KXLLSWXTCH has built a career on emotional extremity, but EYESORE feels different. The Anaheim, California artist has never been interested in smoothing out the rough edges of his inner world, yet this album leans fully into the feeling of being out of place, of standing out when you would rather disappear. Rather than framing alienation […]
Following January’s rumors that Dua Lipa is negotiating to write and perform the theme song for Amazon-MGM’s “Bond, James Bond” franchise reboot—with her longtime partner Callum Turner taking the titular role—a cinematic truth is asserting itself: The best Bond songs are by women artists. Sure, a musky Tom Jones put the “balls” in “Thunderball.” Duran […]
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth was born in Compton, California, in 1987, and was still a baby when his hometown became synonymous with gangsta rap with the 1989 release of N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton. So it might feel preordained that Duckworth, who would record at first as K-Dot and then as Kendrick Lamar, would eventually sign to […]
In the first season of her recording career, from 1974 to 1980, Patti Smith was a raw nerve, blazing behind the microphone on a mission to reinvent rock and roll as a setting for a new kind of feral, literary revolt. She emerged from the first generation of punk rock at CBGB in New York […]