New Music Reviews (3/1) KEXP
Each week, KEXP’s Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJs Alex and Gabriel Teodros) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what s coming up this week below, including reviews for new releases from
Julien Baker,
Cloud Nothings, and more.
Little Oblivions (Matador)
This Memphis-based artist’s powerful third album recasts her introspective folk-pop with a more expansive and muscular sound. With Baker playing every instrument herself, the album combines ringing guitars, piano, organ, synths, bass and drums for a full-band sound that brings additional anthemic heft to Baker’s confessional, sometimes self-lacerating lyrics revolving around addiction, loss, heartache and the limits of faith. DY
Roundup: Hacker Tries to Poison City s Water Supply; MLS Set to Play; ESPN Remembers Pedro Gomez
Michael Zagaris/Getty Images
Ranking the Super Bowl commercials: the good, the bad, and the ugly. [Uproxx]
Jon Stugotz Weiner is the greatest sports radio co-host in the history of co-hosts. [Newsday]
Larry Kudlow is getting a show on Fox News. [Mediaite]
Do we think Shaquille O Neal and Tim Tebow are going to be doing stuff like this into their 60s? [TMZ]
A letter to Nick Nolte on his 80th birthday. [Vulture]
Major League Baseball to deaden ball. [ESPN]
Draymond Green plays the game a bit differently.
Hi folks!
Since I have now completed my two countdown radio shows for the Top 50 albums of 2020 see the big takeover “radio” button above to hear one song from each! here is my complete list of the 180 best albums, 100 best archive/retrospective/reissue releases, and 100 best stand-alone singles and EPs of this previous year my best bets on another great year for music, old and new.
And in one of the worst years of our lifetimes, here’s a small tip of my well-worn ballcap in profound gratitude to the artists below, for giving us this music to listen to while stuck at home. Perhaps half the below had already been recorded and was in process before COVID-19 shut us all down, which also curtailed many a scheduled recording session to go with all the cancelled tours.