Blog: Stereogum

"How cool is it that Vice got Rick Ross to play their bar mitzvah?" That was one of those trademark Tanlines one-liners (hereby: Tanliners) that Jesse Cohen delivered between songs a couple of hours before the shiniest rapper in the game (hereby: The Gloss Rick Ross) quadrupled the room's charisma quotient for something like ten tracks before unceremoniously disappearing and concluding a weird but essentially wonderful evening in Brooklyn. To unpack things a little: Last night's party was, in fact, a celebration of maturation for the Vice squad - no more viceland.com, no more VBS.tv. Instead those properties live under [...]