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ROCK ’N’ REVOLT

The Afro-Punk festival storms Commodore Barry Park

Live: Das Racist, Rahzel, Laurie Anderson And Many Others Play Philip Glass's Tibet House Benefit At Carnegie Hall

Philip Glass and Friends Tibet House U.S. Benefit w/Laurie Anderson, Tim Fain, Das Racist, Antony, Lou Reed, Stephin Merritt, and Rahzel Carnegie Hall Monday, February 13 Better than: Seeing how most ethnic Tibetans live. Last night's all-star benefit at Carnegie Hall began with a performance by ... More >>

53 More Great Songs From 2011

Earlier today, Maura offered a list of the 47 songs on her "2011 Awesomeness" Spotify playlist; to complement that, here are the 53 songs from my less cleverly named playlist, "2011." As is the usually the case with these mega-lists, I compiled mine a bit haphazardly, throwing together a substantial ... More >>

Lakutis Gets Lost In A Thicket Of References On I'm In The Forest

"Y'all know about the seven spiders of hip-hop?" Yep, we're in weirdo rap territory with Lakutis's debut mixtape I'm In The Forest. That query comes from the title track, a song full of somewhat naturalistic images and pop culture references bookended by the droning chant, "I'm in the forest/ I'm in ... More >>

Instead Of Listening To The Michael Jackson Sentencing, Why Not Watch Das Racist Perform "Michael Jackson" On Conan?

Bless Das Racist for always coming along at the right time, right? The group performed on Conan last night, and while the reactions the group was retweeting in the broadcast's wake seemed a little bit confused/outraged/weary, their take on the completely goofy "Michael Jackson" was, I thought, prett ... More >>

Das Racist's Top Ten Tour Memories (So Far)

​Viktor Vazquez has just arrived at a hotel in Seattle and is pining for some noodles. Specifically, he has the hankering for some "fancy ramen noodles." It's a caliber of Japanese wheat-noodle that he has not been able to find since leaving his home in New York City to undertake a vehement 30 ... More >>

Q&A: Das Racist On The "Michael Jackson" Video

​In the two years since stumbling across viral MP3 stardom with "Combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bell," Brooklyn's Das Racist have evolved from insular meta-rap blogger obsession to some of our city's most electric assonance merchants. Their first official, hold-it-in-yr-paws physical release, Re ... More >>

Here Is The Piece Of Das Racist Fan Fiction That Was Commissioned On Craigslist

​The Das Racist fan fiction call that was put out the other day (apparently by a 20-year-old named Cory) has been answered: Behold, a ~1300-word piece of fantasy about the group by "some guy" that begins with a magazine interview gone sour. Along the way, a fight breaks out, some skunked Hawai ... More >>

Why Not Hone Your Writing Chops By Penning Some Das Racist Fan Fiction?

​There are certain points in an artist's life when they can say, "yes, I've become famous." In the current moment, one of those times is when the first piece of fan fiction—stories dreamed up by the masses in which stars embark on adventures that could be as out-of-this-world as Josie & ... More >>

Download Christopher Weingarten's Hipster Puppies Cassette Release Party Podcast, Filled With NYC Bands

​Next Wednesday, SOTC pal Christopher R. Weingarten will celebrate the release of the cassette companion to his canines-and-coolness tome Hipster Puppies—a tape stuffed with a roster of 18 local bands that includes Das Racist, Yvette, and Liturgy—with a party at Public Assembly. Th ... More >>

Live: Das Racist Writes A New Punchline

​ Das Racist Bowery Ballroom Monday, September 12 Better than: Making .gifs of Novak Djokovic collapsing in joy after winning the U.S. Open. In the past year I've attended more than my fair share of Das Racist shows, and I would inevitably wind up disappointed that they weren't able to trans ... More >>

