I trust the timing of my life. What’s meant for me won’t miss me.”Vibe Check:Feeling like everyone else is five steps ahead?

It was night one of Tame Impala’s Deadbeat Tour at the Oakland Arena and, judging from the middle-aged man behind me screaming, “The man’s a genius. A f---ing genius!” before “the man” had even come ...

Tame Impala’s Kevin Park brought the curtain down on the U.S. portion of his Deadbeat Tour Monday night, Nov. 17, 2025, delivering a sold-out immersion at the Kia Forum that fused psychedelic grooves ...

Tame Impala’s show Thursday night began with a hum — not the polite pre-show murmur of a Thursday crowd, but a low, oceanic roar that seemed to rise from under the floor of the Moody Center — waves ...

Kevin Parker’s catchy psychedelic rock and dance music is drawing more and more listeners. For an introverted musician on an arena stage, that poses new challenges. Critic’s Notebook Kevin Parker’s ...

Tame Impala's Kevin Parker at the "Deadbeat" tour opener on Oct. 27, 2025, in Brooklyn, N.Y. (photo: Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for Columbia Records). Tame Impala made up for lost time Monday (Oct. 27 ...

I’ve always seen Tame Impala as defined by a sense of duality. Of course, this could be due to the open secret of Kevin Parker’s identity as both a person and band, but I think it actually lies in the ...

Recorded-music formats change not just how we listen but also how music gets made. With the popularization of the long-playing vinyl record in the late 1940s, artists like Frank Sinatra began ...

Currents haunts Tame Impala like a ghost. Or an ex who won’t leave you alone. Since its release ten years ago, it’s become the de facto control against which to measure all of Kevin Parker’s releases ...

Over five years after 2019’s “The Slow Rush,” Tame Impala released his long-awaited fifth album, “Deadbeat,” on Friday. Multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker uses “Deadbeat” as a chance to elaborate on ...

Five years after the release of “The Slow Rush,” Tame Impala is back with a 12-track party of self-deprication. A glorification of being a loser, as Kevin Parker told Triple J, “Deadbeat,” his fifth ...