In times like this when everyone's worried about hip hop being "dead" and bloggers are complaining about "indie hipsters" (read: white folks) ruining it for the "real" heads (read: other, different white folks), it's a dangerous proposition to come on stage rocking a mullet and a CB4 jacket and rapping about how to make, throw and subsequently recycle paper airplanes. But it's times like this where we desperately need people to make those kinds of risks -- someone like Ice-Rod, who can be funny and rap without making the comedy at hip hop's expense. As well-known for his freestyle skills -- he once battled Sage Francis to a draw -- as he is for his outsized personality, Michael Gaughan has recently split time between his gig in Brother and Sister (the literally-named noise-rock project he formed with his sister Katie) and his recently reintroduced mic-controlling not-entirely-alter ego, who performs for a CD-release party at the Triple... More >>>