The Hour Of Bewilderbeast Turns 20
(WorldNews Music)

In 2016, when he was 18 years old, the Canadian pop star Shawn Mendes shared some thoughts about his personal evolution since parlaying viral fame on the video app Vine into a successful mainstream recording career. “From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person,” Mendes told the New York Times. “Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.” The quote stuck with me. It rang true. It explains how I discovered Badly Drawn Boy at a P.O.D. concert. It was a dreary October night in the year 2000. The Christian rap-rockers from San Diego, still nearly a year away from their proper mainstream breakthrough Satellite, were headlining Newport Music Hall on the Ohio...