TONIGHT: Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton
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With Peanut Butter Wolf, who has possibly the worst name in hip-hop.
Tonight, PhilaMOCA's screening the Philly premiere of Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton, a documentary on Stones Throw Records.
Featuring interviews with hip hop heavyweights KANYE WEST, SNOOP DOGG, QUESTLOVE, COMMON, MIKE D, J DILLA, DOOM, and many more, OUR VINYL WEIGHS A TON draws on live concert footage, never-before-seen archival material, inner-circle home video and photographs and in-depth interviews with the folks who put Stones Throw on the map to delve deeper into the label's enigmatic artists, history, culture and global following. But more largely, Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton explores a spirit of independence and dedication to core artistic principles which have guided Peanut Butter Wolf and the entire Stones Throw collective for nearly two decades.
There'll be a live Q&A with Peanut Butter Wolf, who's also playing the first show of the Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton tour with others from Stones Throw at Boot & Saddle later that night.
A recent conversation in the office ranked "Peanut Butter Wolf" at the top of the list of names that make it really hard to take a worthy musician or band seriously. Where's the name from? According to the ever-reputable Wikipedia, Chris Manak:
... took the name Peanut Butter Wolf in the late-80s when he realized that a girlfriend's youngest brother feared the "peanut butter wolf monster" more than death itself.
That is a bad explanation, Wikipedia! Unfortunately, though the same information is cited on the Stones Throw website, so it's probably not just made up, we can't find anything more specific about the Peanut Butter Wolf Monster than that at the moment. Like what it looks like, or what it would do to children if it catches them. Anyway, here's a trailer.
