Its easy to buy that Mickey Avalon is a former heroin junkie and prostitute. The rapper is notorious for lewd lyrics meditating on sex and drugssubjects hes an expert on, thanks to his upbringing in Hollywood. What is hard to buy is that Avalon rarely listens to hip hop. He loves country music; Gillian Welsh and Lucinda Williams especially. But the disconnect isnt at all evident on hook and beat-heavy tracks like My Dick and Jane Fonda. Avalon excels at crafting grossly offensive rhymes, and he has a teasing drawl thats appropriate for delivering such raunchy content. Then again, the inflection might just be a result of all the tequila he drinksand soaks the crowd withduring live shows. With Beardo, Ke$ha.
Mon., Nov. 2, 7 p.m., 2009
