Today, as the Mastodon hype has settled into a more breathable comfort reserved for loyal fans, we discover that metal never needed to be validated by academia, and that, just like in horror cinema, this genre doesn’t have to be elevated to be relevant.
In this second installment, we continue to search for those artists who, due to talent, hype, context, or simply bad luck, seemed to have the future in their hands. And, as often happens with the future, it ended up taking another path.
For a brief moment, it seemed they were going to be the next big band. But then, almost always without much fanfare, they stopped being the future.
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.
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
The Hold Steady emerged in Brooklyn in 2003 amidst the explosion of so-called indie music. Unlike the usual timelines boasted by the rock genre, the guys got together already at 35 years old. They weren’t young, they hadn’t hooked up with the prom queen, but like the Mississippi, they carried enough defeats and highs to tell.
Soul singer, rapper, samba-rock performer, singer-songwriter, composer, actor, and muse to one of the most iconic film directors of the 21st century.
All of this is Jorge Mário da Silva, better known as Seu Jorge, who has just released The Other Side (2026), undoubtedly his most intimate and melancholic work.
Back in 2004, on the television schedule of Spain’s society of prosperity and abundance, a high school drama series appeared, following the adventures of some very handsome Californian students and their trials and tribulations in love, luxury, and other matters. The series in question was The O.C., and one of its protagonists, besides obviously carrying … Read more