by Nic Renshaw | Apr 18, 2018 | Features, Reviews
Where do I even begin with this album? Jack White’s Boarding House Reach is an utter mess – a sprawling, frustrating, occasionally fascinating mess. After two albums of more or less rehashing the bluesy garage rock he perfected in the early 2000s with The White...
by Nic Renshaw | Apr 16, 2018 | Features, Reviews
My first real exposure to music outside of my parents’ CD collection was listening to Radio Disney in the mid-to-late 2000s. Specifically, it was a song called “1985” by Bowling for Soup, and I loved it so much I was willing to listen for hours on end to Miley...
by Nic Renshaw | Apr 2, 2018 | Features, Reviews
Punk rock is a young man’s game. Not only do its core values and lyrical tropes contain an immutable youthfulness, the majority of its brightest stars have been notoriously short-lived. The list is long and illustrious – The Sex Pistols barely made it 2 years...
by Nic Renshaw | Mar 15, 2018 | Features, Reviews
Car Seat Headrest’s 2011 magnum opus Twin Fantasy will perhaps be remembered as one of the definitive breakups albums of the 2010s. Will Toledo’s home-recorded, reverbed-out treatise on sexuality, sadness and memory is just as potent now as it was 6 years ago, and...
by Nic Renshaw | Mar 15, 2018 | Features, Reviews
Negro Galacticus’s eponymous debut album is probably one of the funnest albums no one has ever heard. Boasting a truly original combination of garage rock, funk, reggae, afropunk and hip hop, the album’s smooth guitar work, laid-back grooves and dense yet nimble...