In a long and emotionally exhausting year of being inside (alone, in my case,) I have found myself thinking about mirrors. How to avoid spending too much time in them, most days. Taking inventory of the real, physical self is difficult work, work that I m not entirely opposed to but work that became immediately…
The Weeknd delivers Dawn FM, the hotly-anticipated follow-up to 2020 s widely-acclaimed After Hours. The new album serves as his fifth in addition to three mixtapes released in 2011. A video trailer introduces Dawn FM as A new sonic universe from the mind of The Weeknd and namedrops Jim Carrey, Quincy Jones, Tyler, the Creator, Lil Wayne and Oneohtrix Point…
Kiss Land is the debut studio album by Canadian singer The Weeknd. It was released on September 10, 2013, by XO and Republic Records. The album was supported by six singles: Kiss Land , Belong to the World , Love in the Sky , Live For , Pretty and Wanderlust . The album s sole…
Academy Award-nominated, 2x Grammy Award-winning, and 9x JUNO Award-winning alternative R&B artist The Weeknd s third studio album Starboy has finally arrived! The highly anticipated follow-up to his triple platinum 2015 release Beauty Behind the Madness captured the No. 1 spot in a staggering 90 countries and debuted atop the Billboard 200. The 18-track double album features four songs that have…
The Weeknd s greatest hits collection The Highlights includes such career-spanning favorites as 2015 s Can t Feel My Face and The Hills, 2018 s Call Out My Name, as well as more recent hits like Blinding Lights and Heartless. The album also features many of the artist s collaborative singles – including I Feel It Coming with…
The first live album from Ween released in 1999 by Elektra Records was a career retrospective (up to that point) comprised of recordings dating back to the bands very first duo shows up to their theater tour in support of The Mollusk, including an infamous 26 minute version of Poop Ship Destroyer . This colored 3LP-set…
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…