Wilco- Ode To Joy (dBpm) Folky, grounded, elegant. Wilco shows off their ability to deliver a mature, simple album, with complex deep lyrics. It’s an ode to all aspects of love, from its beauty to its fragility. The album proves that Jeff Tweedy is better when he’s...
Well folks, it’s ~spooky season~ and on Monday October 7th, my soul left my body. Everyone in the Anthem’s soul was snatched by Margaret Debay Rogers. Yes. I am talking about Maggie Rogers. The rumors, I have come to find out, are true. I can confirm that Maggie...
A.W’s’ album, ...Was Right All Along, explores queer coming-of-age with finesse. The revelations, triumphs, and pitfalls of finding oneself in a hetero-patriarchal world are highlighted and celebrated. A.W, a.k.a John-Allison Weiss, released ...Was Right All Along ten...
Marie Ulven is a Norwegian teen that is making a name for herself in the indie scene. For the last couple of years, Ulven, 20, has made spunky, raw indie-pop songs about wanting new love, and the voyage of when it’s unachievable, and anthems for coming to age, under...
Unorthodox as at it may seem, Arizona-native: Kiana LedéBrown got her big break winning KIDZ Star USA, a national competition for ages 15 and under, sponsored by Kidz Bop. She had been singing, acting in plays, and playing the piano since infancy and with the help of...
This past week, the online music publication Pitchfork released two lists dissecting both the 200 best songs and 200 best albums of the 2010s.As someone with a love/hate relationship with Pitchfork’s reviews, the lists gave me much less of a pretension-induced...
2019 kinda sucked for music. Not many good records came out, but these records were the best of the best and I listened to them a lot throughout the year. I have no hope that any records coming within the next two months will be any better than the ones I mention now,...
I don’t want my column to become a sort of obituary. My last piece was centered around the death of Daniel Johnston. Given the circumstances, this one will also be centered around the death of a musician I consider extremely influential, personally and otherwise....
Dog Chocolate’s music sits somewhere between classic hardcore and art-rock: loud enough for a fun mosh pit, but smart enough to be genuinely thought-provoking. The band somehow pulls off this balancing act to make a weirdly progressive package. Dog Chocolate’s 2018...
“Clout is a leech that feeds without constraint on that which we might call the human soul. A bane by whom its absence may make us feel deprived— not of light, not of genuine human contact, but of palpable internal meaning. Yes, clout is a drug of which I am addicted....