music reviews
Nicki Minaj Got By on Good Will in Toronto
Scotiabank Arena, April 18
PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2024
Showcased on a series of screens were animated images of Chun Li, one of Nicki Minaj's many personas, dressed in a medieval knight's armour...
µ-Ziq Gets Back to the Bangers with "Hyper Daddy"
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PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2024
Free your mind from the pretentiousness of "IDM" and embrace the "weird bangers" of 'Grush,' Mike Paradinas's forthcoming album as µ-Ziq...
Antichrist Siege Machine Are Relentless Explorers on 'Vengeance of Eternal Fire'
PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2024
War metal, bestial black, blackened death metal: these are all apt generic descriptors for Richmond, Virginia's 'Antichrist Siege Machine'...
Pearl Jam Make a Case for Sticking Around on 'Dark Matter'
PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2024
If we're using the long-outdated framework of criticism as consumer guide, then a review of the latest Pearl Jam record is largely irreleva...
Martha Skye Murphy's "Need" Pulses Like an Ember in Ice
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PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2024
If there's one thing you can expect from Martha Skye Murphy, it's that she'll leave you a little dizzy, your feet sliding even on solid ...
BIG|BRAVE Conjure Primordial Magic on 'A Chaos of Flowers'
PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2024
There is no other band that intersects the ecstatic and the hopeless quite like BIG|BRAVE. Their songs veer between spiritual ...
claire rousay Is Vexing and Vulnerable on 'sentiment'
PUBLISHED Apr 16, 2024
What if life was a mixtape? Rather than shared collections of beats and rhymes, claire rousay curates the sounds of objects...
Maggie Rogers's Long-Burning Fuse Finally Ignites on 'Don't Forget Me'
PUBLISHED Apr 16, 2024
If Looney Tunes taught us anything, it's that there's a long time between lighting the fuse and blowing everything to smithereens. A lot ha...