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DJ Premier & The Badder Band: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert Hotney 13 Streams • 4 years ago

Aug 21, 2017 | Abby O'Neill | Three-time Grammy winner DJ Premier, one of the definitive architects of New York hip-hop, brought a new type of life to NPR's Tiny Desk: our first concert helmed by a DJ.

A packed house of head-nodding journalists grooved through their lunch hour to a nine-song medley of iconic Premier productions while decompressing from the unrelenting grind of the news cycle. The set list rested on the undeniable footprint of Preemo's classics, but this was more than just another DJ mix. His touring outfit, The Badder Band, overlaid Premier's blends with an undulating electric bass courtesy of Brady Watt, a steady accent on the one from drummer Lenny "The Ox" Reece and boisterous horns from Mark Williams and Jonathan Powell.

But it was Premier who remained front-and-center, commanding the crowd like a true party rocker. With throwbacks ranging from Gangstarr's "Step into the Arena" to an amped rendition of Jeru The Damaja's "Da Bitches," embellished by The Badder's jazzy horns, Preemo concluded the set with a "Moment of Truth," featuring the exalted rhymes of his posthumous Gangstarr partner, Guru.

Tiny Desk concerts are short by design, so naturally the format could barely scratch the surface of Premier's vault of street anthems, done for the likes of the Notorious B.I.G., JAY-Z, Nas, Kanye West, Big L, M.O.P., Mos Def, Group Home, Jeru the Damaja, AZ, Snoop Dogg, and many more. Even after a career spanning almost three decades, the man born Christopher Martin has managed to stay authentic to his analog grit and sample-chopping integrity, as if he were still an underdog.

SET LIST

"Premier Production Medley"

- KRS-One - "KRS-One Attacks"
- KRS-One - "MC's Act Like They Don't Know"
- Das Efx - "Real Hip-Hop"
- Nas - "Nas Is Like"
- Jeru The Damaja - "Da Bichez"
- Gang Starr - "Step In The Arena"
- Gang Starr feat. M.O.P. - "1/2 & 1/2"
- Royce Da 5'9 - "Boom"
- Gang Starr - "Moment Of Truth"

Musicians
DJ Premier (producer); Brady Watt (bass); Mark Williams (trombone); Lenny "The Ox" Reece (drums); Jonathan Powell (trumpet).

Credits
Producers: Abby O'Neill, Bob Boilen, Niki Walker, Morgan Noelle Smith; Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Videographers: Niki Walker, Kara Frame, Colin Marshall; Photo: Liam James Doyle/NPR.

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How OUR LADY PEACE Got So POPULAR Hotney 15 Streams • 2 years ago

The story of how Canadian band led by Raine Maeda got so popular.

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Whenever i listen to terrestrial radio where I live few Canadian few bands seem to get as much play as Our Lady Peace. The only band I feel like I hear more is The Tragically Hip.Today, let’s talk about the how the band got so popular - thanks in large part to their first two records.

I was in grade 6 living in a small town Alberta. A place called Edson - halfway between Edmonton and Jasper. I spent most of my youth there. That year we got a Tim Hortons, well it wasn’t just any tim hortons it was a tim hortons and wendy’s, we got on the map that year. One day a girl came in my class and said her Mom who was working at the tim hortons served the members at Our Lady Peace who came through town on their tour bus. This was when they were touring on their massive record Clumsy - Superman’s dead was inescapable. Well the kids in our class were super impressed.

Our Lady Peace was born out of a chance meeting between guitarist Mike Turner and vocalist Raine Maida in 1992. Turner is seven years senior to Maida. Thanks to a now weekly toronto entertainment magazine called Now.. Turner posted an ad looking for a singer.. Maida responded to that ad. They soon met and found they had a shared musical vision.
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Turner spent his teenage years in England before moving to Canada to do schooling at the university of western ontario where got an english degree.. He hlightlighted.Sex Pistols as one of his biggest influences Before forming out lady peace Turner worked in a machine shop and originally planned on doing biochemistry and genetics in university but he credited ayn rand’s book fountainhead as convincing him to really pursue his dreams of music.

Maida for his part studied criminology at the University of Toronto.Maida was influenced by stevie wonder, joy division, u2,, radiohead, blur, otis redding, tori amos, Maida told muchmusic his favourite vocalists were women - loving the passion a women could sing with. In fact a lot of press coverage focused on maida’s falsetto.

The duo quickly realized their shared musical vision and began recruiting other members to complete the lineup with their original rhythm section dropping out. Apparently Maida and Turner felt like they were more committed than their original bassist and drummer. They put another ad in the magazine and were soon joined by bassist Chris Eacrett and drummer Jeremy Taggart, solidifying the band's early lineup. Taggart, the youngest of the group was only 18 at the time finishing high school by correspondance with turner remarking to the drumme when they first met “jeez, does your mother know your here.” but once they started jamming that awkwardness was gone.

I do want to say that entertainment magazine Now wasn’t very kind to our lady peace when they got big with guitarist mike turner recalling “they’re the only magazine in the country that pretty much that gave us less than favourable reviews.”

”The name "Our Lady Peace" was inspired by a 1943 poem by Mark Van Doren, reflecting the band's deep, philosophical approach to music with Maeda telling the morning call “the poem is pretty dark, very interpretive. But it’s not about being heavy handed at all, but being open to suggestion.””

In their formative years, OLP was labed as being post-grunge or alternative rock drawing frequent comparisons to Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Smashing Pumpkins and Soundgarden in addition to led zeppelin. I do want to point out that in a lot of interviews for the band’s first two albums the band almost put down these groups citing their dark outlook in their lyrics without offering much in the way of hope. The band’s lyrics were frequently labeld as being darkly optimistic.

Our Lady Peace managed to carve out a unique niche for themselves, thanks in large part to Maida's distinctive vocals and the band's penchant for introspective lyrics. Maida described the band’s sound as a melting pot and added that the fact the members didn’t know each other super well led to a lot more spontaneity in their music. The group band opted to not focus on live shows initially, choosing to writeinstead. .Maida and Turner attended a music industry seminar in Toronto where each of them shelled out about $135. IT was at this seminar they met produ