Lorde
Brief Encounters: New Albums 8-20-21 – 8-26-21 Reviewed
left off blackgaze for a fuller and more beautiful sound
Primavera LA Is Announced For September 2022!
Primavera LA would be a good successor to the FYF Fest
Lorde Dances On The Beach With ‘Solar Power’
Is this a parody?
Songwriters Wrote An Open Letter Asking For More Fairness
‘The most successful songwriters in the world can’t pay their rent’
Is Ivanka Listening To Music? Do We Even Care?
she had a punk phase in the ‘90s
Lorde At Barclay Center, Wednesday, April 4th, 2018, Reviewed
stuck between who she is and who she was
Live Through This: rock nyc’s Concert Picks Week Of April 2nd, 2018
completely thrilled
L.A. BURNING, WEST COAST CONCERT PICKS, MARCH 12TH TO 18TH
Moby is playing three shows at the Echo this week
Best Of 2017: Albums Through June
proto-hedonism and heartache
US Top 10 Albums Week Of 7-8-17
It’s the singles that matter in 2017
Lorde’s “Melodrama” reviewed
it’s soothing, it’s sisterly
Be Here Early: New Album Releases 6-16-17 – 6-22-17
proto-hedonism and heartache
Sneak Peaks: New Album Releases 6-16-17 – 6-22-7
kicks in hard
Governors Ball 2017 Recap
I’ll be riding that wave for a while
Governors Ball Day One At Randall’s Island, Friday, June 2nd, 2017 Reviewed
The Live Nation touch is obvious
How Success Changes Songs Even If It Is The Exact Same Song
I only have to hear that Pitchfork and Consequence Of Sound like a song for me to doubt my own instincts. And absolutely, for me, popularity improves a sound. Lorde’s “Royal” is a perfect example where I dismissed it and dismissed it and though it took a live performance to turn me all the way around, its success was what had me wondering.
Lorde Splits With Manager: “Music Writing Isn’t Sports Writing”
“Music writing isn’t sports writing, you don’t need to report on the ramifications of a manager being dropped or speculate on the next album. You can’t critique art that hasn’t happened.”
Giants And Royals Not Just About Baseball: Fighting Over Lorde
Tenuous musical connection, true but try this from the MBL: “On Friday, two stations in the Bay Area, KFOG and KOIT, removed the song from their playlists for the duration of the World Series.”
US Top 10 Singles, May 3rd, 2014
That run from DJ Snake to the end is the best I’ve seen in months and months and months, all of it is good and Timberlake’s “Not A Bad Thing” is one of his greatest moments ever. As pure and as perfect a pop song as you will ever hear plus? It isn’t connected at the hips with a dog as it is on the album
US Top 10 Singles 3-8-14
John Legend performs the terrible drag of an “All Of Me” on the Grammy’s once and the next thing you know he has a top ten hits. Legend is Alicia Keys in male drag and he is just as boring a performer though not without a certain amount of charm, true. None of that charm is at work here. None of it.
US Top 10 Singles 3-1-14
It is one of the wonderful things about the record biz. Dan Smith was a bartender writing songs on his laptop two years ago, and one, based upon the infamous city, went onto his first album. Today his life is changed forever, he is a sensation, and whether I (or you) can stand the song is irrelevant, the man hit the jukebox jackbox. PS we don’t like the song at all.
US Top 10 Albums 3-1-14
Eric sold nearly 300K copies of his dog album, giving spoken word a bad reputation from sea to shiny sea. The thing is, when he is good he is not good enough and when he is bad he is the absolute pits. Come back “Jack Daniels” all is forgiven.
10 Songs: Saturday, February 15th, 2014
I Got The Reason – Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band – A botched arrangement stops this from being one of his biggest triumphs; he knew what he had in the pounding Richard Manuel inspired piano and went too far. Still a masterpiece, of course – A
US Top 10 Albums 2-22-14
The charts, which, of course, have never been a beacon of good taste aren’t even an icon of success. I think we use it because, you know, otherwise we’d have no idea who’s is winning. Now we can only take a guess at best.
Must See: Lorde At Roseland In March, 2014
“I’ve been in some situations where people have treated me like a fascinating toy. You know, it’s just like an interesting kind of fun thing to have a play with. It’s very weird for me. I feel like a tiny baby. But it’s all relative: when you’re my age in particular, every year feels like a massive change. The difference between 15 and 17 is colossal for everyone.”
The First Hour Of The 2014 Grammys Reviewed
LL Cool J was bad last year and worst this year. The “Mama Said Knock You Out” in Tux and smile sprouted poorly written platitudes about music bringing people together. Really, I mean, really?? It was skin crawlingly insincere bullshit of immense proportions, I wonder how all these overfed over glorified nitwit pop stars can listen to this crap without throwing up
Most Overrated 2013: Haim, Sky Ferreira And Lorde
Vampire Weekend’s Modern Vampires Of The City is overrated and I love the album. Katy Perry’s Prism is overrated and I don’t like the album but neither are quite as overrated as these three, VW is better, KP is worse, but these three most overrated albums of the year are off the charts…
Popdust's Top 20 Songs Of 2013
Popdust is probably my favorite music website, it looks like a dream and is wildly sarcastic and funny and fun. It obsesses over K-Pop and has better ears than Pitchfork; if Popdusts Top 20 songs of 2013 seems a little obvious, well, the whole point with pop music is that it be popular…
Hear Ye: what rock nyc is listening to 12-27-13
Tug Of War – Paul McCartney – Lost in the midst of time, and never rolled out even when Macca is looking for something to change up in his show and despite it appearing on Wingspan, there is a real tug to the song, a sweet sadness – A-