Tag: Reviews / Albums

The Holy Cross Tigers

Music & Cultural Commentary
The greatest trick the Twisted Teens ever pulled was making you think they were a garage rock band. Sure,...

Hidden in Pieces: Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Music & Cultural Commentary
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ mythology was built on abandon. Across Lower East Side dives in the early 2000s, Brian...

Southern Ontario Gothic

Music & Cultural Commentary
Welcome to the Zoomer Age, where no one has a job and everyone has a side hustle; where retromania...

Damage

Music & Cultural Commentary
In the opening moments of his second album, Damage, Los Angeles-based songwriter John Errol references the opening riff from...

On Tha Run

Music & Cultural Commentary
If you thought blogs were dead, you must not have been paying attention to Baby Osamaa’s SoundCloud page, where...

Catedral Gótica

Music & Cultural Commentary
The Lisbon trio trades the laid-back feel of its earlier, more disco-indebted work for skeletal machine minimalism, twisted sequencer...

Follow the Light

Music & Cultural Commentary
Before ska, rocksteady, reggae, or dub, there was mento. The Jamaican musical style grew from an encounter between African...

What to Make of These Mortal Hands

Music & Cultural Commentary
After collaborations with dubstep pioneer the Bug and New York metal band the Body, Dis Fig (Felicia Chen) seems...

Burning Song

Music & Cultural Commentary
On the 2023 album Does Spring Hide Its Joy, Stephen O’Malley, Lucy Railton, and Kali Malone elongated single chords...

Accolades EP

Music & Cultural Commentary
Let’s talk about how Lydia Loveless pronounces the word “ass.” On “Accolades,” the title track of their new EP,...

Infinite Now

Music & Cultural Commentary
In an interview with Resident Advisor earlier this year, the semi-anonymous UK duo Two Shell lightly defended the use...

Live at the KiMo Theater Albuquerque 1979

Music & Cultural Commentary
Jean-Luc Godard once claimed that “film begins with D.W. Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.” One could also say...