Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar

Q's and A's about the Band
12/5/2007 1:06:49 PM

1.) How did the name "Chick Pimp Coke Dealer at a Bar" come about?

We went nameless for about year. We really wanted a name that nobody else would have. One day, we were getting drunk at the bar with Davy Howard from BUNK News and he suggested it. We figured, its orginal enough.

2.) What made you want to choose this style of music?

Well, we knew right away that we didn't want to be a rock and roll band. We all had a love for jazz. I think our style comes from studying history's strangest jazz bands: Miles Davis, Django Rinehart, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Mahavishnu Orchestra, the list goes on...

3.) Is the music you're own or cover songs or both?

We play a lot of original songs but we also like to put our own little jazz/polka twist on some old traditional songs from the 30's straight through the 90's.


By: Lottery Corp
12/6/2007 4:59:41 PM - OurTown

Chick Pimp's drummer, Cole Brokamp, describes their band's music as "collective." Their sound is a form of jazz based on a set routine twisted into an improvisational frenzy. It was formed by skills the members developed and refined from former alternative/death-metal bands they were involved with. From there, it was distorted into the sound it is now.

The Ohms are a reggae/funk band whose sound won them the title of Cincinnati Entertainment Awards "Jam Band of the Year" in 2005.

In between each act, raffles are scheduled to be held, with many prizes including a limited-edition Fender guitar and various gift cards. "We're likely to have around five separate raffles because all the companies donated so much stuff," Schlunt said.

Free food for the event has been sponsored by various vendors like Smokey Bones. There will be BBQ pulled pork, chicken and jumbo franks. According to Schlunt, there are high hopes that everyone will come out for a great time and a wonderful cause.

General admission to the event is $5. Tickets can be purchased online at www.madisontheater.com or at the door on Sunday. Doors are scheduled to open at 4 p.m. with the event kick-off around 5 p.m.

For more information about the three bands, check out their Web sites at www.noctaluca.com, www.theohmsmusic.com and www.myspace.com/chickpimpcokedealeratabar. - Alex J. Zugelter, The UC News Record

Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar – Bofa Deez

More of a stream-of-consciousness sonic experiment than a Jam Band, these guys are heavy on the Euro-Jazz and light on the string-plunking. Nick Mitchell takes the slanted keyboard wizardry and slice-n-dice compositional prowess that was so much of the attraction of his last project (The Terrors) and lets it off the leash. They’re groove monsters but more menacing than danceable. (EW)

http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-16884-the-year-in-cincy-recordings.html - CityBeat

Start with some contemporary jazz, blend in a little folk and top it off with a little bit of rock and you will have Chick Pimp.

In the fall of 2005, drummer and third-year biomedical engineering student Cole Brokamp and keyboardist Nick Mitchell decided to form a band.

Spawning as a side project of the Cincinnati-based band The Terrors, Mitchell and Brokamp added a bass player and were on their way. The band began playing bars and clubs as a

jam/improv band. As the shows progressed, however, the members decided to pull things together and began writing songs and working on home-based recordings, developing a sense of sound and style along the way.

"Originally we were kind of all into rock, but as we matured musically we got into jazz and folk," Brokamp said. "[Our sound] was an evolution of what we liked."

After finding their musical stride, the band began playing more shows and has continued to do so over the last two years, gaining momentum along the way.

Chick Pimp is now on the brink of releasing their first full-length album, entitled The Infinite Ozone Jazz Midi Orchestra. The album will be a combination of studio recordings as well as home-based records and will release sometime in July, according to Brokamp.

Brokamp and company are musicians with a cause and are currently working on their third-annual benefit show.

In 2006, Mitchell began a fundraising event, Adjust Your Eyes. With the rest of Chick Pimp jumping on board to help support the cause, the event has now become a big part of their careers.

"It's a lot of work because about one-third of the bands come from out of town and we are trying to make it a yearly event," Brokamp said.

Adjust Your Eyes has currently raised over $1,300 to benefit various businesses such as WAIF 88.3, Friends for Chris Walker and the American Cancer Society. The show takes place over the course of two nights, hosting 30 to 40 different bands.

