Daily Newsletter, May 18, 2024

BLITZEN TRAPPER 100’S OF 1000’S, MILLIONS OF BILLIONS YEP ROC It has been a while since we had a chance to hear from Blitzen Trapper, four years approximately, and it is always welcome to hear back from them, no matter which direction they would lean towards, with every new release. This time around, on 100’s […]

ABBEY MASONBRINK RISING INDEPENDENT Basing your music mainly on your vocals and banjo, might not be so unusual if your songs fall solely in the folk or bluegrass genres, but Kansas singer songwriter Abbey Masonbrink doesn’t think that should be the case on her simply titled album Rising. And why the album title and the […]

MARUCOPOROPORO CONCEIVE THE SEA FLAU Japanese artist marucoporoporo might currently be a relatively unknown act, after all, Conceive The Sea is her debut album, with a previous EP back in 2018. Yet, the quality of this, not so easy definable music just might work in her favour, at least among the listeners that like that […]

Why wait for a new Faith No More album when you can immerse yourself in the nerve-shredding cinematic soundscapes of Fantômas?

On their third album AMAMA, New York quartet Crumb make good on the success of the past on continue to push themselves with intoxicating delight.

Let's take a look back at the year of The Joshua Tree, Hysteria, Tango In The Night, A Momentary Lapse Of Reason and much more...

"I've always loved Little Feat" - Bonnie Raitt

Claire Messud’s This Strange Eventful History, Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger, Miranda July’s All Fours, and Hari Kunzru’s Blue Ruin all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought t…

Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' starring Adam Driver premiered at Cannes.

Last year, A24 released a restored version of the classic Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense back into theaters. Earlier this year, the studio announced plans for an all-star Stop Making Sense tribute album, featuring a bunch of newer artists covering all the Talking Heads songs from that movie. The selection of artists did not exactly meet with unanimous approval, but this thing has been rolling out for a while, and it’s finally here.