Loopy City singer Seth Binzer, higher often called Shifty Shellshock, has handed away on the age of 49. No trigger has been given at this level.
Shifty Shellshock, the lead singer of Loopy City – greatest identified for songs “Toxic” and “Butterfly” – has died on the age of 49. No trigger has but been launched.
Shifty, whose actual identify is Seth Binzer, fashioned Loopy City with Bret “Epic” Mauzer within the ‘90s, with the band releasing their debut album, The Reward of Recreation, in 1999. That album, backed by the aforementioned singles, along with “Revolving Door”, would hit #9 within the US, going Platinum. Famed DJ Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein additionally labored the turntables on the album. Goldstein died in 2009.
A current social media publish has since been flooded with condolences from followers within the wake of Binzer’s demise.
However Loopy City would by no means have such a smash album – or tune – once more. Their second album, 2002’s Darkhorse, would peak at #120 on the Billboard charts. After failing to have a success as huge as “Butterfly”, Loopy City went on hiatus in 2003. The next yr, guitarist Charles “Rust Epique” Lopez died on the age of 36. In 2015, Loopy City launched their third and what can be their last album, The Brimstone Sluggers. Two years later, Mauzer introduced his departure from Loopy City. The band would later be reformed as Loopy City X.
As for Shifty himself, in 2004, he launched his solely solo album, Joyful Love Sick, which featured a tune with Paul Oakenfold known as “Starry Eyed Surprise”, which went hit #13 on the High 40.
Binzer had been open about his struggles with dependancy, even showing on Superstar Rehab and Sober Home. Binzer had been arrested a number of instances for varied incidents, together with a 2012 drug possession case. On that second, Binzer said, “I would like to sincerely apologize to the parties involved…I feel very bad for those who I have offended and those who have endured this situation.” In 2022, Binzer was arrested for a DUI.
Whereas a short-lived blip, Loopy City little question remains to be remembered for “Butterfly” and their place in the rap-rock fad of the late ‘90s and early 2000s.
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