10. This was his musical “project” before Skrillex.
9. Any music that can only be enjoyed while drunk should not be celebrated, and the fact that it is says a lot about our society.
8. He made dubstep a dirty word among bass music enthusiasts.
7. Win Butler had that haircut first. And he did it so much better.
6. Thanks to him, dubstep has replaced techno as the go-to label for all electronic music to the masses.
5. Teenagers now walk around with dubstep t-shirts they bought from Hot Topic, yet still have no idea who Burial is.
4. Because Skrillex is to dubstep, what Good Charlotte is to punk rock.
3. In all actuality, he’s Richard D. James in disguise, trolling us all.
2. He took a predominately minimalist genre, stripped it of everything that made it interesting, blew it up to maximalist, Hollywood-style action film proportions, sold it to American brotard philistines, and had the cojones to give it the exact same title of the genre he bastardized.And the number one reason why we hate Skrillex, and you should too…
1. It’ll make you “cool”.
Yes to this whole list.
Here’s a Young Jon Stewart, Moshing at a Dead Kennedys Show
Irish Willis Peele snapped a lot of photographs of Virginia “speed punk” band Front Line back in the 1980s, including this one, from a Dead Kennedys show in Richmond, Va. Peele says the guy in the center is William and Mary student Jon Leibowitz — who later moved to New York and now has a pretty successful comedy career under the name Jon Stewart. In case you’re wondering, it adds up — Stewart was at William and Mary until 1984. No word on his favorite DK song, though. “MTV Get Off the Air,” maybe?
Hope you’ll pardon the break from our regular programming for something insanely cool.
“Gridiron League is a collection of idealized NFL insignias that pay tribute to each team’s history and geography in a period-specific aesthetic that glorifies the Vince Lombardi-era over the Cold-Activated-era. This is not an exercise in nostalgia but an interpretation of the league’s founding principles through the symbols that we, as football fans, identify with most.
Many NFL franchises — Patriots, Broncos, Rams, Lions — have updated their uniforms and logos to a swooshed-out, dropped-shadowed, and more commercial-ready image, ignoring a good deal of their team’s heritage and the original rough-and-tumble character that the league stood for.”
