Death Grips

lol. no.

fwiw, i thought the whole Adele sore throat thing was a legit medical thing, which is why she's been talking about retiring.

that's the problem when you book and then cancel a tour for weird reasons, ppl start distrusting yr motivations

xps

well, its one thing when its like Guns N Roses/Adele whatever when the venues need the artists more than the artists need the venue.

Like, dude has been touring 10 years and knows the importance of like making sure the dude from TT The Bear's isnt pissed at you, which is why i think there's probably something bigger going on

Not to be confused with bullshit Beirut/Wavves/xx crybaby tantrums of having never toured a day in your life and then bailing because it;'s actually hard work

Really curious what the actual story is here and bummed that I won't be seeing them (again).

nice tt the bears namecheck!

http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/death-grips-x-alec-empire

Amusingly the Aquarius Records Money Store review namechecks that awful DHR rap album by Fever as well.

adele had throat surgery iirc - the grammys was her first public performance in months

and then she joined death grips, what a world

http://cl.ly/Gex6

heh.

death grips vs animal collective: who will suffer more backlash on their next album?

(ps after having seen death grips in a very small diy venue, I will say you probably want them to reschedule to a bigger place. unless you like punk kids bo)

Up the punx!

xp - i think there was also a lot of cheap bear spilled on the floor at that show: such an iconic perfume.

Cheap bears?

cheep bears make the cutest sounds.

Esp when spilled all over the floor

http://www.police.uci.edu/community/teddy_drive1/2003/photos/pile.JPG

get in the pit

knock the stuffing outta them

<i>Ride is developing a Mark E Smith level talent for non sequiturs that end up sequituring

― bendy, Wednesday, April 25, 2012 12:14 PM</i>

i can see that. there's something about <i>the money store</i> that makes it sound like ride is embracing humour a bit more, but maybe i wan't getting it from <i>exmilitary</i> because it was sung in ALLCAPS.

the tricky/trip hop connection someone made upthread is an interesting one... something that never really occurred to me before. i can see geoff barrow really liking death grips.

whoops. i guess it shows i haven't been here in awhile. pretend those bits are in italics then.

so far this is my favorite album of the year

absolutely! really excited to see them on thursday in boston o wait they canceled their tour n/m fuck these guys

otm
both of the last two posts

Still no explanation or anything on that?

now I'm mad, EIII and I could have been Death Grips buddies

i don't see how it could be anything but a money thing; they're still doing the festivals right?

I thought everything got cancelled.

we'll always be death grip buddies *bump*

xp

I thought it was to work on their promised second 2012 album.

Death Grips
3 hours ago
we are dropping out to complete our next album NO LOVE. see you when it's done. (there are no longer any scheduled shows)

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Saturday, May 5, 2012 1:46 AM (1 month ago)

right, but i thought they were still doing ATP? or did that announcement come after? I may well be incorrect here.

http://www.atpfestival.com/events/ibymusa2012/news/1205080922.php

ok i'm wrong
still feel like this is money motivated

how u make money canceling shows?

the backlash to this stuff is kind of surprising, i guess confirms that people are used to and don't care about album delays, are way more pissed if you postpone shows they already bought tickets for/made plans around if there's not, like, some serious health issue or other inarguable explanation

it's funny that the album is called "No Love"

how u make money canceling shows?

like someone said upthread, canceling a club tour and then re-booking it in larger venues maybe?

rising acts move sold out shows into bigger venues all the time, without outright cancellations or this kind of fanfare. that would be p weird imo. although this whole thing does seem weird in general.

is it possible that they booked the tour under old management & then when they signed to interscope they decided not to have them go out? i'm not sure if my timeline is off there tho

and by interscope i mean whichever major they signed to, i forget which it is

epic i think.
moving to a bigger venue would mean they would be getting more cash if it were a door split. If it were a straight up booking fee, they might cancel the whole tour because that's the only way they could contractually get out of doing several small shows. dunno.

the backlash to this stuff is kind of surprising, i guess confirms that people are used to and don't care about album delays, are way more pissed if you postpone shows they already bought tickets for/made plans around if there's not, like, some serious health issue or other inarguable explanation

― some dude, Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:39 AM (1 hour ago)

agree that music fans in general get irritated at show cancellations, but another dimension here is death grips are coming up through the underground where project delays are common and frequent, but shows commitments are code-of-honor type stuff. as somebody who books and play shows, I can say that bands who cancel without good cause are viewed as flaky pains in the ass or cavalier primadonnas unconcerned with making other ppl's lives difficult. and this was an entire tour! whiney made the point above, you'd think a guy like zach hill would know better.

if they'd produced some kind of sincere apologetic message or rationale it'd be different but it was like "btw no shows, suck it". frankly, I was psyched to pick up their album the week it dropped but the way they handled this left a bitter taste in my mouth. still haven't bought it, tho I prolly will at some point.

it's just hilarious cause like, you just dropped an album dude. nobody will mind if you don't drop another before January.

maybe they had conflicting label obligations - like maybe the label made them cancel?

Why wouldn't you just say that then?

because they work for the label?

working for the man, just like evrybody else

If our federal government can't stop leaks I seriously doubt LA Reid can.