Spoon, White Reaper If rock ’n’ roll is dead, Spoon keeps gluing its corpse back together and shocking it to life. Ever since the Texas group’s breakthrough fifth album, Gimme Fiction (and its best single, “I Turn My Camera On”), wowed critics and fans alike in 2005, Spoon has been delivering a parade of experimental, melodic guitar-driven music. As Britt Daniel’s voice transforms from growl to scream to sweet falsetto, the rest of the band — Jim Eno, Alex Fischel, Gerardo Larios and Ben Trokan — keeps the rock beat heavy and steady, while supplying plenty of roll. With a catalog spanning 10 albums, from 1996’s Telephono to 2022’s Lucifer on the Sofa, expect a show that will summon you to go ga ga ga ga.
From experimental hip-hop to jazz electronica, post-Instagram post-punk to neo-discodelia, futurist salsa dura to pop renaissances, 2022 marked the first full year of art born in the “after.” These are the albums that defined our year.
After three years away, the WFUV benefit concert Holiday Cheer returned to the Beacon Theatre on a warm and rain-soaked Tuesday night on December 6th to help support the publicly funded station.