In 2016, Spin magazine posted an article with the headline, ‘Has any great band ever cared less than the Pixies?’, hand-wringing over an “unnervingly low stakes” series of releases after their 2004 comeback. Spin had […]
Author: Conor McCaffrey
Gary Numan Disconnects from the past
Gary Numan may have spent 40 years with his biggest hit Cars in the rearview mirror, but he’s an artist who doesn’t keep coasting along in the nostalgia lane. True, Numan still performs his classic […]
Jah Wobble: Post-punk’s steady pulse
Jah Wobble was there at one of the most important forks in the road for music – answering a call from his old mate John Lydon to start a band after the sordid implosion of […]
Pere Ubu’s singular ‘avant-garage’ vision
It’s no hot take to say punk music itself was less important than all the bands and artists that flourished in the no-rules year zero late 70s after the tide washed back out. Emerging in […]
‘Post-world rave’ meets refinement on Åmnfx – Balletechno
Russian artist Åmnfx never feels the need to stay in his lane, blurring the lines between techno, house ambient, breaks, synth minimalism and neoclassical piano composition on his many releases since he started recording over […]
Jay Electronica’s an Eternal enigma
New Orleans rapper Jay Electronica is a social media pioneer of sorts — first making his name on MySpace with his viral (at least for those days) beatless composition Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge), […]
Fist-up dance floor defiance on Louisahhh’s Feral Rhythm
The clue’s in the title here — Louisahhh’s new EP Feral Rhythm is a straight-up classic call to arms track about dancefloor escapism. The Paris-based New Yorker hits the club with a techno-punk snarl and […]
