Diamanda Galas is Back With Two New Albums
If the “Great American songbook” is by now a cliché, and musicians making standards albums is even more so, then Diamanda Galas’s two new albums are a metaphorical tearing up—and...
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Strand of Oaks’ Hard Love is the First Great Rock Album of 2017
Strand of Oaks lead singer-songwriter Tim Showalter has made a fine career out of penning songs about topics that most other singer-songwriters—most other musicians—would not dare address. He...
Death of a Songwriter: George Michael’s Best 10 Songs
In a year that saw the death of so many music stars, there was still something particularly painful about George Michael's death. This may be highly subjective but I think that for those of us in...
13 Great Albums From 2016 That You Need to Hear
2016 has been a shitty year for a lot of people. From Donald Trump getting elected as the new U.S. President to the loss of several musical legends, many of us have been eagerly anticipating the end...
Regina Spektor’s ‘Remember Us To Life’ was worth the wait
Classically trained indie piano-pop artist Regina Spektor is back with a new album, Remember Us to Life—her first since 2012’s What We Saw From the Cheap Seats. Like the majority of her catalog,...
Review: Nick Cave’s The Skeleton Tree is one of the best albums of 2016
Australian elder statesmen of rock Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds have a back catalogue that spans over 30 years and a vast array of subject matter—including faith, life and death, romance, and...
The media is using Prince as an object lesson for opioid epidemic hit pieces
The shocking and untimely death of musical icon Prince earlier this year saddened millions of fans and fellow musicians around the world—but the news media, particularly in the U.S., seemingly...
Anohni’s HOPELESSNESS is radical protest pop music
Climate change, drone bombings, the President, violent masculinity, humans vs. the Earth, cannibalism as a metaphor—these are not topics that make up the average alternative pop album. Then again,...
The legacies of the Purple One are immeasurable
Highly successful and bestselling recording artist, guitarist, and gender-bending fashion icon Prince died yesterday at his Paisley Park recording studio complex, in his hometown of Chanhassen,...