I was there. I was there at the fourth annual LCD Soundsystem holiday residency in Queens, New York. I was also there in 2021 and, other than the residency moving from Brooklyn Steel to the Knockdown Center, what I saw was ostensibly the same. It was the same two-hour setlist, the same lightshow, activated by the same spilling bridges and the same explosive bass drops. And yet: I couldn’t care less.
Paste Magazine
I don’t want to watch Amy Winehouse die again. Whether intended as a revisionist reappraisal or a lesson on the consequences of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, Winehouse’s premature and tragic demise has perpetually been rebroadcast and commercialized since her actual death in 2011……
Paste Magazine
No one anticipates a sixteen-year-old to start a revolution. Ten years ago Lorde jolted the world awake with a snap. Her down-tempo, snappy, practically acappella single ‘Royals’ diagnosed mainstream music consumers with a collective delusion. We were hypnotised by potential opulence; hungry for the all-you-can-eat buffet of hollowed out dance music….
Clash Magazine
The Smile’s first emergence was spectacular. A surprise headline performance during 2021’s Glastonbury’s ‘Live At Worthy Farm’ livestream spotlighted Radiohead sensations Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood joined by Tom Skinner of Sons Of Kemet playing eight unidentified tunes in a crammed cowshed with no explanation other than a cheeky riddle. “Ladies and gentlemen, we are called ‘The Smile’,” Yorke said…
NME
Drake’s “Toosie Slide” is as simple as it gets: “Right foot up, left foot slide. Left foot up, right foot slide.” There are no bells and whistles to this “dance,” and maybe that’s the point. At first, the song was just a hook and verse until the popular TikTok user Toosie got a call from the Canadian artist. According to an interview with GQ, Toosie, a 23-year-old Atlanta rapper, received a message from Drake asking for assistance to create a dance that paired well with his new record.