Here’s some musical insight from the queen of McKean on her birthday.
Since Jacob’s post on The Canals was so popular and in his picture he was wearing my coat, clearly I should be soon to follow. It’s not gonna be good at all, but hey it’s my birthday so they let me become the canals first lady.
I’m a big fan of
I was first introduced to the lovely sounds of Ballyhoo! by my buddy Sam. They are Maryland-grown just like me and so naturally Sam knew Ballyhoo!’s lead singer’s brother’s teacher’s boyfriend’s pledgebrother’s niece’s camp counselor, loosely. Clearly Sam was really excited about this special connection and told us to come see them perform in the sketchy part of our town. At the time I was only 17 and since it was at a bar type place I thought I would have to use my older sisters ID to get in (The second time ever- the first was to get into chucky cheese- more on that later). Sam assured me that it wasn’t 18 and over. So I went to see this crazy exclamation-pointed Ballyhoo! concert and hoped they wouldn’t mind that I wasn’t 18 quite yet. When we got there the extremely scary and extremely tattooed bouncer asked for IDs. I said fuck and went behind my friends; the jerks kept going in without me so me and bouncer could hang out during the concert. They proudly flashed their IDs and got promptly yelled at for trying to get into a 21 and over bar. This is why I like Ballyhoo! – they made my jerk friends feel stupid. And they are really really good. Listen. Do it.
And a little shout out to my boy Benjy with my
Ballyhoo! – Cerveza
Ballyhoo! –
OAR – Road Outside
-Alyssa Mendoza
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