Rock band puts out unoriginal sludge The Shys Astoria Available Now When my untimely demise arrives and I am dragged to the brimstone-lined halls of Hades - bad people section - the Shys shall surely be the soundtrack ensuring that my eternity sucks. I say this because every second I have to listen ...
Before I sit down to write a hip-hop review, I make hip-hop beats. Having acquired beat-writing software from a friend who was tragically killed by rebels in a remote Peruvian village, I find it necessary to the writing process that I suffer the endlessly repeating realization that I possess no amount of measurable musical talent. It aids in the bitter metamorphosis required to transform from ordinary human schlub to venom-spitting dynamo.
The Procussions march to the beat of a different drum. But every rapper, producer, DJ - whoever - has echoed this exact sentiment from the beginning of time, no matter how derivative and unoriginal they come across.
I just realized that I like NOFX for the same reason I hate the Rolling Stones. Both bands are old and way past their prime. The members look like they have been to hell and back. Their new music pales in comparison to their older stuff.
In the next week I will be jettisoned from the mildly informative and somewhat overpriced college teat from which I have been suckling for five or so years. A little weary of the world I am.
The pervert general of hip-hop returns. Kool Keith is arguably the weirdest MC ever to grab a microphone. He changes names more than J-Lo changes husbands. His most popular album didn't even come out under his name.
In what is surely a sign of the apocalypse, Alternative Tentacles has released a Christian punk album by a band called Knights of the New Crusade.
The horrible sting of disappointment sears all five of my senses like an eyelash a millimeter too close to a crack lighter. The new season of "The Sopranos" is terrible.
I have spent the majority of my time here at our lovely - and reasonably priced - University hating on all of those who drive the Herculean transports collectively known as Sport Utility Vehicles.
Speech, front man for hip-hop collective Arrested Development, made his name in the world with music that possesses a distinctly Southern vibe, long before the dirty South sound that embodies much of hip-hop today.
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