This year, the show is set to be held at the Southgate House on June 27 and June 28 hosting a variety of bands including Apollo Sunshine, The Terrors, This Story, Misty Boyce and Chick Pimp.

The trio said it enjoys playing for a cause and as lovers of music are always looking to play for people who equally love music.

"We like to play the Mad Frog, we play there frequently," Brokamp said. "We like to play where people go to hear music; we like to play for people who appreciate music."

The band said it hopes to gain some more fans by making their appearance at the Acoustic Brew Feb. 21.

"We're trying to get our names out to people on campus," Brokamp said. "We are hoping to use [Acoustic Brew] as a springboard to promote."

Acoustic Brew is held in the Catskeller on the bottom floor of Tangeman University Center.

The show is set to begin at 7 p.m. and run until 9 p.m. - Virginia Baker, The UC News Record

Chick Pimp Coke Dealer at a Bar

Sardines, I tell you, by the time Chick Pimp Coke Dealer at a Bar came on stage. Before they played, Nick Mitchell (keys, vocals) yelled, “Is that you, Christina? How you doin?” which cracked me up (the name thing and his yellow glasses). Wonky Tonk was sitting front and center watching her friends, wearing a feather in her hair. Absolutely packed in there, and the energy was ultra-high. Wearing sunglasses and plaid, this band played their asses off. If you haven’t seen them, go see them.

On mandolin, Moriah Lawson had my “musician crush” vote for the night. Amazing to watch. Barefoot, with brown straight, short hair hanging in her face, her fingers move in a mad blur, and she’s the real thing. All of them are superb musicians, and they have that “all band” energy that leaks out into the room, a rare find — you can tell they’re a good match all around, and that they love what they’re doing. It all fits here. What talent.

So, Diary, I’m having trouble deciding on my favorite for the night. Let’s just say it rhymes with this: “Lick Gimp Toke Mealer at a Car.” - C.A. MacConnell

New album 'Bofa Deez' defies classification of any sort

BY Brian Baker | Posted 08/27/2008
Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar

Although a couple of spins through Bofa Deez, the debut CD from Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar, will inspire a good many questions, one look at the cover generates the logical first one: What the hell is up with the name?

"We started jamming as a three piece improv, and people were like, 'You should play our party or this bar,' and we started playing out before we even had a name," says Chick Pimp keyboardist Nick Mitchell over beers at Arlin's outdoor patio in Clifton. "It was one of those things where you're sitting at a bar and anything else doesn't make sense. We say one thing and it leads to this and next thing you know, our buddy Davey says, 'You should be called Chick Pimp comma Coke Dealer at a Bar.' And we were like, 'Sure, whatever.' "

"It was kind of a joke the first week, then we ended up making a MySpace page," says drummer/turntablist Cole Brokamp, known also as DJ Stump. "We were like, 'It's legit now, we're in.' We just stuck with it."

"It's good to have a name that you know nobody else has," says Mitchell. "It's truly distinguished.

It's like having a 24-letter password -- you know nobody's going to crack that."

Chick Pimp has actually been around for some time, side gigging while Mitchell and bassist Shane Wingert were still active as The Terrors four years ago. With the dissolution of The Terrors at the end of 2005, Chick Pimp became the viable alternative.

"It really started to accelerate when the Terrors broke up and I still wanted to play shows," says Mitchell.

Chick Pimp's core trio, along with saxophonist/flautist Dave Frank (who the band has only corresponded with electronically and who has been replaced with the one-named and intensely talented Bruce) and a host of other musical guests, have been working on Bofa Deez since the band became official more than two years ago. The lineup shifted when Wingert abruptly moved to Hawaii and Brokamp called longtime friend Dave Sweitzer to fill the bass void.

"We did the basic tracks for the album over a year ago and Shane had cut the tracks, and then he up and moved," says Brokamp. "I called David, because I've been playing with him since seventh grade. The first thing we did was the seventh grade talent show."

"We did 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' " says Sweitzer with a laugh. "I played bass on that, then switched to guitar."

"David can play anything," says Brokamp. "We've played in Ska bands, Punk bands, crazy Rock bands."

