Top 10 brown bands/musicians (Or, mom, why didn’t you let me take guitar lessons?)
Posted by Anupa in Ethnic Aisle, Music, Pop Culture, Race on 01. Jun, 2011 | 8 Comments
We all know white people listen to bands with white people in them, so why can’t I be partial to bands with brown people in them? Oh, you ain’t know there exists a significant body of work beyond M.I.A.? THERE DOES: 1. Das Racist: Here’s a sample lyric from “Ek Shaneesh” which basically made me feel [...]
Show and Tell: Das Racist “Sit Down, Man” mixtape
Posted by Anupa in Music, Rappers on 14. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
It is no secret AT ALL, that some of us here at The Ashcan (well, me) are big fans of NY brown-man rap group Das Racist. This is Das Racist’s second full-length mixtape and who knows if a studio is in the works, but it doesn’t really matter because mixtapes are often good enough these [...]
Music videos in 2010: a small case study
Posted by Anupa in Internet, Music, video games on 02. Sep, 2010 | 2 Comments
Screencap from Das Racist’s Who’s That Brown? via Village Voice Back in the day, music video debuts on channels like Much Music or MTV were a big fucking deal. But then Youtube (and OnSmash) came along and that changed everything—but still, the music video didn’t die. In the past couple of years we’ve been exposed [...]
The Morning Dump: Long live LaChapelle, joke rap, ‘The Wire’ as academic text, Liz Lemon is not ugly and what that means
Posted by theashcan in Morning Dump on 27. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
I’m hopped up on cold meds and drunk from a lunch meeting as I write this bold statement, but David LaChapelle is the Holden Caulfield of fashion photography. As skeezy Terry Richardson makes the news rounds and we lament Annie Leibowitz’s financial decline, LaChapelle opens up to Dazed Digital about learning from his mistakes and [...]
