Death Grips

DEATH GRIPS TUESDAY

BECAUSE IM CRANKING DEATH GRIPS IN A CUBICLE FARM WORK SITUATION

Just out if nowhere it occurs to me that "I've Seen Footage" would be perfect them music for "Freaky Shit," the fictional TV show from Kurt Andersen's novel "Turn of the Century."

Death Grips show in Boston tonight = cancelled.

Jeez, Louise!

glad I didn't buy tix and get burned a second time

Looking forward to reading Whiney's end-of-year coronation piece:
http://www.spin.com/articles/death-grips-artist-year-2012-no-love-deep-web

lol people are so hungry for some kinda youth thing that guys who just flake on shit they commit to count as punk. A+

Hill talks in a quiet, slow-to-unravel Sacramento drawl. Burnett's voice — on the very infrequent occasions when he does speak with a tape recorder running — is even quieter. "If you look at that and all you see is a dick, I don't really have anything to say, pretty much," Burnett murmurs about the photo that ultimately became the album art for their corrosive, cyber-grinding, electroshock scream-therapy sesh NO LOVE DEEP WEB. "I looked at it and said, 'This is a great photo, and I'd love for this to be the album cover.'" Both Burnett and Hill are reserved, soft-spoken, maybe a little shy, hopelessly insular, and they don't exactly look strangers in the eye when they walk down the street. Most importantly, the men of Death Grips are serious as cancer about making their art.

I have my nomination for Most Disingenuous Thing Said This Year 2012

lol people are so hungry for some kinda youth thing that guys who just flake on shit they commit to count as punk. A+

for like four or five minutes at the beginning of their set on sunday they stood on stage arms crossed, zach hill smoking like fuck yr local ordinances while evanescence played on the bars soundsystem. and i was really excited that they might do something really cool and punk but they were just unhappy w/the levels and waiting for the sound guy to fiddle w/them.

Lamp I wish you did a zine that was mainly show reviews. meanwhile can somebody define the tonal parameters of the Sacramento drawl, though? really really

corrosive, cyber-grinding, electroshock scream-therapy sesh

any time I read one of these intense, adjective-laden passages I know exactly who wrote it and hear it in his voice

Most importantly, the men of Death Grips are serious as cancer -- rhythm is a dancer.

This is a good article! But alot of their story reminds me of, like, gossip about Lindsay Lohan or some other Hollywood celebrity that just cancels stuff at the last minute. Only rather than "Oh, they are a big shot Hollywood flake" these guys get "Oh, they are serious about their art".

serious lols

o get into the next level of the game, Hill started taking some inspiration from his younger brother, a career gamer. In one of their long, confiding conversations, Hill talked about The Book of Five Rings, a 17th-century text of philosophy and strategy from a Japanese swordsman. His brother countered with some techniques used in role-playing-game staple Magic: The Gathering. There are three types of decks in Magic: the speedy offensive of the Aggro deck, the deus ex machina checkmates of the Combo deck, and the slow-and-steady game of the Control deck.

"We perceive that this record label is running a game, right?" says Hill. "The Control deck is the shit because, basically, you un-summon people's magic by using their own magic against them. It's totally control; you put yourself in the same place as the other person, so they have nothing on you, it's like an illusion. Redirection of power and putting yourself in the environments these other people are in — it creates a chaos element to it. We started thinking about that in the sense of where we were as a band."

holy shit the next couple paragraphs are about how they are now homeless because spent their advance on 2 months at Chateau Marmont

my takeaway from that article was "Death Grips was in dire need of an accountant and a backhand"

there are almost axl rose levels of "ok we will finally explain ourselves ::proceed to make even less sense than when you were left to second guess their motives::"

with added bonus levels of ppl framing that as "these guys are really thumbing their noses at THE MAN" added in

you put yourself in the same place as the other person, so they have nothing on you

It would have been shitty for the label to leak a record and cancel a tour without consulting the band first. The whole part of them going back to the label to try and talk about the second album - after they have dropped out of touring/promoting in the least respectful way possible almost has a George Costanza feel to it. Quitting a job and then going back to work the next monday hoping the boss will somehow just forget that you called them a pinhead.

I'm still cracking up at "*looks at dickpic* What an amazing photo! This should be an album cover."

The post-breakup interviews, which should be coming in about three months, are gonna be amazing.

these guys are idiots

I just don't value a band's live show the same way I value a piece of work.

at least we can agree on one thing

as a result of this whole thing I keep mentally referring back to the image of MC Ride trying to look psycho-bad while wearing a seatbelt

The more i read about it all it sounds less like 'sticking it to the man' and more like 'flaking out on everyone and repeatedly shooting yourself in the foot'.

good to know that you can still justify any behavior by being "really serious about your art"

good to know that the white dude in Death Grips has a translucent, fake-looking dick

The more i read about it all it sounds less like 'sticking it to the man' and more like 'flaking out on everyone and repeatedly shooting yourself in the foot'.
--Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau)

That's exactly what it sounds like! Also Magic: The Gathering wtfomglol.

Still excited to see them live.

I sent Epic Records a picture of my di-iick/ I don't know what it is with labels

good to know that the white dude in Death Grips has a translucent, fake-looking dick

― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, November 20, 2012 8:24 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol my first thought was it must be p embarrassing to admit to owning that dick

lol I just finally saw the actual cover and that cover doesn't look fake, just look like a nondescript dick

can't believe DJP is calling white dudes translucent

death grips to world: "suck it"

there was a conversation upthread where an ILXor's girlfriend levied a charge of the dick being fake, partially due to translucency

that's what a lot of white ppl's dicks look like? idk. it's oddly shaped & not particularly attractive, but...

itt a bunch of white dudes get defensive about their dicks

i think my dick would make a great album cover

45 maybe

ok one of those weird tiny CDs from the late 90s

itt a bunch of white dudes get defensive about their dicks

― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, November 20, 2012 9:41 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

as we have throughout history

I was getting fake butthurt, I know I'm half translucent

http://forums.steroid.com/showthread.php?63271-if-i-go-tanning-indoors-naked-will-it-fry-my-penis-and-balls#.UKxCdeOe86w

http://i.imgur.com/fbLmw.jpg

ok one of those weird tiny CDs from the late 90s

― U.S. State Department, Office of Rare Psych (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, November 20, 2012 9:44 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like the one shaped like a heart

I would use a sock half the time, penis hates sun iirc xp

I may have the affliction known as "goth dick"

hey guys, where do Death Grips eat when they're in New Orleans?

it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes GALATOIRE'S!

hold on let me take a look at this death dick... son thats a fine white penis you have there, its got everything in the world going for it, now go out and have a wonderful time

Damn these guys appear to be flaky dicks. But I really like The Money Store.

Sorry. That is a horrific image I inadvertently put there.

Enjoy!

sharpie dicks