Thunderheist ::: photo courtesy of Noise for the Needy

Let me let you in on a dirty little secret. I live in a cave. Underneath stalactites and stalagmites, adjacent to the bones of pirates who failed to find buried treasure, in a place where light does not know; this is what I call home. My interior designer is a troglobiont.

I didn’t know that Thunderheist’s last show before going on hiatus was going to be at Chop Suey until the night before the event.  My reasoning is the metaphor aforementioned. For a group that was around for a relatively brief amount of time, they burned quite brightly and did well for themselves.  “Jerk It” got featured on the soundtrack to a Mickey Rourke movie. How many of you can say that? Well, unless Xzibit and Vincent Gallo are Sound on the Sound readers (and undoubtedly they are), I don’t see many of you raising your hands. I have had the utmost pleasure of seeing Thunderheist twice at Chop Suey during the past seven months. The first show was great, but this one was even better. This was a celebration, not a moratorium.  Elbows were being thrown on the dance floor, flashbulbs felt up the room, copious amounts of red bull was drank, on-stage tequila shots inspired Isis to crowd surf, even Grahm Zilla got groped a bit as he made his way through the crowdon some songs. It was dope. I even found myself doing the hand gestures to “LBG” (Little Booty Girl) and I can’t even relate to that song in the biological sense.

Nobody gave a shit. Everyone was having fun. How often does that happen these days? I want to thank Noise for the Needy for the Needy for putting together so many great bills. I want to thank Thunderheist for all that they’ve done. Their export of freshly squeezed, just chilled, dance infected hip-hop with a double shot of swagger was delicious. They’ve made the world a better place and I hope to see them again soon.

In the meantime: Check out Isis Salam’s (frontwoman of Thunderheist) and Grahmzilla’s (the beats of Thunderheist) homepages for information on side projects.