![]() Ricky and company deconstruct emo affectations into a stylistic whirl of electric power pop stylistics that features romantically charged endeavors among iconic sights from the Painted Ladies, Alamo Square, Palace of Fine Arts and a host of other exclusive footage available as NFT collectibles. ![]() The buzz kicked into high gear with the bad and bougee Bay-centric visuals for “The Answer”, starring AVN icon Jessica Drake and visuals by Matt Zolly. Ricky Lake has announced the forthcoming album Altered with the following lauded singles. Ricky resists any semantic attempts of reductive containment, tackling the contemporary artistic conundrums of what aesthetics can be that draw from the textile canons of rhythms, blues, beats, rhymes, rhythms, life, trad poetics, fusing and synthesizing art into the double helix core of thesis / synthesis permutations into new terrain and new stratospheres of sensations and sentiments.Īfter a barrage of collaborations, mixtapes, guest spots, et al. Surrounded by some of the world’s greatest pop art luminaries, Ricky Lake shatters the conventions of style into a musical blender of sparks that lighten up a messy and cloudy planet. Featured on the pages of our media hub from local artist showcases to our debut of “ Choka” - Ricky has traversed the North American trails from Los Angeles, to Southern Nashville before setting up shop in Oakland to find a creative home among contemporaries and friends from Taifa Nia (Same Girls, OCD), Steezxxz, TheMobsJEDi, Stoni, Studio Dad among the expansive Text Me team of genre defying creatives. Emerging out of the harrowing throes and smoldering ashes of the global pandemic we have witnessed the dawning of pop polymath radical Ricky Lake. Keeping that push toward brighter echelons of art and consciousness is the beloved collective Text Me Records operating out of Different Fur Studios in the Mission with a roster of today’s, yesterday’s and tomorrow’s brightest and most brilliant aesthetes. And while the rent is always too damn high, property values forever out of reach, evictions and cultural erasure are real, small businesses forever in the grip of survival struggles and so forth there is indefatigable spirited light that forever resists being extinguished against a backdrop of unbelievable odds. The dichotomy between the wide-eyed visionaries of progress with heart versus the opportunistic harbingers of exploitation and short-sighted ambitions provide the contrast that keeps the fight for a greater enlightenment alive and well. ![]() From the Bay’s earliest nascent beginnings this has been the case. The adversarial culprit forever stems from the dubious capitalistic seductions by omnipotent technocratic institutions with no regard for the local inhabitants, the influence of bureaucratic subsidized entities that become deeply imbricated into the civic fabrics and extents of infrastructure and politics (beholden to the eternal allure of profits over people). As certain as our own idiosyncratic convection cycles and other associated wild weather patterns the Bay is forever shaped by the winds and tides of perpetual change. The Bay Area remains at the forefront of creative innovation, experimentation, breakthroughs in civic/social/artistic progressions and so much more. Never mind the histrionic clamor and scare hype of negative headlines from the media hubs holding on to their last vestiges of advertisement fueled pseudo-relevance. ![]()
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