Street caught up with Jesse Fink, lead singer and guitarist for The HeyDaze, to find out how the Penn-spawned pop band is handling fame, national tours, headlining shows and teenage fangirls
Britney Spears
Shaved her head recently - not cute
Christina Aguilera
Soulja Boy Tell Em
Asked me to give him a kiss first, don’t wanna do it IRL & mom hasn’t gotten my RAZR fixed yet
Lil Bow Wow
Says he’s no longer little, doesn’t do this shit anymore
Disappeared last week
Madonna
No, mom.
Some artists choose to write the same type of songs over and over again, but some, like Manchester Orchestra, choose to rebuild their songs from scratch.
“Nick Jonas”—Nick Jonas
After, like, ten years,
Nick Jonas hit puberty.
He's horny now... weird.
Grade: D
Best when: Reading your erotic JoBros fan fiction to a bemused audience at an Elmo's speakeasy
Download: "Jealous"
“IX”—...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead
I liked these guys when
I was in high school; that said,
This is pretty 'meh.'
Grade: C
Best when: Passive–aggressively trying to annoy Whartonites by playing your music too loudly in the Huntsman forum
Download: "The Doomsday Book"
“The Other I”—2:54
Aggressively pop,
Washed–out, moody; makes one think
Of the color grey.
Grade: B-
Best when: Strolling down Locust late at night in the winter
Download: "The Monaco"
While his major–label debut “Live from the Underground” wasn’t the commercial or critical success that many hoped it would be, Mississippi rapper Big K.R.I.T.
This week, Street brings you Salda’s remix of Sir Sly's “You Haunt Me.” Sir Sly is a three–man indie–pop band that originally built itself up anonymously; we now know the members to be Landon Jacobs, Jason Suwito, and Hayden Coplen.
Detroit rapper Big Sean’s latest track “IDFWU” has been making waves on the radio and social media recently, and now the hard–hitting, unapologetic club banger gets video treatment.