reviews
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak's Chemistry Is Airtight on 'An Evening with Silk Sonic'
PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2021
It started off as an inside joke. But even though Silk Sonic's cheeky lyrics and comedic delivery play like an SNL sketch, Bruno Mars and A...
Saturday Night Live: Jonathan Majors & Taylor Swift
November 13, 2021
PUBLISHED Nov 14, 2021
Not for a lack of energy and effort on their part, Jonathan Majors and Taylor Swift found themselves on an uneven episode of Saturday Night...
Cedric Noel Confidently Asks the Tough Questions on 'Hang Time'
PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2021
It's difficult for an artist to remain both prolific and good at their craft, but Cedric Noel's Hang Time — coming a year after his Pattern...
Casper Skulls Find Beauty in Childhood Trauma on 'Knows No Kindness'
PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2021
Knows No Kindness finds Casper Skulls a long way from the shoegazing rock of previous material, from 2015's "King of Gold" single to 2017 d...
'Portraits from a Fire' Is a Spellbinding Debut
Directed by Trevor Mack
PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2021
Time and again in Portraits from a Fire, the face of protagonist Tyler's (William Magnus Lulua) late mother coalesces from colourful pixels...
'Crawler' Is the Sound of IDLES Running on Empty
PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2021
Well, they've done it. Against all odds, IDLES have become… boring. What an unlikely feat! For a group of rowdy British punks who rose to p...
Damon Albarn Blurs Past and Present on 'The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows'
PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2021
What's Damon Albarn to do with a pandemic? Blur hasn't performed since a one-off gig for one of Albarn's Africa Express events in London in...
Summer Walker Goes Beyond the Breakup Record on 'Still Over It'
PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2021
Still Over It, Summer Walker's follow-up to 2019 breakthrough Over It, clearly lays out its subject matter in no subtle terms with song tit...