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Run The Jewels’ Holy Calamavote TV Special to Feature Zack De La Rocha, Mavis Staples and Josh Homme
Run The Jewels’ televised concert special, Holy Calamavote, now has an all-star cast of guests. The event, to inspire voter turnout, will see El-P and Killer Mike performing RTJ4 along with musical guests Mavis Staples, Zack de la Rocha, Josh Homme among many more. Due to a health scare in their crew that temporarily halted production, the broadcast was bumped from its original date of Oct. 10 to Oct. 17 at midnight. The show is presented by Ben & Jerry’s and Adult Swim; Eric Andre will be the Master of Ceremonies The telecast gives them the opportunity to present, commercial-free, the very first performance of their hit album RTJ4 to the airwaves in the wake of the album’s critical acclaim. The performance will be simul-streamed on Adult Swim’s website and made available on ...
Run the Jewels’ RTJ4 Is Driving Music for a Cop Car on Fire
Run the Jewels don’t make a reviewer’s job easy because everything that’s great about them is the stuff we’re supposed to ignore to get to the bottom of the hype. They began as the best kind of “supergroup”: An unlikely pairing of beloved talents who still had plenty of room to peak higher. El-P’s fantastic Fantastic Damage and his countless innovative productions for his own previous, self-built Def Jux universe (Cannibal Ox’s The Cold Vein, Mr. Lif’s I Phantom) were unmistakably the most futuristic squelches in dusty-crate-obsessed indie-rap. Jaime Meline set the stage for dystopian soundscapes in hip-hop more than a decade before Death Grips, Yeezus, or the “mutant” scene that’s spawned Black Dresses and Deli Girls. Then you’ve got Michael Render, d/b/a Killer Mike, a firebrand of an MC...
