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We have now hosted rap legends, Broadway musicals, pop stars, world-renowned classical musicians, indie rockers and folkies — there is a universe of music on the Tiny Desk that retains increasing. However we’ve got by no means featured a hardcore punk band on the NPR Music workplace … till Soul Glo.
Hardcore and punk are very important not solely in how I perceive the world but additionally problem myself; it is music that feels first, then screams. Soul Glo crystalizes its anger and nervousness — about trauma, anti-Blackness, mortality, survival — with a pummeling prism of basic hardcore pace, psychedelic noise, sludgy riffs and a spitfire vocalist with exasperated-but-exhilarating run-ons, who finds moments to step again and bounce like an emcee would.
However punk will also be unpredictable as a result of, at its coronary heart, punk doesn’t wish to be contained. Soul Glo’s set options tracks from 2022’s nonetheless thrilling Diaspora Issues, plus a loosie from final 12 months. Midway by “Driponomics,” Pierce Jordan will get on the Desk, however dips out and in of the microphone’s vary to commune with the throng of punks gathered. The identical occurs with the band’s outrageously chaotic and catchy nearer, “Gold Chain Punk (whogonbeatmyass?),” however what the mics do not seize in Jordan’s verse, the group greater than ably makes up for within the gang vocals that feverishly scream again the hook. (Sure, that’s me moving into the body to get a mic again in Jordan’s normal neighborhood.) Oh, and in a Tiny Desk of a number of firsts, a mosh pit broke out within the workplace; I am nonetheless smiling about it.
SET LIST
- “Bounce!! (Or Get Jumped!!!)((by the longer term))”
- “If I Converse (Shut The F*** Up)”
- “Driponomics”
- “Gold Chain Punk (whogonbeatmyass?)”
MUSICIANS
- Pierce Jordan: vocals, bass
- GG Guerra: guitar, vocals
- Allen Nunez: bass, guitar
- TJ Stevenson: drums
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Lars Gotrich
- Director/Editor: Maia Stern
- Audio Technical Director: Neil Tevault
- Collection Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Zayrha Rodriguez
- Audio Engineer: Kwesi Lee
- Manufacturing Assistant: Ashley Pointer
- Photographer: Elizabeth Gillis
- Tiny Desk Staff: Kara Body, Hazel Cills
- Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Collection Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
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