Lil Uzi Vert has proven to be one of the most interesting new artists of 2016, and that’s for reasons that go beyond his music. On the surface, Uzi is a prime example of this years new breed of “post-future”…
Album Review: The Weeknd – “Starboy”
In a meteoric chain of events, spider-haired Abel Tesfaye has risen from cult favorite mixtape king to a superstar who has received comparisons to Michael Jackson. Considering the circumstances, it’s not hard to see why. R&B and rock only grow…
Top 15 Old School Pop Tunes
I’m not surprising anyone by saying the Internet is an enormous place, and throughout its digital catacombs music fans have non-stop discussions and conversations about various music genres and why they matter. Rock, Hip-hop, and even early 20th Century Jazz…
Album Review: Sleigh Bells – “Jessica Rabbit”
Music has been growing with enormous strides in the 2010’s, but so far indie rock has had trouble catching up. While R&B and trap music have had no trouble balancing innovation with populism, indie rock has spent its free time…
From the Record Crate: My Chemical Romance – “The Black Parade” (2006)
The mid-2000’s was the last true golden age of popular rock music; a brief, ridiculously giddy moment in which rock bands shed off the creative straightjacket of “alternative authenticity” and fabricated the kind of overblown, heart attack inducing, melodramatic teen…
Album Review: Of Montreal – “Innocence Reaches”
The groups that comprise the Elephant 6 Collective have spent their careers being the most useless bands in music. Even calling them “bands” is misleading since they don’t truly create music as much as they cobble together “critic approved” sounds…
A Critique of Criticism: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pop Charts
It is often presumed by music critics that they are the gatekeepers of taste and that it is up to them to shepherd the masses towards what they consider the great music of each era. While it is true that…
