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Best Lyric Vids of the Week: Volume XXIII
Blink-182 return from the back of the Best Buy bargain bin with an overhead projector presentation, Local Natives take to the concrete LA jungle streets with that same projector weapon, CHVRCHES prove...
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RIFF’d: Red Hot Chili Peppers’‘The Getaway’
Through 10 albums, 30 years, and the process of losing John Frusciante twice, RHCP has gradually morphed from at least semi-dangerous, sex-funk rap-rockers that borrowed plentifully from Faith no More...
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RIFF’d: Blink-182’s ‘California’
Tom DeLonge has left Blink-182 and Alkaline Trio‘s Matt Skiba has filled the vacancy. Are you pumped? Saddened? Intrigued? Well, Blink’s new DeLonge-less record California is still pretty boilerplate...
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Listing: 5 Love-laden Lyrics from Bat for Lashes’‘The Bride’
Despite the title, Natasha Khan’s, a.k.a Bat for Lashes, fourth studio album The Bride is not a traditional love story. The album begins with a cryptic tragedy and the crux of the narrative, a...
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Best Lyric Vids of the Week: Volume XXVII
A new experimental hip-hop crew chooses to televise its revolution, James Vincent McMorrow finds comfort from the bottom of a swimming pool, De La Soul dedicate an entire website to an interactive...
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Listing: 5 Celebratory Lyrics from The Avalanches ‘Wildflower’
The Avalanches‘ sophomore album Wildflower is a musical carnival ride, a producers paradise that is obsessed with the groove. To say it’s a long awaited project is an understatement, and they don’t...
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Best Lyric Vids of the Week: Volume XXVIII
Victims of the Orlando nightclub attack unite with a message on their bodies as a canvas, John Prine digs into the fishing-time Americana vaults, a tone-deaf Brazilian pop crew hypnotize the masses...
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Best Lyric Vids of the Week: Volume XXIX
The Strokes dive back into the land of gleaming the Tron cube, Major Lazer takes a flaccid toe-dip into cold-water adventure with Justin Bieber, NOFX return from the LA punk gutter with a “moron bro”...
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RIFF’D: Gucci Mane’s ‘Everybody Looking’
Mainstream rap is as fickle as the weather, one moment the sun is shining and you’re hot stuff, the next moment you’re yesterday’s news, left out in the cold. For Gucci Mane his reign has run longer...
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Best Lyric Vids of the Week: Volume XXXI
Drive-By Truckers and Aloe Blacc get political, Ariana Grande gets her Whitney Houston a cappella vocal range on, the OG country super(lady)group, Trio, dig up some old ‘wildflowers’, and more, in the...
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Best Lyric Vids of the Week: Volume XXXII
Minnesota underground hip-hop heroes, Atmosphere, go fishing for metaphors, an Indonesian teenager campaigns for thug life status, Green Day double down on the American (shooting) idiot psyche and...
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RIFF’D: Atmosphere’s ‘Fishing Blues’
This deep into their career Atmosphere has very little to prove. They’re icons and built an empire in one of the last places you’d expect hip-hop to thrive. They’ve proven that it’s true: greatness...
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Best Lyric Vids of the Week: Volume XXXVI
Green Day say they want a revolution, Bon Iver rides a thunderstorm from Jeebus, B.o.B. puts his world-is-flat ideology on hold to talk about fingerprints and more, in week 36 of the year’s Best Lyric...
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RIFF’d: M.I.A.’s ‘A.I.M’
M.I.A. has built a legacy around her jab; a powerful and steady puncher who always found her mark. The problem with her technique, however, is that while it’s nimble and smooth, it lacks depth and can...
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Best Lyric Vids of the Week: Volume XXXVII
Norah Jones goes Mad Men jazz lounge, Dolly “Backwoods Barbie” Parton quests for pretty in so much damn pink, Drive-By Truckers teach some ‘filthy and fried’ lessons to the youth, and more, in the...
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RIFF’d: Norah Jones’‘Day Breaks’
As far as genres go few have been as unfairly categorized as jazz; relegated to the past and unfairly represented by cheap copycats. But things have changed, the past two years alone have seen a...
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RIFF’d: The Game’s ‘1992’
The Game is the Red Lobster of rap; not altogether terrible, but cheap, easy and exactly what you’d expect every single time. His eighth studio album 1992 contains all the familiar flavors and dishes...
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Best Lyric Vids of the Week: Volume XLII
Were dangerously close to Election Day, so things are naturally antagonistic to a certain orange cheeto in a suit, with another hilarious cryptic shot from El Vy and a faux-news broadcast from Joseph...
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RIFF’d: Leonard Cohen’s ‘You Want It Darker’
Leonard Cohen has one speed: slow. It’s a baked in approach and the pace in which his 14th studio album You Want It Darker unfolds. In striking fashion, Cohen meticulously careens through...
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RIFF’d: A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘We Got It From Here, Thank You 4 Your Service’
The truth is We Got It From Here, Thank You 4 Your Service should have happened years ago, when Phife was alive. And while hypotheticals do nothing other than rouse the spirit into ‘what if’ scenarios...
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