| www.a3network.com Wallpaper "#STUPiDFACEDD". Wallpaper is led by the sleazy, excess-obsessed Ricky Reed, who is also a gifted producer, multi-instrumentalist songwriter, viral media hustler and disco ball-busting crowd destroyer. Whether crafting his own electro-steeped future beats or cleverly skewering pop culture via his remixes, he effortlessly fuses a long personal history of music-making with bold showmanship and a love for trunk-rattling thump. Wallpaper. evolved from a clever jab to, as SF Weekly put it, "a rebuttal against pop music as simple window dressing," but boomed beyond the satire. Wallpaper.'s debut, Doodoo Face, was a clever offering that quickly surpassed the irony and gained attention for the legit songwriting and masterful production. It gave a knowing nod to the early greats who offered their influence -- P-Funk, Afrobeat, Bay Area rap, perhaps even some Prince -- built around sweaty, swaggerful beats with a real musicality. The Bay Area took notice, namely Wallpaper.'s visceral live shows where Reed lords over the scene with thundering live drums to his back, all manner of instruments in his hands, cut-up YouTube video collage beaming overhead, sassy back-up singer cooing... offering something incomprehensibly funky. Wallpaper.'s presence was soon felt beyond his stomping ground, as his Lynchian video blogs (a little David and a lot of Liam), remixes and mashups earned him props, including the elite bloggerati such as Pitchfork. They praised his ... |
