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Luster – “Sunday”

Los Angeles shoegazers Luster have been putting out records since 2020, and they’ve earned the admiration of their fuzz-guitar contemporaries. Last year, Luster’s one-off single “ Like I Do ” caught our attention and landed on our best-songs-of-the-week list . Today, Luster

David Murray Takes Flight

David Murray turned 70 in February. That feels wrong somehow, not because I’m unaware that time only moves in one direction but because Murray doesn’t fit the mold of an elder statesman. Since his arrival in New York in the mid-’70s, he’s been on a unique creative path,

The Cure Announce Songs Of A Lost World Remix Album

The Cure made a lot of constitutionally sad people temporarily happy last year with Songs Of A Lost World , their first new album in 16 years. Around that time, Robert Smith spoke about a “ companion album ” that was pretty much finished and ready to go, as well as a quite

Model/Actriz – “Diva”

Over the past couple months, Model/Actriz have previewed their unsettling new album Pirouette with “ Cinderella ” and “ Doves .” Today, the band is back with the nightmarish dating anthem “Diva.”

There Was Entirely Too Much Travis Scott At Wrestlemania

Over the past few months, Travis Scott has taken part in two enormously influential WWE moments — or, if you count his appearance on the first episode of Monday Night Raw to air live on Netflix, three. I guess the Raw one made sense, since WWE always likes to bring in any glitz

The Number Ones: Ariana Grande’s “7 Rings”

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop