Once Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band hit in 1967, just about every band either wanted or felt pressured to make some whimsical psychedelic pop of their own, from The Rolling Stones to Herman's Hermits to The Four Seasons, and… Read More
Much of RUI HO’s music has been centered around the complexity of personal journeys forward through space and life. On earlier EPs Becoming Is an Eventful Situation and In Pursuit of the Sun 逐日, the Berlin-based DJ drew on her… Read More
Christ Stopped at Eboli (Cristo si è fermato a Eboli) tracks the journey of painter Carlo Levi (Gian Maria Volonté), who has been made a confino; that is, he has been consigned by the fascist administration of Benito Mussolini in… Read More
Rivers are thick with pollution and forests leveled by fire, an autocratic dictator ignores the council of others, refugees are turned away at borders with nowhere else to go, and young people grapple with an uncertain future in the face… Read More
It's been another stacked week for rap/R&B/etc, with the new Headie One album (which I reviewed for Notable Releases), and songs from Benny the Butcher, Junglepussy, Ghetts/Skepta, Reason/Rapsody, Bun B, Caleb Giles, Chuck Strangers, CupcakKe, Preme/Popcaan/Davido, Big Boi/Killer Mike, and… Read More
Are you as tired as I am? I thought so. This week: the wonderfully melancholy new album from Cut Worms; Ride's Andy Bell releases his first solo album; METZ are here to whip you into shape using their "unnerving exercise" regime; Garcia Peoples… Read More
The music world was shaken this week by the deaths of legends Eddie Van Halen, Johnny Nash, and Bunny Lee, and things weren't looking so hot outside of the music world either, thanks to a vice presidential debate marred by… Read More
"I'm sitting in my air-conditioned car in my driveway," Wayne Coyne informs me. "That's where I do my interviews. I always just sort of say that as that's where I'm at, at my house in Oklahoma City." It's an unusual location… Read More
Singer-songwriter-father Elliott Park‘s forthcoming family-focused record Songs With My Daughters, out digitally 16 October, is an imaginative and lovely collection. Park recruited his daughters Anna (18), Autumn (16), and April (14) for a more collaborative effort this time around; they… Read More
Tory Lanez has been charged in connection to the shooting that left Megan Thee Stallion wounded. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office issued a news release, which reads: The rap artist known as Tory Lanez has been charged with… Read More