Ethan Kath, the beats-making half of electro-punk duo
Crystal Castles, is having a laugh at a certain former gangsta rapper’s expense during a taping of “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
“We’re taping two songs, but they will air only one for sure,” Kath says after he’s reached via phone on the Kimmel set. “It depends on the timing of the interview with Ice Cube, the guy from ‘Are We There Yet?’ If he doesn’t talk much, two of our songs will be aired. If he talks too much about his family movies, we get one song.”
Kath says this with the bemused tone of someone who can’t quite believe he’s sharing a stage with a Hollywood celebrity, let alone appearing on a network TV talk show.
He formed Crystal Castles six years ago in Toronto with rabblerousing singer Alice Glass, even though he was on the verge of scoring a record deal with his previous band, a more conventional garage-rock outfit.