THE REPORT: 12/16/22
NEVER COUNT OUT RIVERS CUOMO
No doubt about it: the best Weezer song in years. This is what the fans want. This is what the fans crave. I enjoyed that last Alex G record, but I don’t think he could drop bars like “We’re keeping score/We all are rational agents/We make our deals/To try to get more famous” inside of one of his dog songs. I’m not saying, but I’m just saying.
Found this song in a Martorialist comments section and I am glad I did because right here we got country rap supreme: Breaking Bad slide guitar just gliding over fundamental UGK-type drums and Tough Texas Talk. Fat Tony also has a good song called “Texas” that sounds like electroclash with a cowboy hat.
Wednesday stands out in a crowded crop of alternative rock. They got the songs and the sludge and the lap steel guitar. And they got the dirtstyle tour videos. Their newest single is an eight-and-a-half minute slow burner. I recently had a nice moment with the Mortal Kombat shred ending. The sun was setting and I was walking to get a bagel.
Pretty sick record. The artist used a MIDI-controlled pipe organ to make minimalist dance music. And YOU KNOW he did that shit at a church in Düsseldorf. This song is full-on single-instrument trance. Holy!
Militarie Gun (Feat. MSPAINT) “Can’t Get None”
From a press release that only exists in my stupid mind: Hattiesburg rap rock ragers MSPAINT add some sauce to Militarie Gun’s hardcore pop attack and the result is a Nu-American throwdown perfect for the pit and the Jeep.
Xanman rapping hard over a flip of this Zoomer Anthem. It’s the best Steve Lacy has ever sounded to me. Makes me want to ride a longboard to a third wave coffee shop in Silverlake.
MIX OF THE WEEK: Funkmaster Flex “Live on Hot 97 (7/4/98)”
Sad to say that my favorite Christmas Eve tradition is listening to Funkmaster Flex, Chuck Chillout and DJ Red Alert talk shit and reminisce live on Hot 97. Looking for a bit of that NYC rap radio magic, I found this YouTube upload from 10 months ago. Flex going crazy on the day they eat hot dogs on the boardwalk for sport. Was not expecting to hear him cut up doubles of Black Star “Definition.”