Asher Roth

Make Time for These Hip-Hop Shows at CMJ 2012

By all means, enjoy the whispy waifs warbling their sensitive indie ballads up and down the city during CMJ. But make time for some hip-hop while you do. Here are a few acts worth your time. See Also: - Don't Miss These Bands At CMJ - Handy CMJ Flowchart Panel Selector

'Peter Rosenberg's Night of Real Hip-Hop' w/ Tyler, the Creator+Earl Sweatshirt+Raekwon+Asher Roth

Live: 2 Chainz, Asher Roth, Ace Hood, Vado, And Gunplay Pass Through The Gramercy Theatre

2 Chainz, Asher Roth, Ace Hood, Vado, and Gunplay Gramercy Theatre Tuesday, February 21 Better than: Clicking through the 50 best hip-hop jumpsuits. Is a show still a success if the audience has a great time, but never quite figures what's being promoted? Last night at the Gramercy Theatre, a webs ... More >>

Asher Roth

Live: Vex Ruffin Helps Stones Throw Take Its Next Step

​CMJ, Day Four: Vex Ruffin, The Stepkids, Jonti Better than: Listening to Stones Throw's present rap roster. The day before his first CMJ show, Vex Ruffin sat in a bar called Ontario in Williamsburg, wearing a t-shirt with the Seinfeld logo on it and quietly nerding out by giving the Stones ... More >>

Spotted At CMJ: Asher Roth, Nick Catchdubs, Fat Tony, And King Krule On Their Survival Strategies

Asher Roth. ​ With more than a thousand bands in the city for CMJ, there's a strong chance you'll happen to run into a musician on the streets, hanging out after a show, or taking advantage of an open bar at a blog party. We checked in with artists during the festival to see how they handled t ... More >>

Live: Hoodie Allen Fills Webster Hall to the Brim, Drinks It In

Hoodie Allen Webster Hall Tuesday, August 16 Better than: Waiting in line outside of the frathouse bathroom. When I was in college, people would party to music by Lil' Jon. (Yes, I'm old.) They said his catchphrases, as learned through Dave Chappelle DVDs. (Like I said: old.) They danced to his s ... More >>

An Idiot's Guide to SXSW 2011: DFA 1979 Chaos, Kanye in a Power Plant, Screeching Weasel Assault, and More

photo by Nate "Igor" SmithTexan frat-boy didgeridoos We know you hated us, and at this moment, we hate ourselves too. Since you probably (definitely/rightfully) blocked all the spirited gluttony and gleeful ignorance cluttering your Twitter feed about SXSW, let's just accept that a few things happe ... More >>

Q&A: "White People Rapping Poorly" Mastermind Connor Toole On What Makes Terrible White Rappers So Amusing

Asher Roth, one of the good guys​Today, the Internet is filled with more depravity and embarrassing footage than anyone could have ever thought possible. Fortunately for us, people like Connor Toole are seeking out the best of the best (or worst of the worst), and posting these .gifs or YouTub ... More >>

Top Five Train-Wreck Rappers

​The Berkley-based rapper Lil B plays the Highline Ballroom on Thursday; for curious New York gawkers, it's a chance to see the world's foremost proponent of a new movement you could kindly term train-wreck rappers -- those artists whose every youthful indiscretion, ill-advised comment, physic ... More >>

Week in Review: Shut It Down

Scenes from MtyMx. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy told our own Michael Musto to "eat it" and Musto sensibly retaliated by telling him to "suck it" right back, we spent a good chunk of the week unpacking the twin out-of-state enterprises that were SXSW and M ... More >>

Please Welcome the #FreeScooter Hashtag, Perhaps the Most Ridiculous Element in a Campaign to Free Justin Bieber's Manager From Nassau County Jail

Now, leaving aside the semantics of the "Free ____" meme, let's just review here for a second. Back in November, word of a scheduled appearance by the young Island Def Jam signee and Usher protégé Justin Bieber at Long Island's Roosevelt Field Mall resulted in a stampede that shattered the arm o ... More >>

Michael Jackson and Hip-Hop

Guess which one of those things didn't die this year

Wale's Attention Deficit Did Not Exactly Tear Up The Charts Last Week

​28,000 sold, or 5K less than Blueprint 3 last week, and, as a clearly broken up about it Byron Crawford notes, less than half of what Asher Roth managed his first week. Wale has a few theories about this.

