LA Weekly: Rock the Bells Preview And Essay
It’s early in the morning, I’m catatonically exhausted, several beers deep and certainly in no state to express anything remotely resembling coherence. Bear with me.
So I wrote this big hip-hop genealogy thing for Rock the Bells, a sort-of primer guide to the acts and their chief influences. Along with it, I penned a hip-hop state of affairs essay. Lamentably, I had to compress in 800 words what needed 2,000, so go easy on me if it’s not as thorough as it should be (NO PRODIGY). I’ll also have a review of the show come Monday, so stay tuned to see whether Rock the Bells will top Saved the Bell and whether Spank Rock will perform dressed like A.C. Slater.
Good night, preppies.
LA Weekly: Rock the Bells Preview and Essay
Stumble It!
August 8th, 2008 at 7:34 am
But the sense of that fresh, wild style looms, with the rising talents’ indie-rock-infused fashion and sonics jarring enough to engender silly “hipster rap” labels from a calcified old guard whose memories are too short to recall that the cover of Grandmaster Flash’s The Message album is a closer stylistic kin to the Village People than to Wu Wear.
If we ever cross paths again, I’m buying you at least two beers for this. Rooftop like we’re bringin’ Chris Stein back.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Quite the lineup. Looking forward to the review. I trust some acts will get 15 min sets. Cheers brah