By Ché Salgado Music Reviewer Artist: DJ Shadow Album: The Mountain Will Fall Released: June 24, 2016 Label: Mass Appeal Website: http://djshadow.com/ It must be exhausting to be Josh Davis, more commonly known as DJ Shadow, an artist for whom every record release has high stakes. For better or worse, every record he’s released and will release has been and will inevitably be compared to his two most definitive works. 1996’s […]
By Ché Salgado Music Journalist Artist: The Avalanches Album: Wildflower Released: July 1, 2016 Label: XL Website: http://www.theavalanches.com/ There were so many people who wanted this album. It was confusing because The Avalanches had a fairly good legacy; They came, they saw, they conquered in the form of making the “Rock City” single, making El Producto, signing to Modular, putting on a sort of Beastie Boys-like performance on Australian TV in 1998, which was […]
By Ché Salgado Music Reviewer Artist: Drowners Album: On Desire Released: June 24, 2016 Label: Frenchkiss Website: http://www.drownersband.com/ Drowners: post-punk for people who call Cage the Elephant their “favorite indie band”, post-punk for people who consider Souvlaki the best shoegaze record because Loveless is “too noisy, you can’t hear the words”, post-punk for people who like the idea of listening to “post-punk” more than they like listening to post-punk. The […]
By Ché Salgado Music Journalist Artist: Bro Dylan Album: Crisis Released: May 9, 2016 Label: Self-released Website: www.brodylan.com Cheekily naming your band after Bob Dylan is a move that can go in all sorts of directions. It could be clever, like a trap outfit naming themselves “Mob Dylan” and subverting all classic rock connotations. It could be saccharine and cloying, like the idea of a singer-songwriter going by, perhaps, “Rob Dylan”, […]
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