people who get shit done despite all odds, despite all the people that try to stand in their way.
people who risk everything because they believe in themselves.
people who push boundaries and change music and the world.
Sounds Like
beats and rhymes and stuff, A hybrid sound that challenges genre. Poppy hip hoppy experimental
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Also check out this short video interview with my other band, Ice Cream Socialites.
Katastrophe (aka Rocco Kayiatos) is a San Francisco based rapper and producer. He's a seasoned vet on the mic and got his start competing in poetry slams in 1997. Combining his love of music and language, he started rapping and making beats in 2002. He uses his poetic grasp of language to weave dense tales of lives lived outside the mainstreams of education, class, and culture. He makes hip-hop that explodes with dangerous and ebullient passion. Crafting both dark anthems of anxiety and righteous rage, and sexy, flirtatious, booty-shaking pop/rap bangers. Katastrophe is a wonder - both authentic and audacious, emitting enough raw energy to electrify Las Vegas and enough earnest analysis to save you years of therapy. He was crowned Producer of the Year by Out Music Awards for his debute album Let's Fuck, Then Talk About My Problems. Kayiatos has since released a second album entitled Fault, Lies and Faultlines and his third and best full length release, The Worst Amazing is set for release in December on 307 Knox Records. He has toured the US and Europe several times and continues to travel to support his releases. He is a feature in the documentary films Poetic License and Pick up the Mic. His video for the song "The Life" was on MTV networks LOGO top ten click list for 12 weeks. His music has helped soundtrack The Showtime Network's The L Word, as well as several short films. Kayiatos is the subject of a forthcoming biopic called The State of Katastrophe.
Press Quotes:
"Katastrophe shines as bright as any MTV rap luminary but does so by flashing lyrical skills, not bling... musically he stays in step with trendsetters like Missy Elliot and The Neptunes.
Kurt B Reighley, The Advocate
"Katastrophe's manic beats and wicked lyrics are anything but commonplace... the undeniably sexy MC with the Barry White deep growl." T Cooper, OUT magazine
"Katastrophe's music is funny, sad, angry and lyrically complex. Sometimes it sounds jagged, sometimes it sounds sweet. The music is a lot like Kayiatos -- dark and charming at once."
Rona Marech, San Francisco Chronicle
He has shared the stage with Le Tigre, Gossip, Saul Williams, Bitch, Chicks on Speed, Michael Franti, Dead Prez, John Cameron Mitchell, Kiki and Herb, Amy Ray, and many more.
You can buy my cd's now or check me out on itunes music and buy a single song
LET'S FUCK, THEN TALK ABOUT MY PROBLEMS for $12.31 (s&H not included)
or FAULT, LIES AND FAULTLINES for $12.31 (s&H not included)
thats muffin! my new lil kitty. i haven't had a kitten since i was 17 and now i'm 30! i luvs her sooooo much! she is 6 months old and sleeps on my head. i hope to come down to homoagogo next summer in sf, then we can have a visit and go for cupcakes ok! miss u.
Mom come to my profile to listen to the song playing on it, that's me singin on Tim'm West's song!! I recorded with him a little bit, the start of a beautiful friendship for sure! Love and miss you! ~Maia
HAPPY BIRFDAY, Katastrophe!!! I know, I know--In Guahan/Guam "Where America's Day Begins" it technically is your birthday today since we're a day ahead of the rest of U.S. Anyhoot, just wanted to let you know I'm sendin lots of love and prayers your way, Bro! Take care and holla back when you can. Word!
CLICK HERE to listen to WARBEAR interviewed by LOUISE BAK (Pt.1)
CLICK HERE to listen to WARBEAR interviewed by LOUISE BAK (Pt. 2)
This issue Is going to show Louise Bak, an asian sex researcher and performance artist, opening the WARBEAR world. This deals with a 21st century bear perspective rotating about desires, fears and compulsions, pushing bear identities beyond its limits, catching gay male upcultures, designing masculine representations through netporn, analysing bearabisms and migrations as sexual sterotypes, arriving to morphing cultures, transgendered bears, sex magick and the assassination of love.
MyHotComments WANTING TO SAY THAT I HOPE YOU HAVE A FANTASTIC DAY MY SWEET & SO HANDSOME FRIEND, MUCH FRIENDLY LOVE, SATIN SNUGGLES/RUBS & KISSES TO YOU ALWAYS. TAKE GREAT CARE & PLEASE, EMAIL ME SOON & OFTEN, I LOVE HEARING FROM YOU SO MUCH, YOU ALWAYS MAKE MY DAY & NIGHT SO MUCH BETTER...THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU!!
Thanks for befriending my music page! Enjoy the tunes and check back for updated blogs, tour info, etc. And feel free to comment or msg me whenever. I love getting feedback from new friends and fans! Also, my debut album is coming out at the beginning of Oct! xoxo alyssa suede =)