When I saw Macon, Georgia rapper jak the act sharing his new album in the Alternative's Discord, I was intrigued. I pressed play on the opening track "Have A Seat" and after a twinkling, tour guide intro, he went in: "Named one of my cats
Yesterday I blogged about Sheffield band ABC, today I blog about Sheffield band Forum Friends! I interviewed them for The Alternative and their self-titled album is out today and I really dig it. Forum Friends are named Forum Friends because they are friends who met on a forum. Literally, they
Last week I went to see Asteroid City with some buds. It was a great movie. I was going to go home and tweet "if you don't like Wes Anderson, fuck you" and then I decided not to do that (so I'm blogging it
Friends, it's been a short and strange trip, watching The Idol. This show, despite being only five episodes in length in its first season, has revealed so much to me about The Way We All Watch Television Now. We have the moral panic zone, where if you depict
Fall Out Boy released a new rendition of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" today. Is this a tongue-in-cheek joke band ploy a la Weezer's cover of "Africa"? A cheap grab at social media watercooler chatter status that will
I was texting with my friend Matthew recently about Harry Styles. I was saying it was hard to imagine Harry putting out a song as horny in lyrical content and as aggressive in musical composition as "My Sharona" — our friend Sean's tweets about "My Sharona&
Well it wouldn't be a Monday morning if I didn't wake up early to write my stray thoughts on The Idol. The more I think about it, the more I feel like this might be the most perfect television show out there. A mere five episodes,
I've been a big fan of the artist formerly known as Juiceboxxx for years now. He publishes one of the sickest music blogs out there (John's Music Blog, literally located at musicblog.substack.com), and he's been putting out bright, sincere, super-catchy "underdog
Someone went viral yesterday for tweeting a complaint about a "local opener" for a Boygenius show in Toronto, a band "full of the literal men they are parodying." As someone else pointed out, the band in question is Broken Social Scene, a popular band that has
I was on Twitter.com recently — if you can believe that — and through replies to a tweet about a fake "utopian scholastic" CD-ROM game, I came across the wonderful single art for the song "Glass Delusion" by Anna Belle. Oooh what is this??? I asked myself,
Ooooo if you give me a electro-psych-rock tune at a brisk pace, I will come running like a dog in front of whom one has dangled a BONE. Dan Murphy, who usually makes experimental synth music as droning muffler, sent me the zippy EP spark chamber, recorded under the name
I'm a late-in-life-but-enthusiastic fan of keytars, one of their staunch defenders. Ryan Gosling's character in La La Land was shown at his personal nadir playing a keytar in an '80s cover band, but I thought he was being a little baby and should have been