Hemlock Ernst & Kenny Segal Unveil First Single "Down" from Upcoming Full-length BACK AT THE HOUSE (ruby yacht/The Order Label)

About two weeks ago, ruby yacht makers guild (AKA ruby yacht) quietly unveiled their group album/label comp. 37 GEMS. It features the rhyming and beat-making talents of R.A.P. Ferreira FKA milo & scallops hotel, SB The Moor, Pink Navel, safari al, Eldon Somers, Kenny Segal, and E L U C I D. Now, ruby yacht have, seemingly, added yet another extremely talented character to their ever-growing roster: Hemlock Ernst! Ernst is the rapping alias of Future Islands' frontman and life-long Hip-Hop supporter, Samuel "Sam" T. Herring. "Sam was rapping long before he joined a band and it's all he's really ever wanted to do... it's more than "occasional" for him... it's just that his sh*t blew up on a totaaally different tip and he's been riding that out like one of the best to ever do it," safari al (@s_afari_al) Tweeted Wednesday morning. Herring has been featured on Hip-Hop tracks billed as "Hemlock Ernst" alongside the likes of milo/scallops hotel, Madlib as Trouble Knows Me, Blockhead, Drew Scott & Pale Spring FKA Anna Notte, PASSAGE, Height Keech, Busdriver, Curse ov Dialect, Open Mike Eagle & Paul White, WORDS HURT, billy woods, JPEGMAFIA, and plenty more.

As legend would have it, Sam Herring & Kenny Segal first worked together in 2015 for "Souvenir" from milo's album, So The Flies Don't Come. "Me & Sam just had a moment where we clicked and I started sending him beats and around that period (2016,) he started recording some demos that went on to become the backbone of this project," Kenny Segal explained within a press release. From there on out, anytime Herring was out in LA, he and Segal would link up and before long, had amassed 6-7 then-newly recorded songs together during this initial period. "Then, life got in the way, as life tends to do, he had a new Future Islands project that they were touring for... I was working with [ruby yacht] and billy woods and others and the project laid dormant through 2017," Kenny Segal further explained. Now, we've been treated to the first official single, "Down," attributed to Hemlock Ernst from his first proper full-length, BACK AT THE HOUSE. It's a thundering, 4+ minute slice of piano/string-accented, echo-filled Hip-Hop; further accented by the eerie, billowing refrain/pseudo-hook, "WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO? DOWN, DOWN, DOWN..."

"Down" and the entirety of BACK AT THE HOUSE were fully produced by Kenny Segal with sparse instrumental assists from his Jefferson Park Boys collaborators, Aaron "Mr." Carmack & Mike "Papi" Parvizi, as well as Los Angeles-based artist and multi-instrumentalist Ryan "PRYVT RYN" Crosby. Hemlock Ernst & Kenny Segal's BACK AT THE HOUSE will consist of 11 tracks and is, supposedly, rumored to be released Friday, October 25, 2019 on ruby yacht in conjunction with Alpha Pup Records' off-shoot imprint, The Order Label. Also, at the bottom of this very post, you'll find a Witzard-curated Spotify playlist entitled Hemlock Ernst BACK AT THE HOUSE (ruby yacht) featuring every Hemlock Ernst/Rap-adjacent release—well, what's currently available on Spotify—from Sam Herring, so far. If you can't tell, we're EXTREMELY STOKED to hear the entirety of Hemlock Ernst's first proper Hip-Hop project!!!

"Let Me Shine for You:" Lindsay Lohan for Playboy (Winter 2011-12 Leak)

Lindsay Lohan essentially embodies exactly "What NOT to Do In Hollywood :" Fame, fortune, success... sex, drugs & Rock "N" Roll . Within a fairly short period of time, Lohan somehow managed to obtain a plentiful helping of POWER @ a very young age. This gradual rise-downfall was captured on film; Between 1998-2010, she portrayed a wide array of roles across the silver screen in movies including: Mean Girls, Bobby , Herbie Fully Loaded , Georgia Rule, Machete , and Freaky Friday . Between rapid-paced film shoots, Lindsay Lohan also found time to record 2 Pop Rock albums for Casablanca , Speak (2004) and A Litter More Personal-Raw (2005). Needless to say, Lindsay Lohan has gotten roped up in a lot of troubles and woes with the law over the last 3-5 years... a vicious cycle of drugs, arrest, court, rehab, "daddy issues," jail time [Repeat]. That's the pure basics of it - But Google that shit for additional info, if necessary. Towards the end of

[W]reckless, Topless American Youth: Lana del Rey - "Born 2 Die" (Britney Spears Birthday 30)

Lana del Rey [Lizzy Grant] effectively became 2011's "It Girl" with the release of her phenomenal debut single, "Video Games" (Stranger) . Like many struggling singer-songwriters, Grant has been signed, dropped, and significantly changed her public image since bursting onto the scene (2009). With that said, it can be assumed that Lana del Rey has collected just as many "haters" as she has avid supporters. To be perfectly honest, the only other artist I can think of that made this much commotion... garnered so much wide-spread buzz/hate and critical acclaim -- right out of the gates -- with just one track is Britney Spears . And maybe in this post- Mike musical era, that's the true synthesis of Pop Culture: Britney Lynn Spears . After months of repeated teasing and speculation, Lana del Rey 's major label debut, Born 2 Die will [finally] be released this coming Jan. 30-31, 2012. Pitchfork reports that it will feature "Off to The Ra

Liberty Bell Cracked In 1/2: Ween - "Freedom of '76" (Gene Ween's Final Send-Off)

Chocolate & Cheese (1994) was one of the first albums I bought with my own money. I was in some sort of BMG Music Club , where you'd buy 5 CD's and then get 10 for "FREE." It was all sent through mail order and you picked the titles from some special booklet. I'm almost positive that Chocolate & Cheese's side boob-baring album cover was what initially drew me in... mind you, I was 12-15 and the zany Ween logo/middle finger CD graphic really didn't hurt either. Honestly, I forget how I really felt about it @ the time, but a few years later, my older cousin Josh told me that Ween were this BIG college "jam band." CKY did some sort pf 93.3 radio takeover to promote their new album and played "Freedom of '76" late that night on air. Needless to say, I re-visited Chocolate & Cheese @ about 20-something this go 'round and I fucking loved it! Ween were really weird, yet talented... almost too talented. I can vaguel

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