Welcome to Insult to Injury, our secret room in the internet mansion where the Noisey editors gather weekly to discuss what we’ve been listening to this week. This has been a weird few days as most of the editors have been off traveling somewhere cool and the idiots stuck here chained to the desk have been voraciously blogging and stealing stuff off the absentees’ desks. Sweet pair of Bose headphones. On eBay they go!The University of Iowa Hawkeyes Fight Song
Well, I'm in Iowa right now, which is way colder than I expected. I brought the wrong jacket because I'm an idiot, so now I either have to go to the stupid thrift shop and spend money I don't have on a stupid new jacket, or just drink more. I'm probably just going to drink more. I'll "pre-game!" Then I'll put on my "drunk jacket!" Then we'll do jello shots! Get it! Sorry, I'm making terrible college jokes because I'm in the same town in which I went to school. BRB, gonna go hang out on the quad. Someone bring me some weed. Go Hawks! Be remarkable.Eric Sundermann, Managing Editor
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Tennis - “Marathon”
Hi, Kim Taylor Bennett here a.k.a. The KTB. I’m out of the country in the cocaine oasis known as Colombia at the moment, so I am trusting my esteemed and incredibly buff-but-not-like-too-buff colleague, Dan Ozzi, to write my entry. I know he’ll do a great job as he is the most talented writer I know—that includes renowned award-winning (probably) writer, Lizzy Goodman. This was a hectic week for me, Kim. I tripped into a box, got tangled in my laptop cord, and spilled multiple liquids on my lap. Today, I’m listening to some faceless indie rock band that Dan would never listen to because he only listens to bands full of angry dudes in flannel. Anyway, check it out. KTB out. [trips endlessly but adorably down escalator]Kim Taylor Bennett, Style Editor
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This has been Weston Week for me. I wrote this long-ass thing about how much their 1996 album Got Beat Up meant to me as a teenager who girls wanted nothing to do with and also now as an adult who girls want nothing to do with. And also, Jim from Weston just dropped an EP from his new band Beach Slang and holy shit holy shit holy shit it is so good. It kind of sounds like Goo Goo Dolls before they starting writing garbage or maybe the Replacements with some of those muted Jawbreaker vocals. Then that got me thinking of Jawbreaker and then that got me thinking about Forgetters (this is how my brain works, please keep up) and then I started thinking about how that Forgetters album was OK but how the double seven-inch was better. And that’s how I got here. Thanks, brain, for this totally pointless journey.Dan Ozzi, Editor
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Perhaps Bad Lucc's had some, uh, bad luck from literally naming himself "BAD LUCC," but it seems that his lucc has turned up and around now that he's aligned with West Coast superhero Problem, ripped off Young Bleed and Master P, and now people are finally paying attention. Anyways, he just put out an EP that features Problem on like most of the tracks and it's great. I'm going to North Carolina to watch an outhouse race tomorrow.Drew Millard, Features Editor
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Tony Molina - Dissed and Dismissed
There was a period of time, maybe a week or so, when I ONLY listened to this record. That may not seem like much of a feat to many of you, but if you consider the fact that the goddamn thing is right around twelve minutes long, it's pretty insane. Why? Dissed and Dismissed hit the perfect sweet spot between Guided by Voices, early Weezer, Dinosaur Jr., and Thin Lizzy. Dare I say, it's a perfect record. Fred Pessaro, Editor-in-Chief
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I have no idea who Tasha Couture is but I'm very relieved that I didn't cheat on her after she helped me sell drugs and hide from the cops, because then I'd be the bitch-ass subject of this scrotum-withering burner about loyalty and lack thereof. I found this on a random Datpiff compilation of 808 Mafia production, and it sounds like Mary J. Blige got her hands on Young Thug's Serato. Long story short, I'm in love.Ezra Marcus, Guest Editor
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RATKING - So It Goes
Sorry, Troy Ave, but New York rap is mostly pretty shitty right now. While pretty much everywhere else in the country has figured out how to make music that sounds weirder than it used to by bringing in new influences from the Internet, New Yorkers are mostly just googling old LOX videos, I think. Except for RATKING, who Googled their way into being friends with King Krule, or however that works. These guys are seriously refreshing, and, while they've been kicking around for a while and making music that's as chaotic as their home city, they've finally put together an album that sounds flat-outgood enough to make them the center of conversation. Sorry to the cargo shorts crowd, but if KRS-One or Nas came out now, they wouldn't sound like KRS-One or Nas, they'd sound like this. So It Goes taps into the city's unique paranoia, the kind where you walk home because you're too high to take the subway or you get harassed by police because that's what cops love. The album comes out next week, but it's streaming on NPR, and I have been taking advantage. I suggest you do the same.Kyle Kramer, Guest Editor
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I'm in Montreal this week, and it's kinda terrible because nobody wants to tell me that they're actually very fluent English speakers. To add to this terrible week, Vybz Kartel recently got put in jail for 20 years, which hurt the soul of anyone who had been touched by his music (so, a majority of Toronto's immigrant population). Fortunately, Young Thug and Dun Deal helped me discover Zuse, who might very well be on his way to being my new favourite island artist. Zuse is from Kingston, lives in Atlanta, has rooster ad-libs, and rhymes hookah with bazooka. In short, there's absolutely nothing to not like about this guy. Sucks about Vybz, but this is a decent replacement for at least some of the 20 years we'll be waiting.Slava Pastuk, Canadian Editor
