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August 10, 2009 | Author obibest
Bring your heart of gold! Obi Best, Xu Xu Fang and Great Northern will be playing the Pablove Foundation’s Benefit Show at The Bootleg Theatre on August 13. Hosted by FMLY with dj sets by Division Day.
100% of profits will go to the Pablove Foundation, started by Dangerbird Records co-founder Jeff Castelaz and his wife Jo Ann Thrailkill whose five-year-old son Pablo passed away froma rare form of children’s cancer this past June. The Foundation directly supports the research and cure of pediatric cancer. For more info, visit: Pablove.org + Facebook
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Tags: bootleg theatre, dangerbird records, division day, great northern, obi best, pablove, social science, xu xu fang | 
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July 29, 2009 | Author obibest
and we’re sponsoring an open call for remixes of Obi Best’s ‘Origami’ off the albumCapades. Favorite remixes will be released by Social Science Recordings as a digital compilation.
Deadline: October 31, 2009
Additional contest details and assorted nitty gritty here.
May 22, 2009 | Author obibest
This is from a session from March. The guy with the awesome falsetto? Bram. The guy doing hands-free on the keyboards? Aaron Arntz. Enjoy!
May 11, 2009 | Author obibest
If you love Obi, please vote for their video on MTV U, and help get it into rotation at all the universities.
http://www.mtvu.com/music/the-freshmen/nominees-051109/
You can vote as many times as you like, so feel free to block out full days of your life this week to to sit at your computer and help put Obi on the map. Actually, go out and live life to the fullest, but if your roommate’s hogging the bathroom and you need to kill some time, please pop in and throw a few votes Obi’s way. Voting closes this Friday May 15th, 5 pm (PST). Thanks friends!
April 2, 2009 | Author obibest
The cultural juggernaut has spoken! Of course we think our newborn deserves a sweeter score, but 6.4 isn’t so bitter in Pitchfork terms. Read and decide for yourself whether Obi has been mis-understanded/mis-underestimated or this just tastes like dark chocolate.
