Around the Voice: Actor Donald Glover Can Rhyme Better Than Joel McHale

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Donald Glover's flow is serious, so stop laughing at his jokes

​Every week, we gather some interesting stuff from our sister Village Voice Media publications' music sections. Just for kicks. Here's last week's entry.

An in-depth look

back at N.W.A. frontman Eazy E resides in Phoenix New Times.

SF

Weekly goes deep with indie darlings of the moment the

Morning Benders and Washed

Out, the glo-fi equivalent.

Great titling (Arkansas

Bo Is The Best Unemployed Rapper In Dallas), and Ted Leo reflects

on his prolific career in the Dallas Observer:

"Being able to step off that hamster wheel where you can't

really see

what's up around the bend but only what's coming at you fast, it helped

me get a little bit of perspective about the whole thing, the whole

thing meaning the last 20 years of my life," Leo says. "I think, in a

weird way, it opened up the songwriting for a little bit more of just me

using my voice and not maybe feeling like I had to say something."

In City Pages, Trip Shakespeare gets

the band back together.

Village Voice went

to Mexico for the MtyMx fest, Community scene-stealer Donald

Glover is

also just a rapper, Edd Hurt recalls his 1981 conversation with

now-departed Alex

Chilton, and Dan Weiss has

a spot-on line about the XX:

The big white "X" on black that comprises their album cover

(title: xx)

is the sort of cult branding that evokes a mass of NIN T-shirts, and

their goth-friendly haircuts would be happy to comply if only the group

didn't pledge allegiance to Aaliyah and Ma$e

first.

Plus, shopping with Gang

Gang Dance's Lizzi Bougatsos!