Sirens Salon Show Benefit (re-cap from 6/6/11) (Austin, TX)

June 11, 2011 |

Article by: Mamba

Video Footage by: Mamba

The Sirens Salon Show on Saturday was a benefit for all the victims of the recent tsunami in Japan.  The whole event was organized by Stephanie Salvo who also happens to be an amazing singer, but I’ll get into that in a bit. The event kicked off at 1p.m. and it was so hot you could boil an egg on the sidewalk. I arrived at 3p.m. with Kwestro and the first thing that caught my attention was massive amount of beverages and hot dogs they had available.

For this event to be Stephanie’s first event, I was pretty damn impressed by the seamless flow of things and what she had prepared for the attendees. There were 7 artist that performed, but I only got to see 5 because I showed up a little late. The first act I saw was this band called “Strong City 3″, and they were an all instrumental rock band that seemed to be reminicent of the 70′s garage rock sound minus a vocalist.

In between all the performances Stephanie would call out some raffle ticket #’s for all the people that participated in the raffle / auction, and the prizes were well worth it. There were items donated from the following business’s – The Long Center, Benihana, Ruthie Harper M.D, The Laser & Skin Care Clinic, El Arol, Yoga Groove, Jewkery by Leo Martinez, Austin Duck Tours, Catherines Pet Sitting, Palm Beach Tan, Sirens Salon, Pathway To Fitness & Advanced Body Work Center just to name a few…

The next performer to rock the stage was Music Producer – “Kwestro“.  Kwestro most definitely had the attendees keeping a steady beat with their feet, and a smile on their faces.  As I looked at the crowd throughout his set I saw a lot people wanting to dance, but were to shy to be the first one to touch the dance floor. Kwestro’s set consisted mostly of his new material infused with some space sounding sound effects. The highlights of his set is when he would play the original sample of the track before his production. This truly gave people a clear understanding of where the beat came from, and they were digging it!

Next on the bill was DJ Notion, who is the sole reason that undergroundhip-hop is still alive in Austin, TX. Due to the fact that this event was all ages, Notion had to keep the music selection respectful. That didn’t stop him from playing some amazing beats and censoring curse words with scratches! I remember at one point in his set he played “Madlib, J Dilla and Quasimoto” back to back to back.  At that moment I thought my neck was going to roll clean off my head because I just could not stop head nodding and smiling. Thanks for playing the classics Notion!

The next band that performed goes by the name of – “Hot Rod Radio”, and they were great! The highlight of their set was the Del Shannon – “Run Away” cover they did.

The second to last artist to perform was “Grimnasty and Jack Swiss”. Now I didn’t capture any footage or photo’s of these MC’s because I felt a lot of their content was repetitive, subject matter wise, and it personally didn’t move me….

The last act to perform was the organizer of the event – “Stephanie Salvo”.  Now I spoke with Stephanie early on in the afternoon, but I had no clue how amazing of a singer she is. When Stephanie started to soundcheck with Notion, my eyebrows raised and chills went down the back of my spine. This is just another reason why I love Austin, TX. Austin is an endless melting pot of talent, and you never know when or where you’re going to see it. Stephanie had myself and the other attendees eyes glued to the stage throughout her whole set. When she was performing I kept asking myself – why haven’t I heard of this female? I would not be suprised if you see Stephanie Salvo in the company of Christina Agulara, Pink or Gwen Stafani one day. Steph Salvo is very talented, undiscovered, hardworking, and down to earth. Be on the look out for her fam.

Overall the event was a success! Sirens Salon raised over $1500 dollars for the victims of the recent tsunami in Japan, and tons of cool prizes were received by those who participated in the raffle.


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  • Grimnasty

    Wow I thought we were cool but I guess not? The Kind Budz songs are about smoking and having a good time, hence the marijuana subject matter, so if you aren’t into doing anything like that, please leave disrespectful comments to yourself…considering how much respect I have shown you in public, it would have been better not saying anything at all.  Being a counter culture group showing up to a benefit for a good cause should have said enough about us. Man I thought we were homies, but I guess you really are a Black Mamba, smile in your face (which you did plenty that day) and a snake behind your back. Everyone did awesome that day!

  • Mamba Juice

    Grim,

    First off this was constructive criticism. Secondly, you’re taking this out of perspective. I could see if I came out and said these guys suck and were terrible, but I didn’t. I said “your performance personally didn’t move me”, and I gave you a reason why. As a publisher I call it like I see it. I don’t give props to my friends just because they’re my friends and I’m entitled to my own opinion.Even if I didn’t mention you in the article, you would still would be mad because I didn’t mention you. The way I see it is, at least I was man enough to be honest with you and you’ll always know where I’m coming from.I keep it real homie…  

    • Grimnasty

      I plainly said that it would have been better to not say anything at all, considering that you didn’t want to cover it. Yes the Kind Budz sing weed songs, Jakk and I solo sing different material. The reason why it seemed spiteful is because you point out our real names as ” implying that these guys who only rap about marijuana” when that is solely a Kind Bud act with relative subject matter. The way you did it made it seem was like “Grimnasty” and “Jakk Swiss”, were lesser artists because of that fact, when you know I throw down and do a great show..this seemed like a spiteful opportunity to slander me and Jakk individually by making us look like one trip ponys when that’s not the case. That was a Kind Budz set, with weeds songs…duh!!…Then you said the repetitive subject matter didn’t move you when it was totally justifiable, Kind Budz, hello!!!???!!  So I think Jakk was right either you were too ignorant to realize we were playing as the Kind Budz ( which was yelled through most of the set) or you were just trying to be spiteful and point us out slandering our individual names. Maybe an accurate, less haterized, more professional way would be to say the next to last artists the Kind Budz sangs drug songs, not my kind of show, the subject matter was repetitive. See now it doesn’t sound like your being a hater.

      • Mamba Juice

        It is, what it is homie…

        :::Deuces:::

        • Grimnasty

          Grimnasty, nor Jakk Swiss is all about one thing, and respectfully to the name and theme, justifiably the Kind Budz are.  I hope you’ll keep that in mind, next time you use my solo name out of context. I can’t believe I invested $100 into ad space of the same magazine that is slandering my trademark. Unbelievable!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/Jakkswiss Jakk Swiss

    Author,

    For future reference when you write a review for a charity event, you are there to write about the event itself. We were there to support my homegirl and help bring awareness to a cause, not to impress an amateur writer. This is not constructive criticism bro, lets not be ignorant.

    • Mamba Juice

      If you go back and read the article, you’ll notice I did write about the event hour by hour and the artist. There’s nothing ignorant about it nor amateur.

      • http://www.facebook.com/Jakkswiss Jakk Swiss

        So you were there to critique artists and judge as if this was some kind of contest? All Im saying is that you were the only one to write a snyopsis of the event and nobody gives a shit who you like. That remark was done out of ignorance or spite and you are an amateur for not realizing that.

        • Mamba Juice

          The remark was not done out of ignorance and spite. I call it like I see it. Just like any other publication.

          • http://www.facebook.com/Jakkswiss Jakk Swiss

            Word, good luck to you man. Just learn when and when not to state your opinion. Im not bothered by the fact you didnt feel our shit but this wasnt a show and prove article or a phat or whack section…. This was an overview of a charity event that we took part in out of love and respect for the person and purpose…. Now we look like assholes because an amateur writer has an opinion.