Kapil Seshasayee Addresses Bollywood Misogyny with "The Item Girl" (premiere)
Art-rocker Kapil Seshasayee takes on a sexist Bollywood trope with musical skill and visual pathos in "The Item Girl".
12 Nov 2019
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Paint a Portrait of a Grieving Parent on 'Ghosteen'
The anguish a parent feels for losing their child is harrowing and Ghosteen masterfully captures Nick Cave's grief and spiraling rumination on mortality.
12 Nov 2019
Florence Welch Discussion and Acoustic Set at New Yorker Festival
Florence Welch participated in a deep discussion and gave a short performance as part of the 2019 New Yorker Festival.
30 Oct 2019
The Velvet Underground's 'Grey Album' and the Delineation of a Decade
The Velvet Underground's 1969 self-titled release, known as the "Grey Album", blazes boldly 50 years later, and retains the same sonic relevance as a Laura Nyro or Nick Drake record: artworks utterly of their moment, that sound like they could have been made yesterday.
29 Oct 2019
Elbow's 'Giants of All Sizes' Is a Perfect Accompaniment to This Troubled Period in History
With Giants of All Sizes, Elbow conclude the 2010s with another addition to their streak of brilliant records.
23 Oct 2019
Bent Knee's 'You Know What They Mean' Is Another Successful Experiment in Boundary Smashing
Boston art rockers, Bent Knee turn a corner with perhaps their most accomplished album yet in You Know What They Mean.
10 Oct 2019
With 'NOICE' Guitarist/Composer Alexander Noice Offers a Thrilling, Fast-Paced Multi-Genre Experiment
Jazz, art-rock, punk, and synthpop are just a few of the styles Alexander Noice and his exceptionally talented band explore on an album where the energy level never flags.
23 Aug 2019
The Dust Blows Forward: 'Trout Mask Replica' at 50
In 1969, the deeply strange musician known as Captain Beefheart released an album that is still ahead of its time a half-century later. PopMatters spoke with musicians and writers about this landmark work of art and why it continues to fascinate.
19 Aug 2019
The Flaming Lips' 'King's Mouth' Is Only Just a Bit Overstuffed
The Flaming Lips' King's Mouth couples spacey cinematic passages with driving rhythms to create a sombre and thoughtful musical whole.
14 Aug 2019
"I Like to Feel There Are No Boundaries": An Interview With Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry
Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry discusses his latest album, Quiet River of Dust Vol. 2, and the ties that a musical life creates.
Jedd Beaudoin
Music
12 Aug 2019
The Tea Club's 'If/When' Is a Brilliant Mixture of Folk and Progressive Rock
If/When is stunning, proving yet again why the Tea Club should be celebrated by admirers of any—if not all—of their sundry genre classifications.
Jordan Blum
Music
08 Aug 2019
Thom Yorke's 'ANIMA' Offers an Uplifting Kind of Dystopia
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke's third solo album ANIMA offers relatively peppy music to accompany his unsurprisingly bleak lyrical worldview, but it all works rather wonderfully.
05 Aug 2019
Indie Rockers Spoon Issue a Greatest Hits Collection
Amidst a tour opening for Beck and Cage the Elephant, Spoon will release a greatest hits collection in August that's a wonderful overview of their music.
29 Jul 2019
Pere Ubu Issue Their 'Long Goodbye'
Pere Ubu's The Long Goodbye is an amazing achievement that accomplishes its mission of encapsulating a 45-year career with wit and aplomb.
15 Jul 2019
The Tea Club Return with Dense Pastoral Dejection on "If I Mean When" (premiere)
The Tea Club's latest single finds the quintet evoking classic folk rock artists in the midst of maintaining their knack for evocative songwriting and arrangements.
09 Jul 2019
Jambinai's 'ONDA' Reminds That Korean Music Is Diasporic and Ever-Evolving
Jambinai's ONDA finds cross-cultural influences from traditional Korean music, post-rock, and atmospheric metal, but their ethos is certainly more complex than a fusion or hybrid project.
19 Jun 2019
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