Before 2015, Twenty One Pilots were a fun musical oddity with a niche, but ardent fanbase, best known for a ukulele ditty about aging parents. After they released Blurryface—and with it, singles “Stre…
Interview: Yoshi Flower
Photo by Daniel Marty Yoshi Flower is hard to pin down. After releasing his first single, “Movies,” The Fader described his sound as “early Lana Del Rey except if her partying involved EDM.” He can’t …
Album Review: Suede – “The Blue Hour”
Brett Anderson described The Blue Hour as “the best thing we’ve done for nearly a quarter of a century.” He is correct. Here, Suede does not try to reinvent itself in a self-conscious manner; nor does…
Album Review: Alkaline Trio – “Is This Thing Cursed?”
Judging by names alone, Is This Thing Cursed? is a natural extension of Alkaline Trio’s discography. Next to earlier album titles like From Here to Infirmary and Good Mourning, it seems to slip smooth…
Interview: ANTIBOY
Scrolling through the whimsical, trippy photos on Harry Hains’s Instagram account, you might peg him as the kind of person who would have a fantasy world inside his head. You would be right—as ANTIBOY…
Album Review: The Kooks – “Let’s Go Sunshine”
The fifth LP by The Kooks is titled Let’s Go Sunshine. Yet this latest release by the British rockers sounds more like night music than daytime listening. The easygoing, yet moderately dark songs are …
Interview: Shonen Knife
You might not expect a punk group to have song titles like “Twist Barbie,” “Banana Chips,” and “Ramen Rock,” but Shonen Knife is far from your traditional punk grou…