Weezer doesn t look like rock stars, its amusing name doesn t evoke stadium-heights glories, and the group s lyrics don t exude confidence or flash. For precisely these reasons, and the fact that the band s songs on their Ric Ocasek-produced 1994 self-titled debut are the stuff of air-guitar dreams and shout-it-out choruses, the…
Weezer s second self-titled album (2001) and third overall, collectively known as the Green Album, nearly never came to pass. The band had all but broken apart, with leader Rivers Cuomo choosing to go back to college and the other members dismayed at the initial reception to 1996 s Pinkerton. Persuaded at the turn of the century to return…
First of Two Planned 2021 Releases Finds Band Working with 39-Piece Orchestra and Drawing Influence from Beach Boys Pet Sounds and Harry Nilsson s Nilsson Sings Newman! Weezer follow-up 2019 s Weezer aka The Black Album with their fourteenth studio album, OK Human (a nod to Radiohead‘s OK Computer), the first of two planned 2021 releases. It finds the Los Angeles quartet working…
Few records claim as bizarre a history as Weezer s Pinkerton. Upon release in 1996, the band s sophomore effort failed to meet sales expectations, lacked a hit single, and drew primarily negative reviews from the press. Then, via word of mouth and reevaluation, the album began to build a reputation as an initially misunderstood masterwork –…
For WEMA, collaboration is a state of mind. The five-piece collective – consisting of Tanzanian multi-instrumentalist Msafiri Zawose, producer Photay and Penya members Magnus P.I, Lilli Elina and Jimmy le Messurier – is an artistic pursuit founded on community; a space in which to harness the transformative power of connection.
WEREWOLVES ANNOUNCE YET MORE DEATH METAL WITH 4TH ALBUM “MY ENEMIES LOOK AND SOUND LIKE ME”. WEREWOLVES formed in 2019 and have proceeded to release an album a year to increasing acclaim and global calamity. Three full lengths and one EP later, the band performs an act of creative peristalsis with album four “My Enemies…
2022 repress. Color vinyl. Released in July 1968 on Reprise Records, Vol. 3: A Child s Guide To Good & Evil is considered to be the band s most accomplished work and a masterpiece of the psychedelic genre. Released just nine months after Vol. 2, the band explores their incredibly creative psychedelic pop song writing with an accomplished…
180-gram audiophile black vinyl. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band make an interesting case for being one of the era s more unclassifiable bands. Vol 3. A Child s Guide To Good And Evil was a great example of this. This album is considered to be the band s most accomplished work and a…
After releasing two of the hottest singles of the year ( Chaise Longue & Wet Dream ), Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers were catapulted from their confines on the Isle of Wight to sold out venues and packed-out tents at festivals causing giddy excitement wherever they went. Their debut album is called Wet…
Technological agitation. Narcissism fatigue. A galaxy of isolation. These are the new norms keeping Weyes Blood (aka Natalie Mering) up at night and the themes at the heart of her latest release, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow. The celestial-influenced folk album is her follow-up to the acclaimed Titanic Rising. (Pitchfork, NPR, and The Guardian admiringly named it one of…
The phantom zone, the parallax, the upside down – there is a rich cultural history of exploring in-between places. Through her latest, Titanic Rising, Weyes Blood aka Natalie Mering, has designed her own universe to soulfully navigate life s mysteries. Maneuvering through a space-time continuum, she plays the role of melodic, sometimes melancholic, anthropologist. Tellingly, Mering classifies Titanic Rising – which…
Reissue, originally released in 1972. The highly sought-after reissue of a soul classic by Baltimore band. A mix of ballads and groovy tracks produced by George Kerr and Michael Watson. The Whatnauts emerged from Baltimore in the late 60s. This eight-song original LP has become a classic 70s soul album, mixing ballads and groovy tracks. While You Forget…
The conquering king of outlaw country music, Wheeler Walker Jr. Has turned his sights to rock n roll with the release of his new album Ram, produced by Dave Cobb, Featuring the future classic songs Dumptruck , Money N Bitches and more.
White Denim, dubbed the “last great rock n’ roll band” by The Guardian, has launched Radio Milk Records with a remastered reissue of their 2010 fan-favorite ‘Last Day of Summer’. Once impossible to find on vinyl due to a limited pressing of 500 copies, the album has been remastered by Joe La Porta at Sterling…
White Denim’s new album Performance collects nine expertly crafted songs that twist and turn, bending genres in the band’s unique style. Students of rock music, White Denim has clearly listened to and learned from the best albums ever made from T. Rex to XTC to Little Feat to Jim O’Rourke…but they write songs just dumb…