Today I’m responding to a wonderful thinkpiece Salon published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which claims that the seminal album forever ruined rock music for women. Brace yourselves, this might just be the foulest stinker yet.
The weekly segment in which Anthony touches down on some of the best and worst tracks he has heard in the past week.
In lieu of a mere single, here is the entire second chapter of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard‘s three-chapter concept album Murder of the Universe. This will be the psych rock experimentalists’ second album of 2017, following the great Flying Microtonal Banana, and the ‘gimmick’ this time around
Denzel Curry and BADBADNOTGOOD each embark upon one of their most ambitious musical undertakings by reinventing banger-of-the-decade contender “Ultimate” with live instrumentation. I’m more surprised by the trippy video than I am the fact they pull it off. Feels like I dropped acid…or edited a thatistheplan video. Denzel
Todd Terje teases toward his beautifully-titled sophomore album Numero Twomero with a lengthy cover of “Maskindans,” an obscure piece of ’80s minimal synth from fellow Norwegian dance music duo Det Gylne Triangel. Naturally, this new version is a lot brighter and dancier, but it also features new vocal contributions from
The 20th anniversary reissue of Radiohead’s seminal album OK Computer is coming out later this month, containing of course a remastered version of the album, as well as a bonus disc of b-sides and previously unreleased material. The long passed-over “I Promise” is one of the three unreleased tracks
Anthony Fantano, the self-proclaimed “Internet’s Busiest Music Nerd,” is a YouTube music critic who just reached the one million subscriber milestone. Here’s my completely objective review of him.
Jersey producer Sinjin Hawke makes his full-length debut with a beautiful set of nuanced bangers.
The magical monthly segment where Anthony briefly touches down on a gauntlet of albums he didn’t get a chance to review this past month.
Lil Yachty’s debut album is a horrific disappointment.