We've been asking artists what's been keeping them busy during COVID-19 lockdown, and this time we've got Joe Casey, whose band Protomartyr just released their excellent fifth album, 'Ultimate Success Today'. Like with the year-end lists Joe's done for us in… Read More
If Adam Silvestri channeled elements of Springsteen as Radiator King when he first graced PopMatters with “So Long (Charlie)”, now the NYC Americana artist is looking to 1970s pop-rock this side of Elton John. Centered on a wistful piano progression,… Read More
Klinger: Now here’s a real puzzler of a record for our Counterbalance purposes. Most everything we’ve covered so far has either been an immediate game-changer or has had an impact that’s reached far beyond its initial standing. Television’s 1977 album… Read More
Jarvis Cocker just released Beyond the Pale, his first album with new band JARV IS…, this week. (Read our review.) The album was shaped (and partially recorded) on 2018 / 2019 tours, which featured mostly new, unheard songs, plus a… Read More
Billie Eilish might not know what a Van Halen is, but she does feel the McPheever for the “Black Horse and a Cherry Tree”-crooning Season 5 runner-up of American Idol, which only tells me one thing: she was raised right.… Read More
Instagram took the concept behind Snapchat and made it its own when the service launched Stories in 2016, and now they are taking inspiration from TikTok for another new feature. "Reels," Instagram's new short form video feature, has already been… Read More
Keyboardist Phil Asley — who has performed with Mick Jagger, Kiss, Cher, Debbie Harry, Joe Satriani, Chicago, Foreigner, Billy Idol, Aerosmith, Yoko Ono, and several others — passed away on July 10 at age 65. Cause of death is not… Read More
Earlier this week, Megan Thee Stallion reaveled that she suffered gunshot wounds "as a result of a crime that was committed against me and done with the intention to physically harm me," and that she underwent surgery to remove the… Read More
With measures trying to stop the spread of the coronavirus, tours/festivals through spring (and into summer and the fall) are being postponed/cancelled left and right. Many have now been rescheduled, too. Head here for more COVID-19 related news and check… Read More
Victoria Shen, the Massachusetts-based noise artist known as Evicshen, is a wildly ambitious and unpredictable musician. Working with electronics for more than a decade, she is adept at creating industrial, experimental soundscapes that can produce vibrating low registers, high-pitched squeals,… Read More