Might be right white reaper meaning8/9/2023 ![]() I first heard “Might Be Right” on my own hometown alt-rock station, Columbus, Ohio’s beloved independent institution CD102.5, which, like the NYC alt-rock station, will only mess with Lana Del Rey if she’s covering Sublime, and unlike the NYC alt-rock station will give Billie Eilish a shot, and like any alt-rock station anywhere leans as much toward Passion Pit–style synth-pop as anything guitar-oriented. “Does anyone really go to Guitar Center anymore and pick up the guitar?” “It’s present, but it’s morphed and mixed with other instrumentation,” Kaplan added. Even this genre’s professional champions can’t be much bothered to champion it anymore. ” So equivocated Mike Kaplan, program director of New York City’s ALT 92.3, quoted in Joe Coscarelli’s recent New York Times piece about Mike’s job running an alternative-rock station. “The raw, guitar-rock sound is really-I don’t want to say it’s done, but. You can’t talk about songs like this in 2019 without agonizing over the relative absence of songs like this in 2019. I have had “Might Be Right”-the carefree bounce of the bass line, the prehistoric power-chord roar of the chorus, the thwarted lust of the lyrics, the dual-guitar riff with the richness and depth of a particularly well-thought-out Dungeons & Dragons campaign-stuck in my head for, like, three weeks. On Friday, White Reaper released their third and best LP, You Deserve Love. “Run around and tell the gang / Polish up your dusty fangs.” It’s an electrifying feeling, even if they’re the sort of cuddly band Mom can bring home to you. “Rally up and dress to kill / Lace your boots and crush your pills,” the title track’s chorus begins, amid fake crowd noise that cements the mass-romantic Cheap Trick vibe. ![]() It is ideal, in this day and age, to approach this style of Zippo-flicking guitar music with, if not irony, then at least some measure of cornball self-awareness: White Reaper’s 2015 full-length debut was called White Reaper Does It Again, which is the second-funniest album title in their brief catalog, after 2017’s The World’s Best American Band. A healthy death drive is a necessary component of keeping this music alive. A roaring bonfire fueled by the bodies of knuckleheads, warming the bodies of other knuckleheads. “That made me want to be a musician.” The urge to rock ’n’ roll, in 2019 as in 1988 as in 1967, is a fundamentally self-destructive impulse. “What’s his name in the pool with the vodka, and his mom is there, and he’s just talking about how he wants to be dead?” Hater mused during a July interview with Michael Tedder for Stereogum. I mention this because a gentleman named Ryan Hater, who plays keyboards in the young Louisville, Kentucky, rock band White Reaper, evidently found it quite inspiring. Cut back to his mother, still making The Face. ![]() Being who I am, it’s just like-here, watch.” And then he rolls into the pool. “I don’t dig being the person I am,” he concludes, struggling to elaborate. “Do you think you might be covering up some pain?” Holmes’s interviewer wonders, and he responds by cracking open a vodka bottle and pouring half of it in his mouth, and half of the rest in the general vicinity of his face. Hah- hah!” He blames, or rather credits, rock ’n’ roll for this: “If you can tour one year, it’ll take four years off your life.” There is a Santa glass in the cupholder of his pool chair his mother is sitting poolside, terrified and resigned and making the most viscerally upsetting face in ’80s cinema, non– Large Marge category. He estimates that he drinks five pints of vodka a day, although: “Five quarts? Pints? Who cares? Yeah, I’m a happy camper. “I’m a full-blown alcoholic,” Holmes concedes, slurring cordially. Felton Music Hall ~^Ģ9 – Chattanooga, Tenn.Anyway, yikes. Cornerstone Berkeley ~^ġ7 – Felton, Calif. The Biltmore Ballroom ~ġ6 – Berkeley, Calif. Amsterdam Bar & Grill ~*ġ1 – Vancouver, B.C. Louder than Life FestivalĠ4 – Des Moines, Iowa Vaudeville Mews ~*Ġ5 – St. Bourbon & Beyond FestivalĢ7 – Dana Point, Calif. Reading Music FestivalĢ2 – Louisville, Ky. Headliners Music Hall +Ģ5 – Reading, U.K. Amityville Music Hall +Ģ2 – Philadelphia, Pa. Daniel Ryan) below and find their tour itinerary further down.Ģ1 – Amityville, N.Y. Watch White Reaper’s “Might Be Right” video (dir. Later, they will perform at Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life, both taking place in their hometown of Louisville in September. ![]() They will also play at notable festivals such as the Ohana Festival on the same day as The Strokes, and the U.K.’s Reading & Leeds when Foo Fighters are set to headline. Until then, White Reaper will headline their own U.S. ![]()
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