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SSION
Ssion is a band led by Cody Critcheloe and their latest album is Bent (Jun 2011, self-released).
As an BFA student at the Kansas City Art Institute, Critcheloe produced an animated short called The Lemon Cookie Revolution. Effectively, and often hilariously, blurring the two most popular definitions of “cult” beyond recognition, Critcheloe imagined himself poisoning his heroes with delicious snacks of the film’s title, thereby assuming a place among them in the cred-fed indie pantheon. It’s a crude and campy stop-motion animation piece with a soundtrack boasting Wire and the Pet Shop Boys, and it allows Critcheloe to indulge his two fascinations: ironically chiding subcultural “outsiders”, and indulging in over-the-top wish-fulfillment fantasies. In his narrated introduction to the film, he introduces its two themes thusly: “Underground music cult figures you’ve probably never heard of, nor do you even care about. My second favorite thing in the whole wide world is, without a doubt, revolution.”
If “Fear Us”, from Fool’s Gold, Ssion’s second album, is any indication, Critcheloe is now a member in good standing. The song documents (as “we”) a caricatured, nihilistic hipster netherworld— mirrored in the album’s butched-out cover image— as a cartoonish, unambiguously bold amalgam of gay subcultural stereotypes, which Critcheloe both calls attention to and celebrates. [via last.fm]
Cakes Da Killa
Recording artist and raunchy rapper Cakes Da Killa is a 23-year-old with three critically-acclaimed mixtapes to his name. His latest release Hunger Pangs solidified him as “one of hip hop’s most exciting voices,” according to The Needle Drop and a ferocious rapper who “sounds like he will absolutely slap your face off” in the words of Stereogum. No small feat, as this intensity has also garnered him praise from the likes of Vice, MTV and The Fader. Cakes Da Killa’s unique sound is a mix of various musical influences, cinema and underground experiences. Praised for both his lyrical content and flow, which has earned him comparisons to Lil Kim and Foxy Brown, Cakes now has over 7,000 Soundcloud followers and over 8000 Facebook fans, as well as an international following that’s brought him to places around Europe, Canada and Australia, all the while shattering the preconceived notions of what it takes to be a respected lyricist. (Rightly) bragging that he can, “spit that shit to make a homophobe a hypocrite,” he continues to prove the statement true with each new release he drops.
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Cuntmafia
CUNTMAFIA was an idea created by Contessa Stuto and developed by her growing up in Long Island/New York City. The inspiration was as raw and uncommercial as possoble; the word cunt was not to be the trendy and “tongue and chic” meaning the “fashion world” watered it down to. As she was growing up in New York City she was heavily involved in the Queer, Goth, Punk, Hip-hop Underground music & Nightlife scenes.
Her obsession with night life and music developed into her “fantasy life” escaping real life. Always raving around town and being the center of attention, she then started role playing with looks (fantasy). She started getting into different characters that would fit into the atmospheres she was going to. Spending her school time sewing her own garments she was heavily infatuated with creating her own “NEW YORK” Image. Street wear was something she always labeled her personal stye; she then started developing her own aesthetic that has now being knocked off by every designer, stylist and celebrity. Her dreams were to be a “Rockstar” and a “Fashion Designer,” but in reality her business savvy and boss bitch mindset was to fuse both and create an empire; hence CUNTMAFIA was born. CUNTMAFIA is derived off of the word CUNT in the punk and vogue scene and MAFIA is obviously derived from her italian roots and influential crews such as “Junior Mafia.”
End of Highschool and Y2K she moved to Brooklyn (roaming around from Bed Stuy to Bushwick) and was apart of the “Williamsburg explosion.” Electro-clash music was at the forefront and at the time the “Queer” and “Underground” Brooklyn. Her love for voguing and dancing had her dabbling into the ballroom scene within the lesbian community. By the time she was in her mid 20’s she discovered Roxy Cottontail parties where at the time was where the “IT” parties were. In 2007 She met everyone from M.I.A., Spankrock, Le1f, Theophilus London, Maluca, Azealia Banks, $hayne (Hood by Air), Kesh, Vashtie, Venus X, House of Ladosha.. etc etc. by being in that downtown urban scene that centered solely around fashion and music. It was then when she met former room-mate Promise Smith and started the ICONIC Rave “WHOREHOUSE” which is where people such as ASAP Rocky, Kilo Kish, J Scott and others got their early start.
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