Tag: Music

Songs Beyoncé’s “Die With You” is the Flipside of Lemonade

Beyoncé’s “Die With You” is the Flipside of Lemonade

This Touching Tribute to Her Marriage is the Final Word on How She’s Been Faring Since Last Year’s “Revelations”   Two years ago, on the seventh anniversary of her marriage to rapper/mogul Jay Z, Beyoncé uploaded a video of her performing the stripped-back ballad “Die With You”. It’s undoubtedly her best song that hasn’t seen wider …

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Interviews Our Interview with James Wynn

Our Interview with James Wynn

We Got in Touch With James Wynn, The Best Underground Rapper You Should Get Around   James Wynn, a 19-year-old rapper and singer from Buffalo, NY, is on the cusp of becoming your new favourite unheralded artist. Beyond his talent for sing-song hooks and a bevy of musical skills extending across multiple instruments, the dude has developed …

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Music If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late For Drake

If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late For Drake

It Seems Increasingly Obvious That We’re Living in a World of Drake’s Rapid Decline, Which is Sad But Almost Unavoidable   Three days ago, Drake’s surprise retail mixtape If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late turned two years old. In rap years, that’s basically a decade, and the interim has not been overly kind to the Canadian wonder …

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Music Grammys Reward White Mediocrity

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, …

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Interviews Our Interview with Grim Streaker

Our Interview with Grim Streaker

Check Out Our Correspondence with the Burgeoning American Band Who are About to Make it Big   Grim Streaker are an up-and-coming, Brooklyn-based quintet whose music occupies the chaotic realm between punk rock, noise and skate anthems. Consisting of lead singer Amelia Bushell, guitarists Daniel Peskin and Micah Weisberg, bassist Bill Dvorak and drummer Piyal …

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Movies/TV The Music of Saturday Night Live

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 …

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