Week in Review: The F. Scott Fitzgerald of American Indie Rock

Photo of South Williamsburg's the Woods by Puja Patel​In the week in which everyone went to rock and roll fantasy camp--whether it be the one that takes place inside the Colbert Report studios with the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle or the one that takes place on the disco dance floor with Vin ... More >>

Live: Reggae Star Serani Rocks S.O.B.'s, Eventually, But Here's Some Asher Roth In The Meantime

Serani, finally.Pics by Puja Patel, more below​Serani/Jah Bami/B-Wils S.O.B.'s Monday, August 24 Last night's Jamrock Magazine party was more a celebration of island culture than a show. Hosted by publisher David "Squeeze" Annaki with help from BET's Jeanille Bonterre, the event featured per ... More >>

Video Finally Surfaces From the Converse Band of Ballers Tournament

HOT 97 belatedly posts footage from Converse's Band of Ballers tournament. The details will be familiar to you by now. But should you be a scout for an opposing team, the video evidence that Asher Roth is terrible at basketball--and that Jones rides a mean skateboard--may come in handy. Also, it t ... More >>

Live from the Converse Band of Ballers: Mad Decent Loses, Fool's Gold Wins, and Jim Jones Takes Home A Golden (Spraypainted) Trophy

all photos by Puja PatelThe Brooklyn Crew's aggressive (and we suspect, inebriated) group of fans Converse Band of Ballers Wednesday, August 12 Yesterday's Converse Band of Ballers was as much of a shit-talking contest as it was a three-on-three tournament. The invite-only event went down at the C ... More >>

Jim Jones Bet Ten Thousand Dollars on That Converse Band of Ballers Event in Progress Right Now

Wow, so following this Converse Band of Ballers event on Twitter is kind of like watching baseball games on mlb.com or something. To recap: Jim Jones rode in on a skateboard, in order to "to taunt the hipsters." He's apparently playing every game with ten grand in his front pocket? And shooting ai ... More >>

"All I Have Left Are My Memories and This Copy of The Razor's Edge Signed by Asher Roth"

Stuff like this will always make Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig a good guy in our book, because it's not just any mind that could've enacted this bit of performance art, in which Koenig got the bland affirmation incarnate that is Asher Roth to sign Koenig's copy of Somerset Maugham's well-known nov ... More >>

Our Money Is Pretty Firmly on Jim Jones's Squad in This Converse Band of Ballers Thing

​OK, let's give this a shot--on Wednesday, at an undisclosed NYC location, presumably an undisclosed basketball location, there will be a three-on-three tournament in which it seems probable that these acts over here on the left will actually participate, like they'll play, using basketballs, ... More >>

Live: The Second Annual Roots Picnic, Featuring Public Enemy, Asher Roth, and a Whole Lot of Excited 16-Year-Olds

Yeah, it was Philly, but so what--SOTC special correspondent Christopher R. Weingarten reports. viaThe Roots, mid-jam The Roots, Public Enemy, Asher Roth, Kid Cudi, TV on the Radio, and More Festival Pier, Philadelphia June 6, 2009 The second annual Roots Picnic, an eclectic fete held on the Illa ... More >>

Finally, the Date-Rape-Song Charticle We've All Been Waiting For

Washington City Paper (great arts town!) is now offering a fabulous "hierarchy of date-rape jams," and while we're a little higher on Asher Roth (poor guy), a little lower on Sublime, and a lot lower on Rod Stewart, we applaud this first-rate speciment of graphics-based rock crit. Odd perhaps that ... More >>

Week in Review: We Got Arrested at Your Benefit Show

In the short week that we outsourced absolutely nothing to India (not even the phoner we didn't do with the guy who plays trumpet for Cake), we got even less cosmopolitan and global when Cannes correspondent J. Hoberman came back and showed up at the office like the rest of us. Except, unlike him, w ... More >>

"This Skeleton on a Motorcycle Is a Bong": A Guided Tour of David Byrne's Studio/Office

