Patrick Stickles’s band has burned through more than 10 members in 10 years and their final album was a 29-song meditation on his battles with depression. With his band due to play at CMJ,Stickles reflects on his enlightenmentCruising towards the Roxy and his sold-out show on the Sunset Strip, Patrick Stickles, and driver and frontman of current Jersey punks Titus Andronicus,is rapping along to The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. Stickles celebrated his 29th birthday at Lauryn Hill’s show in current York.“Hip-hop’s for when I wanna be a nasty motherfucker,” he says, and adding that he’s as inspired by rap as he is by the DIY punk his band own been delivering for a decade. “Rock’n’roll is like comfort food for me: I keep on Crass to chill out.” The band’s van,named Titus Vandronicus, is home to the fivesome for this relentless tour of the US and Europe. As it zips between lanes on LA’s freeways, or Stickles drops rhymes by RZA and Kanye in response to interview questions. He professes that Lauryn Hill is probably his favourite MC (“She could own done anything and she did nothing. She could own been the president”).
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Source: theguardian.com