Sissy Bounce at the Rollup
Saturday, March 6, 2010
the Rollup Bazaar
4401 San Leandro St (between 44th Ave & 45th Ave)
$8

This event has had much trouble coming into existence and has finally been
confirmed! FUCK What YA Heard its on Saturday!

This evening's entertainment will showcase an appearance of New Orleans
bounce rapper, BIG FREEDIA QUEEN DIVA backed by DJ RUSTY LAZER complete
with dancers straight from the Big Easy.

Local talent will include:

a hyphy set from
DJ MARIN ( Otherworld)
http://www.otherworld.ws

SF Bay Guardian's best dance dj 2008
DJ RIPLEY (havoc, deathsucker, surya dub)
http://djripley.blogspot.com

the most booty shakingest
Tang Li Wheebs (SPAZ Sound, Tea Camp)
http://soundcloud.com/otherworld/tang-li-wheebs-spaz-party-10-09-09-mix

the master of menace
RICO PREDICATE (Otherworld, 5lowershop)
http://www.myspace.com/ricopredicate

a special hip-hop set from the sound fucker-upper
666gangstaz (5lowershop)
http://www.myspace.com/gutterscience

sound reinforcement provided by
SPAZ Soundsystem
http://www.spaz.org

all going down at the Rollup Bazaar
4401 San Leandro St
(between 44th Ave & 45th Ave on the street side of the vulcan studios)
$8

>From Rusty Lazer...Big Freedia's DJ...

Links to video online:

http://blog.thenewpop.com/2009/09/23/life-glasslands-azz-everywhere/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2-b4riVABk

http://vimeo.com/5187989

http://www.thefader.com/2009/10/08/interview-with-big-freedia-nola-bounce-diva/

Articles Featuring Big Freedia:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/05/AR2010020504011.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123424006

http://www.antigravitymagazine.com/antigravity_vol6_issue12.pdf

http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/05/catch-dat-beat-a-new-play-celebrates-bounce-music-and-new-orleans%E2%80%99-culture/

Link to Bounce mixes by Rusty Lazer:

http://soundcloud.com/rustylazer/tracks

Links to Purchase Big Freedia Tracks Online:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/big-freedia-hitz-vol-1/id351297031

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00354V99O/ref=dm_ap_alb1?ie=UTF8&qid=1264802514&sr=1-3

http://www.emusic.com/album/Big-Freedia-Big-Freedia-Hitz-Vol-1-MP3-Download/11787160.html

Big Freedia's Bio:

Big Freedia is an accomplished "Bounce" Rapper who lives in New Orleans
and performs six or more times a week in various venues throughout the
city. Bounce is an original urban music rising up from the intimate and
fun-loving nature of the housing projects which dominate the city's street
culture. "Sissy Bounce" is the informal name for a derivative of Bounce
that has risen to prominence in recent years and features explicitly gay
and cross-dressing musicians and themes. Big Freedia is at the forefront
of this movement and has had several New Orleans hit singles from her
albums "An Ha, Oh Yeah" (1999) and "Queen Diva" (2003). Freedia began her
musical career almost 15 years ago at the Walter L. Cohen High School in
Orleans Parish, where she was enlisted as choir director in her Junior and
Senior years. She sees her performance as a Bounce artist as an extension
of this work, often interacting in a call and response/teacher and
student, fashion with her audiences. She recently developed a musical
about her life entitled "Catch That Beat" with producer Lucky Johnson. The
sold out first run of "Catch That Beat" featured cameo appearances by a
who's who of New Orleans Bounce artists alongside the story of Freedia's
upbringing in New Orleans 3rd Ward. She performs in various venues (often
decorated by her own event production business) and has recently begun
traveling outside the city with the encouragement and support of the New
Orleans Airlift. Big Freedia has always acted as mentor for many younger
artists, is currently recording her third record and recently returned
from a stellar 6 show run in New York City, performing sold out shows with
Spank Rock, Ninjasonik and many others at venues such as Santos Party
House, Glasslands, and Sway. This year Freedia will be returning to South
By Southwest, performing at multiple events including a retrospective
Bounce Showcase and a historic second performance at Gay Bi Gay Gay after
a short tour of the west coast with New Orleans collaborators Galactic.

Rusty Lazer's Bio:

Rusty Lazer is a DJ from New Orleans, Louisiana that specializes in the
street music of his adopted home town.

Following in the tradition of the second line parades and block parties
that make New Orleans famous, Rusty Lazer spins songs from the three
hundred year old repertoire of street music this decadent city has to
offer. In a single set, dancers are likely to hear the hypnotic beat of
the Mardi Gras Indians, Hot Jazz from the early 20th century, Twists from
the 50's, Soul and R&B from the 1960's and 70's, Brass Band jams
stretching across all of these eras and even the modern block party sounds
of Hip Hop and Bounce Music (a particular invention of local musicians
that manages to feature all of these styles rolled up together with an ass
shakin' beat!) along with mash-ups of all of the above created by Rusty
Lazer himself. In addition, he moves across multiple unrelated genres
(electro, bizarre 80's, new wave, international ghetto beats, dance punk
and metal) as well in a kind of "kitchen sink", but always danceable,
fashion. Other Music Records in New York calls his set "a sweaty, mega-mix
crash course in the hard and nasty sound of the 'Nolia (New Orleans).
Rusty Lazer ain't for the prudes, but it's some of the most infectious
dance music you'll ever hear if you're not familiar." He has performed at
clubs, art galleries, benefits, guerilla public events, and created
soundtracks for circuses, plays and performance art spectacles in museums
and galleries throughout Europe, the U.S., China and Japan. Rusty is
currently working live with "Sissy Bounce" (queer/transgender) superstars
Big Freedia,Katey Red and Sissy Nobby, whose songs are at the top of the
local radio charts and heard on the streets at every block party.

In 2009 Rusty performed for Deitch Gallery at Art Basel in Miami, at
multiple benefit shows for Swimming Cities of Serenissima by installation
artist Swoon, at many New York clubs with Big Freedia and at SXSW events
such as Gadjo Disko and Gay Bi Gay Gay in Austin.

2010 will see more of the same as Rusty and Freedia head to Los Angeles
and San Fransicsco with New Orleans band Galactic, performing at the El
Rey and the Fillmore. A team of talented people Rusty works with are
spearheading a retrospective Bounce Showcase at SXSW, as well as a return
to Gay Bi Gay Gay. In addition several documentary projects featuring
Bounce artists will be released this year, foremost of which is a VBS
(Vice Magazine's Online Video Site) Produced Bounce snapshot featuring DJ
Jubilee, DJ Blaqnmild, Sissy Rappers and much more.

My website with impressions of my first "real" Sissy show:

http://www.rustylazer.com/?p=49

An article I inadvertently wrote by trying to describe Sissy Rappers to a
photographer in New York:

http://www.thecouchsessions.com/2009/10/spotlight-sissy-bounce/

A link to a mixtape by my friend Lefty Parker:

http://planarianproductions.blogspot.com/2009/02/sissy-bounce-mixtape.html