“Electric Blue,” the latest dispatch from Arcade Fire’s forthcoming album Everything Now, features Régine Chassagne singing in swaggering falsetto over taut, funky drums and big sticky globs of synthesized bass. More
In 2007, the New Yorker ran an essay about how white indie rock had come to ignore the black musical tradition, as exemplified through Arcade Fire’s culturally dominant yet completely grooveless songs. More
Can you hear the heavenly host singing? It’s because the amazing Angel Olsen is gliding your way soon. More
The legendary Swedish pop group ABBA were incredible at making songs that sounded upbeat, even if they expressed a deeply melancholy or dismal sentiment. “Mamma Mia,” for example, seems spritely and happy with its marimba and piano, until you tune into the lyrics and realize it’s about someone regretting how badly they messed up their love life. But doesn’t it feel so happy? More