CUTOFF PREVENTION

Hi there! Commander Cutoff here, with my new co-writer, Plebeian Prevention! The whole point of this blog is to prevent you from getting cutoff from the music world! We're a blog about everything music, every genre, every concert, every time someone sings...

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Also, we're back.  Luv u. 

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Former Cake Drummer Sentenced to 15 Years to Life for Child Molestation

Looks like he's not going the distance, amiright folks?

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GOVERNORS BALL 2014 COUNTDOWN DAY 7

TODAY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE BAES THAT ARE IN VAMPIRE WEEKEND.

I just love screaming Vampire Weekend lyrics at the tops of my lungs. BLAKE'S.GOTANEWFAEHSSSSSS (BLAAAAAAKE'S GOTANEWFAEHSSSSS) YA HEY YA HEY LOOK OUTSIDE THE RAINDROP COME AND IF I CAN'T TRUST YOU THEN DAMMIT HANNAH

By far the happiest and potentially most important band out there right now, Vampire Weekend have finally taken their rightful spot among the other music fest headliners and are closing out the fest on Sunday. If you don't like Vampire Weekend, what he fuck is wrong with you. Even if, say, your best friend started dating your ex-girlfriend because you introduced him to this band and they bonded over it and he didn't tell you about it except that they were flirting but never checked to make sure you were cool with it because come on bro what the fuck just talk to me about it that's all and he just acted kind of smug about the whole thing.

Even then, you cannot deny this band love.

They're just so happy and bouncy but they know how to write lyrics, a skill too many people take for granite. But if you still don't like them, this is the song. This is the song that will convert you into a believer. It's just so happy that it's a song, just so happy to exist in the same universe as chocolate cake and Neopets.

This band is fucking great, and so are you.

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GOVERNORS BALL 2014 COUNTDOWN DAY 6

Wolf. Gang. Wolf. Gang. WOLF. GANG. GOLF. WANG.

I fucking love Tyler, The Creator, I listen to a lot of rap music, but Tyler is probably the rapper I relate to the most. The hyperactivity, the offensive humor, the lack of a filter - that's me everyday, and I'm so fucking glad that he we are both here at the same time, what, with him making music and me have that absolute undeniable orgasm of pleasure that it is to listen to it and all. 

Tyler has collaborated on a new album called "The Gay Nineties Old Tyme Music: Daisy Bell," in which seven different artists cover the song "Daisy Bell" (DAISY DAISY GIVE ME YOUR BLOOPY BLOO SOMETHING SOMETHING BICYCLE RIDE FOR TWO). I was lead to believe that the song was a collab between the seven artists (Tyler, The Creator, Katy Perry, Danny Elfman, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Kirk Hammett, Nick Cave and Mark Mothersbaugh) but this is the next best thing.Mark Ryden puts some weird ass "woah fuck man" visuals for each track, and they all look damn stunning. Proceeds go to Little Kids Rock 

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GOVERNORS BALL 2014 COUNTDOWN DAY 5

Today we're talking about fairy queen international GRIMES.

If you don't know Grimes by now, she's ideally the anime theme song personified. Her music is the synthpop wonder the 80's dreamed of creating. Her looks are always amazing, focusing more on aesthetic than trying to be another disposable dive. Not to say that she's not savy - her and 2 Chainz even had matching outfits.

This song is called "Nightmusic," feautring cool ass indie duo Majical Cloudz ,and holy fuck is it cute. I remember reading that Grimes didn't want to be perceived as cute (at least all the time), but this song starts out with what sounds like a colony of cute cartoon animals waking up and then just bursts into gorgeous arrangements and melody. All hail the fairy queen.

"Bow down, bitches"

- Beyoncé 

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GOVERNORS BALL 2014 COUNTDOWN DAY 4

Today we're talking about Sleigh Bells!

I gotta say, I originally dismissed Sleigh Bells as a noisier Crystal Castles. Not sure why except that it's a "one guy doing the music/one girl doing the kinda sorta vocal work" thing. But as I listened to them more... wow. This is what other noise bands dream of being. The perfect balance of melody and noise, just the right amount of instrumentation and vocals. My choice pick? "Crown On The Ground," which gleefully captures all of these features. 

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GOVERNORS BALL 2014 COUNTDOWN DAY MOTHER FUCKING 4 FUCK YEAH  

Today is a duba heada: SKRILLEX AND CHANCE THE RAPPER  

The song? "Coast Is Clear" 

Why do they call him Chance The Rapper? I mean, he's also a great fucking singer. Chance The Entertainer. Chance The Musical Prodigy. Chance The Holy Shit It's Like Angels Fucking In The 60's On Shrooms. 

Skrillex, I have major love for you. Though "Recess" is not the most amazing album to ever grace the Electronic music universe, Skrillex really flexes his production ability and shows off interests in a wider variety of sonic experience, something Skrillex seems to have been striving at for a while.

Originally I dismissed this song, not becase I thought it was terrible, but I thought it didn't have the energy of the usual Skrilla hit, and Chance The Rapper's part was just kind of a chorus repeated. But the more I found myself walking around my house screaming DO YOU WANNA FUCK DO YA WANA FUCK DO YA WANNA TO FUQ DA YA WAN NA FUK FUQ FUC FERK I realized how nicely the production was laid down, and just how damn catchy and cute Chance's part is. Hope to see these two working on a fucktastically fancy free jam again soon. (Maybe that one will get some Top 40 airplay. I know some people are against things like that, but pop music is still important, and this can work well as excellent pop music).

