Mitski

TLW’s Top 18 Albums of 2018

Don’t you hate when you’re reading a food blog and you’re all hangry and feeling some kinda way, and you have to scroll down like 80 times in order to get to the goddamn recipe? Yeah, me too. Here’s a list of albums I liked this year. I deem them “the best,” but really they’re…

A Star Is Born

REVIEW: A Star Is (Re)Born

A Star Is Born (aka the movie where Lady Gaga shows she can actually act) lives up to its promise. A star was born. Though Gaga’s Ally, an unknown singer-songwriter, does step out of the shadows and come into her own, it’s first-time director Bradley Cooper who’s reborn and raised to new heights. Grand-slamming a directorial…

Freetown Sound

Best Albums of 2016

Every year, I do a rundown of my picks for the Best Albums of the Year. Sometimes I rank them. Sometimes I don’t. I do what I want. In no particular order, here’s what kept my ears happy this year: Blood Orange – Freetown Sound Blood Orange, aka the London-born New Yorker Dev Hynes, is no…

Perfect Illusion

Lady Gaga’s ‘Little Monsters’ are Little Bitches

The video for Lady Gaga’s latest single “Perfect Illusion” dropped this week, and once again, her crew of Little Monsters are complaining like whiny little bitches. The track is an interesting one–a slow burn that builds in energy and octave throughout its meager three-minute-run–and there’s a lot to grasp on to. It’s got tangible emotion,…

‘AHS: Hotel’: How to Appropriately Soundtrack An Orgy

I think my brain is still doing somersaults after last night’s premiere of American Horror Story: Hotel. The super-sized episode had creepy children, blood sucking, demonic anal rape, torn out eyeballs, gutted entrails, pervasive drug use, and yes, one of the bloodiest orgy scenes ever filmed. As we were introduced to Lady Gaga’s villainous…whatever-she-is…we witnessed…

Gaga

Lady Gaga Covers 4 Non Blondes (Sit Down, Taylor)

With the amount of press coverage, retweets, and YouTube views of Taylor Swift’s new shticky-whatevers, you would think that the young songstress was singing the cure for Ebola. It’s always surprising to me when people/the media/the Internet/your Mom flip their banana hammocks over Taylor Swift so much. I don’t hate her, that silly little Country…

SXSW: Lady Gaga Gets Vomited On, Rides Mechanical ‘Swine’

Did she actually just get vomited on? While performing “Swine” at her SXSW show, Lady Gaga was puked on by performance artist Millie Brown — known for painting with her own vomit — who appeared to drink a green liquid before regurgitating it all over Gaga. Whether it was real or not (probably not), Gaga…

TLW’s Best Albums of 2013: 11-20

There were so many assclowns in music this year that it was almost exhausting. Miley got naked and stuck her tongue out, Robin Thicke got his thunder stolen, and Kanye said…I don’t actually know what he said because I didn’t understand any of it. I presume some shitty Pop-Country crossover tunes were made and some…

Music Monday: Lady Gaga – Swine

I’ve got this whole post coming soon about Pop music and how it’s occasionally a delicious treat…kind of like a greasy In N Out burger after a seriously heavy binger…but I didn’t write that yet. But it goes something like, “Pop music is like fast food, yada yada yada…and there’s plenty of space on my…