11/9/2023 0 Comments White reaper![]() The opening title track poses The World’s Best American Band as both a concept record and self-fulfilling prophecy, piping in the kind of crowd noise that can only be generated in arenas far bigger than White Reaper may ever see in this lifetime. In White Reaper’s world, being coy about influence means you have something to hide and they proudly flaunt theirs like denim patches- Ramones, of course, but also Cheap Trick, Kiss, Thin Lizzy, Van Halen, rock bands who essentially functioned as pop. But White Reaper have the chops and the guts to make their hometown hero proud: bragging is when a person says something and can’t do it and White Reaper do what they say. Even better if they have the heart to actually mean it. It’d be enough to have the sense of humor to call their album The World’s Best American Band. White Reaper, on the other hand, are from Louisville, KY-where the Muhammad Ali Center stands as a tribute to its native son who backed up the greatest anthology of shit talk ever heard. The competitive spirit, self-promotion, and obsession with quantifiable metrics that make hip-hop and pop music into a compelling spectator sport are invariably considered poor taste on and off-record. ![]() ![]() Rock music hasn’t been the sound of popular youth culture in a very long time and there is no shortage of real, systematic causes: the irreversible narrowing of radio and print media, the economic and logistical nightmare of putting five dudes and their gear on tour and the undeniable fact that rock bands are extremely bad at creating content for music’s 24-hour news cycle. ![]()
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