Keeping Up with The Reinsteins: Despot Welcomes Fans Into His Childhood Queens Home for "First" Music Video, "House of Bricks" (E*VAX-directed)

Despite, or maybe even because of, the fact that critically-acclaimed Queens emcee Despot has yet to release his oft-delayed, nearly 10 years in-the-making debut, We're All Excited, he's somehow still able to "rub shoulders" and get a casual Sunday brunch with industry heavyweights like Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig and 21-22 Jump Street leading man, Jonah Hill. Fresh on the heels of his recent Evan "E*VAX" Mast-produced lead single lifted from his seemingly soon forthcoming album, Despot has unleashed his "first" proper music video for "House of Bricks;" although, he's previously appeared on film alongside Mr. Muthaf**kin' eXquire, Das Racist, Vampire Weekend, a pre-Run The Jewels El-P & Killer Mike, Sky Ferreira, Chromeo, and Santigold. "Me and Evan [Mast] have been talking about this album since I met him, so we have hypothetically been working on this album for close to 10 years... Most of the delay has just been me deciding that I don't like the songs that I'm making most of the time," Despot recently revealed to The FADER concerning his almost jokingly, habitually delayed album, We're All Excited or the Chinese Democracy of Hip-Hop.

Sonically, Despot's 5-star rated Evan Mast-produced/directed "House of Bricks" sounds vaguely similar to his full-time experimental Psych-Rock and Hip-Hop blending band RATATAT, while making a couple clever lyrical allusions to classic children's nursery rhyme, The Three Little Pigs. E*VAX's FADER-premiered video treatment manages to work in a clever bird's-eye panoramic shot of Despot's iced out cityscape ring formerly showcased on "House of Bricks"' single cover; from that point onward, it almost evokes an uncensored Keeping Up with The Kardashians or even The Osbournes-style look into Alec Reinstein aka Despot's surprisingly "average" family and everyday home life. "I felt like it was a good kind of introduction because I never made a video... which is weird, because I've been putting out music for fifteen years or something," Reinstein further described to The FADER regarding their overall approach to filming "House of Bricks." Its brief contained PERFECT BRANCH-penned video description additionally details that Despot's "Mom, Dad, Jacob, [iguana] Rex & [falcon] Prince" all co-star within Mast's reality show-style production. "House of Bricks'" instant widely-acclaimed success has apparently helped "grease the gears" for Despot & E*VAX to finally attempt to finish recording and release We're All Excited, which Despot himself honestly says "feels like [is] getting closer" to completion.

"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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