Bofa Deez took awhile to finish because, by their own admission, there wasn't a huge motivation for them to complete it. And the two creative paths that Chick Pimp was following -- Brokamp's home laptop recordings and Mitchell's electronic methodology -- were originally envisioned as separate entities until being combined into one concept.

"That's why it's called Bofa Deez," says Brokamp. "Because it's like two different discs incorporated into one."

"Like two testicles," says Mitchell with a wry smile. "It's just another one of those things that doesn't make any sense, just a bunch of ideas that flow into each other."

Although the band is just now distributing Bofa Deez, Chick Pimp has already largely moved beyond the material on the album, including their Electronic/Gypsy Jazz reading of the Mars Volta's "Miranda, That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore."

"It's to the point where we spent so much time on that album that we're already halfway through the next two albums," says Mitchell. "The next album is almost finished. We don't even play a lot of the songs on the first album live anymore."

In that regard, Bofa Deez has become an odd artifact for Chick Pimp's fans, who miss hearing the album's songs live. And it's easy to see why. Bofa Deez is a mad sonic collage comprised of any number of disparate sources, resulting in a style that could be described as Middle European Hillbilly Hip Hop Electronic Jazz Prog Fusion. And that may only be scratching the surface.

"I like that," says Brokamp. "It's so weird when people ask us what kind of music we play, we're like, 'Uh ...' Maybe Folk, but as soon as you say it, no, that's not it."

"We have no idea what to tell people," concurs Mitchell. "We all have a lot of Hip Hop influences. It's not like Bob Dylan or Johnny Cash. It's Jazz but it's not like Thelonius Monk. I think the strength of our band is that none of us really knows what our sound is, so if anybody comes to the group and says, 'We should call this Jazz traditional' or 'Let's do this funky twist,' everyone else is like, 'Sure, why not?' There are really no lines to draw."

- Brian Baker, CityBeat

New album 'Bofa Deez' defies classification of any sort

BY Brian Baker | Posted 08/27/2008
Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar

Although a couple of spins through Bofa Deez, the debut CD from Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar, will inspire a good many questions, one look at the cover generates the logical first one: What the hell is up with the name?

"We started jamming as a three piece improv, and people were like, 'You should play our party or this bar,' and we started playing out before we even had a name," says Chick Pimp keyboardist Nick Mitchell over beers at Arlin's outdoor patio in Clifton. "It was one of those things where you're sitting at a bar and anything else doesn't make sense. We say one thing and it leads to this and next thing you know, our buddy Davey says, 'You should be called Chick Pimp comma Coke Dealer at a Bar.' And we were like, 'Sure, whatever.' "

"It was kind of a joke the first week, then we ended up making a MySpace page," says drummer/turntablist Cole Brokamp, known also as DJ Stump. "We were like, 'It's legit now, we're in.' We just stuck with it."

"It's good to have a name that you know nobody else has," says Mitchell. "It's truly distinguished.

It's like having a 24-letter password -- you know nobody's going to crack that."

Chick Pimp has actually been around for some time, side gigging while Mitchell and bassist Shane Wingert were still active as The Terrors four years ago. With the dissolution of The Terrors at the end of 2005, Chick Pimp became the viable alternative.

"It really started to accelerate when the Terrors broke up and I still wanted to play shows," says Mitchell.

Chick Pimp's core trio, along with saxophonist/flautist Dave Frank (who the band has only corresponded with electronically and who has been replaced with the one-named and intensely talented Bruce) and a host of other musical guests, have been working on Bofa Deez since the band became official more than two years ago. The lineup shifted when Wingert abruptly moved to Hawaii and Brokamp called longtime friend Dave Sweitzer to fill the bass void.

"We did the basic tracks for the album over a year ago and Shane had cut the tracks, and then he up and moved," says Brokamp. "I called David, because I've been playing with him since seventh grade. The first thing we did was the seventh grade talent show."

"We did 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' " says Sweitzer with a laugh. "I played bass on that, then switched to guitar."

"David can play anything," says Brokamp. "We've played in Ska bands, Punk bands, crazy Rock bands."

Bofa Deez took awhile to finish because, by their own admission, there wasn't a huge motivation for them to complete it. And the two creative paths that Chick Pimp was following -- Brokamp's home laptop recordings and Mitchell's electronic methodology -- were originally envisioned as separate entities until being combined into one concept.

