das puppy 
i think this puppy would enjoy knowing they played at the mill last semester.
I don’t have much to say - only that I hope you’re half as pumped as I am for the Das Racist and Boy Crisis show this Friday (or at least half as obsessed with Boy Crisis’ Fountain Of Youth as I am).
E-mail MILLTIX@GMAIL.COM for tickets. Include your name, cell phone number, and how many you’d like.
BOY CRISIS.
You may have heard that Das Racist is coming to The Mill this Friday (12/4)…
You may NOT know that Victor Vasquez of Das Racist is also in a band called Boy Crisis, or that Boy Crisis will be opening.
A mix of electronica and grunge and with swells from the ultra low-key to the maddeningly danceable, each Boy Crisis song brings something completely different to the table. At times, their haunting vocals and mellow synths remind me of a mesh of Brand New and Hot Chip. At others, they pump it up and their beats have the potential to hustle a crowd into an all-out frenzy. All aside, though, they’ve got something different going on than other Indie-Electronic acts that have exploded nowadays - their sound is very vintage-pop-esque, more along the lines of Prince or Bowie than Passion Pit or Simian Mobile Disco (or Lady Gaga for that matter).
So once again, swing by. Doors will open at 11. Send an e-mail to milltix@gmail.com with your name, cell#, and how many you’d like for tickets ($5 each).
Check these tracks while you’re at it…
Dressed to Digress (mp3 via Bored and Beats)
Fountain of Youth (mp3 via Bored and Beats)
L’Homme (Run Hide Survive Remix) (mp3 via Bored and Beats)
DAS RACIST.
Das Racist is a rap duo from Brooklyn (via Wesleyan University, right around the corner) who’ve fiercely dichotomized the music community. You, as a listener, probably have one of two opinions about them:
1) They are brillaint. Their hypnotic style and poignant rhymes border the musically transcendental, all the while quietly hinting at the overwhelming apathy and consumerism that runs in the veins of today’s youth culture.
2) They’re immature. They’re senseless. They are the bottom of the barrel as far as music is concerned. I hate them.
(Okay, so maybe you can be somewhere in the middle too. Work with the hyperbole for a least a wee bit.)
I’m not really sure where I personally fit in these two groups, but if nothing else, Das Racist are two guys who happen to pump some jams that are absolutely perfect if you’re interested in jumping up and down and sweating your brains out. A mesh of synth-based techno-dub beats behind scream rap that reminds me of whatever the pre-pubescent Beastie Boys would have sounded like, their sound is one that simultaneously puzzles and excites me. Style aside, they’re absolutely epic live, brimming with enthusiasm and packing crowds everywhere they go. That’s where Trinity comes in.
This Friday, December 4, Das Racist will be playing at The Mill with Boy Crisis, with doors opening around 11. Tickets are $5; to buy them during pre-sale, send an e-mail milltix@gmail.com with your name, how many you want, and your cell phone number. We’ll let you know what’s up from there. So swing by. Solid tunes. Solid people. Solid time. Check these mp3s…
Ek Shaneesh (mp3 via Pop Tarts Suck Toasted)
Combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bell (Wallpaper Remix) (mp3 via Music Ramen)
Das Racist has gotten a lot of attention this summer following their cult smash “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.” The song is great, but many are letting the awesomely stupid summer jam overshadow all of Das Racist’s work.
The band consists of two emcees and a drummer, who actually abandoned his kit halfway through the set at a show I saw at Southpaw (this drummer must be a badass braaaahhh) The band has serious steez tho, rocking a sick electro hop sound with spitfire vocals that are a marriage between ghostface’s signautre frenetic word association raps and hilarious word plays like those of MC Paul Barman and the late Mitch Hedberg. Peep this video for “Chicken and Meat.” get wet
