I've been a big fan of the artist formerly known as Juiceboxxx for years now. He publishes one of the sickest music blogs out there (John's Music Blog, literally located at musicblog.substack.com), and he's been putting out bright, sincere, super-catchy "underdog
Someone went viral yesterday for tweeting a complaint about a "local opener" for a Boygenius show in Toronto, a band "full of the literal men they are parodying." As someone else pointed out, the band in question is Broken Social Scene, a popular band that has
I was on Twitter.com recently — if you can believe that — and through replies to a tweet about a fake "utopian scholastic" CD-ROM game, I came across the wonderful single art for the song "Glass Delusion" by Anna Belle. Oooh what is this??? I asked myself,
Ooooo if you give me a electro-psych-rock tune at a brisk pace, I will come running like a dog in front of whom one has dangled a BONE. Dan Murphy, who usually makes experimental synth music as droning muffler, sent me the zippy EP spark chamber, recorded under the name
I'm a late-in-life-but-enthusiastic fan of keytars, one of their staunch defenders. Ryan Gosling's character in La La Land was shown at his personal nadir playing a keytar in an '80s cover band, but I thought he was being a little baby and should have been
spoilers, if you can call this a show that can be spoiled, are in this, plus, here's a content warning for discussing physical abuse Last week I said The Idol wasn't living up to its "torture porn" rep from that Rolling Stone exposé. I
Yo, I'm porting over my newsletter's renowned content series MUSIC MOOTS™ to this-here blog. For those who don't know, this is when I ask someone I know either IRL or URL to recommend me a song to listen to that they've been
Oh my god, something is happening at the intersection of music and the internet, so you know I (Molly O'Brien) have to be there with my own thoughts and opinions. A few days ago, a video popped up on my TikTok For You page of a young man
I saw a Todd in the Shadows tweet last night and was going to quote-tweet it to respond but then I was like, well, this blog is supposed to be for random music thoughts, and I have one this very moment...why not just blog about it? No character limit
New chune out from Chicago's Griefeater — a reflective, just-shy-of-doom-y rock song that builds to a big stormy finish. If you like to hear someone just absolutely WAILING on the crash cymbal as an act of emotional exorcism, you will love "Dust." This is off their upcoming
Jocelyn, Jocelyn, Jocelyn. The music video shoot doesn't match your vision. The dancing isn't as tight as it could be. And if this song flops, it is going to be so fucking embarrassing. It is only natural to blow off some steam with some buds, and
IT'S JENNY DAY!! I just listened to Joy'All, the latest, newly-released album from Jenny Lewis. Ms. Lewis has put out four studio albums with Rilo Kiley, one as Jenny & Johnny with her ex-partner Johnathan Rice, one with the all-female band NAF, and now four solo