Everything You Need To Know

Hey-- wanted to post an all-purpose update for people who wander over here after hearing us on the Current or after googling tigers. Some basic information.

We're a hip hop duo. Big Cats (producer/multi-instrumentalist) makes the beats. Guante (rapper/activist/national champion slam poet) raps. We also play live with a great band made up of 3/4 of Dragons Power Up plus others. Our new album, AN UNWELCOME GUEST, is a concept album about zombies and radical politics and superheros and love; it features Haley Bonar, Big Quarters, Prolyphic, Chastity Brown and Eric Blair of No Bird Sing. The album is out on Tru Ruts/Speakeasy Records, and is also featured at Strange Famous Records. Here's us:

1. Here's how you can get your grubby little hands on our album. Pick it up at shows, Fifth Element, Electric Fetus, Bandcamp, Itunes, more. Details in the link.

2. If you want to know about upcoming shows, your best bet is to check Guante's MySpace page. He updates religiously, even though people don't use MySpace any more.

3. Be our fan on Facebook! Search for "Guante & Big Cats." I've tried to direct-link, but it doesn't always work. We send out updates, but only about the big stuff, so it's not spammy.

4. Get at us on Twitter. Both Guante and Big Cats are active there.


A few choice quotes about the new album:

“Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.” --Sage Francis

"Part Cormac McCarthy, part Woody Guthrie, and part Public Enemy, An Unwelcome Guest is an intricately woven poetic and sonic excursion through landscapes mental, emotional, and physical, cementing Guante and Big Cats!'s status as two of the best emerging artists within Twin Cities hip-hop." - TC Daily Planet Album Review

"Fortunately, Guante has a deft sense of humor and style in his arsenal, along with a battle-hewn tongue that rattles off sharply-spit rhymes and high-concept narratives. His upcoming album An Unwelcome Guest tells the story of a traveler's fight against a zombie horde (stop me if you've heard that one before), but Guante's lyrics go deeper than the familiar comic-book premise into an authority-questioning meditation on violence that'd do John Romero's most allegorical moments proud. And Big Cats, his production partner on the new album, has the kind of chops that can only add to the atmospheric resonance." --City Pages

FINALLY, this: