Lollapalooza 2013 – The Year without a Death Grips?

So, I just got back from Jessie Ware’s Lollapalooza aftershow.  What a treat.  What an artist.  Adorably drunk, sharing stories with her fans about her brother (an aspiring doctor who is unlucky in love, though there were a few other doctors in the crowd trying to give her their digits for him), leading sing-alongs, forgetting lyrics and apologizing mid-line.  It was a wonderful performance.

On the other side of town, Death Grips fans weren’t so lucky.

death grips i love you but you’re freaking me out

— my name (@_mvj) August 3, 2013

The members of Death Grips didn't show up and they played their music through someone's iPod on shuffle. So pissed.

— Robert (@shamusotooole) August 3, 2013

Went to @thebottomlounge to see Death Grips tonight. It's a shame Death Grips didn't show up to Bottom Lounge, too… #Lolla

— Bryn Rich (@brynrich) August 3, 2013

^This guy is great, btw. Major poster on the Lollapalooza message board, sad for him.

@lollapalooza your death grips show was a recording. How can you explain such a hubris? How can you be such a douchekillington?

— Michael Disabato (@SirBatus) August 3, 2013

So Death Grips didn’t show after 3 hours. People got so upset, trashed their drumset. Got a nice souvenir. pic.twitter.com/JiUOOyG3Rz — Alex Klemstein (@Angusdiet) August 3, 2013

 

Got a nice playlist of Lil B and Death Grips tonight. #swag

— Jacob Staugler (@StauglerJ) August 3, 2013

Death Grips is the reason I have trust issues.

— Robert (@shamusotooole) August 3, 2013

Don't know what's better: Seeing DeathGrips live, or them not showing and everyone rioting while smashing all of their equipment #DeathGrips

— Iain Shipton (@IainShipton) August 3, 2013

Death Dicks. @thebottomlounge #deathgrips

— K▲YL▲ (@datkayler) August 3, 2013

Happy to say I trashed the death grips stage after a no show. #SorryNotSorry #deathgrips #bottomlounge #Lollapalooza #fuckthis

— K▲YL▲ (@datkayler) August 3, 2013

Well Death Grips didn’t perform and the audience wasn’t happy. Saw people tear the drums off stage and destroy them. I fell out of a chair. — Greg G (@SwellChum) August 3, 2013

Good death grips show tonight. http://t.co/ipvsApOgjw
— KTombz (@heytoomey) August 3, 2013

^Having trouble embedding that pic, but it’s good for a laugh, so I suggest clicking on the link.

A potentially dark turn is the background they used:

Whoa. So Death Grips no showed a gig last night and used this image as a backdrop: http://t.co/2A6JFC5Lyu

— Fullmetal Alcoholic (@Paradox295) August 3, 2013

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Can’t wait to see if they show up to Lolla tomorrow!

The Top 25 Albums of 2012

An Ocean of Noise isn’t Tiny Mix Tapes, so I’ll limit this opening paragraph by saying that a lot of good things happened in 2012 and that a lot of bad things happened in 2012 and that music was good and music was bad. Now let’s get to the damn list.

Ashley’s Top Albums of 2012: 50-41

Going forward there are two things you need to know:

1) This blog is going to get a lot bigger in the future, I’m thinking of actually investing money into making it a full-blown website: Stay tuned.

2) I will not be the only one writing for much longer.  As I’m sure you’ve noticed, Reggo has made her return, and Traviud has promised he is going to submit his top 25 of the year here as well.  So, what that means is, please understand that this list is not a consensus of the board.  This is just my opinion.  Maybe next year we’ll do a “staff” list instead of several different top lists.

“But, Ashley, what happened to your top songs list?”

I’m glad you asked that, no one, and I have a response for you: I’m incorporating the two together.  I’ve never been good at ranking songs and the more I thought about doing it, the more palpitations of the heart I suffered.  So instead, since I’m breaking this up into groups of 10, I didn’t think one Youtube video per album was too much to share. 

Top 5 New Artists of 2012

For a while, I thought this year was a little devoid of new music.  New artists.  The hip new cats on the scene.  The movers and shakers, the trend-setters, the fresh sounds, the modern beat, the….oh you get the idea.

Fact is, it really wasn’t until the last few weeks/month that I began to find these bands and I’m glad I did.  These five bands all had debut albums this year that will be appearing in my top 50 albums list.

That, for the record, is my rule for this list: You must have had a debut album out in 2012.  So even a band that may have had a previous EP out is still eligible for the list.  On the flip side, an EP is not enough to get you on this list.  More on that later.