Top Artists

Within Temptation

Artist, Contributor

Formed in the mid-’90s, Dutch opera-metallers Within Temptation were soon landing dark melodies on pop charts across Europe.

Bring Me The Horizon

Artist, Contributor

Dubbed deathcore though they’re more complex, these Brits have been taking cues from American hardcore and metal since 2004.

George Harrison

Artist, Contributor

George Harrison was the youngest member of the Beatles, and John Lennon, and Paul McCartney often upstaged him.

The Cure

Artist, Contributor

The Cure have been playing mope rock for depressed teens since 1976. Think of it in terms of units of black eyeliner sold.

Gustavo Cerati

Artist, Contributor

Gustavo Cerati was best known as the front man of the legendary Argentine pop-rock trio Soda Stereo, formed in 1982.

Metronomy

Artist, Contributor

Devon, England’s Metronomy make nuanced, well-constructed indie pop with dance-music leanings.

Top Works

The Infamous

Mobb Deep

One of the cornerstones of the New York hardcore movement, The Infamous is Mobb Deep’s masterpiece, a relentlessly bleak song cycle that’s been hailed by hardcore rap fans as one of the most realistic gangsta albums ever recorded. Given Mobb Deep’s youthful age and art-school background, it’s highly unlikely that The Infamous is drawn strictly from real-life experience, yet it’s utterly convincing, because it has all the foreboding atmosphere and thematic sweep of an epic crime drama. That’s partly because of the cinematic vision behind the duo’s detailed narratives, but it’…

Petals For Armor

Hayley Williams

Hayley Williams’ artful and deeply personal solo debut, 2020’s Petals for Armor, reportedly comes on the heels of a period of deep self-reflection for the longtime Paramore vocalist, and it shows. Along with Paramore’s breakthrough chart success with their 2013 self-titled album and 2017’s After Laughter, Williams and the band endured three frought lineup changes. It was also during these years that Williams married, divorced, and saw her beloved grandmother endure a life-altering injury. She brings all of these experiences to bear on Petals for Armor, digging with poetic intensity into the depression and …

BEFORE LOVE CAME TO KILL US

Jessie Reyez

Anyone familiar with the range Jessie Reyez has shown since 2016 was not taken aback by news that the artist fought the pressure to make her first album a cohesive one. The uncommonly versatile singer and songwriter went multi-platinum in her native Canada with a sparse heartbreak ballad, “Figures.” Its parent release, the Kiddo EP, also featured the glass-rattling “Gatekeeper” — an alarming account of her experience with a sexual predator — in which she sang from her perspective, and rapped and sang from that of the offender. She has co-written simple love songs like “One Kiss,” a U….

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