Halfway through his song “DNA,” Kendrick Lamar sampled a recording of Fox News commentator Geraldo Rivera saying, “This is why I say hip-hop has done more damage to young, African Americans...
Bringing back elements of the 1980s sound has scored convenient success in the present landscape of synth-driven music. Just ask Paramore, Dreamcar, and LCD Soundsystem. Perhaps that is why Dave...
Is that a thumb piano playing the opening notes of this song? (“Hell-On”) I will be humming the “nothing quite so poison as a promise” break from “Hell-On” to myself until I can’t stand...
Alice Merton is the kind of artist who offers hope to countless others. After label after label failed to see any hit potential in her music, she and her manager started their own label in late 2016...
Less than twelve months ago, the fortunes of Zac Farro, the multi-instrumentalist mastermind behind HalfNoise, became fruitful and multiplied. First, his injection of pop sensibilities, distilled...
“You need to know why you're doing it” was the insight Jack White offered in a recent interview with KCRW when asked about his philosophy and attitude toward recording. After hearing his third...
Heavy metal has long been a shelter for outsiders, yet in Europe foremost, the genre has had serious problems with the marginalisation of women and cultural isolationism. But to paraphrase The...
A confession, to start off my first music review of the year: I was resistant to folk music—even just listening to it, as a means of expanding my musical horizons, for a long time. I used to be...
2017 was not a fun year. Here are some albums that made us feel better, despite the wall of excrement that was most of this year. St. Vincent, MASSEDUCTION: With a guitar-playing style that recalls...
Few singer-songwriters working today have the enormous back catalog and loyal fanbase that Tori Amos does. In a recent interview with Vulture’s David Marchese, Amos mentioned that touring has been...
