Butthole Surfers Lampooned From a Place of Anarchic Love
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by Stephen Deusner
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10 Tours That Changed the World Butthole Surfers – Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac/Live PCPPEP/Rembrandt Pussyhorse Matador Butthole Surfers weren’t originally called Butthole Surfers. As the story goes: Back in the very early 1980s, when the San Antonio group—then (briefly) known as the Ashtray Babyheads—played their first paid gig, the announcer mistook a song title for their official sobriquet. And thus was born one of the most notorious band names in rock history. Even more than their visceral deconstruction of rock and roll and even more than their famously outrageous live shows—t ..read more
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Sierra Ferrell’s Americana Rollercoaster
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by Stephen Deusner
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Sierra Ferrell’s Americana Rollercoaster Sierra Ferrell – Trail of Flowers Rounder “I’ve been American dreaming, but I never seem to get no rest,” Sierra Ferrell sings on the opener from her fourth album, Trail of Flowers, perhaps diagnosing the ills of an entire generation. “American Dreaming” is a road song on which the West Virginia-born/everywhere-based singer and instrumentalist tallies up the high cost of pursuing a career. For her that means cramped vans, long drives, low pay, broken relationships, and a general emotional inertia. While those music-industry specifics might not apply to ..read more
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Mannequin Pussy Find Their Own Fire and Brimstone on I Got Heaven
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by Matthew Neale
2d ago
Mannequin Pussy's Multi-Generational Anger (and Horniness) Mannequin Pussy – I Got Heaven (Epitaph) “Oh, what’s wrong with dreaming of burning it all down?” sings Marisa “Missy” Dabice on “Nothing Like,” as a heavily phased guitar breakdown cascades around her. That the line arrives at the climax of one of Mannequin Pussy’s horniest songs perhaps tells its own story; on their fourth album, I Got Heaven, the band unites the personal and the political more than ever, threading anarchist fantasies through songs of breathless longing. Musically, however, Mannequin Pussy are working at the widest ..read more
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Cakes da Killa Raps With Confident Nonchalance on Black Sheep
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by Vrinda Jagota
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Review: Cakes da Killa's Hedonism Brings Lust and Rage to the Dance Floor For over a decade, Cakes da Killa has pioneered New York’s queer rap spaces, pairing hip-house beats that grind and grate with bars bursting with verve. One of the driving forces behind his music is his sense of humor, from a tongue-in-cheek remake of a Frank Ocean lyric to interludes referencing Bushwick gay bar Mood Ring to lyrics that pull inspiration from jokes in anime. On his second full length, 2022’s Svengali, the tone of his music shifted: The songs stretched out and turned inward as he explored longing, hearta ..read more
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Tierra Whack Remains Multidimensional on World Wide Whack
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by Jaelani Turner-Williams
6d ago
The 101 Best Albums of the 2010s Tierra Whack – World Wide Whack (Interscope) Philadelphia rhymesayer Tierra Whack can still pack a cheeky punch via bite-sized songs. She showcased that skill on her 2018 debut mixtape, the 15-minute Whack World—followed by three 2021 EPs, R&B?, Pop? and Rap?, that proved her deftly mutable among those genres. Nearly three years later, on debut album World Wide Whack, she makes her grand return as hip-hop’s favorite post-Missy Elliott oddball. A sing-songy but sullen Whack opens WWW with “Mood Swing,” protectively deciding to “keep my guard up so you never ..read more
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Justin Timberlake Runs Out of Steam on Everything I Thought It Was
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by Zach Schonfeld
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The 50 Best Songs of 2002 Justin Timberlake – Everything I Thought It Was (RCA)  When did Justin Timberlake lose his mojo? Was it during that six-month stretch between The 20/20 Experience (a first-class prestige-pop album) and The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2 (a tedious slog)? Perhaps it was more recently, when he sought to rebrand himself as a rustic, flannel-wearing dad livin’ off the land on 2018 misfire Man of the Woods. (Remember the post-apocalyptic prepper sex jam “Supplies”? Was that all some Trump-era mass hallucination?)  Brushing off the reputational fallout from Britney ..read more
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From London, With Grooves: Kokoroko Prepare To Conquer The USA
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by Jonathan Cohen
6d ago
50 More Great Albums of the Year Not many artists have scored a booking at Coachella before ever having set foot inside the United States, but that’s the enviable position in which the eclectic eight-piece London outfit Kokoroko find themselves at the moment. The group first pricked up the ears of forward-looking music connoisseurs with their 2019 self-titled EP, and became a word-of-mouth sensation on the strength of their 2022 full-length debut Could We Be More. Before dropping in on the annual California desert festival in April, Kokoroko will warm up with their maiden U.S. show tomorrow ..read more
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The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis Find Volatile Chemistry
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by Reed Jackson
6d ago
Stream The Messthetics' Self-Titled Debut Album The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis – The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) Brendan Canty and Joe Lally, better known as the rhythm section of ‘90s post-hardcore legends Fugazi, began the pivot to jazz about seven years ago, teaming up with eclectic guitar virtuoso Anthony Pirog to form instrumental trio the Messthetics. The addition of up-and-coming tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis—and, now, their debut album on storied jazz label Impulse!—has made that transition complete.  Yet their expansion into a sax-driven qua ..read more
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Nathalie Joachim Ponders Identity on Vividly Sculpted Ki moun ou ye
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by Steve Hochman
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Nathalie Joachim Ponders Identity on Vividly Sculpted Ki moun ou ye Nathalie Joachim – Ki moun ou ye (New Amsterdam/Nonesuch) A swirl of questions opens Ki moun ou ye, the second solo album by Nathalie Joachim. “Whose names are these?” asks the adventurous Haitian-American singer, composer, flute player, and cultural activist. “Who once owned us?” “Where are they now?”  These queries carry a sense of urgency, a need to know, the skittering electronic jabs they’re wrapped inside adding to the heightened charge. She’s asking her ancestors. She’s asking those who brought them from Africa ..read more
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Burial Sounds Gritty as Ever on Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above
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by Daniel Bromfield
6d ago
Burial - "State Forest" Burial – Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above EP (XL) If Burial’s sudden switch to XL from his longtime home of Hyperdub is the first step in joining Four Tet in an implausible late-career pivot to EDM superstardom, his debut EP for the label proves he’s in no hurry to get there.  Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above is the U.K. club recluse’s first release as labelmate of Sigur Rós and Radiohead, but he hasn’t cleaned up his sound one bit (even the packaging looks grungy) and still occupies a universe of distant sirens and stranded voices. The crackle of vinyl runs implacably ..read more
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