The first time I ever really engaged with Travis Scott was when I watched his 2019 Netflix documentary, Travis Scott: Look Mom I Can Fly. What made the biggest impression on me were the interviews with his fans. One by one, they breathlessly profess their devotion to Travis, a devotion
I wrote for the AntiArt substack a while ago about my obsession with CVS Bangers — you know, shiny pop-rock tunes of the late 1990s and early 2000s that sound right at home whether wafting through the Allergy & Pain Relief pharmacy aisle or running behind the closing credits of romantic
Oh goodie, a rock show to attend! My first time at Los Angeles's fine Moroccan Lounge was for a stacked bill of the punk rock persuasion. Accompanied by husband Chris and new friends James and Cat, I was ready to rock — respectfully. First up: Kuromy, a three-piece band
The music you dig doesn't just get transferred from a musician's brain to yrs. They gotta record it first!! I've always been fascinated with how music actually gets made in the studio, and after coming across a tweet from Heather Jones (who founded Philadelphia&
Back with more carefully quantified music discourse...related to an important (yet ultimately unanswerable) question: Best American Band? If we were to reduce the criteria to an American band that has composed a song called "We're An American Band" it would be a knock-down drag-out fight
Got an email from Mitski HQ today...she's back with a song called "Bug Like an Angel" and a new album called The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We? With a humming gospel choir that comes in the first time like an electric fly swatter
Wow the week had barely begun before the Music Discourse Machine came to life and started making loud mechanical chugging noises. All across the web, people have been sharing their opinions about two American bands: The Grateful Dead and Big Thief. Big Thief discourse arrived via Julian Towers's
Not sure if you're aware of this or not but it's hot in Southern California in the summer. Allegedly it's hot here most of the time, but especially in the meat of July, and during an El Niño year to boot, temps are soaring.
Recently I saw Sam from the great band Cheem talking about the difficulty of producing good music videos right now on Twitter (or is it X? lol I want 2 d*e) and in the mentions of the tweet, the DC-based DIY rock band band Two Thumbs Down shared their
I don't believe in guilty pleasures in general, but as the exception proves the rule, there is one pleasure in my life that I would categorize as guilty: listening to The Chainsmokers live sets on YouTube. I know, I know. "The Chainsmokers" is shorthand for a
I am a recent convert to the Time Crisis lifestyle (after finally making the jump from Spotify Premium to Apple Music), and on a recent TC episode, Ezra Koenig pointed out that the Jonas Brothers' sassy vocal delivery on "Waffle House" reminded him of male K-pop vocals.
If all of us on the internet are "surfing the web," Katie McTigue, who plays music as Pacing, has been churning up some sweet waves. She continually finds new, incredible delivery systems for her idiosyncratic indie-pop tunes: writing Spotify links on a banana, or adorning a CD with