Chances are you won’t think of Kanye West the first time you hear New Age Norms 1, the new record from Cold War Kids. However, according to frontman Nathan Willett, it was West’s string of albums in the spring of 2018 that inspired the Long Beach, California, band to go in a slightly different direction […]
Best-of lists are an inherently stupid, yet completely brilliant, way to judge any type of art. Think about it; even the most devoted music critic only gets the chance to seriously listen to a few hundred records out of the ungodly number released each year — never mind the near-infinite stream of mixtapes and singles […]
How can Wilco still be this good? For almost two-and-a-half hours, the Chicago sextet dazzled the Wednesday night crowd at the Orpheum Theater, showcasing everything that’s made them one of the most acclaimed bands of the last quarter-century. It started slow. Around 8:30 p.m., the band strolled on stage to play back-to-back cuts from their […]
Slayer’s aesthetic felt very appropriate for their Monday night show at the CHI Health Arena. Skulls, crosses (albeit upside-down ones), and black attire were prevalent for the California thrash metal band’s final Nebraska show. The funeral paraphernalia was appropriate because, after last night’s show, the band only has seven more performances before pulling the plug […]
Sad Boys Enjoying Themselves There’s something about the festival setting that just brings out the best in musicians. Maybe (probably) it’s the fact that they get a huge paycheck for a shortened set or that a copious amount of free booze is available or that they’re surrounded by their friends and contemporaries. Even some of […]
Julien Erhlich, the lead singer and drummer of Whitney, was in a weird place when I caught up with him over the phone. “I’m watching a children’s yoga class at a YMCA in Birmingham, Alabama,” Ehrlich said with a laugh that acknowledged how strange his predicament was. The band had a couple of hours before […]
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“It feels like there’s been a little bit of luck,” says Interpol drummer Sam Fogarino on the band’s 20-year run of success. More than any other band in New York’s illustrious early-2000s rock scene, Interpol — composed of Fogarino, singer and guitarist Paul Banks and lead guitarist Daniel Kessler — has had staying power. That […]
Like any good musical conversation in 2019, my talk with Sheer Mag frontwoman Tina Halladay eventually works its way around to Lizzo. “I think she’s amazing,” Halladay tells me over the phone. “She’s just so beautiful, and I’m glad that she exists. To see that sort of person succeed in the music world is awesome.” […]
“The city looks pretty when you’ve been indoors/For 23 days I’ve ignored all your phone calls,” sings Courtney Barnett three songs into her sophomore album Tell Me How You Really Feel. The lyric works both as an epigram about touring and about how Barnett has been living the last few years of her life. Underneath the […]
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