Will Schube has two guns — one for each of ya doseone isn’t tenacious. His musical approach is variable: his flow shifts dozens of times per minute; his cadence—while not totally diverse—rarely settles into a comfortable pocket for an extended period of time; and his beats represent the aesthetic of a hip-hop junkie. doseone raps […]
| Naomi Punk – “Television Man” | May 19, 2014 |
Will Schube generates, operates, destroys all devils Naomi Punk’s music is best described with terms reserved for geometry. Their music is angular and oblique—there’s a mathematic quality so rarely heard in “punk” music. And this is what makes Naomi Punk so exciting–the geometric descriptors generally reserved for the classroom begin to crystallize. Their latest single, […]
| Yoni Wolf is The Rap Scholar Here to Make a Dollar | May 12, 2014 |
Will Schube spells cotton candy anyway you like it Yoni Wolf, frontman for rap/pop (or whatever genre the band’s dipping their toes into at any particular moment) group WHY? is going out on a solo tour with Serengeti. Both of these dudes are really good at what they do—but the ways in which each present […]
| The Antlers Check In: “Hotel” | May 9, 2014 |
Will Schube up in the Hilton, heard Nia Long was in the building The last time I listened to The Antlers was around the release of their first record, Hospice. That thing was so debilitatingly sad that I intentionally avoided their followup, Burst Apart. Burst was very well-received, with many critics sighting it as a […]
| In Search of Big Search – “Game of Images” | April 30, 2014 |
Will Schube runs the Passion of the Weiss Indie Rock Department from his hometown of Pawnee Matt Popieluch hasn’t been doing much of late. His spotlight dissolved when his band Foreign Born broke up, and his help with Fool’s Gold relegated him to the role of unsung hero. The dude’s had a presence as a […]
| Ought Can Be Dangerous and Habit-Forming | April 29, 2014 |
Will Schube’s life story is currently being adapted on HBO’s new series “Silicon Valley” Well, this is weird. Ought’s singer, Tim Beeler, sings “Habit” with the delivery of David Byrne’s twin. He deadpans, he yelps, he’s who you would point to if you had to explain David Byrne to someone without actually referencing David Byrne. […]
| Music For Your Silk Pajamas: Light in the Attic & Don Brown | April 28, 2014 |
Will Schube is butter on what say what the popcorn Light in the Attic unearths music you didn’t know existed and leaves you needing more. It’s this innate talent — the label’s sheer ability to pick out the right album from a dusty stack of $.99 records at the local thrift shop — that sets […]
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 […]
| The Fresh & Onlys – “Animal of One” | April 21, 2014 |
Will Schube is the ill crimin-al sumblin-al Everyone’s got that one band that goes criminally ignored for extended periods, before one of their song’s shows up randomly on your iTunes one day and you’re like, “Shit, I need to listen to them more”. And then you don’t. This process is cyclical. We all die alone. […]
| Woods – With Light and With Love | April 18, 2014 |
Willie Schube chooses light over dark The consistent excellence of Woods is by nature, both surprising and not. Why wouldn’t a band that turns out great record after great record be capable of doing exactly that again? While law of averages would suggest otherwise, such a law would also suggest that a band capable of […]
