we’re releasing Yandhi Saturday night. We know it will come in number 2 to my brother Lil Wayne and that’s lovely. The universe needs Ye and Wayne music at the same time | | | | Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter V" is out today (really!) on Young Money.
(Timothy Hiatt/Getty Images) | | | | | | “we’re releasing Yandhi Saturday night. We know it will come in number 2 to my brother Lil Wayne and that’s lovely. The universe needs Ye and Wayne music at the same time”
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| | rantnrave:// JOAN JETT was the first major rock star I interviewed. Sort of. I was young and green and I was supposed to meet her on her tour bus after a show at the CAPE COD COLISEUM. The first tour bus I'd ever been on. And she wasn't on it. Her manager, KENNY LAGUNA, was, and he didn't seem concerned by her absence or in any kind of hurry. And he was up for a chat. So I interviewed him. For close to an hour. Aware, the whole time, of the empty banquette across from me. And then, finally, they dragged her in. Literally. Her arms were around two roadies, her legs, seemingly powerless, dragging on the floor behind her like the train of a black leather wedding dress. To this day, I don't know if she was too tired to walk, too drunk to walk or if that's just how she preferred to get around. It took her a while to get to that banquette, and in the meantime the bus started moving. I had no idea where we were headed and I'm not sure she knew where she was when I finally got to ask her four or five questions, most of which she answered by grunting, and then I'd look at Kenny and he'd fill in the blanks for her. Then she disappeared again and I mentioned to Kenny that I kind of had to get back to the Coliseum to get my car and he had the bus turn around and take me there and that was that and I wrote a probably incoherent cover story for WHAT'S NEW magazine filled with too many Kenny Laguna quotes and dragged down by my inability to describe the sheer rock and roll power and wonder of Joan Jett sitting across from me on a tour bus in a dazzling daze. Punk attitude, classic-rock power, bubblegum hooks, mysterious grunts. The documentary BAD REPUTATION opens today and hell yeah... But speaking of Joan Jett, who I adore to this day, why do people keep insisting the #METOO movement hasn't reached the music industry? It has, in various ways. It's reached into executive suites, it's reached into rock, it's reached into hip-hop, it's reached into DJ booths, and long before #METOO became a media phenomenon, it was reaching deep into music's past. There's still a lot of work to be done, and there are still, no doubt, names to be named. None of those names may ever match HARVEY WEINSTEIN for pure evil or MATT LAUER for pure name recognition because few people alive, in any industry, will ever match that. Castles may or may not ever be toppled, but abusive men (and women) will... LIL WAYNE drops THA CARTER V, which we've been waiting for since roughly the Carter Administration, today, and KANYE WEST will follow a day later with YANDHI, which we've been eagerly awaiting since about last week. Both are a little too easy to gossip about and make fun of, and both make it a little too easy for us to forget they're two of this century's most towering, and vital, makers of pop music. Incredibly prolific, consistently sharp, with pop sensibilities and avant-garde ambitions. This shall be a good weekend... It's FRIDAY and that means there's also new music from LOGIC, JLIN, CHER, MARISSA NADLER, NILE RODGERS & CHIC, LORETTA LYNN, JON BATISTE, REASON, TIM HECKER, PINEGROVE, RESTORATIONS, FATIMA, ALT-J, JOSÉ JAMES, KEVIN GATES, ANDREW BERNSTEIN, BAYSIDE, THIS WILL DESTROY YOU, HORRENDOUS, CYPRESS HILL, the POM-POMS, LALA LALA, ROD STEWART, MUDHONEY, EXPLODED VIEW, TERROR, AURORA, AMY RAY, SAM PHILLIPS, BEARTOOTH, TONY JOE WHITE, MARIA MULDAUR the JOY FORMIDABLE and this TOM PETTY box set... RIP PAUL CURCIO. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| | | | | | | From "Autobiography," out today on Planet Mu. |
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