Tag: 2015
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I don’t think there was anyone on the planet who didn’t love CHVRCHES debut album, The Bones Of What You Believe. If there was, well, clearly they have bad taste. If there was one album from 2013 that was universally loved, it was that one. After all, it was electronic enough to please the electro-pop…
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Beautiful!
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Cool. Catchy. Carly.
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Steve Aoki and Luke Steele of Empire of the Sun team up here on the synthylicious “Neon Future,” an ultra-shiny nugget that sounds like what we’d expect Air to sound like if they ever went the EDM route. We expect this one will get a love it or hate it reaction from you. We love…
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Ezra Furman is a restless warrior. He well-established this on his first two solo albums and with his late band the Harpoons. One has only ever needed to hear a few of his songs to realize that he’s a guy who can’t sit still, not even inside his head. He is always brimming with manic…
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Yes, it’s true — Lana Del Rey has posted her brand new song, “Honeymoon,” on Youtube. It’s presumably from her next album (rumor has it, it’s the title track), and it’s fabulous! Everyone had been saying that her next album would be like Born To Die Volume 2, that it was supposed to be full…
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I love it when artists do covers and give them their own interpretation rather than going the paint-by-numbers route. And Australia’s Green Buzzard have totally re-envisioned Tobias Jesso Jr’s “Hollywood” here. Where the original version was a somber piano ballad, Green Buzzard’s version is uptempo and even upbeat, guitar-centric alternative rock.
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I’ll probably get shit for saying this, but I like Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds more than I liked Oasis. I always preferred his voice over Liam’s, which sounded whiny to me. Also, Oasis were always trying to be The Beatles and that got old about halfway through their career. Don’t get me wrong –…
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review by Barnaby Thornton Reviewing this album was no easy task. I tried to be smart. I tried to be a “music journalist”. I tried every analogy under the pale green sun; sick with responsibility as I wrote my way through reawakened volcanoes and uncaptured Polaroid with too much sweetener in my veins, yet not…
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Majical Cloudz opened for Lorde during her North American tour in 2014. Their former tour manager, Neil Corcoran, decided to accompany them on the road again but in a different capacity, as a documentary filmmaker. Previously, he’d only directed a small number of low budget videos.
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FILM: WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE? I recently watched the compelling new documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? on Netflix for which it is their first ever original documentary. It was very well-directed by Academy Awarnd-nominated director Liz Garbus and it’s the first Nina Simone biopic ever fully supported and approved by her Estate. It begins when…
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BY POPULAR DEMAND, BAND WILL NOW RELEASE ALBUM ONE WEEK EARLIER IN THE U.S. FOR A GLOBAL STREET DATE OF SEPTEMBER 11TH July 9th, 2015 – Burbank, CA – Multi-platinum superstars Duran Duran have announced that, due to popular demand, they will move the U.S. release date of their 14th studio album, Paper Gods, up from…
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IAMX is the solo moniker of Chris Corner, formerly of Sneaker Pimps. (I only mention Sneaker Pimps because they were one of my favorite bands and I still love them.) Thus far, IAMX has released five studio albums along with a live album, a remix album and a few EPs. His first release was the…
