Some weeks I am diligent and devoted, scouring as much of the superhighway of information as I possibly can in hunt of the new song that speaks deeply to me in that particular moment. Some weeks I find a song and the process is immediately, unquestionably complete. This week is one of the latter. I mean, come on. Continue reading This Week’s Model — Phoebe Bridgers and Courtney Barnett, “Everything is Free”
Hypnotic and steely, the new single from Ela Minus is a forceful techno anthem for our wounded times. Born in Bogota and based in Brooklyn, Minus makes music with an impeccable sense of craft, layering on airy, rich vocals that … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Ela Minus, “megapunk”
“I can’t believe the worst kinds of people achieve/ Everything they want/ But it takes medication to get me off.” In her new song, Lydia Loveless does a damn fine job of encapsulating what it’s like to live in the … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Lydia Loveless, “Love is Not Enough”
“And soon I’ll the neon shining moon/ And I’ll break you up just like the stars/ I’ll be the Earth without disease/ And you the human inside of me,” Shamir sings at the opening of “I Wonder,” his new single. … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Shamir, “I Wonder”
Years ago, I received a piece of advice that I assumed was worldly wise: Whatever other professionals you might work with in management of your day-to-day affairs, make sure you have a mechanic you can trust. I suppose there’s truth … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Bully, “Every Tradition”
Ganser sounds the way I want a Chicago band to sound. On their new single, “Emergency Equipment & Exits,” the music is thick, muscular. It moves along with the beat of rushing traffic, guitar like bending metal and a keyboard … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Ganser, “Emergency Equipment & Exits”
I barely follow it, and even I know it’s been a helluva week for country music. I’m sure there are still plenty of practitioners of the form still relying on pickup truck cliches and jingoistic garbage to propel their creativity, … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Eric Church, “Stick That in Your Country Song”
I cede the floor to some individuals who’ve been explaining the real deal for thirty-five years. Continue reading This Week’s Model — Public Enemy, “State of the Union (STFU)”
It’s probably unnecessarily reductive and comparative to note that “Sweeter” represents a sign that Leon Bridges is about to move into the What’s Going On phase of his career. But that’s what I finding myself thinking as I listen to … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Leon Bridges, “Sweeter”
Of all the enduring figures of college rock’s heyday in the nineteen-eighties and early nineteen-nineties, no one mines their own history more effectively than Bob Mould. Across his last several albums, Mould has drawn upon most of the sounds that … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Bob Mould, “American Crisis”
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