‘Decades Of Sound’: Pop Goes The 1980s
The music of the 1980s reflected the era’s sweeping cultural shifts and technological advancements, producing a diverse array of sounds and styles that continue to influence contemporary music. Perhaps the…
Sade, André 3000 Lead Massive ‘TRAИƧA’ Benefit Album
Sade, André 3000, Sam Smith, Julien Baker, Clairo, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, actor Hunter Schafer and Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker are among the more than 100 artists who have contributed to…
Biddy Biddy Bom Bom: Ten Contemporary Performances Reconfiguring the Psycho Biddy
In the compromised annals of American cinema history, there is perhaps no subgenre as equally tortured and significant as a categorization of film once deliriously, condescendingly referred to as “hagsploitation.”…
TV On The Radio Revisit ‘Desperate Youth,’ Plot First Shows Since 2019
New York rock outfit TV on the Radio will be back later this year with their first live shows since 2019 and a 20th anniversary reissue of their debut album,…
Jakob Nowell of Sublime Pays Homage to His ’90s Roots
Singer and guitarist Jakob Nowell filled in some pretty big shoes when he became the frontman of reggae punk pioneers Sublime – his father’s. The late, great Bradley Nowell was…
Uniform’s ‘American Standard’ Is Brilliantly Devastating
Uniform – American Standard Sacred Bones Some light verse from the pen of Uniform vocalist Michael Berdan: More from Spin: At Oblivion Access, Heaviness Comes in Many Forms The 25 Best…
Steve Wynn Does Everything at Once
Steve Wynn is an alt-rock hero. He launched the Dream Syndicate in 1981, bridging a gap between the exploratory, improvisational music of the late ‘60s and the visceral immediacy of…
‘Decades Of Sound’: Grunge, EDM, Teen Pop Power The 1990s
The dominant new musical trend of the early 1990s was also one of the most improbable. Emerging from the noisy, DIY rock scene of the perpetually overshadowed Seattle, grunge became…
A Day in the Life of…BLOND:ISH
When Vivie-ann Bakos was 5, she wasn’t quite old enough to understand how to turn on her father’s record player. But she did figure out that if she took a…
Quantum Leaping with Cigarettes After Sex
Cigarettes After Sex does not exist in space and time the way that most of us do. They are everywhere. They are everywhen. They have their feet in the past,…