Few artists have evolved like Beck. Twenty-one years ago he sang, “MTV makes me wanna smoke crack” and now its “You better save yourself from something you can’t see.” Irony and edginess seemed to have left his music after the dawn of the new millennium, and what remains is as genre bending as ever. Beck…
In much the same way that the career of The Beatles can be summed up as pre- and post-Revolver, Arctic Monkeys are now clearly in Sgt. Pepper territory with AM. After the rough-and-ready, double-barrelled salvo of their first two albums which were littered with spiky agit-pop anthems about prostitutes, nightclub bouncers and one-night stands, third…
If City and Colour’s 2011 album Little Hell was about being stuck in a place of sorrow and bleakness, The Hurry and the Harm is about the feeble and perpetual attempt to escape that valley of darkness. With each album that he has released under the moniker of City and Colour, ex-Alexisonfire guitarist/singer Dallas Green…
Queens of The Stone Age possess an unencumbered brilliance with words. Their latest album, …Like Clockwork, is loaded with provocative yet oddly empowering lyricism. Noted is a clear connection between lead singer Josh Homme and his sentiments as a reinvigorated songwriter after a near death experience due to complications during a surgery. This event inspired…
The first thing that comes to mind when you press play on Savages debut record, Silence Yourself, that is, after you process the eerie sustain of feedback behind the swelling dialogue from the John Cassavetes movie Opening Night, is that a changing of the guard might be underway. We witnessed it when Nirvana exploded in…
© 2013 Puluche Media, Inc