Can you remember the last time you heard something unlike anything you had ever heard before? For me it was in an amazing little record store in downtown Chicago. I walked in and heard what I thought was an amalgam of Beck (think Sea Change) and The Flaming Lips (think acid). I had to know […]

The third full-length album from the Gorillaz is quite a potpourri of genre and style — “Plastic Beach” plays more like a mix tape than an established band’s tight concept. But what else could we expect from a duo made up of comic book creator Jamie Hewlett and Britpop superstar Damon Albarn, whose brand-new album […]