DAMN.: a poetic paradox Shelby Mayes April 23, 2017 Album Review, Reviews How do I even begin to formulate language around an album that initially left me speechless? I don’t know, but here goes nothing: On April 14th, 2017, a day that will be remembered for years to come, Kend...
Mitski at the Fillmore: experiencing puberty again never sounded so good Delaney Gomen April 17, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews To a sold out crowd at The Fillmore, Mitski recalls a time in her life when she was cut off ten minutes into a set in a New York City dive bar by the opposition of her audience: a lone sound tech. Throughout th...
Migos thrashes white trash in “what’s the price” music video John Lawson March 23, 2017 News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqlzoxTvOkE Migos has never been shy about getting straight to the cash. But the Atlanta-based trio has ascended to rockstar status in the #BlackLivesMatter era, and audien...
More Life and the making of a global icon Shelby Mayes March 23, 2017 Album Review, Reviews 1 Comment March 18th yielded the highly anticipated release of Drake’s sixth full length solo album More Life (2017). It’s his strongest project since breaking free of the tried-and-true formula he perfected on his ...
Ski masks and religion: Stormzy’s transparent debut George Green March 10, 2017 News, Reviews Gang Signs and Prayers (2017) comes at a time when Grime is at it’s strongest. The aggressive, fast paced rap genre has seen exponential success over the past year or so after several Grime acts broke into th...
HNDRXX by Future barely sounds like a Future album Adil Siddiqee March 9, 2017 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Reviews “Break you off, yeah, made myself a boss, yeah…” Future trails off before the hook on “F*ck Up Some Commas,” the fifth song on Monster (2014), replays for the fourth time. The verse ends with his crew...
Interview: THEY. want you to join their Nü Religion Kenneth Zhang and Rebekah Gonzalez March 8, 2017 Interview If you’re a fan of Bryson Tiller, Nirvana, or New Edition, you should listen to THEY. immediately. The Los Angeles based “GrungeR&B” duo consists of Dante and Drew, who make music that draws from a di...
Xiu Xiu continue to excite and frighten on the turbulent Forget HR Huber-Rodriguez March 8, 2017 Album Review, Reviews Xiu Xiu, led by South Bay native and creative genius Jamie Stewart, are one of the most interesting, refreshing, consistently abrasive, and unpredictable bands this side of Death Grips. In some ways, they are t...
BADBADNOTGOOD makes SF move with dynamic performance at The Fillmore Dylan Medlock February 28, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews While opener London O’Connor’s Casio beats and playfully simple melodies were nostalgic and innocently satisfying, and follow-up act rapper Hodgy (of Odd Future fame) gave an engaging and commanding perform...
Cue the violins: Trump’s emo boy band to release masochistic debut album Sad! Natalie Silver February 28, 2017 Album Preview, Columns and Opinions On February 12, Donald J. Trump, blubbering rocker who is recognized by less than half of the American population as "their president," and his boy band of puppets — together known as the Sad Hombres — drop...
Talking Please Help Me with Funeral Advantage’s Tyler Kershaw Ally Mason February 23, 2017 Album Preview, Interview, Previews After releasing an initial demo in 2013 and a few split 7”s (including one with labelmates Former Ghosts) Funeral Advantage's debut LP Body Is Dead (2015) and subsequent Body Is Dead (Demos) (2015) found its ...
Five Years of Killing Time: An Interview with Terry Malts’s Corey Cunningham Matt Sater February 16, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Interview, News The world was a different place five years ago, in the year of our Lord two-thousand and twelve. “Gangnam Style” was the biggest song in the world. People wrote impassioned blog posts about Fifty Shades...
Surfer Blood on new record, guitar heroes and Thomas Fekete’s Burner Ally Mason February 5, 2017 Album Review, Interview, Reviews There's a few things a gal from Southern California can't live without. Burritos for starters. Somewhere high on that list is surf rock. The Beach Boys, Dick Dale, The Ventures. Sometimes it's hard to indulge i...
Slow Hollows and the 411 on “4141” Ally Mason February 2, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Interview, Previews In high school perhaps you knew a friend or acquaintance in a band and made the pilgrimage to the local all ages venue, got your hands X'ed and swayed alongside your classmates. Maybe you even had your own band...
Mac Demarco’s “My Old Man” is his best work in years Matt Sater February 2, 2017 Reviews Mac Demarco’s relationship with his father is a thorny one. On the first track of his breakout 2012 album, 2, one of the first things Mac Demarco does is call his dad the “pride of the neighborhood”, ...