"That's why it's called Bofa Deez," says Brokamp. "Because it's like two different discs incorporated into one."

"Like two testicles," says Mitchell with a wry smile. "It's just another one of those things that doesn't make any sense, just a bunch of ideas that flow into each other."

Although the band is just now distributing Bofa Deez, Chick Pimp has already largely moved beyond the material on the album, including their Electronic/Gypsy Jazz reading of the Mars Volta's "Miranda, That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore."

"It's to the point where we spent so much time on that album that we're already halfway through the next two albums," says Mitchell. "The next album is almost finished. We don't even play a lot of the songs on the first album live anymore."

In that regard, Bofa Deez has become an odd artifact for Chick Pimp's fans, who miss hearing the album's songs live. And it's easy to see why. Bofa Deez is a mad sonic collage comprised of any number of disparate sources, resulting in a style that could be described as Middle European Hillbilly Hip Hop Electronic Jazz Prog Fusion. And that may only be scratching the surface.

"I like that," says Brokamp. "It's so weird when people ask us what kind of music we play, we're like, 'Uh ...' Maybe Folk, but as soon as you say it, no, that's not it."

"We have no idea what to tell people," concurs Mitchell. "We all have a lot of Hip Hop influences. It's not like Bob Dylan or Johnny Cash. It's Jazz but it's not like Thelonius Monk. I think the strength of our band is that none of us really knows what our sound is, so if anybody comes to the group and says, 'We should call this Jazz traditional' or 'Let's do this funky twist,' everyone else is like, 'Sure, why not?' There are really no lines to draw."

- Brian Baker, CityBeat

Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar Genre:

Rap


Where: Courtyard Cafe

When: 10:30 p.m. Friday

I’ll probably go see Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar (Cincinnati) because they are called Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar. It’s too much to resist.

-- Bill Donabedian, MPMF co-founder - http://www.metromix.com

Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar Genre:

Rap


Where: Courtyard Cafe

When: 10:30 p.m. Friday

I’ll probably go see Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar (Cincinnati) because they are called Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar. It’s too much to resist.

-- Bill Donabedian, MPMF co-founder - http://www.metromix.com

The name “Grasshopper Juice” may not sound familiar to local music fans right now, but this up-and-coming record label already has a noticeable foothold in the Cincinnati music scene. The label is the driving force behind Adjust Your Eyes, an annual arts & music festival in its fourth year, and its roster includes CEA nominees Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar, Wonky Tonk, and The Harlequins.

Grasshopper Juice Records was founded in 2008 with the goal to help bands that want to keep their artistic integrity but still successfully distribute their music, according to cofounder and CEO Nick Mitchell, also known as the lead singer of Chick Pimp. The idea to start a record label was conceived after Mitchell encountered frustration with another label.

“I just found that…I had been in a band before that had signed with a label and we ran into all kinds of stressful problems relating to it,” says Mitchell, referring to his previous band, The Terrors. “It ended up putting stress on the band and the band ended up breaking up.”

It was only years later after Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar began releasing and distributing their own albums that Mitchell and drummer Cole Brokamp decided to make Grasshopper Juice a reality.

“The two of us did all the recordings ourselves at home at first, and then we realized if we did this, we want to make connections with other studios,” Mitchell explains. It was then that they contacted Ben Cochran at Soap Floats, a recording studio located on the West Side in a church built in the 1890s. Cameron Turner later joined the label as its mastering engineer.

Mitchell admits that when the label first reached out to bands in late 2008, it was more of a DIY approach.

“[We would] basically work out a bartering system. That’s how a lot of it started out, having friends who were down with the bartering system, like where we’d help them in certain ways, they’d help us in certain areas. We’d get to bring in a band for a few hours, you know, just like where everyone’s scratching each other’s backs the whole time.”

The label has since developed a business model similar to Marriage Records; the label’s artists and staff are all friends, and even collaborate with each other on a regular basis.

Says Mitchell, “I think the strength of our label isn’t in the parallel styles…we all work together on each other’s music, even if it’s different styles. It’s more like the unity of the people involved…is kind of our thing.”