Das Racist Believe In Miracles In The "Michael Jackson" Video

​Das Racist's Relax is currently online for your perusal/enjoyment right now, and the group's just released the video for the bonkers first single "Michael Jackson." It's an homage to "Black Or White" that comes complete with references to The Simpsons and Saturday Night Live and the Last Supp ... More >>

Das Racist's Relax Is Streaming At Spotify Right Now

​Relax, the second album from Das Racist, is currently streaming at Spotify in advance of its official release date next week. After a couple of spins it's hard to pick out a favorite track; "Girl" is a triumphant love song with a height-of-the-synthpop-era backing, "Booty In The Air" is an ar ... More >>

'The Governors Ball'

Battle Of The Das Racist Remixes

​A couple Das Racist curios to finish out your week. First we have DR Renaissance man Himanshu Suri taking a shot at remixing Katy Perry's SOTC-beloved "Teenage Dream," slowing her way way down -- she sounds disconcertingly mannish -- and offering a few remarkably sincere verses: "My parents g ... More >>

Das Racist Are Now Officially Banned In the U.K.

Free Dapwell! All images via DasRacist.net​At least, they were detained in and then deported from that country yesterday, due to "some sticklerism on the part of UK Customs regarding paperwork." Or was it because of their radical political views and brown skin?! The trio has been out in first ... More >>

Das Racist To the New York Times Magazine's Deborah Solomon: "Fall Back"

​We did it, Internet! This week's subject of Deborah Solomon's occasionally derided, frequently entertaining, CONDENSED AND EDITED "Questions For..." column is none other than SOTC pals Das Racist. And if you thought they were backing down upon reaching the New York Times Magazine, well...

Perhaps You'd Like To Watch Das Racist Perform in the Spin Offices Tonight?

​Our pals Das Racist play NYC-area shows all the time, but rarely do they get a chance to confront in real life the music press they clearly feel so ambivalent about. ("We aight but media cats think we clever though/Are we?/You may never know.") That changes tonight, as they perform live from ... More >>

Watch Das Racist Discuss Whether Or Not Lady Gaga and Katy Perry Are White Devils on Our Show at Santos Party House

​We've talked before about Our Show, Elliot Aronow's live-action, TV Party-reviving talk show conducted first in the basement of Santos Party House and then later on YouTube, where edited clips eventually trickle out. Earlier this year, SOTC pals Das Racist appeared on the show, doing a tore-u ... More >>

Your CMJ 2010 Panels, Cynically Summarized: Day 3 (Thursday)

​Fatigue sets in as we reach CMJ's halfway point, but buck up: Plenty of sweet bands left to see, plenty of priceless industry wisdom to absorb via this afternoon's slate of panels, helpfully listed below with brief, jaded, profoundly unhelpful commentary.

Live: Das Racist Celebrate the Release of Sit Down, Man With a Few Hundred of Their Closest Friends

They're not joking. Just joking. All photos by Puja Patel.​Last night, Das Racist celebrated the release of their second mixtape, Sit Down, Man, with a Mad Decent and Mishka-backed spectacle at Santos. The bill featured contributors to the mixtape - Keepaway and Chairlift - as well as Mad Dece ... More >>

Exclusive: Download Das Racist's "Free Jazzmatazz," Costarring "Crotchety Old Uncle" Vijay Iyer

Where the magic happens Das Racist's new mixtape, Sit Down, Man, is out next week; among its many delights is "Free Jazzmatazz," a self-explanatory collaboration with wildly feted jazz pianist Vijay Iyer. It seemed like a good idea to a) ask Iyer if we could chat about how this unlikely (?) union ... More >>

Week In Review: "You Died! Luckily This Is Just A Video Game."

​In a week wherein we bid adieu to both Fat Beats and Paste magazine, we needed something to fill the void, be that the Das Racist video game or, far less pleasantly, a glowering, shirtless Rick Ross. Good thing this one's over with.

Das Racist: The Video Game

​Holy shit, everybody: Das Racist has their own video game.

