{"id":793794,"date":"2019-03-12T14:33:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=805499"},"modified":"2019-03-12T14:33:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:33:45","slug":"toro-y-moi-crash-lands-on-a-desert-planet-in-50-50%e2%80%b2-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/toro-y-moi-crash-lands-on-a-desert-planet-in-50-50%e2%80%b2-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Toro y Moi Crash-Lands on a Desert Planet in \u201950-50\u2032 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Toyo.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>When the video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/toro-y-moi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_toro-y-moi\" data-tag=\"toro-y-moi\">Toro y Moi<\/a>\u2019s \u201950-50\u2032 opens, singer-songwriter Chaz Bear is looking dazed, bleeding from one nostril as he stands on a white-sand dune in the desert. He\u2019s wearing the clothes of a streetwear astronaut, and holding a large balloon-y parachute. Did he just land here? Where\u2019d he come from? Is this all a dream? <em>Ground Control to Major Chaz\u2026 Ground Control to Major Chaz\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201950-50\u2032 is a pleasantly spaced-out slice of Auto-Tuned trap-soul from Toro y Moi\u2019s new album, <em>Outer Peace<\/em>. The video shows Bear walking slowly across shifting sands, and later dancing in ultraviolet light with a skull mask on. The song is a collaboration with up-and-coming ambient producer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.passionweiss.com\/2017\/09\/26\/instupendo-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Instupendo<\/a>, whose contributions add to the feeling that Bear is lost on an alien desert planet. (Maybe he\u2019s stranded on Arrakis from <em>Dune<\/em>? Maybe it\u2019s just California.) It\u2019s all pretty trippy!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toro y Moi Tour Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3\/22 \u2013 New Orleans, LA @ BUKU Music + Art Project<br \/>3\/24 \u2013 Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Fest<br \/>4\/19 \u2013 Brooklyn, NY @ Good Room (DJ SET) \u2013 SOLD OUT<br \/>4\/20 \u2013 Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall (DJ SET) \u2013 SOLD OUT<br \/>4\/17 \u2013 Tequila, Mexicao @ Akamba Festival<br \/>4\/25 \u2013 Mexico City, Mexico @ Auditorio Blackberry<br \/>5\/8-13 \u2013 Bakersfield, CA @ Lightning in a Bottle<br \/>5\/22 \u2013 Lisbon, Portugal @ Lisboa Ao Vivo<br \/>5\/23 \u2013 Porto, Portugal @ Hard Club<br \/>5\/24-25 \u2013 Madrid, Spain @ Tomavistas Festival<br \/>5\/26 \u2013 London, UK @ All Points East<br \/>5\/31 \u2013 Hamburg, Germany @ Mojo Club<br \/>6\/1 \u2013 Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands @ Best Kept Secret Festival<br \/>6\/2 \u2013 Paris, France @ We Love Green<br \/>6\/15 \u2013 Berkeley, CA @ The Greek Theatre (w\/ Chromeo, Noname &amp; Ian Isiah)<br \/>6\/16 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl (w\/ Chromeo, Noname &amp; Ian Isiah)<br \/>7\/26 \u2013 Niigata, Japan @ Fuji Rock Festival \u201919<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/toro-y-moi-50-50-video-805499\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the video for Toro y Moi\u2019s \u201950-50\u2032 opens, singer-songwriter Chaz Bear is looking dazed, bleeding from one nostril as he stands on a white-sand dune in the desert. He\u2019s wearing the clothes of a streetwear astronaut, and holding a large balloon-y parachute. Did he just land here? Where\u2019d he come from? Is this all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 09:16:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}