The past two years have been utterly electrifying for Dublin group Fontaines D.C. An intense, stark, overwhelming live proposition, their debut album ‘Dogrel’ broke out far beyond the post-punk underground, winning colossal plaudits in the process. It remains an emphatic listen: potent and poetic, it’s immersed in the grit and soil of Dublin, while reaching…
Just three days after the “One World: Together at Home” online concert aired, a 79-song, four-hour-long album of the event is available from Global Citizen and Universal Music Group on the streaming services Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify and Tidal. The album features Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Elton…
The new season of Succession, HBO’s great show about the backstabbing machinations of a family of vampiric right-wing media barons, opens with an image of a man’s face half-submerged in warm, glassy water. Behind him, fog-shrouded mountains sprawl out. Kendall Roy, once thought to be the heir of this bloodsucking clan, is at an elite…
After finding success at home in the UK with a collection of EPs and their debut album, The Amazons return Friday (May 24) with sophomore album ‘Future Dust.’ Future Dust is an undeniable evolution from the Amazons’ debut self-titled album, both lyrically and sonically; a result of personal growth and retrospection. The band unapologetically confronts…
Twenty-five years ago, Rivers Cuomo was attending community college when his band Weezer released their self-titled debut. “I brought it to class and said, ‘Look everybody,’” he recalled in 1995. “They were all like, ‘Yeah, cool, whatever.’” The music world would show significantly more interest than his classmates. Arriving on May 10th, 1994, the 10-track…
Six solo albums in, six years after the surprise release of her self-titled album, three years after the groundbreaking Lemonade, one year after the rap album she delivered with her husband, and we’re starting to get it. We’re starting to understand Beyoncé Knowles-Carter as a musician with unparalleled range, depth, and power: acknowledging her rapperly…