Das Racist's New Mixtape, Sit Down, Man, Drops In Two Weeks: "It's Gonna Be Fucking Really Good"

Yeah, like you don't want to hear a Das Racist song called "All Tan Everything." Here we have a teaser trailer (ordinarily a frivolous contrivance, but very serious business in this case) for Sit Down, Man, sequel to the ______-rap duo's highly praised (really!) Shut Up, Dude, this time featuring ... More >>

Tonight! Liars, Das Racist, Darlings, Sisters, John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Wonders, Sondre Lerche, And Beards & Flannel Night

Despite claims that any old fool can slip into his own psyche-soothing "Sisterworld," Liars have sold out the Bowery Ballroom. No "Sisterworld" for you, and just when we thought they were becoming increasingly believable, too. Fortunately, the ubiquitous Das Racist are bringing their taco-pushing, ... More >>

Take Donald Glover, Aziz Ansari, and Das Racist's Joke Rap Seriously

A new generation of MCs grapple with how funny they're allowed to be

Let's Not Even Pretend That The Cover Of Das Racist's Shut Up, Dude Isn't Of Interest To Us

​So there you have it. Way less nudity than I might have feared, it's true. (And, as Zach points out, perhaps an inadvertent Jawbreaker reference.) Here also is a brief, also nudity-free promo clip for the long awaited Das Racist mixtape, which Sean Fennessey discusses at length for us in this ... More >>

Todd P's MtyMx in Photos

MtyMx's Autocinema Las Torres, at night. All photos by Rebecca Smeyne.​NYC promoter Todd Patrick's MtyMx festival wrapped late yesterday morning in Monterrey, Mexico's Yo Garage, the erstwhile after-party spot for three days of Brooklyn madness in another country entirely. Our report can be fo ... More >>

Watch Das Racist Tear the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" To Tiny Bloody Pieces on Our Show at Santos Party House

Perhaps you recall local rap group Das Racist's disastrous-cum-triumphant stand at Cameo Gallery back in early February, when the duo "performed" the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique by alternately rapping along to the CD and antagonizing the crowd by just sort of lying supine on the stage, not doing ... More >>

Hey Neat, The Daily SXSW Showcase Schedule Has Been Posted, So You Can Plan Your Itinerary If You're Going, Which, Yeah, Great, Good For You

​Oh, the places you'll go. Namely Buffalo Billiards (Das Racist! Andrew W.K.!), La Zona Rosa (Chamillionaire and Paul Wall!), Stubb's (Broken Social Scene!), Aces Lounge (Solange Knowles!), and so forth. Have fun, but don't forget about the Voice's own fete, featuring Surfer Blood, Superchunk, ... More >>

Das Racist Speak Out On Their Beastie Boys Mini-Scandal: "We Might Be A Little Dusted But We're Not Insane"

See how they bleed for you, America? Photo by Mackenzie Schmidt.​Some context here: last week, local rap group Das Racist announced plans to cover the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique at Williamsburg's Cameo Gallery. Chaos ensued as the trio took the stage and proceeded to, in the group's own wor ... More >>

Das Racist Cover the Beastie Boy's Paul's Boutique at Cameo Gallery, Enrage Internet

"Not-really-rapping-beastie-boys-and-mostly-throwing-shit-around-the-stage-while-people-walked-out," went one review that got sent our way. Fair enough. New York was also baffled. Pictures (below) more or less confirm the story. But let's take a moment here. This was not All Tomorrow's Parties. My ... More >>

Das Racist: Thanks, Internet!

