Cleveland band NIIGHTS claim allegiance to Smashing Pumpkins and My Bloody Valentine, but their musical output is harder to triangulate than those influences might indicate.
The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, the new six-part anthology by the Coen brothers, is premiering on Netflix this Friday after a limited theatrical run. The…
Are y'all familiar with the saga surrounding "The Watcher," the mysterious stalker who terrorized a family with eerily specific letters after they purchased a million-dollar…
Knoxville's endlessly adventurous Big Ears festival has finalized its 2019 lineup. Spiritualized, who made their triumphant return with And Nothing Hurt this year, will headline…
Harriet Brown -- formerly of San Francisco, now based in Los Angeles -- makes poppy R&B music with experimental electronic undercurrents. His new album Mall…
Man, it's crazy how far he fell off. After watching three Romanoffs eps, I feel like a huge part of the problem is he's trying to pull off character transformations that would have taken whole seasons on Mad Men within the course of 80 minutes. Some of the decisions the characters make would make a lot more sense if they were subtly simmering for months or years, but in this context they feel like they're out of nowhere.
You know, I meant to get into that in the column but didn’t have time. The passage of time will probably lessen the impact of the song somewhat, but I think the gist of it holds true regardless of whether you recognize the names. I imagine Weezer’s “Tired Of Sex” as a good analog.
Fun fact that I couldn't fit in the column: Ariana released "thank u, next" 20 years to the day after Alanis Morisette released Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, which contains one song called "Thank U" and another ("Unsent") on which Alanis name-checks a bunch of her exes.
