doom (aka King Geedorah, Victor Vaughn, MF DOOM, Metal Fingers) Label: Lex Records, Stones Throw Records, Rhymesayers (and many others) Doom is well known for his love of comic books,...
In this article: John Vanderslice, GTA: Chinatown Wars, MF Doom, Lex Records, Ghostface Killa, and Pixel Revolt
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washingtonpost.com | September 30, 2009
Nightlife Agenda
...of Detroit, and he wears the badge of the classic Motown sound proudly. His work now reaches the masses through Los Angeles's Stones Throw Records, known as much for twisting retro sounds into new contexts as it is for tweaking the...
In this article: Mayflower Hotel, Arlington, Washington, Prince Paul, and Flying Dog Brewery
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thestar.com | September 27, 2009
Soul's big surprise
...sold-out show. Hawthorne, born Drew Cohen, has been a deejay and in hip-hop bands for years. Then two songs ended up in the hands of Stones Throw label head Peanut Butter Wolf, igniting a foray into neo-soul that even surprised him. "I...
In this article: Motown, Peanut Butter Wolf, Stones Throw, Snoop Dogg, Smokey Robinson, Curtis Mayfield, and Ghostface Killah
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National Public Radio | September 17, 2009
Iran: An Unlikely Treasure Chest Of Funk
It was recently reissued on the Messin' With Sly compilation. Egon is the general manager of the Stones Throw label. He also founded Now-Again Records, which reissues American funk and soul albums, as well as the Soul-Cal imprint with...
In this article: Tehran, Iran, Hava Nagila, I Want to Take You Higher, Stones Throw, Woody Allen, Aretha Franklin, and Afrobeat
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Stones Throw Records is an independent hip hop record label based in California.
It was started in 1996 by DJ/Producer Peanut Butter Wolf. Its subsidiaries Now-Again Records and Soul Cal Records specialize in funk and soul re-issues.
Stones Throw is home to Madlib and many of his projects: Madvillain, Jaylib, Yesterdays New Quintet, Quasimoto, Sound Directions and Lootpack. Other notable artists on the Stones Throw's past and present roster include James Pants, Gary Wilson, The Turntablist (aka DJ Babu), Rob Swift, Rasco, Breakestra, Oh No, Dudley Perkins, J Dilla (aka Jay Dee), and Koushik, . J Dilla (Jay Dee)'s final album during his lifetime, Donuts, was released by Stones Throw in February 2006.
In 2006 the label announced new signings Aloe Blacc, J Rocc, Roc C, Cue, and Georgia Anne Muldrow, and an upcoming compilation of new material including Madvillain for the Adult Swim network. Jeff Jank is the designer of a great deal of the album covers on the Stones Throw label.
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's Old Money is the first album that The Mars Volta guitarist/producer/writer/arranger will release with Stones Throw Records.
- Name:
- Stones Throw Records
- Location:
- Los Angeles, United States
- Founder:
- Chris Manak
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