Just a few more SOTC posts on this dude and he'll pass Asher Roth! The Fader, as part of their Icon Issue devoted to Mr. Byrne, is offering a two-part guided-tour of his studio digs/"insane office," wherein religious pamphlets commingle with mushy peas, scalp splashes, and Dave's Rock 'n' Roll H ... More >>

The Atlantic Introduces Eminem to Obama

It's oddly timed (is this piece really pegged to Eminem's release date?), but The Atlantic is currently hosting a roundtable discussion on hip-hop in the age of Obama, a topic we once wrote a few thousand words about (more than once, actually), and remain sort of obsessed with. The panelists: Hua Hs ... More >>

Asher Roth Sticks the Roots with Their First Ever Lousy Fallon Performance

Shades of the Stevie Wonder/Jonas Brothers Grammys debacle here--C'MON STEVIE! SHOW 'EM WHAT YOU GOT STEVIE!, etc. Back when Fallon's show started, we fretted about the eventual reality of the Roots--live rap royalty if there ever was such a thing--being forced to play hypemen for the Soulja Boys ... More >>

Bob Dylan's New Album Sells About As Many Copies As That Last Shins Record

The received wisdom that the last people on the planet earth who actually buy physical copies of CDs are aging boomers who need music to listen to in their fancy cars as they drive around hotly anticipating the new Bob Dylan album took a hit today, as the Together Through Life sales figures came in. ... More >>

Week in Review: Penetration!

Hey, it was porn week! Zach live-blogged the Dim Mak porn video. Jadakiss vowed to wake up beside you naked. Peter Saville's Erotic House of Pop streamed online. Asher Roth debuted his sweet new Bukkake-inspired video. (Speaking of which, Asher Roth should probably lose that hypeman.) The police ... More >>

Letters

Asher Roth Should Probably Lose That Hypeman

We've watched with some amusement as Asher Roth's air of commercial inevitability has had a few holes punched in it since the release of Asleep in the Bread Aisle, a record that ended up promising infinitely more than it could deliver. (Put another way: he made a bad album. This conversation would ... More >>

On Red Cafe's "Hottest in the Hood" Remix, Featuring Jadakiss, Rick Ross, Fabolous, and OJ Da Juiceman

Song via the NMC Red Cafe, who apparently just signed to Bad Boy, finally has a decent song on his hands--the original version of "Hottest in the Hood" has been getting burn for what at least seems like months on HOT97, and this remix will definitely get run back on-air four or five hundred times ... More >>

Status Ain't Hood Loses the Asher-Roth-Sales-Figures Showcase Showdown, Spectacularly

Ivylise Simones, Photoshop QueenThe voluminous Internet discourse with regards to white rapper/frat-party sensation Asher Roth has reached a state of such bewilderment that I honestly have no idea whether or not bloggers are actually mad that the guy Twittered about hanging out with "nappy headed ho ... More >>

Week in Review: "Some Magazine, I Don't Know Where It Was."

Sahoko Yui In the week Rush Limbaugh called us "some magazine," we invited our friend Status Ain't Hood back for a day. Oh, and right: Congrats Tom! Interviews: Wavves' Nathan Williams on drugs and the beach, Albert Maysles on HBO's new Grey Gardens, Ian Svenonius on Kanye West and his new band, C ... More >>

Asher Roth, Upper-Middle-Class and Rising

Say hello to the white (but not white-trash) rapper du jour

This Week's Voice: Neko Case, Asher Roth, Sonic Youth and Merce Cunningham, Tribeca Film Festival, Tyson, Lit Seen, and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla joins with the rest of Neko Case's lovestruck/dumbstruck audience. Zach Baron on the upper-middle-class and rising rapper Asher Roth. Rob Trucks walks down Broadway with Scottish indie-pop enclave Camera Obscura. Jason Gross at Merce Cunnin ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Photo by Star Foreman. You're going to love Zoe Kazan. She's Hollywood royalty (granddaughter of Elia Kazan). She's been on Broadway and in movies, one of which, The Exploding Girl, debuts at the Tribeca Film Festival. Melissa Anderson interviews her. You may also view Star Foreman's photo slidesh ... More >>

Asher Roth Sons Some Dude Out at NYU

Wednesday's Village Voice will have our take on Asher Roth's long-agonized-about Asleep in the Bread Aisle. In the meantime, whatever you think of the guy, it's hard not to be entertained by this clip of Roth shaking hands repeatedly with a guy who moments before had been mercilessly disparaging t ... More >>

