Category: Music
“Love Stinks,” For As Trash Rock As It Is, Remains the Ultimate Nihilist’s Anthem When It Comes to L’Amour
Before we had the seriousness and defeatism of Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me” or the playful, I won’t give up stylings of [Read More…]
Robyn’s “Missing U” is The Tori Paradox & Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Rolled Into One
It was Aeschylus who famously said, “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” For Robyn, that post-breakup grief [Read More…]
Psychotic Behavior Is Always Excusable When There’s A Dog Involved As Smoke & Mirrors
To be a Madonna fan in the present is definitely to be some kind of freaky deaky. As a straight person (or, these days, asexual [Read More…]
Dancehall Days: Santigold’s I Don’t Want: The Goldfire Sessions
Santigold has been far too quiet since her last album, 99¢, in February 2016. Just a little over two years later, that silence has been [Read More…]
Andy Garcia’s Terry Benedict Has Nothing on Alex Turner’s Mark in “Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino” Video
Where last we left Arctic Monkeys and the elusive character we’ll now just call Mark, played by, naturally, Alex Turner, was “Four Out of Five,” [Read More…]
Amy Winehouse’s “What Is It About Men?” Embraces The Fatalism of Her Tragic Life
They say that only you can control your destiny–every other Calvinist-oriented platitude spouting predestination is bullshit. But Shakespeare, Amy Winehouse’s fellow countryman, would likely beg [Read More…]
The Louvre Was One Thing, But You Just Stay the Fuck Away From the Colosseum
The Louvre is arguably even more of a corporate slut than The Met at this point. Welcoming everything into its doors once Jean-Luc Godard set [Read More…]
Tied Together Only By A Postcard: Metric’s “Dark Saturday” Explores the Thread of Feeling Alone Without Those Who Understand You
Once again iterating that there’s nothing an iPhone can’t do in the artistic realm (see: Tangerine), Metric’s latest video, directed by Justin Broadbent, proves that [Read More…]
Jailed for Good Marketing Sense: Pussy Riot
Pussy Riot, a collective of Russian women that formed in 2011, have been flirting with fame in the West ever since being arrested in March [Read More…]
Suede’s “Don’t Be Afraid If Nobody Loves You,” Or: Everybody’s Theme Song
After releasing the video for the first single from the forthcoming The Blue Hour, “The Invisibles” (seemingly inspired by Elton John’s “I Want Love” video), [Read More…]
