Daily Newsletter, February 29, 2024

By Ljubinko Zivkovic, Rock At Night Amsterdam Review: The Telescopes – Growing Eyes Becoming String -Release date: February 9, 2024  It just might be appropriate that the ‘new’ album by The Telescopes ‘Growing Eyes Becoming [...]

There might be heartless fools around, but Munson is not fooling around with his art pop modern classical combination.

Three songs into Half Divorced, the sixth album from long-running Philadelphia noise-punk band Pissed Jeans, we’re really hitting a groove. Drums hit like nutpunches. Guitars squall and splatter. If you heard the bass tone while driving, it would cause you to pull over and call a mechanic immediately. Singer Matt Korvette sounds like a kodiak bear who’s been laid off from his job wherever kodiak bears work and who just found out that his severance check didn’t come through. It’s some real prime ’90s sludge ugliness, the type of thing that you might pull from the second side a half-forgotten Amphetamine Reptile compilation, until you notice the words that Korvette is belching out: “Guess you’re a helicopter parent! Figure it out, man! You’re just a helicopter parent! And that’s one thing I cannot stand!”

In his latest survey of French releases, David McKenna looks at one of the first great rap releases of the year from Lala &ce, tackles imposing composers and dives into a delightful debut from Franco-Moroccan Hanaa Ouassim. Homepage photo: Hanaa Ouassim by Clara Casero

"Art of Noise" features 800 art and design objects that have visualized and vivified the experience of music over the past century.

Scott Fagan's 1968 album South Atlantic Blues gets reissued: an appealingly oddball first from a star forever in waiting

Remastered vinyl edition retains the apocalyptic heavy psych and proto-prog first delivered in 1969

Dennis Russell Davies, Gidon Kremer, Nico Muhly, Amy Dickson and others analyse the distinctive, often unforgettable music of Philip Glass.

'The Other Side' is out April 19 and Burnett will play his first concerts in 20 years in Nashville in May.