Pranav Trewn
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Best Mac Miller Songs: Stream Our Playlist
People will take you for granted until you’re gone, a truth hip-hop is intimately familiar with. If an artist is “lucky,” they will live long enough to have their contributions simply forgotten, as with innovators undersung in their middle age like the late DMX and Shock G. Too common is the scenario where an artist’s talent is belittled just as their star rises, like when popularity invited… → Read More
MIKE 'Disco!' Review: Stripping Rap Back To Beats, Rhymes, & Life
Since it was first forged from breakbeats at Bronx block parties, rap has always been our most reactive art form. From beatboxing to freestyling, rappers draw their power through response — to the beat, their environment, and one another. The fundamental principle of hip-hop is the ability to make music out of whatever you have around you, no matter how limited the means. In every era of the… → Read More
Childish Gambino Outside Lands Set Review
Since the beginning of Childish Gambino, I’ve tried to meet Donald Glover where he’s at. Across his career, the TV-writer-turned-TV-star-turned-rapper has → Read More
Outside Lands 2019 Review: Twenty One Pilots Defy Categorization
I first came to Outside Lands six years ago. My first music festival, the experience was defined as much by what I didn't yet know as it was by what I came to → Read More
Grizzly Bear's 'Veckatimest' Turns 10
Once considered breaking news, album leaks have become largely an innocuous nonentity. Nowadays it’s not only expected but sometimes even encouraged that your → Read More
Eastern Imagery And Rock Ideals: Thoughts On Axis: Bold As Love At 50
I bought the poster before the album, having recognized the artwork from years of passive exposure to religious imagery. The Indian community in Davis, → Read More
Wolf Parade "Cry Cry Cry" Review
Wolf Parade arrived like they were running for their lives. Their Isaac Brock-produced debut was a gritty, frantic affair -- composed of fits and spurts of → Read More
The Killers 'Wonderful Wonderful' Review
There are three distinct moments you can argue the Killers' cultural relevance dried up. Musically, the tank hit empty upon the release of the Las Vegas → Read More
Foo Fighters 'Concrete And Gold' Review
This brings me great pleasure to report: You shouldn’t count out the Foo Fighters just yet. Not that you’d have been ill-advised to have done so. Mainstream → Read More
King Krule – “Czech One” Video
King Krule’s debut album 6 Feet Beneath The Moon was released back in 2013, and since then project mastermind Archy Marshall has kept busy producing hip-hop → Read More
Chance The Rapper Gives Terminally Ill Teen Coldplay Tickets
Chance The Rapper is the closest thing we have to a real life superhero, having spent the year so far working to save SoundCloud, donating more than $1 million → Read More
Trent Reznor Details His Vietnam War Score
Back in January, it was announced that Nine Inch Nails collaborators Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross would be scoring the upcoming 10-part, 18-hour Ken Burns → Read More
Clipping. – “The Deep”
The latest episode of the popular weekly public radio show This American Life is entitled "We Are In The Future," so naturally the producers commissioned the → Read More
St. Vincent Discusses New Songs And Whether They’re About Cara Delevigne
We now know the names of six songs on St. Vincent's upcoming, still yet-untitled fifth studio LP. In an interview with the Guardian, Annie Clark discussed → Read More
James Murphy Shares Note On American Dream: “It’s The Best I’ve Felt About An LCD LP Ever”
We're officially just two weeks out from the release of LCD Soundsystem's long-awaited reunion album American Dream, and James Murphy has taken to Facebook to → Read More
Father John Misty Says Goodbye To Chuck E. Cheese’s Animatronic House Bands
The latest antics from our merry media-meister Father John Misty probably won't dispel our bitter Twitter-miser Ryan Adams' opinion of him as "the most self → Read More
JAY-Z Addresses Clashes With Kanye And Solange, Controversy Over His “Jewish People” Lyric
JAY-Z's been unpacking his latest album 4:44 over the past few weeks on his TIDAL video series Footnotes. But if a tree falls in the forest and it's a TIDAL → Read More
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Turns 10
Perhaps it could have been considered presumptuous, but Spoon have never dealt in pretense. They knew Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, the band’s sixth studio album, was a sure → Read More
The 10 Best Foo Fighters Songs
There’s a parallel universe out there where Dave Grohl doesn’t start the Foo Fighters in the wreckage of Nirvana’s unexpected and tragic conclusion. Instead, he → Read More
Migos – “Slippery” (Feat. Gucci Mane) Video
Pop goes the Migos! While the Atlanta rap trio have been undoubtedly ruling the culture via a recent run of major guest spots, they shouldn't be forgotten for → Read More