The Whitest Boy Alive were a Norweigan-German musical group based in Berlin. The band comprises Norwegian singer/guitarist Erlend Øye, who is also a member of the band Kings of Con...read more on Last.fm →
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Jason Grishkoff
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Feb 6, 2015
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Words can't accurately describe how much I love this band. The Whitest Boy alive have been my accompanying soundtrack for countless events, a go-to band when it comes to social gatherings.
One of my favorites is the last track on Rules, a slow-jam t...
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Jason Grishkoff
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May 16, 2014
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A couple weeks back I spent 10 days in the South African Karoo attending an event called AfrikaBurn (it's a lot like Burning Man). Obviously -- being in the middle of nowhere -- there was no access to internet.
And so, rather than streaming fresh mu...
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Jason Grishkoff
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Aug 8, 2011
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You all know how it goes: you've got a favorite band that you listen to over and over and over again. You listen to them so much that you soon grow tired of their music, and quickly you move onto the next thing. Then many years later, you dust off th...
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Jason Grishkoff
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Mar 4, 2010
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Racial stereotyping aside, Sean answered this way because The Whitest Boy Alive is really "white," in that they play things that could be funk in a really uptight staccato way. The band obviously understands this because they chose a particularly s...
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Jason Grishkoff
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Jan 29, 2010
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i kinda really dig this track. its from the whitest boy alive, a side project of kings of convenience member erlend oye (along with sebastian maschat, marcin oz and daniel nentwig). according to wikipedia, the group started out in indonesia (which se...
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Jason Grishkoff
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May 11, 2009
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Take Kings of Concenience, and give them some funk. Somehow this group manages to keep things upbeat, dancey, cutting-edge-indie, and yet totally chill. Perhaps it's the clean sound of the guitars, the grooving keyboard, or (most likely) the mellowed...
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