By: SlackerLee The average music fan goes to see live music for entertainment, and the explanation on why we pay money to see it doesn’t get any simpler than that. Yet, the ethos of why bands choose to play can be a wide spectrum of reasons and impulses. We conveniently assume musicians play because of the…
It’s been a half-decade of contemplation and anticipation for HEALTH fans. After 2010’s Disco 2, and hearing virtually nothing (except a 2013 Max Payne video game soundtrack), I wondered whether these L.A.-based experimental noise rockers would soon be filed in the ‘Where Are They Now?’ file. With HEALTH’s creativity and innate non-conformity, it is…
Surreal= Seeing a guy wearing a straw hat, knee-high Christmas socks, and talking in a thick Georgia accent on 5th and West on my way home for work, and then realizing its Andre 3000. I just wish i was better at selfies.
Review by: SlackerLee Kevin Parker, the mastermind behind Tame Impala, is a music studio genius who has created what might be the best album of 2015 with his recently released Currents. Parker has described himself as a clown while playing live shows, but admits that he is deathly serious when recording in a music…