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Well, I'm in Iowa right now, which is way colder than I expected. I brought the wrong jacket because I'm an idiot, so now I either have to go to the stupid thrift shop and spend money I don't have on a stupid new jacket, or just drink more. I'm probably just going to drink more. I'll "pre-game!" Then I'll put on my "drunk jacket!" Then we'll do jello shots! Get it! Sorry, I'm making terrible college jokes because I'm in the same town in which I went to school. BRB, gonna go hang out on the quad. Someone bring me some weed. Go Hawks! Be remarkable.Eric Sundermann, Managing Editor
Eric on Noisey | Eric on Twitter
Tennis - “Marathon”
Hi, Kim Taylor Bennett here a.k.a. The KTB. I’m out of the country in the cocaine oasis known as Colombia at the moment, so I am trusting my esteemed and incredibly buff-but-not-like-too-buff colleague, Dan Ozzi, to write my entry. I know he’ll do a great job as he is the most talented writer I know—that includes renowned award-winning (probably) writer, Lizzy Goodman. This was a hectic week for me, Kim. I tripped into a box, got tangled in my laptop cord, and spilled multiple liquids on my lap. Today, I’m listening to some faceless indie rock band that Dan would never listen to because he only listens to bands full of angry dudes in flannel. Anyway, check it out. KTB out. [trips endlessly but adorably down escalator]
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Forgetters - "Too Small To Fail"
This has been Weston Week for me. I wrote this long-ass thing about how much their 1996 album Got Beat Up meant to me as a teenager who girls wanted nothing to do with and also now as an adult who girls want nothing to do with. And also, Jim from Weston just dropped an EP from his new band Beach Slang and holy shit holy shit holy shit it is so good. It kind of sounds like Goo Goo Dolls before they starting writing garbage or maybe the Replacements with some of those muted Jawbreaker vocals. Then that got me thinking of Jawbreaker and then that got me thinking about Forgetters (this is how my brain works, please keep up) and then I started thinking about how that Forgetters album was OK but how the double seven-inch was better. And that’s how I got here. Thanks, brain, for this totally pointless journey.Dan Ozzi, Editor
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Bad Lucc - "Crazy"
Perhaps Bad Lucc's had some, uh, bad luck from literally naming himself "BAD LUCC," but it seems that his lucc has turned up and around now that he's aligned with West Coast superhero Problem, ripped off Young Bleed and Master P, and now people are finally paying attention. Anyways, he just put out an EP that features Problem on like most of the tracks and it's great. I'm going to North Carolina to watch an outhouse race tomorrow.
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Tony Molina - Dissed and Dismissed
There was a period of time, maybe a week or so, when I ONLY listened to this record. That may not seem like much of a feat to many of you, but if you consider the fact that the goddamn thing is right around twelve minutes long, it's pretty insane. Why? Dissed and Dismissed hit the perfect sweet spot between Guided by Voices, early Weezer, Dinosaur Jr., and Thin Lizzy. Dare I say, it's a perfect record. Fred Pessaro, Editor-in-Chief
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Tasha Couture - "Wrong Bitch"
I have no idea who Tasha Couture is but I'm very relieved that I didn't cheat on her after she helped me sell drugs and hide from the cops, because then I'd be the bitch-ass subject of this scrotum-withering burner about loyalty and lack thereof. I found this on a random Datpiff compilation of 808 Mafia production, and it sounds like Mary J. Blige got her hands on Young Thug's Serato. Long story short, I'm in love.Ezra Marcus, Guest Editor
Ezra on Noisey | Ezra on Twitter
RATKING - So It Goes
Sorry, Troy Ave, but New York rap is mostly pretty shitty right now. While pretty much everywhere else in the country has figured out how to make music that sounds weirder than it used to by bringing in new influences from the Internet, New Yorkers are mostly just googling old LOX videos, I think. Except for RATKING, who Googled their way into being friends with King Krule, or however that works. These guys are seriously refreshing, and, while they've been kicking around for a while and making music that's as chaotic as their home city, they've finally put together an album that sounds flat-outgood enough to make them the center of conversation. Sorry to the cargo shorts crowd, but if KRS-One or Nas came out now, they wouldn't sound like KRS-One or Nas, they'd sound like this. So It Goes taps into the city's unique paranoia, the kind where you walk home because you're too high to take the subway or you get harassed by police because that's what cops love. The album comes out next week, but it's streaming on NPR, and I have been taking advantage. I suggest you do the same.
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Young Thug feat. Zuse - Treasure
I'm in Montreal this week, and it's kinda terrible because nobody wants to tell me that they're actually very fluent English speakers. To add to this terrible week, Vybz Kartel recently got put in jail for 20 years, which hurt the soul of anyone who had been touched by his music (so, a majority of Toronto's immigrant population). Fortunately, Young Thug and Dun Deal helped me discover Zuse, who might very well be on his way to being my new favourite island artist. Zuse is from Kingston, lives in Atlanta, has rooster ad-libs, and rhymes hookah with bazooka. In short, there's absolutely nothing to not like about this guy. Sucks about Vybz, but this is a decent replacement for at least some of the 20 years we'll be waiting.Slava Pastuk, Canadian Editor
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