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Todd Inoue May 8, 2021Updated: May 12, 2021, 6:53 pm
Anderson .Paak (left) and Bruno Mars of music group Silk Sonic perform during the Grammy Awards broadcast March 14. Photo: Theo Wargo
With vaccinations more widespread, pandemic restrictions loosening and summer on the horizon, think of this year’s Chronicle-curated Asian Pacific American Heritage Month mixtape as a safe, socially distanced barbecue.
There are grown folks dropping knowledge (Lyrics Born & Cutso, the Year of the Ox, H.E.R.), young ’uns swiping cognac and messing around in the garage (G Yamazawa, Saweetie, Guapdad 4000, Chow Mane), hyper kids running loose in the backyard (the Linda Lindas, Atarashii Gakko!), outcasts barricaded in the bedroom (Bruce Lee Band, Japanese Breakfast, Faye Yu) and wise elders asking about college admissions (Yo-Yo Ma, Vijay Iyer, Aki Kumar, No-No Boy).
3 days ago
The Bruce Lee Band have released a new song. The song is called “BLT”. The band will be releasing their EP
Division in the Heartland on May 28 via Asian Man Records. The Bruce Lee Band last released
Rental!! Eviction!! in 2019. Check out the new song below.
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Like a surfer at sunrise, or a lieutenant general girding for a melee attack, ska fans are always scanning the horizon for the next wave. The Jamaican first wave reshaped music; the British second wave proposed a cross-racial, working-class solidarity. At the back half of the 1990s, a slew of screwy ska-punk from like Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, and Dance Hall Crashers introduced the actual idea of a wave: ska as a natural, recurrent phenomenon. Since then, the big question is⦠has that fourth wave hit yet? Should we celebrate or dread its arrival? Are chart hits the harbingers? Perhaps it happens when ska is spliced into new contexts. At some point, the indefatigable underground punk icon Jeff Rosenstock took his place at skaâs vanguard. After the dissolution of his Long Island ska-punk act Arrogant Sons of Bitches, Rosenstock recorded an albumâwhich he credited to âBomb the Music Industry!ââat home. 2005âs