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21 Songs Chronicling Spongebob’s Rap Takeover

July 19, 2019July 22, 2019 Dan Weiss 0 Comments Big Boi, Chief Keef, Chuuwee, Danny Brown XXX, Famous Dex, Ghostface Killah, Lil Kim, Lil Pump, N.E.R.D., Prince Paul, Rej3ctz, SpongeBob Squarepants

Hip-Hop has been about that Bikini Bottom life for 20 years now

Electronic Experimental Hip Hop Indie Rock Pop Punk Records

Ten Albums From the First Half of 2019 That Need More Love

July 2, 2019July 2, 2019 Dan Weiss 1 Comment 100 gecs, Charly Bliss, Dumb Club Nites, Emily A. Sprague, Emily A. Sprague Mount Vision, Fontaines D.C., Malibu Ken, Open Mike Eagle, Pronoun I'll Show You Stronger, PUP, Pup Morbid Stuff, Stella Donnelly, Stella Donnelly Beware of the Dogs

From hip-hop to punk rock to pure pop to avant electronics, there is quite a lot the critics missed in the last six months

Pop Soundtracks and Film Scores

Miley Cyrus Through the Looking Glass

June 17, 2019June 18, 2019 Dan Weiss 0 Comments Ashley O, Ashley Too, Black Mirror, Miley Cyrus, Netflix, NIN Head like a hole

With her Black Mirror episode, pop’s most unapologetic skin-shedder returns to the medium that made her a star

Hip Hop

The Pleasure Is All Lizzo’s

May 11, 2019May 13, 2019 Dan Weiss 0 Comments Adele, Lizzo, Ricky Reed

Succumb to the Minneapolis powerhouse’s pop dominance

Pop

Don’t Let the Perfect Jenny Lewis Be the Enemy of the Good Jenny Lewis

May 9, 2019May 9, 2019 Dan Weiss 0 Comments Jenny Lewis, Rilo Kiley, Warner Bros.

Is the former Rilo Kiley singer’s fourth solo album too manicured for its own gain?

Alternative Rock New Wave Power Pop

If Living Well Is the Best Revenge, Is Weezer the Most Successful Band of All-Time?

April 27, 2019April 29, 2019 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1994, Brian Bell, Matt Sharp, Pat Wilson, Rivers Cuomo, Weezer

As their blue debut turns 25, its time to ponder if these dudes really are The Greatest Band Who Ever Lived ™

Hip Hop

MF Doom’s Born Like This Turns 10

April 17, 2019April 18, 2019 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 10th anniversary, 2009, Daniel Dumile, KMD, MF Doom

A decade later, the villain man still never runs with krills in his hand

Electronic Experimental

Richard D. James At The End Of The 20th Century

March 30, 2019March 30, 2019 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1999, 20th Anniversary, Aphex Twin, Richard D. James

ΔFex tΣi[N]’s “Σi[[NdσΣ1i cx∈r” t∈ r[N]s 2σ

New Wave

These Strange Steps

March 26, 2019March 28, 2019 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 10th anniversary, 2009, Brian Chase, Karen O, Nik Zinner, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ It’s Blitz at 10

Punk

Safe To Breathe

March 6, 2019April 11, 2019 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1999, 20th Anniversary, Kill Rock Stars, SLEATER-KINNEY

The complexity of romance sparked the creative fervor of Sleater-Kinney’s classic 1999 LP The Hot Rock

Hip Hop

His Big Chance

March 1, 2019March 1, 2019 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1999, 20th Anniversary, De La Soul, Prince Paul

Prince Paul’s A Prince Among Thieves helped lay the groundwork for hip-hop’s Broadway arrival

Hip Hop

Bad Meets Evil

February 28, 2019April 11, 2019 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1999, 20th Anniversary, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Marshall Mathers

20 Years of Eminem’s Slim Shady

Alternative Rock Progressive Rock Rock

A Fraction of the Sum

February 21, 2019February 21, 2019 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1999, 20th Anniversary, Built To Spill, Doug Martsch, Warner Bros.

Built to Spill’s Keep It Like a Secret at 20

Electronic Pop Soul

Can’t Stop the Way They Feel

February 20, 2019February 25, 2019 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1989, 30th Anniversary, Fine Young Cannibals

The Raw & The Cooked, the smash second album by Fine Young Cannibals, turns 30

Electronic Pop Rock

Coming to Terms With Animal Collective

February 13, 2019February 13, 2019 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 10th anniversary, 2009, Animal Collective, Avey Tare, Deakin, Geologist, Panda Bear

Dissenting on the perplexingly acclaimed Merriweather Post Pavilion

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