![]() ![]() They do not care what Pitchfork says about them. They do not care if you like their music. every sense of the wordĭeath Grips do not care about you. I hugged the rail at the front of the venue, breathing whenever the crowd let up for half a second, absolutely mesmerized by the dissention I saw in front of me. This time, the band was not obscured by swirling clouds of dust, thrown up from the absolutely brutal circle pits between me and the stage. It is easy to look from the outside in and hesitate to swallow the hype, but anyone who has seen Death Grips will inevitably say the same thing - they are one of the most important bands to release music this decade.ĭeath Grips’ show last week at the Fox Theater in Pomona was the first time I had been close enough to catch MC Ride’s spit, but I caught their set at FYF last year. It has become a joke in and of itself to put Death Grips on a pedestal, and herald them as the saviors of indie music everywhere. They exist at the pinnacle of indie-music-publication-nirvana, from the ravings of the “Internet’s Busiest Music Nerd” Anthony Fantano, to gushing Pitchfork reviews and countless memes. But it also makes it difficult to talk about Death Grips with any sort of hyperbole and still be taken seriously. unified among meme pagesįor one, it is wholly bizarre a band so divisive has found itself unified among meme pages everywhere. At over 50 I tend to avoid getting in the mix these days but observing them I still see the occasional asshole throwing elbows or what not.It really is a shame Death Grips has become so prominent in meme culture. I think late 90s was maybe the worst for that when you had a lot frat boy jock types that had only seen pits on TV showing up not understanding what they were really about. I came up going to shows starting in the early 90s, less metal and more industrial/punk/alternative shows, and I've definitely been in a lot of good pits and seen first hand folks stopping to help a downed person, I even saw a pit grind to a halt when one of my friends glasses got knocked off, that said I've seen my share of assholes in pits too that don't get it and really did seem out to cause harm. Nothing like 5 assholes in a crowd of 200 trying to mosh near the front center of the room. At over 50 I tend to avoid getting in the mix these days but observing them I still see the occasional asshole throwing elbows or what not.Īlso, they are not always appropriate and some folks need to let go trying to get one going when the vast majority of the audience clearly isn't interested. Click to shrink.My experience is this isn't always true.
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