From one angle, My Own Pool Of Light looks very much like it’s going for an increasingly popular strain of arena rock: big, heart-swelling, arms-around-your-friends anthems handed down by The National and Arcade Fire, etc. Not...
Having thoroughly outlived every other band in their heat (your Franz Ferdinands, your Killers, your Strokes, et al.), Kaiser Chiefs are running uncontested. Resting on their laurels? Not at all. Duck is ostensibly about...
Unlike previous seasons, which addressed late-last-century-via-suburban malaise (Season 1) and teenage found-families (Season 2), Stranger Things: Season 3 goes big on American excess. The mall hasn’t just come to America, it’s...
Deryck Whibley has seen the news, and if you too tune your feeds to a relentless stream of cynicism, falsehoods, and corruption, you’ll likely find a lot of catharsis in Order in Decline. An almost unyielding torrent of...
Alex Lahey at The Forum, Melbourne, Saturday June 22, 2019. In a recent BuzzFeed interview, Carly Rae Jepsen was asked to rank her own songs. In every bracket where a song featuring saxophone went against one without, Jepsen...