Lav's Music Corner

Rounding out the first half of the year I'm looking back and covering some bands that got major attention from either critics, music fans, or both.  Diamond Jubilee  - Cindy Lee One of the biggest surprises of 2024 was the emergence of massive critical acclaim for Cindy Lee and Diamond Jubilee . The project spawns out of the complicated journey of late 2000s indie rock outfit Women. While various members of the band broke off and formed Viet Cong, a group that would eventually change their name to Preoccupations and receive critical acclaim in the decade that followed, frontman Patrick Fiegel spawned this drag-oriented pop outfit that never quite reached the same level of acclaim. But now with the project's 7th album, which is still yet to be released on streaming services, that hype has arrived. I went into Diamond Jubilee  having only sparingly heard other albums from the project like What's Tonight To Eternity  and Act Of Tenderness . But in this two-hour epic of ...