Left to their own devices with Scott Colburn (Arcade Fire, Animal Collective) at his voodoo lair, an old Finnish church turned recording studio, The Staxx Brothers return with a vengeance on We are The Blaxstonz. It's an album that borders on black comedy with heavier social undercurrents; by now as much Chappelle & Carlin as Big Boi and Jagger. It's a good time record that helps you dance through the tough ones. It's HARD A** SOUL. It's ice cold. This is the way they used to make records. Step real close and you can detect that heavy scent of Howlin' Wolf runnin' wild through a Hip Hop landscape… I can still hear him laughin’. -Dylan Van Keef Blessed by the guiding hand of Scott Colburn and his cousin, the currently incarcerated Crunk C (up for parole in 2012), We are The Blaxstonz is a tour de force of classic song craft and old school off the floor recording, featuring a wrecking crew of top shelf Seattle musicians. The album itself is a ten song cycle that from its blistering start to holy rolling finish; a dream fulfilled honoring Colburn’s goal of capturing napalm in a bottle, and Crunk C’s own hope to make a Hard A** Soul record so unforgettable the world dare not forget his work as he pays his debt to society. Where as The 12th Street Blues documents the evolution of the group over its 3 1/2 years of production, We are The Blaxstonz, completed over that many months captures everything The Staxx Brothers gained in establishing its definitive line up. Out of the wilderness years, DP Staxx & his back up singers The Staquelettes cut their teeth on the Staples and dined on the Carters. The band however stood the most to gain from hard time on the road; developing a sound as heard on deep cuts like ‘G-Spot’ & ‘Game Recognize Game,’ which has led many impressionable young women to collapse from sheer exhaustion. While many church groups have called these dark rhythms an abomination and an immediate threat to our nation’s youth, it takes but one listen to the sabers rattlin’ and heads rollin’, on songs like ‘Almost Got Shot in North Minneapolis’ & ‘Little Big Time’ to know these accusations are of merit.