However, while the label’s current roster consists mainly of Cincinnati bands, Mitchell insists that they would eventually like to branch out, and have already received submissions from all over the world, including a distribution deal from a label in Russia.

While the label itself is still constantly growing and changing, Mitchell is certain about one thing: he’ll always let the bands have full artistic control.

“I only sign a band that I like, and I trust enough that they’ll make the album that they want, where most labels are gonna have someone there [during the recording process], which from a business point, is understandable. But if you sign the artist, like, you should trust them enough to you know, let them get comfortable and do what they want to do.”

For more information on Grasshopper Juice’s artists and events, visit their website. - eachnotesecure.com

CHICK PIMP, COKE DEALER AT A BAR
(Cincinnati) LAPTOP HILLJACK FUSION

Trying to accurately describe the unrelenting musical joy of Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar is like having sex with a flannel condom. Talking ain't hearing and hearing is the only way to appreciate the astonishing Free Jazz/Prog/Jamgrass/Hip Hop/Pop/Rock experiment that Chick Pimp brings to the studio and stage. Their sophomore album, The People vs. Lemoncello, is just another hint at what Chick Pimp is capable of doing.

Dig: They Might Be Giants, Phish, Sun Ra, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey and Mike Doughty mix up their laptops and accidentally collaborate." - Brian Baker, CityBeat - CityBeat

The name “Grasshopper Juice” may not sound familiar to local music fans right now, but this up-and-coming record label already has a noticeable foothold in the Cincinnati music scene. The label is the driving force behind Adjust Your Eyes, an annual arts & music festival in its fourth year, and its roster includes CEA nominees Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar, Wonky Tonk, and The Harlequins.

Grasshopper Juice Records was founded in 2008 with the goal to help bands that want to keep their artistic integrity but still successfully distribute their music, according to cofounder and CEO Nick Mitchell, also known as the lead singer of Chick Pimp. The idea to start a record label was conceived after Mitchell encountered frustration with another label.

“I just found that…I had been in a band before that had signed with a label and we ran into all kinds of stressful problems relating to it,” says Mitchell, referring to his previous band, The Terrors. “It ended up putting stress on the band and the band ended up breaking up.”

It was only years later after Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar began releasing and distributing their own albums that Mitchell and drummer Cole Brokamp decided to make Grasshopper Juice a reality.

“The two of us did all the recordings ourselves at home at first, and then we realized if we did this, we want to make connections with other studios,” Mitchell explains. It was then that they contacted Ben Cochran at Soap Floats, a recording studio located on the West Side in a church built in the 1890s. Cameron Turner later joined the label as its mastering engineer.

Mitchell admits that when the label first reached out to bands in late 2008, it was more of a DIY approach.

“[We would] basically work out a bartering system. That’s how a lot of it started out, having friends who were down with the bartering system, like where we’d help them in certain ways, they’d help us in certain areas. We’d get to bring in a band for a few hours, you know, just like where everyone’s scratching each other’s backs the whole time.”

The label has since developed a business model similar to Marriage Records; the label’s artists and staff are all friends, and even collaborate with each other on a regular basis.

Says Mitchell, “I think the strength of our label isn’t in the parallel styles…we all work together on each other’s music, even if it’s different styles. It’s more like the unity of the people involved…is kind of our thing.”

However, while the label’s current roster consists mainly of Cincinnati bands, Mitchell insists that they would eventually like to branch out, and have already received submissions from all over the world, including a distribution deal from a label in Russia.

While the label itself is still constantly growing and changing, Mitchell is certain about one thing: he’ll always let the bands have full artistic control.

“I only sign a band that I like, and I trust enough that they’ll make the album that they want, where most labels are gonna have someone there [during the recording process], which from a business point, is understandable. But if you sign the artist, like, you should trust them enough to you know, let them get comfortable and do what they want to do.”

For more information on Grasshopper Juice’s artists and events, visit their website. - eachnotesecure.com

"Local musical eccentrics Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar celebrate the release of their new CD, The People Vs. Lemoncello, with a huge show at the Southgate House this Friday. Performing throughout the Southgate will be The Sundresses, The Lions Rampant, Rumpke Mountain Boys, Wonky Tonk, The Harlequins, CJ the Cynic, Bullying Ben Jones, Losanti and many others. The show is also a “label launch,” as the band announces its new imprint, Grasshopper Juice Records.

