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The Shoegaze Revival Hit Its Stride in 2023: Blonde Redhead, Slowdive
[Pitchfork] The 30-year-old subgenre has found new life in the hands of indie rockers, digicore artists, TikToking teens, and reunited first-wavers. By Philip Sherburne A monkey in the zoo, defiantly staring down passersby. A woman trembling as she reveals her injuries from a horrific car accident. A lovelorn soul eating ice cream and crying. A masked and helmeted man smashing bottles in ...
A Conversation With Cuban-Canadian Duo OKAN
The Juno-winning Afro-Canadian duo sits down with Bill King for this wide-ranging interview to talk about their newest album OKANTOMI. [Billboard] By Bill King The migration of some of Cuba’s finest musicians to Toronto and other Canadian cities has brought a bounty of musical possibilities. Whether dance, film, music or theatre, there’s an indelible heartbeat in ...
‘Joni Mitchell said she felt as awkward as me’: Brittany Howard on Poverty, Chaos and Fame
[The Guardian] The Alabama Shakes frontwoman became the toast of music’s A-list – so why did she feel so miserable? She reveals the grief and heartbreak she overcame to make her stellar new album By Marissa R Moss On a good morning, Brittany Howard wakes up and decides who she wants to be. She will come ...

For Shane MacGowan
“I’ve lived my life in chapters…and one of those, had a big headline ‘The Pogues’. They were all-consuming, overwhelming, perplexing, honorable, musically unstoppable, with words worthy of any astonishing writer from any time I have known. And the front of all of this, the fount from which that music and those words came, was Shane ...