Insult to Injury: Week Ending 2/28

February 28, 2014, 4:55pm

Welcome to Insult to Injury, the place on the internet where the Noisey editors gather on a weekly basis to talk about what we’ve been listening to (but really use music as an excuse to subtly talk about our haters and exes). This week, we are joined by Mike Cheese of Gehenna who definitely did not stab someone over a bucket of chicken. Speaking of things that most definitely did not happen, Eric definitely did not write Drew and Lauren’s entries this week…

Migos – No Label 2
Migos are like the results of fetal alcohol syndrome and their new mixtape is the special olympics of rap. Special needs guys get to make music and we all get to sit on the sidelines and cheer for them. Errybody wins.

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Mike Cheese, Gehenna

Superchunk – “Driveway to Driveway”
I listened to this and it sent me into an emo spiral which involved playing Something to Write Home About by The Get Up Kids three times in a row, before swaying to Buffalo Tom’s “Late at Night” (note: this link is actually a My So-Called Life fan-made montage, soundtracked by BT, because obviously Angela and Jordan’s love story is way better to watch than any of the band’s actual videos). Seems like someone’s feeling sentimental for something. If you dreamed up the vocal for a sweet but seriously geeky dude who unwittingly friendzoned his love interests right through to his mid-20s, it would sound like the reedy, yearning timbre of Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan. But we all know nerds gets the girls in the end. If there was ever a second series of MSCL, Krakow would come up on top.

Kim Taylor Bennett, Style Editor
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Thin Lizzy – “Rosalie” Risky Business

Fred Pessaro, Editor-in-Chief
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Weston – “Retarded”

Dan Ozzi, Editor
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Woods – “Moving To The Left”
So indie rock died awhile ago. At least that’s what the blogs keep saying—this blog and this writer included—but holy shit, the first quarter of 2014 is out here trying to make me say that guitars with feelings are sweet again. In the upcoming month, we’ll have new records from Future Islands, Real Estate, the Men, Mac DeMarco, Woods, and probably some other shit I’m forgetting. Because I’m a fancy-pants music journalist, I’ve heard them all—and I can confidently each act is producing some of the best work of their respective careers. Today, I’ve been jamming (bro) to the new Woods record With Light and With Love. Above, you can stream the band’s first single “Moving To The Left,” and in typical Woods-fashion, it’s something you’ll want to listen to on repeat at least 438 times—and that won’t be enough.

Eric Sundermann, Managing Editor
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RICK ROSS FEATURING KANYE WEST & BIG SEAN – “SANCTIFIED” HE CAN’T HANDLE ANSWERING HARD QUESTIONS LAUREN ON NOISEY | LAUREN ON TWITTER

Dave Matthews Band – “Ants Marching” Noisey Twitter

Tool – “Schism (Lustmord Remix)”
Filthy synths, a melodic female vocalist and…wait for it…an epic bass drop? Yup, it’s Friday. Bros and hoes alike will have no problem getting absolutely shithoused to this dancefloor crusher, the perfect soundtrack for booze, sex, partying, and everything else that’s awesome. Turn the fuck up!

Ezra Marcus, Guest Editor
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Girls’ Generation – “Gee”
Listening to new music is low key very overrated. It’s exhausting to power through an album just to force an opinion simply for the sake of being the first to do so. This week, everyone in hip-hop music either officially released or streamed their album, to which I say “fuck you, I’m busy”. Here’s an amazing piece of art that hasn’t been created by Schoolboy Q, Rick Ross or Pharrell. No disrespect to those guys, all disrespect to people not fucking with Girls’ Generation.

Slava Pastuk, Editor of Noisey Canada
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