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Ryan Israel | Thursday, April 23, 2020
21 Savage lurks in the darkness of moody trap rap beats, prowling between hi-hats and rattling bass. When he pops out or pulls up, he raps with an ice-cold demeanor, delivering the hardest bars in the most removed manner. And for the past four years, he’s been killing every read more→
Hayden Adams | Thursday, April 23, 2020
When I look at our Observer site stats to see how many reads our stories are getting, I frequently see an old article from our Scene department by Allie Tollaksen entitled, “17 Songs About Being 17.” If I’m being honest, I’m a little jealous. This piece was written in read more→
Mike Donovan | Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Fiona Apple just wants to be loved. She tries to say as much on the first cut of “Fetch the Bolt Cutters:” “I want somebody to want / and I want what I want and I want / You to love me.” And it’s love she’s received, from critics read more→
Colleen Fischer | Wednesday, April 22, 2020
The TV and movie world is saturated with stories of women dominating in every sphere. FX’s new series on Hulu, Mrs. America, offers a peek at the portrait behind the portrait of the girl power trope. It is a story about the women surrounding the failed ratification of the read more→
Dessi Gomez | Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Lady Gaga has done it again with her latest project, Global Citizen’s “One World: Together At Home” concert in partnership with the United Nations’ World Health Organization. Hosted by Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, this virtual music festival attracted a great lineup and created an even better read more→
Matthew Kellenberg | Monday, April 20, 2020
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” — Walt Whitman Eight songs into “Aporia,” Sufjan Stevens changes course. The album, a collaboration with Stevens’ step-father and label manager Lowell Brams, begins in a characteristic vein. Meditations on familiar discord, fatalism, read more→
Christopher Parker | Monday, April 20, 2020
Here, I complete the opus I began last week of ranking Kanye West’s work. There’s no way to write this list without snubbing a few masterpieces and drawing a little controversy. Still, I’m confident that there’s no wrong way to go. The best Kanye album “The Life of read more→
Mike Donovan | Friday, April 17, 2020
“I just wanted to be one of the Strokes,” Alex Turner sings to introduce his meandering through the “Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino.” Alex and I both. One indie-tinged suburbanite among millions, I worshipped the understated, airtight and incontrovertibly analogue articulations of 2001’s “Is This It” and 2003’s “Room read more→
Dessi Gomez | Friday, April 17, 2020
I hope you all are doing well in quarantine, and for all you Potterheads out there, now is the chance. I hope you take advantage of this downtime to refresh your memory of the beloved wizarding world with a well-deserved movie marathon — or, even better — a complete read more→
Christopher Parker | Thursday, April 16, 2020
I was born in May of 2000 with two older siblings: an 11-year-old brother and a seven-year-old sister. By age five or six, my earliest memories of music involved crouching next to my brother as he used LimeWire to burn a blank CD full of blink-182, Usher and plenty read more→