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Youth Hostile
9+ albums
popelectronictrip hopelectronicamiddle hall beats
about
Youth Hostile, the artist formerly known as Flexmasta Fitz and Kyle Fitzsimmons, is a product of his environment, a dark dank cellar office in the suburbs of Boston. Youth Hostile discovered his severe lack of talent at the ripe young age of 8 when he first started taking piano lessons down the street and has been aurally terrorizing the world ever since. ~Read more of this exciting tale below!~ In high school, Youth Hostile joined the band Kubakub (known as "The Fonz" at one sold out coming of age ceremony at a local Unitarian church Universalist) as lead bassist with drummer Paul Jaffe (now of Technicolor) and keyboardist/guitarist Stephen Carmody. After they discovered he had never in fact picked up a bass in his life, Hostile was kicked out and began to take lessons before joining the group Mr. Anonymous, again with Jaffe and Carmody but also joined by flamenco guitarist Jonathan Gomes. The band quickly found that name was taken by a recently released reggae compilation and began the search for a new name while temporarily reusing the Kubakub name. After going out for burritos in Davis Square, the band found inspiration upon cleverly reading the name of the Rosebud Cafe backwards (a similar tactic used with Kubakub and the Buck-A-Book bookstore) and assumed the name Dubesor until going on hiatus after graduating high school. ~But wait, there's more!~ Youth Hostile first used his computer to record what (for lack of a better word) could be described as music after being
