Welcome to another installment of Ask A Music Critic! And thanks to everyone who has sent me questions. Please keep them coming at [email protected]. I have a friend who is completely obsessed with ’80s music. But his obsessions with ’80s… Read More
Faye Webster’s album Underdressed At The Symphony has a definite highlight of the first half of 2024. She’s not letting her run of new music this year stop there, though: Today (October 2), she unveiled “After The First Kiss,” a… Read More
There is a world in which Art Of The Unseen Infinity Machine doesn’t exist. Near the end of writing material for her fifth record, indie-folk songwriter Allegra Krieger barely survived a fire in her NYC fifth-floor apartment caused by a… Read More
In case you missed it: On The Tonight Show last week, Margaret Qualley shared a text exchange between husband Jack Antonoff and Adam Sandler. In the conversation, Sandler asked if Qualley plays golf, and Antonoff lied and said she does,… Read More
Last month, Jamie xx relesed his new album, In Waves, his first full-length solo project in nearly ten years. The album, which features EDM legend Robyn (on “Life“), The Avalanches (on “All You Children“), and his The xx bandmates (on… Read More
Katie Crutchfield impressed once again in 2024 with her latest Waxahatchee album, Tigers Blood. She dropped the project back in March, and now she’s back with “Much Ado About Nothing,” her first new song since the album. The track also… Read More
Friday, October 4 A Place to Bury Strangers — Synthesizer (Dedstrange) Ada Lea — notes EP (Saddle Creek) Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad — Jazz is Dead JID021 (Jazz Is Dead) Alessandro Cortini — Nati Infiniti (Mute) Alison Moyet… Read More
I think we can all agree that thinking about the early days of lockdown isn’t a particularly fun or constructive activity. Four years on, it’s still hard to process the traumatic strangeness of normal everyday life being put on pause… Read More
Bartees Strange unveiled a new single, “Lie 95,” this summer. At the time, a press release noted the song “heralds a new era,” and now we know more about that: Today (October 1), Bartees announced Horror, a new album. He… Read More
What is considered out of bounds for a rock star? Well, fans of Foo Fighters have drawn a line in the moral sand. On September 10, the “Times Like Theses” musicians’ frontman Dave Grohl announced that he fathered a daughter… Read More