10 Years On, #1 (2017)
A Sophomore British Post-Punk LP, Lesser But Still Incredible Kanye Record and Jubilant Psych-Pop Release
U.S. Politics is Now a TV Show
America Has Traded Political Stability for the Chaos of Reality Television. That’s… Just Soooo Stupid Oprah Winfrey might seriously be considering running for President of the United States. If Kanye sticks to his guns about doing the same, then that means the 2020 election could be a race – initially, at least – between …
Grammys Reward White Mediocrity
Yeah, I’m Making This A Race Thing, ‘Cause How Do You Not At This Point? A few hours ago, Adele took home the Grammy for Album of the Year for 25, beating out Beyoncé’s Lemonade. Last year, Taylor Swift’s 1989 won over Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. The year before that, Beck’s Morning Phase won over another Beyoncé record, …
Best Songs in the Hottest 100
Looking at Music that Popticon Doesn’t Often Give it’s Fair Due, Here’s What We Enjoyed in Triple J’s Hottest 100 This afternoon, countless Australians around the country gathered to have a barbie and a game of beach cricket in order to commemorate our unblemished history and awesome treatment of Aboriginal people. Many will take …
The Music of Saturday Night Live
The Best Musical Moments of 2016 on Saturday Night Live I don’t go to a lot of concerts anymore. Three years of Falls Festival, a couple of Big Day Outs and a day-drunk Laneway excursion kinda disabused me of the urge to indulge in live music, as well as whatever they call those fucking …