9+ hour, 49+ min ago  (476+ words) Spectrum Culture She isn't quite there, yet. Backed by studio musicians and produced by Justin Raisen (noted for work with Kim Gordon and Charli XCX), the album has a sharp sound that clearly shows its debt. Grohl often draws straight from…...

9+ hour, 49+ min ago  (650+ words) Spectrum Culture Yet, standard musical narratives of the early "80s tend to focus exclusively on this BRock explosion, ignoring the parallel evolution of the Black Rio movement. Originating in the 1970s as a form of cultural resistance against the military dictatorship, Black…...

9+ hour, 46+ min ago  (535+ words) Spectrum Culture Emerging from the detritus of the pandemic, Bleachers" 2021 album Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night was the best thing Antonoff had done in years. The album got behind the wheel of Bruce Springsteen"s big pop "80s legacy,…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (325+ words) 4. "Stay Out of Trouble" Staying within the same mood, "Stay Out of Trouble" mainly features this lilting, slightly swung string musical motif. It is not the most memorable piece on the release. The notes sort of clomp about like a…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (519+ words) Occupying the interzone between creativity, criticism and academic writing, J. Simpson idealistically believes that great art makes the world a better place. Specializing in the "dark," experimental, surreal and strange, he believes there's more to life than chasing profits. He is…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (622+ words) Spectrum Culture The archetypal Kurt Vile solo record is 2013's Wakin on a Pretty Daze. There, more so than on his four previous records or his work as the lead guitarist with pre-fame The War on Drugs, he established the…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1099+ words) Spectrum Culture Viewed as a whole, Antonioni's oeuvre is mostly remembered for a certain stylistic consistency, the cold sheen of ennui applied via a visual approach that reduces its principal characters to figures in the landscape, the dehumanization associated with…...

4+ day, 49+ min ago  (821+ words) Spectrum Culture On Inferno, their fifth album (and first in 13 years), the world is much darker. Tomorrow's Harvest was a grim record, too, but the last decade and change haven't done anything to boost the duo's morale. The realms of…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (706+ words) Spectrum Culture The record opens with "Rattlesnake Preacher," a song that had been in her live shows for years but never on disc, as if it had previously resisting being tamed (or had been considered unmarketable). Its position at the…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (644+ words) Spectrum Culture Which is to say it's the first example of the sound the band would mine with refreshing variability for decades. Sonic Youth crafted pop songs repositories for dissonant guitar experiments, and they did so with remarkable subtlety, not…...