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Abstract Crimewave x Lykke Li – The Gambler
Style will get you plenty of places. There are folks everywhere crying out for a bit of it, standing in line to take pictures, getting their pens ready for an autograph for a star who can convince that the world is…
Sonja Midtune and Niño Fantasma Reviewed
April 14, 2025
Sonja Midtune – Falling UP
The record stores (few that still exist) have all but given up on a genre-based system of sorting music out. They’ll just do it alphabetically. They’ll just highlight a couple of the records that they know the vast majority of people…
Clan Kangrejo and KACIMI Reviewed
April 11, 2025
Clan Kangrejo – El Significado
Oh, you’d better get ready for a new Latin Boom, one of rock music! I’m certain that it’s coming! You see, pop culture trends are just like empires. Sure, they do rise and inevitably fall. But in order for them to reach their…
Santana's 10 Best Songs
February 26, 2025
Carlos Santana wasn’t the first guitar virtuoso. But of all of them, bar, perhaps, Jimmy Page, he was the only one who seemed to have been brought to the world by some magical voodoo ritual.
Of course, Santana was also a group first, one that played dramatic, epic…
Chac Xol and Who Killed James Reviewed
February 8, 2025
Chac Xol – Nopal
“It’s not all about money, you know?” That might be the phrase you whisper to yourself the next time you decide where to go on holiday. Your next step might just be to do a deep dive into what some of the richest places in the world actually…
Pablo Naranjo and Lucifer Sunshine Reviewed
July 15, 2024
Pablo Naranjo – El Ultimo Hombre
How much of the world should you see if you get the chance? Every inch of it. Do it if you can, not because you hope that remarkable secrets will be given to you. Do it, first and foremost, because it will erase some of the…
Superfónicos and Photay Reviewed
July 9, 2024
Superfónicos – Renaceré
The people who have everything are the most likely to lose it all. Those who have nothing not only have to acquire what it is that they need but also, if they’ve acquired the wisdom for it, periodically shed away some of the weight of…
Two Guns Gonzo – Hattori Outlaw
As you start studying for any of the film schools across Europe, you are asked to watch and analyze cinema’s greatest movies. Some of them are silent, shot in black and white, and feature serious themes of death, honour, or…
Leah Callahan – Smell
David Lee Roth, quite memorably, decried the music critics’ embrace of Elvis Costello over his band’s own work, saying that most likely the critics felt a kinship due to likely resembling Elvis rather than the flamboyant…