My friend and I were thinking after we saw this show, there might actually
be a new name for the type of music we just saw this
evening. Genre-bending is a good compound word for what it was. Another
word some may dispute vigorously is Pop. God-damn-mutated would also
fit. Fucked-up is also quite a good one. I say it was
Digi-Punk-As-Fuck. Fuck-pop. Fuck up. Whatever.
Kevin Blechdom - Crucify me for saying so, but she's a cross between
Madonna and Kathleen Hanna wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in a
mystery. When I walked in the warehouse she was belting out every single
song with a ton of passion and confidence, seriously busting shit out. All
the hip-hop guys in the crowd (as well as the cuties) were paying full
attention; she had everyone wrapped around her little finger. Kevin was
dynamic, she was engaging, and she can fuck a Drumstation up.
Gold Chains - Last time I saw Gold Chains, I got really pissed off -
immediately, someone drilled body-style through the crowd, sending beers
flying and cute girls turning, and spilling my drink on my shirt. This
after a non-typical sex-funk set by Kit Clayton ... I was put off, and in
a bad way. This time he rocked, very very hard, and featured 2 girls
singing and rapping Blondie-oh-so-cute-style along with him (including a
feature by the ladies only) - he was mugging - shuffling - and shouting
his fucking head off. What a superstar. His voice isn't for everyone but
he sure has one ...
Cex - I know Cex has been hotly disputed on this list, and accurately for
sure, but I can say this with confidence - this guy knows how to rap
pretty well and can work a crowd like no other. Hell, he crowd-surfed at
the end of his set. He panned his hand between the speaker stacks at the
beginning of his 2nd tune, right with the music, he turned his shirt into
at least 3 different shirts during the set, and he managed to work 2 bars
of vocal improv from some very nice looking girl who seemed to be on some
dissociative drug into his last piece. He's pretty funny. He knows how to
talk to crowd and he is, as he says, pretty honest all in all. At least I
bought it. His shirts are wack but his show is great, trust me, a total
stranger!
Anticon - God damn, I missed whoever was playing from Anticon. 2 things
are true though: They had a couple guys in the audience wearing t-shirts
Sharpied with sayings from Sole and someone else from the crew, and they
were really deep sayings, and fuck it, I wonder if these 2 kids actually
knew what the fuck is going on with Anticon at all?! Anticon is great,
musically though, you have to respect the proliferation of stuff they put
out, tape-hiss or not, Anticon is under-fucking-ground wierd-ass hip
hop. I'm sorry I missed the show, but I had some business to attend to
back at home ...
PS: I am not affilated with the Tigerbeat6 corporate entity or Anticon
artists either, this is just a distraction.
PPS: Whatever this shit is, it's fun and interesting and says something
too ... girls like it and guys want to make it ...
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