It would be difficult to explain to your mom exactly “what kind of band” Chick Pimp is. As evidenced by their band’s name, this clearly isn’t a group of individuals interested in coloring between the lines. The People Vs. Lemoncello is all over the place, experimental by nature, but also joyful and playful. Throughout the record, the band sounds like a straight-ahead Jazz band, a Free Jazz band, Beck, They Might Be Giants, aliens, Jethro Tull, an Alt Hip Hop crew, Zappa on a laptop, a Bluegrass band, Soul Coughing … and that’s just scratching the proverbial surface. Over the course of 10 songs, Chick Pimp creates a mad collage of visceral sounds, like a mash-up band that doesn’t rely on other people’s music.

The album kicks off with two Jazz-inflected tunes, “Lemoncello” and “Samsara,” which turns into a flanged-out, carnivilian romp with a slackerly melody creeping in and out. On the title track, the band trades its saxes and clarinets for a thick bass line and pulsating beat, as Bullying Ben Jones and Rayna J help out with some blunt rhymes. The track “Manumaleuna” kicks off with a Klezmer vibe before mutating into some ’70s Fusion, all directed and tweaked by studio electronics. The album closes with “Plastic Man,” a duet with Wonky Tonk that sounds like a duet between Beck and Peaches, with splashes of ElectroBluegrass and the duet turning more into a Moldy Peaches-like song by the end.

Descriptors be damned, Chick Pimp stands as one of the more interesting and creative bands in the area. Even when the band falls short on the album, its still fascinating to listen to. And if you get to a part of the disc you don’t like, just wait three seconds — it’s gonna change." - Mike Breen, CityBeat

http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/blog-667-local-cd-of-the-week-chick-pimp-coke-dealer-at-a-bar.html - CityBeat

"Local musical eccentrics Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar celebrate the release of their new CD, The People Vs. Lemoncello, with a huge show at the Southgate House this Friday. Performing throughout the Southgate will be The Sundresses, The Lions Rampant, Rumpke Mountain Boys, Wonky Tonk, The Harlequins, CJ the Cynic, Bullying Ben Jones, Losanti and many others. The show is also a “label launch,” as the band announces its new imprint, Grasshopper Juice Records.

It would be difficult to explain to your mom exactly “what kind of band” Chick Pimp is. As evidenced by their band’s name, this clearly isn’t a group of individuals interested in coloring between the lines. The People Vs. Lemoncello is all over the place, experimental by nature, but also joyful and playful. Throughout the record, the band sounds like a straight-ahead Jazz band, a Free Jazz band, Beck, They Might Be Giants, aliens, Jethro Tull, an Alt Hip Hop crew, Zappa on a laptop, a Bluegrass band, Soul Coughing … and that’s just scratching the proverbial surface. Over the course of 10 songs, Chick Pimp creates a mad collage of visceral sounds, like a mash-up band that doesn’t rely on other people’s music.

The album kicks off with two Jazz-inflected tunes, “Lemoncello” and “Samsara,” which turns into a flanged-out, carnivilian romp with a slackerly melody creeping in and out. On the title track, the band trades its saxes and clarinets for a thick bass line and pulsating beat, as Bullying Ben Jones and Rayna J help out with some blunt rhymes. The track “Manumaleuna” kicks off with a Klezmer vibe before mutating into some ’70s Fusion, all directed and tweaked by studio electronics. The album closes with “Plastic Man,” a duet with Wonky Tonk that sounds like a duet between Beck and Peaches, with splashes of ElectroBluegrass and the duet turning more into a Moldy Peaches-like song by the end.

Descriptors be damned, Chick Pimp stands as one of the more interesting and creative bands in the area. Even when the band falls short on the album, its still fascinating to listen to. And if you get to a part of the disc you don’t like, just wait three seconds — it’s gonna change." - Mike Breen, CityBeat

http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/blog-667-local-cd-of-the-week-chick-pimp-coke-dealer-at-a-bar.html - CityBeat