wrote about my favorite album of the year by a band that continues to surprise me. bangers on bangers of every shape and size. a brutally fun 31-minute masterpiece that shoehorns meathead hardcore, art/noise guitar textures, seattle-via-nola grunge, and even houston rap
From nu-metal to Madchester and beyond, the Austin metal trio Portrayal of Guilt's ambitious fourth album brings all their disparate influences under one roof
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navigating the fucked up, unneccesary, morally complicated, and sometimes kind of funny world of AI rap videos in the column this week https://t.co/gn8qoRGLr1
now that lianne la havas’ “weird fishes” has been out for six years i feel secure in calling it one of my all-time favorite covers https://t.co/QxwU8dNSFq
also, for the record, they didn’t technically headline. massive attack played after them.
at the end of that set, i’d been in the pit for almost eight hours. a sincere thank you to my water bottle of vodka for dehydrating me enough to handle that without bathroom breaks
i was front row at this show and remember it fondly. malkmus’ wife passed out cherry garcia bars to us. flava flav walked in front of the stage and i shook his hand and he told me, passionately, “i love pavement”
the current media landscape is weird bc i have no idea who operates vice now and they are tweeting rambling, unhinged paragraphs to 1.8 million followers