Music Erik Abel of Animal Farm and Focused Noise kept notes on his journey to SXSW last week. It's a bit of a bumpy ride...

Wednesday, March 17th
After a sleepless night, we boarded a 6:15 am plane to Austin, overflowing with members of Portland's Hip-Hop community, includin...   More

Music After traveling over 2000 miles with six guys in an SUV, pretty much everything uttered has become an inside joke. We were all pretty delirious as we rolled into South Lake Tahoe for our first of two shows with Tha Alkaholiks. We knew it would be crazy as we approached the venue at around 1...   More

Music It's been a wild ride. First, we headed to Eureka for a nice post-St. Patty's day celebration. Met some good people. Sold some of the new Focused Noise mixtapes and promoted the upcoming Animal Farm album The Unknown, which drops May 20th (plug). We did find a Band-Aid ...   More

Music The tour to promote the upcoming Animal Farm album The Unknown and new Focused Noise mixtape kicked off last night in Eugene for Saint Patty's Day, which is a night renowned for live hip-hop shows. Of course we had to celebrate with a few Irish Car bombs, a delicious dr...   More