When someone asks you to go to a rap-rock show, the best course of action is probably to do a murder.
Maybe a suicide, too, just to be safe. But despite the 90s' greatest
efforts to destroy two otherwise good genres of music, it's not all
bad; not all rap-rock is gonna make you look like a goon in every
middle-school picture. Check out Milwaukee rapper JUICEBOXXX, who
adeptly mixes early 80s hip-hop, hair metal riffs, and a bit of eccentric indie-pop, with sounds that wouldn't seem out of
place on either License to Ill or Odelay. You could thank bands
like Ratatat or Sleigh Bells for bringing big guitars back into
pop and hip-hop without treading the terrible music threshold, or
even rappers like Das Racist for doing fun, tongue-in-cheek hip-hop without any
pretense for radio-ready, ringtone pop. Or, you could just check out JUICEBOXXX when he fronts a live band in Buffalo tonight at Facility (25 E. Huron, 4th
Floor, 7PM), on a stacked bill that also includes Extreme Animals,
Schwarz, UVB-76, NPLSK, and Jack Toft.
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"do a murder" ha boo-yah!
this was awesome