As influencers grow in wealth and fame, their increasing distance from the realities of their followers leads to a shift in how they perceive the world around them. So much so that two 30 year old’s get rich off of laughing at fart jokes and claiming Greate Thunbergs’ legacy to be “lisbon, lesbian ‘I shouldn’t be up here.'”
Voodoo Bloo, a New Zealand rock band, releases their 12-track sophomore effort, “The Blessed Ghost.” The Wellington-based Rock group is back with their most ambitious offering yet, following the success of their debut album “Jacobus” and a string of single releases that garnered plaudits in both hemispheres.
Boston-based rock group Horse Jumper of Love creates the type of music you may want to play in your hyperbaric chamber if you were there for an extended period and wanted to fully immerse yourself in the experience.
Analog arts have a certain mood that they exude. Particularly with film, there is frequently an element that is lost with digital. This is especially true of images from earlier eras that are captured in photography. The images of Akimitsu Takagi are the most accurate representation of this occurrence in Japanese tattooing.
Jamie Hewlett has transformed the look of the British comic book and music industries over the course of a career spanning more than two decades. At a time when strong female characters in superhero stories were scarce, he created Tank Girl. Along with Damon Albarn, he also employed the all-animated band Gorillaz to explore the possibilities of pop music. He later produced Monkey: Journey to the West, an operatic retelling of a 16th-century Chinese legend, refusing to fit into any preconceived categories.
Jason Dill, a skateboarder, began taking pictures in the late 1990s. Numerous of them. He traveled almost everywhere with disposable cameras and the occasional point-and-shoot, filming his life as many people do today with cell phones. He remembered recently, “It’s just what you did.” He warned that if you didn’t, those moments before social media would be irretrievably lost.
The Hard Skool EP, Guns N’ Roses’ first multi-track release with Slash and Duff McKagan since the 1990s, will be released next week (Feb. 25).
Weezer celebrated their 30th anniversary on Tuesday (February 15). On February 15, 1992, in Los Angeles, the band held their first practice with singer-songwriter Rivers Cuomo, drummer Patrick Wilson, early bassist Matt Sharp, and early guitarist Jason Cropper.
Dolly Parton has been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year, and while she admits she has never considered herself to be a rock star, she has stated that if she is inducted, she will record a rock album.