Maybe the ‘old fashioned’ rock critics have further retreated into the online fringes of their personal websites and academic research, even further than they did last year. But luckily, they are still writing books. Read More
Daughters' latest is a raw, twisted, in your face mass of sound that gets it's hooks deep into your brain with its hypnotic patterns. Read More
'Trench' is a surprisingly subdued follow-up to their breakthrough album, but its hyper-focused music might just be some of their best stuff yet. Read More
If anybody in modern music is taken as a stereotype of the genius/weirdness combination it is late Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett, a founder and brief mailman of Pink Floyd, solo artist, painter, and recluse - often most of these things at the same time. Read More
While there's no way that this was the exact vision Lil Peep had for this project, they still did a good job of highlighting the immense talent and potential he had as an artist that could blur genre lines and be the face of this new "emo rap" wave. Read More
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"Orange Is For Love" by Elvyn Rhud is a stoner/psychedelic rock song that can take you on a trip to a number of places, real and imaginary. Read More
What happens when lifelong rock fans get old? They spread memes. I can’t imagine anything less rock ’n’ roll than complaining on Facebook about the musical tastes of kids these days. Read More
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"Hitting The Bricks" is a short history lesson of how to live the life of a full-on rock start, a fasinating true story of talent recognizing talent. Read More
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'Morning World' is an incredibly eclectic mix of grunge ballads and bangers that evokes both nostalgia and hope for a better grunge future. Read More
The number of pop artists that have chosen to go avant-garde is extremely small, but none went so far as Noel Scott Engel, a guy from Ohio better known as Scott Walker. The British daily “Guardian” aptly put it, he is “Andy Williams reinventing himself as Stockhausen.” Read More
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Dawes' album is surprisingly political (at least cultural) as they speak of our great cultural divide, and in lesser terms romantic divides, and tries to find understanding and common ground on which we can come together on. It's admirable, it's just not all that exciting. Read More
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Panic! At the Disco's latest is all radio-friendly pop that's good for a listen or two but won't keep me coming back for more or get me excited for anything new from them in the future. Read More
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"San Jacinto" is about a vice-fueled 'dirty soul,' but such music could never come out of a dirty place. Excess and guilt give birth to beautiful music. Read More
As Imagine Dragons have reached for more and more festival anthems their music has gotten more and more soulless, with 'Origins' reaching an all-time low. Read More
Any road you take in rock music, the one to fame or the one to oblivion, is paved with sad stories of mishaps and misfortune. Late Gene Clark, co-founder of The Byrds, is probably the epitome of them. Read More
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"Nebulas" by Holy WOW! is a trippy garage rock song with a video to match, the two evoking a strange, spacey mix of Depeche Mode and Pink Floyd. Read More
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The music video for "Orange is for Love," just like the actual song, is like a David Lynch film, meant to be experienced rather than analyzed. Read More
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"Concealed Little Weapon" is a dose of nostalgia for the 90s rock and grunge classics, but with its talented creator's unique and elusive touch. Read More
The Go-Betweens produced some of the most mutant, evocative intellectual pop, that never succeeded at the time it was made, but lingers on til this day. Read More
Skip Spence - Canadian born songwriter, singer, guitarist, drummer (and a few other things), in many ways represents the essence of psychedelic weirdness, with all the brilliant music it produced as well as all personal pitfalls that came along with it. Read More
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Daughtry does just enough, thanks in large part to the vocals, to keep Cage to Rattle from being a complete skip, but the margin isn't large. Read More
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Dirty Projectors' latest is a bright, airy listen that may go overboard with some of its sappy love proclamations but still remains an infectious and wildly imaginative listen nonetheless. Read More
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'Joy' is not a 'clean' project that's easy to listen to or follow along with, but, it is a hell of an (albeit chaotic) experience that delivers some great psychedelic rock. Read More
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The fact that Father John Misty can carry such a musically stripped down album with not much more than his vocals and some superb songwriting should say it all. It's a stand out. Read More