Lav's Music Corner

Silversun Pickups Are a long running indie project out of Los Angeles that dropped an EP and two critically acclaimed indie rock albums in the second half of the 2000's. And even though most critics haven't reported a dip in quality the bands two albums released in the 2010's so far haven't received near the volume of attention as their heyday in the 2000's and  Widows Weeds  is an attempt as a return to critical and commercial success after four years of studio album silence. Review By Lavender: Silversun Pickups are underrated, and I have been a proponent of that for a long time now. As far as indie bands of the 2000's go they are very solidly among the second tier, yet bands that have released far worse material over this decade continue to garner attention that eludes SP even though I would argue they've never released a bad album. Though their most recent release  Better Nature  isn't quite the blistering indie jams that the bands tour-de-forc

1. Flying Lotus - More (Feat. Anderson .Paak) FlyLo scores the #1 single that FKA Twigs sniped a few weeks ago with the 3rd single in promotion of his new project. Topping a busy week the producer recruited an already legendary feature artist in Anderson Paak to drop a track that truly capitalized on the hype behind his namesake. 2. Denzel Curry - Ricky  Denzel Curry shows up with a bang for his first single in 2019 and barely falls short of #1 in a busy week but there is no reason to think he won't be back. 3. IDLES - Mercedes Marxist IDLES continue their prolific output with the attention grabbing title of the groups first single of 2019. 4. Carly Rae Jepsen - Too Much Carly gifts fans again with yet another single in the lead up to her first project in 4 years and after Julien  scored 3 weeks in the chart, expect to see Carly back here next week. 5. A$AP Ferg = Pups (Feat. A$AP Rocky) Ferg recruits Rocky for one of his most hyped up singles in years as fans hope for