Yeah, he could never be young, dumb and broke forever. We knew that. And like any teen who goes platinum with their first album, the road to maturity that lies ahead is filled with all sorts of perils…
Album Review: Meat Puppets – “Dusty Notes”
The most far-out of the classic 80s American hardcore punk bands (and that’s actually saying something – Minutemen and Hüsker Dü were no straight-ahead rockers), Meat Puppets became famous i…
Album Review: Deer Tick – “Mayonnaise”
A hodgepodge this one. Mayonnaise is split three ways: between 4 “alternate versions” of songs from the band’s 2017 Deer Tick Vol. 1, 4 cover versions of other artist’s songs, and 5 originals. Like th…
Album Review: Dawn Richard – “new breed”
Last year was the year of the woman in music; the most thoughtful and interesting albums came most often from female auteurs pushing at societal and artistic boundaries. And Dawn Richard’s new b…
Album Review: Deerhunter – “Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?”
It should come as no surprise to anyone who’s been closely following this band to hear me observe that lead singer and songwriter Bradford Cox is a walking mass of contradictions. But it struck …
Album Review: Rita Ora – “Phoenix”
Hardly born with the gift of a golden voice, Rita Ora will have to come up with inventive ways to sound appealing in the cutthroat business of pop music. On the opening cut here she finds one such way…
Album Review: Anderson .Paak – “Oxnard”
This is the third Anderson .Paak album to be named after a California coastal town. So it’s the completion of a loose trilogy, and because it’s the one named after his home town, you might…