Samia Sweetens the Hurt on Sophomore Album Honey
Samia wants you to like her. On her excellent 2020 debut, The Baby, she ate apple cider vinegar-and-kale salads, dancedContinue Reading
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Blondshell Takes It Out On New Single “Veronica Mars”
Indie rock singer-songwriter Blondshell, aka Sabrina Teitelbaum, releases her first single with Partisan Records. The song is called “Veronica Mars,”Continue Reading
On Being Funny In A Foreign Language, The 1975 Are More Confident Than Ever
I’ll admit it. I love the Toxic Music Critic Discourse that follows The 1975 around like a lost puppy. Take a quick look here”Continue Reading
Rina Sawayama’s Sophomore Album Hold The Girl Pushes The Limits of Pop Music, But Still Feels Safe
When I heard Rina Sawayama purr “Let’s go, Gaga” on her remix of the Chromatica cut “Free Woman,’ I swearContinue Reading
Marlon Williams’ My Boy is a Loose Collection of 70s Fragments
On the cover of his third solo album My Boy, Marlon Williams looks like he’s dressed for gym class inContinue Reading
On Ugly Season, Perfume Genius Is More Abstract Than Ever
In an Apple Music interview about his fifth album Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, Perfume Genius—aka Mike Hadreas—shared hisContinue Reading
King Gizzard Bring the Best of their Mosaic Discography on Omnium Gatherum
The idea of a King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard double album is already redundant. As far back as TheContinue Reading
Q&A: wens’ New EP alien tears is an extra-terrestrial inspired Triumph
Last week, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter wens released her fourth EP, the sparsely orchestrated alien tears. Featuring singles “4ever” and “breakfastContinue Reading
Wet Leg’s Highly Anticipated Debut Album Is Absurd, Funny, and Disarming
Thank god the album’s name is “Wet Leg.” Picture the same body of work, the same album cover, but withContinue Reading
Christian Lee Hutson’s Quitters Process 21st Century Overload In Real Time
David Byrne makes a thoughtful argument in the first few pages of his book How Music Works: trends in popularContinue Reading
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