Alexis Petridis

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Alexis Petridis

20. Fugees – Nappy Heads (1994)The closest their debut album Blunted on Reality came to a crossover hit, Nappy Heads is almost unrecognisable as the work of Fugees, who went on to sell millions of records. But it’s an of-its-era joy nonetheless, with a boom-bap rhythm and horns sampled from jazzy 70s funk. More people should know Social Drugs – driven by acoustic guitar, it’s what a studio album along the lines of Hill’s MTV Unplugged performance might have sounded like.

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Alexis Petridis

There’s something telling about the fact that PinkPantheress launched the first single from her second mixtape with a video boasting that it was 2:57 long.

1 week ago | freitag.de | Alexis Petridis

Es ist nicht schwer nachzuvollziehen, warum das Debütalbum Dogsbody von Model/Actriz aus dem Jahr 2023 so viel positive Kritik erhielt. In Zeiten, in denen Rockmusik weitgehend auf Vertrautes setzt – und Originalität im Wesentlichen bedeutet, bewährte Sounds aus der Vergangenheit halbwegs neu zu arrangieren –, stieg hier eine Band auf, die wirklich wie keine andere zu klingen schien.

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Alexis Petridis

On a video call from his home in Los Angeles, Ozzy Osbourne is struggling to recall the exact details of recent years, ones he calls “the worst of my life”. “How many surgeries have I had?” he wonders aloud. “I‘ve got more f**king metal in me than a scrap merchants.”The trouble began in earnest in early 2019, when he was midway through what his wife and manager Sharon Osbourne had firmly told him was his farewell tour.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Alexis Petridis

On a video call from his home in Los Angeles, Ozzy Osbourne is struggling to recall the exact details of recent years, ones he calls “the worst of my life”. “How many surgeries have I had?” he wonders aloud. “I’ve got more fucking metal in me than a scrap merchants.”The trouble began in earnest in early 2019, when he was midway through what his wife and manager Sharon had firmly told him was his farewell tour.