New York, March 22, 2007 – Brooklyn hip-hop mastermind El-P brought a new album out – only his second and five years in the making – called I'll Sleep When You're Dead. In the five years since Fantastic Damage, he's been busy producing records by Cannibal Ox, Mr. Lif and Cage to name a few, running his record label Definitive Jux, and remixing the likes of Nine Inch Nails, Beck, and TV on the Radio. To celebrate his new release, El-P and some of his close friends and colleagues (Aesop Rock, Cage, Weathermen, Quin, Mr. Dibbs) played before a sold-out Bowery Ballroom audience.

El-P took to the stage wearing the blood-spattered day-glow orange "Camp Delta" jumpsuit from his music video Smithereens; the one that depicts him being brutalized and tortured by masked men in military fatigues. The bloodied jumpsuit, Nike Dunks, and stylized gore lent El-P's stage presence a certain theatricality, a la punk icon Jello Biafra. Needless to say the crowd ate it up, and loudly sang along - fans already knew the words to most of El-P's songs that had been released only last Tuesday!

El-P closed the set by dedicating his standard Stepfather Factory to his mother, who was beaming with pride as she watched her son from a balcony table above the main floor. For an encore he was joined on stage by his Weathermen crew for a rare run through of their Left It to Us. If the crowd's love was any indicator, then there's no chance whatsoever that they'll sleep when he's dead, not touring, or otherwise on hiatus. That said, don't wait another five years to make the next album! - Damien Neva