It’s time to rewind with Flashion Backward, a new UI feature that’s the spiritual cousin of our recently debuted Flashion Forward. Here, we rifle through our treasure trove of interviews to fish out a vintage gem–the better to explore the strange vortex in which fashion and musicians meet. Onto this week’s flashback…
Even if you’re laying splayed on a sagging bed under far too many layers of sheets and blankets, half dead from a hangover, stuffed to the almost-barfing brim with greasy home fries and a Spanish frittata (shoulda skipped that side of sausage) and attempting to fearlessly face down a Saturday crammed with laundry…when !!! gets queued up in your laptop’s random shuffle mode, ya can’t help but shake yer rump to the dance-punk loveliness. Suddenly you realize that Excedrin you slammed 20 minutes ago has kicked in, those sausages gave you an all-important protein-packed energy boost and laundry is for suckers–you’re headed to the park.
!!! is familiar with mood and style swings from the crusty rubble of the mid-90s hardcore scene. Lead singer Nic Offer wanted to inject some light-hearted fun, funk, pop and experimentation into his music, and the eight-member ensemble !!! was born. The music definitely evolved, but their essential commitment to radical politics, in-your-face intensity and slacker fashion remained firm. (The band members hail from the mad-genius sculptor “don’t mind this pattern of whimsically scattered mystery crust on my threadbare T-shirt, and yes, I did find these jeans on the bottom of my girlfriend’s closet, but they totally fit so I’m wearing them – all my shit is dirty, dude” school of getting dressed in the morning)
Below, check out Nic as he waxes surreal on his dream to continue to transform the world around him with…wait for it…Jesus-like floating superpowers. (The ability to simply fly or make paintings talk isn’t rock ‘n’ roll enough).
TOPICS: Flashion Backward, Queequeg