reviews
Emma-Jean Thackray's 'Yellow' Is Too Exciting to be Merely Branded "Jazz Fusion"
PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2021
One hesitates to pin Yellow, Emma-Jean Thackray's official debut full-length, down with a reductive label such as "jazz fusion." The genre...
Descendents Display 40 Years of Punk Dominance on '9th & Walnut'
PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2021
It's a shame that Descendents put off finishing 9th & Walnut for so long, as an album this focused and snotty would have surely launched a...
Pop Smoke's Fans Won't Lose 'Faith' Despite Uneven New Posthumous Album
PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2021
The posthumous album has sadly been a staple in hip-hop for years, occasionally resulting in legacy-cementing projects like J Dilla's immac...
'Fear Street Part 3: 1666' Will Give You Goosebumps — but Not Just Because of the Horror
Directed by Leigh Janiak
PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2021
The first two films in the Fear Street Trilogy (1994 and 1978) were blood-soaked retro slashers — but the final chapter of this R.L. Stine...
Darkside's 'Spiral' Mourns the End of the World — and Celebrates What We Still Have Left
PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2021
A funny thing happened on the way to Darkside's return from hiatus. After all, Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington announced that the band was...
Alan McGee Biopic 'Creation Stories' Is a Classic Story of Sex, Drugs and Oasis
Directed by Nick Moran
PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2021
"I had two obsessions back then: music and money." So explains our protagonist in the opening minutes of this biopic film — and spoken l...
John Mayer Tries Something New, Kinda, on 'Sob Rock'
PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2021
Throughout his 20-plus years in the music industry, John Mayer has managed to explore a diverse array of sounds to varying degrees of succe...
Clairo Leaves Her Bedroom for the Great Beyond on 'Sling'
PUBLISHED Jul 16, 2021
If those sharing Clairo's understated viral hit "Pretty Girl" in 2017 could time travel to our heat-warped present, it's entirely possible...