The ObserverDance musicReview(Classic Music Company)
The Chicago DJ delves into new jack swing, disco and house across 15 jubilant, guest-studded tracks
Witnessing the Chicago DJ Honey Dijon behind the decks can be as close to a spiritual experience as you can get on the dancefloor. Trading in the four-to-the-floor kick drum that provides the aortic pulse to house music, Dijon’s mid-tempo sets conduct her crowds perfectly from tantalising buildups to scattered breakdowns and communal euphoria as her soaring melodies kick in. Read More...
This article first ran shortly before the release of To Pimp a Butterfly. In honor of Kendrick Lamar’s fourth album, DAMN., out now, we’ve updated it to include songs from TPAB and onward.
Its been two years since Kendrick Lamar released his expansive opus, To Pimp a Butterfly, and now he’s dropped the tightly wound DAMN., so it feels like the perfect time to reexamine some of his finest lyrical work to date (not including anything from DAMN. Read More...
Set in 1973 and named for a beloved SoCal record chain, “Licorice Pizza” brings writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson nearly full circle back to the neighborhoods where he grew up — back to the disco-colored Wonderland where “Boogie Nights” took place and the decade when the indie auteur was born.
Fans of Anderson’s filmography shouldn’t be the slightest bit surprised to see him once again finding colorful characters in the outer folds of Los Angeles’ satellite suburbs: He did it before with “Punch-Drunk Love” (giving Adam Sandler his juiciest role to date) and “Magnolia” (where the same went for Tom Cruise), always returning to the question of “What Do Kids Know? Read More...