Black Fiction’s Tim Cohen Gives South By Southwest His Californian Treatment:
“Me, Chavez, and Ant’s favorite part of SXSW was seeing UGK (Underground Kings). They are Texas rap legends! Pimp C is finally free — he ripped it up, Bun B tore it up, you could smell the syrup fumes in the air, too. One of them had praying hands bling on his pendant and one of them had the Ten Commandments bling on two tablets. There was a white dude in front of me that knew every single word. The cool thing was that the songs are pretty much all morose and tragic and hopeless, but you wouldn’t know it becasue everyone was so psyched to see these dudes play. And then those sausages they sell in the street, I ate one of them in two bites.”

Ghost Ride was one of the finest releases of the year 2006 and this band infrequently plays very far away from home. Since we’re normally here in Illinois/Iowa, that’s a long ways from the band’s home. They were one of my must-haves when we were down in Austin and we were able to have them by on the Saturday of the festival right before we skipped town. I can see this pack of dudes back in California, portraying their own version of “Entourage,” but it’s still unclear to me who would play the role of Johnny Drama and do all the cooking. It would be a strange show. – Sean Moeller

First song
Carry Him Away (Black Fiction) [3.82MB] [1180 downloads]


– original version appears on Ghost Ride
This song was composed on a small Casio keyboard. The refrain is, “Music is a terrible thing.” It tells the story of a penniless troubadour. There is a black bird and machines in the song too.

Second song
Let's Go Underground (Black Fiction) [4.79MB] [1149 downloads]


– original version appears on the tour-only disc 8-Track Recordings
This one has Jason punching out the beat on the MPC. It says that if you’re scared of trees, fire, or water and stuff, you should go underground, like maybe about six feet or so. Come with me! Before you do that, though, check out the ripping guitar solo.