Brooklyn's finest have a few thoughts on their online celebrity

Das Racist Meet Their Maker

DAS RACIST AND ADROCK. BIG TINGS IN OH TEN. Their caption, not ours.​There wouldn't be a Das Racist without that man on the left. Ad-Rock/Beastie Boys/Das Racist collabo, coming soon? Where's Grand Royal at when you really need it? [@HEEMS]

This Wesleyan Mafia Thing Seems To Be Getting Out Of Hand

Yikes So our good friends Das Racist played/terrorized Public Assembly Sunday night as some sort of value-added Wesleyan supergroup dubbed Spanish Broads. How'd it go? A Brooklyn Vegan writeup that begins "At what can only be described as one of the worst live shows I've ever seen," that's how it w ... More >>

This Weekend: Spike Lee's Michael Jackson Block Party, After the Jump Fest, Impose and 826 NYC at the Yard

​ --Spike Lee's Brooklyn Block Party for Michael Jackson's birthday, which recently was moved from Fort Greene to Prospect Park, is expected to draw 10,000 people to the grossly named Nethermead in the heart of the park tomorrow. Things are supposed to go off rain or shine, although expect tha ... More >>

Week in Review: There's Only One Viable Avant-Garde Art Form Nowadays, And It's Called Indie Rock

Sam Horine​In the week a Brooklyn indie-rock band either did or didn't kick a puppy in Prospect Park (sweat-soaked August news cycle, we see you), we amused ourselves making Rick Ross "Yo Mamma" jokes and watching rap panic take New York as 50 Cent did, and then didn't, shoot your grandmother. ... More >>

Japandroids, the Very Best, Das Racist, Pitbull (?!) Playing CMJ 2009

​CMJ, that freezing fall rite of laminated passes and crumbled, much-folded L Magazine itineraries, is evidently already upon us. The music marathon, which will run from October 20th to the 24th, has just made its initial announcement as far as who is playing this year. Japandroids, the Very B ... More >>

Full After the Jump Fest Lineup Announced

​After a fusillade of Twitter updates, the After the Jump Fest has revealed its entire three-day lineup. The fest, which will take place August 28, 29, and 30 at South Brooklyn's Littlefield, sports a killer Saturday--Das Racist, Wild Yaks, and Philly glam-pop savants Free Energy, among others ... More >>

Week in Review: Do Not Go to Siren Fest Hungover!

Look, it's a member of Das Racist eating food. Photo by Sam Horine.  In the week we spent the early hours of recovering from Siren Festival--highlights of which were many and varied and included a photo of Das Racist daring to eat a type of food the duo doesn't rap about--we were officially and ... More >>

Celebrate Your Independence With Das Racist

Listen, I don't want to pressure you as to how to spend your July 4th weekend, but if you're not fleeing the city in terror entirely you're pretty much a knucklehead if you don't go check out erstwhile Brooklyn duo Das Racist, they of "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell," live and in person, twic ... More >>

This Weekend! 4th of July Edition

It's our country's birthday this weekend. Thursday, the Celebrate Brooklyn festival hosts Puetro Rican pop star Obie Bermudez at the Bandshell; he paid his dues working a Bronx laundromat job for three years. Luke Temple earned his weight by pulling hours at a candy store; Friday, he fronts Here We ... More >>

Open Apology to Everyone Following Harvilla on Twitter

Having recently noted someone else's penchant for regret, let me offer a mea culpa of my own to those unfortunate enough to be fucking with me on Twitter: Yes, for some reason, I seized overzealously on the #coolbandsmadeuncool meme and rattled off, like, a dozen puns in an hour or so, including " ... More >>

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This Week's Voice: Das Racist, dead prez, Woody Allen's Whatever Works, New York Asian Film Festival, Peter Terzian's Heavy Rotation, and More

Ben RowlandDas Racist, not thinking Arby's In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla chats with geniuses behind "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell," otherwise known as Das Racist. J. Pablo takes a stroll through Bed-Stuy with dead prez. Bret Gladstone with the Avett Brothers at I ... More >>

A Chat with Das Racist, the Geniuses Behind "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell"

Scenes from a fast-food restaurant (on Jamaica Avenue!)

This Week in the Voice

Maybe you've heard of "snowflake babies" but never really known what they were. They're not really babies -- just frozen embryos about the size of a comma. But because they can be implanted in women and gestated into children, conservative Christians say the frosted 'flakes are people. And they're r ... More >>