As someone who’s been forced into the all-night-raving world of Edm (Electronic Dance Music) by proxy, I’m no stranger to Steve Aoki. Roommates and friends alike have filled my apartment with stories about the cake-throwing wild-child, coupled with their desires to one day be “caked” themselves (why waste a good cake, if you ask me).
This is how I entered Justin Krook’s Netflix documentary I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, with a frosting-covered caricature of the generational powerhouse and his performance-focused talents. Not his father’s pseudo-abandonment. Not his hardcore, angsty rock beginning. Just a crowd-surfing ball of fun who hits play with the best of them – an admittedly ignorant view on a man with so much more to say.
While growing up in the shadow of super-hero-incarnate Rocky Aoki, many assumed Steve Aoki was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Rocky’s legend...
This is how I entered Justin Krook’s Netflix documentary I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, with a frosting-covered caricature of the generational powerhouse and his performance-focused talents. Not his father’s pseudo-abandonment. Not his hardcore, angsty rock beginning. Just a crowd-surfing ball of fun who hits play with the best of them – an admittedly ignorant view on a man with so much more to say.
While growing up in the shadow of super-hero-incarnate Rocky Aoki, many assumed Steve Aoki was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Rocky’s legend...
- 8/23/2016
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Another entrant in the recent-reunion phenomenon: The members of At the Drive-In are coming back with new music and live shows in 2016. The hard-rock band from El Paso teased the announcement across its social-media accounts earlier in the week, and have tipped Fuse off that this year's material could potentially go toward its first fresh studio album since 2000's Relationship of Command. "Fifteen years ago, [our ambition] was, Man, this shit sounds cool, let's make a record and go on tour," guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López told Fuse on Thursday, noting he and his bandmates have been sharing partially and fully formed songs with each other again. "That's our motivation now, too."The inventive quintet (Rodríguez-López, Jim Ward, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Paul Hinojos, and Tony Hajjar) took a prolonged, differences-and-exhaustion-fueled hiatus in the ’00s — fracturing into nearly half-a-dozen other projects including the Mars Volta, Sparta, Bosnian Rainbows, and Antemasque — before reuniting briefly in...
- 1/22/2016
- by Sean Fitz-Gerald
- Vulture
Despite what Vulture's Stoner Week package may suggest, pot doesn't work for everyone. So, as a kind of counterbalance, we spoke to singer-guitarist Cedric Bixler-Zavala. As the front man for the Mars Volta and At the Drive-In, Bixler-Zavala had a hand in some very successful, extremely stoner-friendly rock, full of hallucinatory lyrics and dense and intense song structures. (Here's a whiff.) Since leaving the Mars Volta and forming a new band called Zavalaz, the California native's music has gotten even more complex and layered — at the same time as its creator has gone from massive pothead to nonsmoker. Here, Bixler-Zavala explains why he gave up pot. (As told to Corban Goble.)I was a total monster. I was spending $1,000 a week on weed, and everyone I was in the band with at the time smoked as much as I did. There's so much stupid behavior caused by weed, but I...
- 6/30/2015
- by Cedric Bixler-Zavala
- Vulture
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