Young Jeezy permanently changed my listening habits in 2005. The Snowman's impact on me wasn't directly related to the associated "No Snitchin'" mindset or the ingestion of drugs. I'd been deliberately avoiding succumbing to trap music, but "Go Crazy" forced me to realize that resistance was futile. I've been part of the problem ever since. "My President" aside, Jeezy has lazily repeated his recipe. His sing-song tributes to street life are musical junk food. I give the man credit for coming up with the formula, but there's been laughably little in the way of musical progression in the intervening years. A placeholder for Thug Motivation 103, the free mixtape The Real Is Back is more of the same. And yet I listen.
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This week's new releases, in order of personal preference: Tech N9ne, Gene Watson and Rhonda Vincent, F*cked Up, Artic Monkeys, Joe Jackson, Battles, Lee Konitz/Brad Mehldau/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian, Chick Corea, Joe Ely, Black Lips, Morbid Angel, Randy Travis, Craig Taborn, Ronnie Dunn, Frank Turner, Cults, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Tommy Castro, Dawes and Sondre Lerche.
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I really like the new video for Tyler the Creator's "She." Does that make me a bad person?
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Jazz pianist Ray Bryant has died. He's best know in pop culture for his hit "The Madison Time.
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Benny Spellman has died. It doesn't get much better than this.
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Andrew Gold has died.
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Here's a new video featuring Mac Lethal and Irv da Phenom. (Via Tony's Kansas City.)
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You'll need to fish around at his site to find the information, but Israel Nash Gripka is offering a three-song EP. Proceeds benefit Joplin's storm victims. Gripka's Barn Doors & Concrete Floors is my favorite folk-rock album of 2011.
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Kansas City Click: Toots & the Maytals perform Tuesday at Crossroads KC.
Steve Poltz returns to Davey's on Wednesday.
(Original image by There Stands the Glass.)
2 comments:
I think the Quintron show was cancelled, Bill.
Noted. Thanks.
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