News From The Great Beyond: Gym Class Heroes

While the idea of using live instruments as opposed to samples is not new, the members of Gym Class Heroes have taken their brand of hip hop to a new level. The band's Pure Volume website has two tracks ("Taxi-Driver" & "Papercuts") available for download. "Taxi Driver" is two minutes name dropping daftly put together in bedtime story form. Bands such as My Chemical Romance, Jimmy Eats World, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Dashboard Confessional, and Sunny Day Real Estate are all lyricized. To quote the lyrics, "This is the story of the year."

Check out the band's forthcoming release, As Cruel As School Children, on July 25th, on the Fueled By Ramen imprint.