Best New Bands » Wallpaper https://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Wallpaper., Serious About Having, and Making, Fun https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/wallpaper-serious-about-having-and-making-fun/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/wallpaper-serious-about-having-and-making-fun/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:00:00 +0000 Hipsters heart hip hop, especially when the artist in question is probably silently LOL’ing. Wallpaper., the electro-pop duo of producer/rapper/frontman Ricky Reed (aka UC Berkeley music composition graduate Eric Frederic) and drummer Arjun Singh, must be darlings of that community: They formed the group to satirize mainstream music and American pop culture. True to character—Reed,

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