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Real women rock
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 05/07/2020
» "Los Angeles, give me a miracle/ I just want out from this," Este, Danielle and Alana Haim waste no time getting down to the (ugly) business of their hometown on the ska-infused opening track of their latest album Women In Music Pt. III.
Let England shake
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 02/12/2018
» "And especially, from every shire's end of England/ The holy blissful martyr for to seek/ That them had helpened when that they were weak." So begins Merrie Land, the second LP by The Good, The Bad & The Queen, a supergroup made up of Blur frontman Damon Albarn, guitarist Simon Tong from The Verve, bassist Paul Simonon from The Clash and Nigerian drummer Tony Allen. Titled Introduction, the album's brief opener is based on an excerpt from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales -- the perfect premise for a record concerned with the uncertain future of a post-Brexit UK.
A Light That Never Goes Out
Brunch, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 14/01/2018
» The year was 2000 and Linkin Park had just released their debut album, Hybrid Theory. Fronted by Chester Bennington, the LA band brought to the global music scene, then perforated by the likes of Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears, a little something different. Fusing heavy metal with hip-hop with electronica and Bennington's screamo vocals, they quickly became a personal saviour to angst-ridden teenagers all over the world. With 27 million copies sold, Hybrid Theory ranks as one of the world's best-selling albums.