Bleachers
Release date: Mar 8, 2024
Bleachers lose the plot. One of the bigger headlines for the year so far has been about plagiarism in the online content creation sphere. The less you know about the particulars, the better, but it's nonetheless a conversation that is necessary as not only online tools because more readily available, but artificial ones as well. The advent of Tik Tok and even shorter forms of media have taken the already fractured and stratified decay of our monoculture...
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Visions
Release date: Mar 8, 2024
A little change here, a little update there Given the last 10-15 years of her career, it's easy to forget just how omnipresent Norah Jones was in her heyday - and of course, by "heyday", I mean her debut. Jones came out swinging from the get-go with her distinct blend of pop, jazz, folk, and country, and the result was an album that made her ubiquitous with popular music. Come Away With Me was lightning in a bottle, a perfect storm that was poppy...
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I Got Heaven
Release date: Mar 1, 2024
Over the course of their career, power and vulnerability are the two poles around which Philly punk outfit Mannequin Pussy has coalesced. Power is found in the pummeling drums, barrelling basslines, and Marisa Dabice's roaring vocals. Vulnerability is found beneath the roars as airy melodies and emotionally stark lyrics enclace with catchy and barbed hooks. It was that combination that made their 2019 breakthrough, Patience, so rewarding. It was that...
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Coming Home
Release date: Feb 9, 2024
Usher Raymond IV is having a moment. Calling it a second wind doesn't feel quite apt, since the R&B icon's sails have never truly stilled. But fresh off a twice-extended Las Vegas residency and on the cusp of a Super Bowl halftime performance and world tour, Usher is back in the popular consciousness in a way he hasn't been in at least a decade and a half. The Atlanta crooner wouldn't be one of the best-selling singers in history if he didn't...
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