Well, someone had to address the elephant in the room. As of midnight on September 21st, 2018, Brockhampton’s fourth full-length studio album iridescence had hype-beasts and hipsters alike scrambling for their headphones. The California-based, self-dubbed “boyband”...
I really am a sucker for the home-grown sort of scratchiness that is imbued in garage rock, the genre that embraced DIY aesthetics and attitudes long before it had any right to. It was a strew of scenes where the major players had, at the very least, enough out of a...
Lindsey Jordan aka Snail Mail’s recent album Lush was one of the most enthralling indie projects of the summer, a record that seamlessly takes into account the acute restlessness that suburban youth know all too well. The combination of Jordan’s pragmatic...
Who do you listen to when you go to Trader Joe’s and don’t want to carry your groceries up the stairs? Junglepussy. Who do you listen to when you want to grow? Junglepussy. Who do you listen to when you realize your ex-boyfriend never took you to the zoo? Junglepussy....
After a two-year break, R&B singer Miguel has reemerged and he comes bearing gifts. Flaunting his soft, coily dreadlocks and slightly gold-capped smile, the R&B free spirit returned to us with his newest album, War & Leisure, on December 1st 2017. The...
I originally thought my write up for Primavera Sound would be a little different. I now sit here, a victim of police brutality and an alleged police kicker in the “headerÛ. I'm leaving Spain, and leaving Primavera Sound in order to attempt to ensure my safety...
Primavera Sound has long been regarded as the quintessential summer music festival. The crowd roars. Ocean waves crash off in the distance, and the sun cascades into a beautiful backdrop. Sounds amazing, doesn't it? This is Primavera Sound, the music destination of...
You can't keep a good Danzig down. That man has led bands that have defined entire genres, be it horror-punk, death-rock, and whatever the fuck his namesake band decides to be. Actually, it has; garbage. But, while the New Jersey Devil himself may have lost both his...
When I heard recently that Bob Dylan joined Kesha, St. Vincent, and other artists in creating “Universal Love,” an EP dedicated to taking older hits and giving them a same-sex romantic narrative, I was pretty surprised. I never figured that Bob Dylan was homophobic,...
As we wait for summer, the painful countdown of finals begins and music becomes the crutch for my spirit. This is the time of year where I've been known to blast “Hot Fuss” multiple times per day. But a feeling even sweeter than the upcoming summer is a new album by...