This Thursday, many of you will find yourselves going through the same cycle of hitting up a party somewhere in Westwood, drinking too much alcohol, and coming home wondering what the hell you just did after questioning your ethics and principles.

Instead, you could come home just as puzzled, and maybe even more so, on top of having experienced what is possibly one of the most ridiculous music genres, ever.  This Thursday May 13th, Albuquerque’s BrokeNCYDE will be performing at the Galaxy Concert Theatre in Santa Ana at 7:00PM.   This crunkcore band mixes pop, rap, dance, and screamo into a potpourri (some may use the word vomit) of melodies that will leave you thinking about, well, a lot of different things.

You might be asking, what musical genre does BrokeNCYDE fall under?  The answer is crunkcore, a genre that Kerrang! Magazine calls “possibly the worst genre of music ever created.”  Still not enough to convince you to see the show?  Other crunkcore bands sport names like “I Set My Friends on Fire” and “Blood on the Dance Floor.”  Also, with band member names like Se7en, Mikl, Phat J, and Antz, you don’t want to miss a show that might change your entire perspective on modern musical styles—forever.

I feel a little bit of guilt trying to promote this show, but from a completely nonjudgmental perspective, I really think this would broaden my (and your) musical horizons.  Never have I listened to a band that was called “F***ing horrendous” by Metal Edge metal magazine.  Cracked.com called the band a “Slipknot-Cher duet.”  Commentator Warren Ellis called BrokeNCYDE’s “FreaXXX” music video “a near-perfect snapshot of everything that’s s***about this point in the culture.”

I’ll leave you with this one:  August Brown of the LA Times writes “… (BrokenCYDE) has done for MySpace emo what some think Soulja Boy did for hip-hop: turn their career into a kind of macro-performance art that exists so far beyond the tropes of irony and sincerity that to ask, ‘are they kidding?’ is like trying to peel an onion to get to a perceived central core that, in the end, does not exist and renders all attempts to resemble the pieces futile.”  Soulja Boy… Lol.

I don’t know about you, but this makes me really curious about BrokenCYDE.  My personal opinion?  These guys are satirizing the ridiculous turn that music has taken as of late… and making a lot of money doing it.  They probably really appreciate music and listen to Bach’s violin concertos for leisure.

Or, maybe not.  BrokeNCYDE – Get Crunk

Michael Kashiktchian

Electronic Frequencies – Wednesdays 10:00PM – 2:00AM