4th single off of "Dorner Vs. Tookie" out now!!
http://hellfyreclub.bandcamp.com/album/dorner-vs-tookie

produced by Busdriver
mixed by Riley Lake

See Busdriver, milo and Open Mike Eagle in Minneapolis for the Midwest DVT release show Novemver 22nd first-avenue.com/event/2013/11/busdriver

Dorner vs. Tookie album release party at low End Theory 12/11/13
https://www.facebook.com/events/337369853073924/

All Pastel Everything w/ Busdriver, Open Mike Eagle and milo prod. by Busdriver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka2kntYbQf0&feature=youtu.be

You Took Your Time Feat Jonwayne Live At BBC Maida Vale

A Cover of a song you may never hear from an album that may never come out. Originally written for BlacRoc 2 by Dan Auerbach and Chuck Inglish years ago in Brooklyn New York. The song found its way into the hands of the O'My's via their producers Blended Babies and ended up being covered by them circa the "Chicago Style" sessions. 

Harmonize (Prod. Blended Babies)

The Soul Speaks Ft. De La Soul

“Stygian” pulls you into the deep - dark, elegant, and unshakably intense. Nathaniel Christopher crafts an atmosphere thick with bass and emotion, where every sound feels heavy and deliberate. It’s haunting but refined - a journey through shadow with purpose. The kind of track that doesn’t just play - it consumes.

Stygian Freestyle

08 - My House

from the upcoming album "Hella Personal Film Festival" (3/25)

vocals by Open Mike Eagle
produced by Paul White

About the upcoming album:
Open Mike Eagle might not have all the answers, but few artists in hip-hop, music, or American life are asking smarter questions. In a landscape governed by ceaseless babble, flashing lights, and hollow lies, Eagle harmonizes into the void so we don’t have to. 

On this descent into the digital trenches, Eagle teams up with British producer, Paul White for Hella Personal Film Festival. Released on Mello Music Group, the full collaboration finds White behind the SP-1200s, conjuring a psychedelic strain of soul-funk, booming drums, and 21st century crate-digging in tropical attics of the imagination. On the microphone, the Chicago-bred, LA-based, Eagle artfully breaks down the banalities and perils of the modern condition. 

Recorded in London, Eagle’s new album continues where his 2014 masterpiece, Dark Comedy left off.  It’s anxiety-riddled but whimsical, addicted to and scornful of social media, stuffed with old wrestling in-jokes and film snippets. Self-aware admissions blend into attacks on societal double standards. 

Known for alchemical solo work and collaborations with Danny Brown, Homeboy Sandman, and Mos Def, this is White’s first proper union with Eagle. The two artists bonded over the notion of diversity.  The process started out with rough demos, which White ended up finishing in post-production—playing guitar, drums, bass, keyboards, percussion and pieces of wood found in a forest. Its genius ultimately comes from the pair mining a deep vein of emotional content—a discussion of the things we feel that you don’t say. A movie that hits so accurately it’s almost uncomfortable.  

These are tense anthems for the vulnerable, consecrations to black people with rich internal lives, agnostic prayers for those grappling with pain. They’re emotional landmines leavened by the wry bleakness usually only found in great stand-up comedians. Eagle exists in the lineage of They Might Be Giants and Richard Pryor, Freestyle Fellowship and his longtime friend and collaborator, Hannibal Burress. 

Within the first act, the plot becomes clear. See “Admitting the Endorphin,” where Eagle raps, “I chase my poison tail and get so high that voices fail.”  These are the movies he’d make it he knew how to make movies. Surreal vignettes about waking up with burrito hangovers in hotels you don’t recognize, wondering if you remembered to charge your phone. Aesop Rock and Hemlock Ernst (Sam Herring of Future Islands) pop up as fellow travelers. 

No one is better than Eagle at capturing the nauseous disorientation of day-to-day life. The deluge of sports highlights, unread texts and Twitter notifications. The compulsive need to check your phone at red lights and pauses in conversation. But his incisiveness extends far beyond observational humor. “Smiling (Quirky Race Doc)” examines the slights and casual bigotry of daily interaction. “A Short About a Guy That Dies Every Night” is a morbid rumination on death. 

These are the returns after long dark nights of the soul. When the noises are loud, the lights are off, and the armor is pierced. Short films that loop over and over again, as soon as you close your eyes.  


Open Mike Eagle & Paul White - Check To Check

First single from upcoming album The Shoulder You Lean On

Produced by: J. Kelr
Lyrics and Vocals by: Rich Jones

Cover photo: Katie Levine

www.richjonesmusic.net

If I’d had it my way
I’d be half way across the globe
Living off the road
Making friends everywhere I go
But you know plans
They never go as you want
Stuck inside my woes
Stuck inside my haunts

Ain’t nothing doing
But
Ain’t nothing better
Easy as we do it
I’m yours
Especally in the winter
Hiding out together  
Ain’t nothing better
I’m whole

No coin to toss
Won’t chance my love to games
No coin to toss
Won’t chance my love to games

If I’d had it my way
I’d be way too removed
From all the things I love
All the friends who saved my soul
Cause you know plans
They never go as you want
Can save you from a disaster
And put love into my heart

Ain’t nothing doing
But
Ain’t nothing better
Easy as we do it
I’m yours
Especally in the winter
Hiding out together  
Ain’t nothing better
I’m whole

No coin to toss
Won’t chance my love to games
No coin to toss
Won’t chance my love to games
No coin to toss
Won’t chance my love to games
No coin to toss
Won’t chance my love to games

Coin Toss

That Love

That Love (Radio Version) [feat. Audessey, Greg Blackman & Knuf]

HipHop • Jazz • Space • Soul • Funk // Sounds Beautiful Like The Truth