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Introducing Lil Reignbo & PHILyesPHIL, #InternetRap’s Funnest New Act
I’ve long been a fan of Saara Untracht-Oakner’s band You Can Be A Wesley. I wrote about them on here recently, describing them as “intricately looping guitar indie with hooks to burn that harkens back to the glory days of Boston college rock and makes you want to fall in love at a shitty basement party.” So when Saara sent me the first video, “Do Or Die,” from her brand new NYC/LA bi-coastal electro-hip-hop/surf bum/millennial-core duo Lil Reignbo & PHILyesPHIL, I was a little taken aback. What is this Kreayshawn-wave hipster bullshit, I thought? I better listen to it twenty times in a row and figure it out. Read the rest.
I reviewed the new Crystal Castles in Alternative Press
Oppression, injustice, suffering—they all seem typical subject matter for a group whose sound has always been rooted in the paranoid apocalyptic. On their third full-length, Canadian duo Crystal Castles have drank deeper still from the well of discontent, resulting in 12 tracks that paint an even bleaker picture than their heretofore already grim worldview. Read the rest.
Drink a big tall glass of history with Laird's Bonded Applejack
Every culture has its traditional alcoholic beverage of choice, but it has little to do with taste. For the vast majority of recorded history, people simply drank what they had on hand; whatever crops were in abundance where they happened to live found their way into the still. For Colonial-era and early American settlers, that crop was apples.
By now you've probably at least heard of the apple brandy Laird's Applejack, that most American of spirits — how it was George Washington's tipple of choice, how William Laird first produced it in New Jersey in 1698, how his great-grandson Robert Laird secured America's first distilling license in 1780, or how it's used in the classic cocktail the Jack Rose, all of which has been thoroughly documented by spirits writers far and wide. Slightly lesser known is a variation sold today as Laird's Bottled in Bond Straight Apple Brandy, which has recently started to make its way onto the shelves of Boston bars. Read the rest.
Everyone Gets Laid in New Amanda Palmer Video “Do It With A Rockstar”
Amanda Palmer is really good at making people mad on the internet, but did you know that she also has a side job as a musician? This new video for her track “Do It With A Rockstar”, co-created by The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne, which is a pretty good news peg as far as music blogs go, and featuring someone named Stoya Doll that I am certainly not intimately familiar with from my special internet time, is evidence of that fact. The video follows a gang of comically jaded hipsters and quotable drag queens (“Her hair look thirsty” is the best thing I’ve heard all week), as they gear up for the big Amanda Palmer show tonight! Read the rest.
Jay Z and Coldplay Announce Another Epic/Boring Team Up
Rap game Coldplay, Jay Z, has announced he’s set to team up with the Coldplay game Coldplay, Coldplay, for the biggest performance of the year in New York on New Year’s Eve at the Barclay Center, where Hova just completed a string of huge shows. Yet another hometown show solidifies Jay Z’s status as that one dude who graduated high school last year and still shows up to all of the dances and homecoming events, and marks the second time the coolest guy on the get out the vote presidential team has rung in the New Year with the British rockers after a performance in Las Vegas in 2010, and the first time they’ve teamed up since all the way back in the closing ceremonies for the Paralympic Games this summer with special guest Rihanna, which you can watch below for one reason or another, whatever your motivation for the types of You Tube videos you click on is it’s not really my business. Read the rest.
Is the New Tame Impala Record Actually a Republican Manifesto?
Australian music-making with instruments people Tame Impala’s second record Lonerism is out this week, and they’ve just released a visual interpretation of the song “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards.” It’s a fitting title, because the song, and the video, are decidedly backwards-looking. Got to say, this would’ve been a lot more poignant of a release had the results of the election gone in the other direction this week; this could be the Republican theme song, minus the whole it being good part. Although the past they’re always talking about returning to over there tends to skip over that minor blip in the cultural radar known as the 60s, which this song, and the rest of the psychotomimetic album feel beamed from, so maybe forget that whole thing I just said.
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