Weeks after an international tour playing for audiences of thousands, Sons of an Illustrious Father swung through Philadelphia for a sweet hello of a concert. They’re not even from here, but it had the feel of a quick visit home. I think I always want to see this band with a crowd that will yell
The beautiful photos of Sons of an Illustrious Father from the June 19, 2019 issue of Vogue Mexico have been making me happy all week. These busy musicians are in the middle of an insane touring schedule and I had the bliss and privilege of seeing them play in Los Angeles tonight at the Teragram
Happy Pride month. Want to see something that feels really queer? Not rainbow-themed platitudes from otherwise anti-gay corporations, but the kind of nervy, wary seductiveness that makes you think of lipstick and riots? Sons of an Illustrious Father’s cover of “Don’t Cha” by the Pussycat Dolls dares you to look, to desire but not approach —
Even by the standards of this crap presidency, mid-June 2018 has been a rough time for news. As a Korean American, that vulgar “summit” between two dictators was impossible to block out of my mind on June 12; its poison seeped through everything. As a sentient being, it is impossible to block out what the
March: I saw Sons of an Illustrious Father perform. May: The video to “When Things Fall Apart” premiered. June 1: They’ll release their new album, Deus Sex Machina: Or, Moving Slowly Beyond Nikola Tesla. But that’s the reverse order of how those things came into being. Last year, while I was making a practice
I can’t keep up with Sons of an Illustrious Father right now, and it’s glorious. They’re blossoming. In advance of the June 1 release of their album Deus Sex Machina: or, Moving Slowly Beyond Nikola Tesla, they’ve been giving us some of the new material. We have today’s new video to “When Things Fall Apart,” the
[Note: Skip down 10 paragraphs if you just want to get to the stuff about this album, Revol by Sons of an Illustrious Father. -Lorrie Kim] Lin-Manuel Miranda got me through 2016, the year we slipped into the darkest timeline. When the pointless cruelties toward people of color and queer people made me feel more bitter
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