With Faith No More’s return scheduled for 2027, it’s impossible not to look back at the figure who transformed the band into something much bigger than a late-eighties funk metal group. Mike Patton is not just a singer. He is the man of a thousand voices, an artist incapable of standing still, and one of the most unpredictable characters in alternative music of the last four decades.
What La Estrategia del Caracol and Cámara Chilena de la Destrucción have created isn’t the typical contractual alliance where two bands gather discards to fill a format. El Hambre y las Ganas de Comer feels like a cohesive and fierce studio album, an eight-track pitched battle where both sides feed on the same rage to deliver one of the most well-rounded works of the Latin American independent scene so far this year.
This is not an article about Zahara; we’re not dedicating it to anyone in particular. This is not an article about motivation, but it is about intention. This is not an article about past traumas, although they may be a driving force.
«Splat!», without being a conceptual album, plays with the idea that, as a society, we are advancing at such a dizzying pace that we are making too many mistakes. Even so, they encourage us to maintain hope: every change, no matter how difficult, will ultimately be for the better.
The tongue of the boomerati refuses to be silenced. The end of cultural consensus—chiefly derived from an era and a generation that either no longer exists or is dying off with remarkable resistance—drags us toward a cultural landscape where hours have lost their clock (in the words of Grafton Tanner) and nostalgia is, perhaps, our most precious and overexploited commodity. It is amidst the death throes of the canon that The Rolling Stones are playing their hand.
The third round from Australia’s Genesis Owusu with REDSTAR WU AND THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE is the expansive and ambitious flipside that his acclaimed debut deserved. Here, Owusu shatters any stylistic ceiling, operating as a chamaleonic frontman capable of tossing into the same blender the pulse of punk-rap, George Clinton-esque basslines, and textures of a post-punk revival that collides head-on with the warmth of neo-soul.
James Murphy, the leader of LCD Soundsystem, met Tim Goldsworthy in the late 90s in New York. They soon formed the DJ/producer duo DFA and began organizing parties, DJing, and producing remixes. Shortly after, they created DFA Records, a music label that would release, among others, LCD Soundsystem themselves. On New Year’s Eve 1999, they … Read more
Sturgill Simpson is an Americana buccaneer. This album, his ninth since 2023, is his second under his new alias: Johnny Blue Skies, now officially accompanied in the credits by the Dark Clouds.
The Inkwell is the quarterly post where we compile albums we haven’t highlighted yet, but which are highly recommended stops on your musical radar. The 113: The Hedonist The Hedonist de The 113 If one of the standout new voices of last year was To Combat Regret, The 113 returns to gift us another wonderful … Read more
Dead Pioneers’ third full-length, Wagon Burner, is here, and as with their two previous works, the band isn’t playing for a draw; they never speculate. It’s not that they don’t know the meaning of the word, they just don’t like it.