Music has always been a method of escape; a gateway into a world that allows us to detach from reality. However, in the past 6 months, music has allowed us all to take a break from the crushing...
Before Hate for Sale, the last time the entire lineup of the Pretenders appeared on one of the band’s album covers was 36 years ago. Explaining this streak may be deceptively easy if noting that...
I am an unabashed fan of Tori Amos. I have been a fan of hers for over 20 years now, and although I don’t self-identify as an EWF—Ears With Feet, her term for her fans—I’ve seen her in...
While 2019 was a crappy year for politics and the effects of climate change (among other things), it was an outstanding year for pop culture. If you had trouble navigating the firehose-like release...
If you haven’t yet heard of Lizzo—the Minneapolis-based musician, rapper, singer-songwriter, and classically trained flautist—I envy you, but not for the reason you might think. Part of me...
The first lyrics that Sharon Van Etten sings on her new album are “Sitting at the bar, I told you everything / You said, ‘Holy shit, you almost died.’” Her singing is framed by harsh, echoing...
I'm sitting with Jessica Hazell, an Australian artist who encapsulates the beauty that is the human body via oil paint while working at a coffee shop in East London, as well as Alex Beighton, a...
Halfway through his song “DNA,” Kendrick Lamar sampled a recording of Fox News commentator Geraldo Rivera saying, “This is why I say hip-hop has done more damage to young, African Americans...
Bringing back elements of the 1980s sound has scored convenient success in the present landscape of synth-driven music. Just ask Paramore, Dreamcar, and LCD Soundsystem. Perhaps that is why Dave...
Is that a thumb piano playing the opening notes of this song? (“Hell-On”) I will be humming the “nothing quite so poison as a promise” break from “Hell-On” to myself until I can’t stand...
