| Summer Mixtape: Dewey Decibel | June 30, 2014 |
Dewey Decibel is freestyling right now over coffee and brunch This summer mix is a compilation of my top played tracks in my iTunes right now, an eclectic mixture of tracks that I have been banging on the regular. There is usually a track that comes along while I am grinding on some graphic design […]
Chris Daly doesn’t drive a Honda Civic — that’s a girl’s car By and large, much of the talk about Open Mike Eagle’s latest opus Dark Comedy has focused on the first half of the titular equation. Few would deny that Eagle is hitting his full stride on what is sure to make innumerable “Best […]
| Drake Suarez: If Rappers Were Footballers | June 20, 2014 |
Somehow the rap game, reminds Dweez of the beautiful game. Art by Ben Bjelajac. Drake featuring Drake. We’ve now seen all 32 teams play in this tournament. Google searches are 10x higher for the World Cup than they were for the NBA Finals this last week. The game done changed and here is a guide […]
| Open Mike Eagle + Tragedy + Time = Dark Comedy | June 9, 2014 |
Respect Paul Thompson’s qualifiers “I keep remembering that the preview audiences, before the critics went, didn’t have anywhere near the amount of trouble understanding what the play was about; that didn’t happen until the critics told them that it was too difficult to understand.” – Edward Albee, 1964 “There are low expectations of people who […]
| First Step is Intention, Second Step is a Glance: Open Mike Eagle “The History of Modern Dance” Video | May 27, 2014 |
Chris Daly lusted after Lisa Bonet long after she joined A Different World I have no idea why it’s taken me this long to come to the conclusion that Open Mike Eagle may very well be my favorite MC in the game today. His lyrics often speak directly to me, from his love of comic […]
| Spring Mix: Dewey Decibel | May 5, 2014 |
Dewey Decibel is an emcee/visual artist from Philadelphia who has a deep love for breakfast foods and brunettes. This is a mixtape that reminds me of the ones I used to make for myself when I was in High School. I would dub cassette tapes with all of my favorite hip hop tracks jammed together […]
| Round & Round: Music From Outkast, Open Mike Eagle, Gary Clark Jr. Salva, Karl Hector & The Malcouns, & Yves | May 1, 2014 |
To get the signals straight, there is a YouTube video of Outkast’s entire set from the Counterpoint Festival. All reports are that they are slaughtering every show after that first week of Coachella, which means that Andre understood that the Coachella VIP section had a river of pink sludge running beneath it and was weirded […]
Whether you did or did not even know it, Shots Fired has a YouTube channel in which we post videos of each episode. Maybe you will humor me and subscribe and have the chance to win a free Atari lynx. In our latest scheme, DC Pierson puts everyone’s resume and facial hair to shame by talking to […]
Will Schube gets on down everytime that we hit ’em With each subsequent internet single or album release, it becomes clearer and clearer that Open Mike Eagle’s satiric art rap isn’t meant to be that funny. The only way Eagle knows how to talk about how fucked we really are is through sardonic half-jokes; we’re […]
We’ve taped 67 episodes of Shots Fired now and this one is among my all-time favorites. Nocando and I were joined by Open Mike Eagle and author/comic D.C. Pierson, who are two of the funniest people that I know. So naturally, it lapsed into a very serious conversation about what it’s like to be a […]