From the People Who Brought You Asher Roth: Universal's Next Great White Hope

The angelic, mop-topped creature above is 14-year-old Justin Bieber, a young Canadian boy whom Universal is naturally putting in the studio with Usher, The-Dream, and Tricky Stewart, in hopes of making him a star. His debut already has a title and everything: My World. He was "discovered" by the ... More >>

Let the Public Shaming Begin: Our Own Zach Baron on ABC Talking about the Hold Steady's A Positive Rage

So yesterday Zach was on ABC's World News Webcast and it had nothing to do with Asher Roth punching him in the face. (Next week.) Yep, our esteemed SOTC colleague made an appearance for "New Music Monday" to drop science about the Hold Steady's live album/DVD spectacular A Positive Rage. Our favor ... More >>

Asher Roth's "Perfectionist": Need 2 Set Up A Plan 2 Get Big

Asher Roth's newest: "Perfectionist," featuring Beanie Sigel of all unlikely people. Not on the record we heard the other day--illRoots pegs it as an iTunes bonus. For a guy who's supposedly nothing, content-wise, Asher Roth is an insanely conceptual rapper, if at a weirdly basic level: neither "I ... More >>

Week in Review: Boom! Woah, What Was That? You Transcend.

In the week we got ourselves a whole new look, we celebrated by staring David Lynch and Kate Moss directly in their awesome, newly expansive faces. This was a bookish week at SOTC: Brian Evenson soundtracked his novel, Last Days, Jonathan Lethem reintroduced L.J. Davis and his walls of mucus in P ... More >>

Dave Matthews Band+the Roots

Hear Extremely Brief Snippets of Asher Roth's Upcoming Asleep in the Bread Aisle, Relive the Listening Party Magic

There were no shortage of video cameras and dudes wielding them at last night's listening session for Asher Roth's forthcoming Asleep in the Bread Aisle, the brass tacks of which we will withhold for a while longer. Suffice to say both Heineken and Wonderbread were involved. True stans, however, w ... More >>

On Big City Philadelphia's "How to Rob An Industry Hipster"

Rapper-robbing: a time-honored tradition. And rap "hipsters" are easy targets: Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco, Asher Roth, Kid Sister? Alright...This from a rapper whose official bio reads: A deal from Beanie's label State Property was on the table when fate would intervene yet again. Big City's affiliatio ... More >>

On Asher Roth's "Silly Boy," or, the Newest Episode of the White Rapper Show

"I know your heart's broken, and that you miss me" Well, that didn't take long--behold, the first defensive, self-justifying, white rapper-on-white rapper beef of Asher Roth's career. In one corner: Copywrite, a no-account Ohio-born white guy who got kicked out of El-P's "supergroup" the Weatherman ... More >>

On Asher Roth's "I Love College" Video

Asher Roth is a bizarrely talented rapper, if one who makes other rappers into frothing, Sarah Palin-rally crazies--he's rap's ironic-appreciation Manchurian Candidate, the dude who left the first 16 bars of "One More Chance" on my answering machine freshman year. He's made a record that has just ... More >>

Week in Review: Asher Roth, the Silent Superhero; Real World: Brooklyn, Obnoxious Diseasebags

In the week we met the Real World Brooklyn cast (again) and yipee-skippied at the first episode, we also watched Whitney Port in The City and learned to stay away from the "Downtown Crowd." Meanwhile, the real youth-world Brooklyn was actually here. A rap spectacular this week. For a second, Ashe ... More >>

Asher Roth Does Carson Daly A Huge Favor

The best part of this video is the moment it dawns on you that Asher Roth is already more famous than Carson Daly. No conversating about that terrorist attack, but then again, as predicted, Roth had nothing to do with it. Heroic bassist though. For the record, I think this whole press run should'v ... More >>

Home Team Round-Up: These Are Powers, 50 Cent, Animal Collective (Of Course)

Sound of the City roots for the home team and so does Impose Magazine's Jeremy Krinsley. Alia Raza did the above video for Violens, a band that plays soft-heeled indie pop that is not in any way Lansing-Dreiden light, despite the band's frontman being first and foremost a member of that collecti ... More >>