reviews
St. Vincent Makes the Most of Her Dive into '70s Shimmer on 'Daddy's Home'
PUBLISHED May 10, 2021
Annie Clark has become a modern guitar hero precisely for the fact that half the time, you'd hardly know she was playing guitar. From the b...
With 'Jupiter's Legacy,' the "Self-Aware Superhero" Genre Has Jumped the Shark
Created by Steven S. DeKnight
PUBLISHED May 10, 2021
Jupiter's Legacy is the latest misanthropic Mark Millar comic adaptation — he of Kick-Ass, Kingsman and Wanted fame. Like all of those prop...
TEKE::TEKE Showcase Many Possibilities of Their Kaleidoscopic Psych Rock on 'Shirushi'
PUBLISHED May 10, 2021
No one else is doing it quite like TEKE::TEKE. The Montreal-based psych septet became known internationally on the backs of their fearsome...
Fucked Up's Narrative Ambitions Are Finally Fully Realized on 'Year of the Horse'
PUBLISHED May 10, 2021
During their 20-plus years as a band, Fucked Up have never shied away from taking chances and stepping outside of whatever box critics and...
Saturday Night Live: Elon Musk & Miley Cyrus
May 8, 2021
PUBLISHED May 9, 2021
Elon Musk was not, in fact, the worst-ever host in the history of Saturday Night Live, Grimes turned up in a sketch, and Miley Cyrus came i...
Century Egg Dance Down an Existential Spiral on 'Little Piece of Hair' EP
PUBLISHED May 6, 2021
Century Egg's Little Piece of Hair is a joyful rebellion for those trapped in their minds. With most people confined to their homes, too, t...
Pillea's 'Swell' Is a Familiar Mishmash of College Rock and Midwest Emo
PUBLISHED May 6, 2021
Micah Brown evokes the days of college rock and Midwest emo throughout Swell, the Montreal-based singer-songwriter's debut album as Pillea....
Sam Tudor Goes Beyond Language on 'Two Half Words'
PUBLISHED May 5, 2021
Sam Tudor's last record, 2017's Quotidian Dream, opened with a tense creep — jumpy fingerpicked guitar swarmed by strings and horns, the sh...