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GOVERNORS BALL 2014 COUNTDOWN DAY 3

Hell yeah today we're talking about DIARRHEA PLANET. This band has, like, 18 fucking guitarists, and they're all, like, totally the Eddie Van Halen's of this generation and maybe the last one too. 

This band actually tends to get deep into issues relating to adolescence, and the raw emotion and multitude of layers in the music help get across whatever they're trying to say, even if you can't always understand their songs.

This jamaroo's called "Ice Age." Clocking in at under 2:00, this rush of melody and radical guitar tapping rushes through your ears, down your bowels, and back into your heart. 

(Hopefully not literally, cause then you'd have shit and your heart and that's, like, really unhealthy, brosalina).

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DAY 2 OF GOVERNORS BALL 2014 COUNTDOWN

Probably the most anticipated act by myself and a few others, IT'S THE MOTHER FUCKING STROKES.

If you don't know who The Strokes are, what the fuck. But, I will tell you anyway: regarded as one of the best rock bands of the 2000's, the released a revolutionary little album know as "Is This It" which resulted in massive orgasms all around the globe and the music world. The released a few other albums, but then slowly seceded from publicity. UNTIL THEY CAME BACK IN 2010! And then left again in 2011. BUT NOW THEY'RE BACK, ONCE MORE. So, I present you with a track from their latest album, Comedown Machine. Haven't heard it? You didn't miss much. Not to say it was bad, but it wasn't amazing fine brand Strokesalicious quality material. All except this on track. With a lead that sounds like a group of toy keyboards gang banged an accordion, Julian Casablancas takes his voice to new sonic highs, succeeding quite well, emotionally gratifying the song, a tale about about one night stands and fear of commitment. Can't wait to hear the song take over on Saturday night. The video above is also fan made, but looks  extremely super ultra hella professional, so check that visual marvel out as well.

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FUCK YEAH IT'S A NEW FOOL'S GOD EP - "LOW PROS" 

Glad to see Lex Luger back in action, especially with A-Trak. THe beats on this EP are solid and it's definitely worth going through Live Mixtapes obnoxious download procedure. This track is my favorite off the EP right now, an instant banger with Que, PeeWee Longway, and, the guy who seems to be every blogs favorite rapper (and rightfully so), Young Thug. Enjoy the beautiful trap juice above.

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Guess what time itNEVERMIND BECAUSE I'M GOING TO TELL YOU ANYWAY - IT'S ONE MONTH TILL GOVERNORS BALL 2014 IN RANDALL'S ISLAND, NY!!! I'm going to start counting down by talking about some of my favorite artists from the line-up. First up - Childish Gambino. 

Despite all the shit Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) gets from critics, he has a relatively devoted following - a deserved one at that. Through his production, lyrical abilities, and developing flows (he's come a long way since sounding like the rap version of Billy Corgan). One of the best tracks from his latest, "Because the Internet," is also the final track - "III. Life: The Biggest Troll (Andrew Auernheimer)," a gargantuan track with existentialism, a rainbow palette of sounds, and a Gambino that resists to give in to the world he lives in. From the beautiful beginning to the eerie end, Gambino takes this emotional train off the tracks.

Also: for the full Because the Internet expereince

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Duck Sauce finally released an album. Halle-freakin'-lujah. After shoveling out EPs and singles galore, the sample based house duo have unleashed a full debut, "Quack" and.... it's pretty good! Not that I was expecting it to be bad, but Duck Sauce don't exactly have many tricks up their sleeve. A-Trak and Armand Van Helden seem to save those for their solo projects, with their Duck Sauce material relying on basic house principles, with the sample doing most of the lifting, but still, the sound is inescapable. The best new track? "Spandex," a righteous work out fist-pump fest that encourages you to live it up to it's fullest, flash dancing and footloosing all across the disco floor. The Time Bandits sample is solid (they do have a great ear for this sort of thing), and the happiness of it all makes you just want to strip off your clothes and slather your hot, naked body in a giant vat of fresh duck sauce. But maybe that's just me.

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If Ariana Grande is Nickelodeon's answer to Disney's constant pop star sensations, it's a damn good one. But the best part is: she's not. Grande is doing her own thing, flexing her vocals and dancing all over the beautiful production. Iggy Azalea comes through with a great verse on this one too, Say what you want about her, but she's definitely leaving her mark on the pop world right now. I guess the track might feel a bit "Talk Dirty To Me" ish because of those killer horns but the second the track flipped on, Max Martin's wicked production fucking blew me away, tight Tight TIGHT.

"You hear that fucking brass?"

- Tyler, The Creator

P.S. props to Big Sean on the chorus ♥

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✿ FIRST POST FIRST POST FIRST POST EXTRAVAGANZA ✿

Welcome to Cutoff Prevention! We're a mother fucking music blog and more (probably maybe)!

Thought I'd start off with a champion's anthem, and if you guys haven't heard this, click the fucking play button, right. the. fuck. now. 

Apparently, the sample is of Adele's Hometown Glory, but it's so beautifully manipulated and mangled that all that can be made out is the cries of a long struggle finally coming to a triumphant end. Hope Clammy is doing well at medical school, but please return to hip-hop once in a while, and music in general. We need you mane. ♥