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
Call me old-fashioned but I love trying to pick out songs of the summer just to be cheeky. Last year, realistically, it was "Girls" by the Dare even though I don't think that song came out 'til August. This year my first pick was "
I am committed to watching as many fictional portrayals of female pop stars as possible — from Lady Gaga's incredible omega-grindset torch-singer Ally in A Star Is Born to Natalie Portman's baffling, household cleaning product-quaffing Celeste in Vox Lux — therefore it is my duty to watch the
I have gone zero to 1000 on GHÖSH: a Philadelphia duo bringing the sounds of jungle, nü metal, grime, punk, hip hop, and horrorcore together, blending them into a gnarly smoothie, and serving it up with a sinister smile and a splash of your choice of canned energy drink on
I slept on Sparks for so long, even though they've been referenced constantly as inspiration for other artists in interviews I've read over the years. Then I finally got Sparkspilled with the Edgar Wright doc The Sparks Brothers — GREAT movie. FUN movie. CLEVER editing. I watched
I heard this song at a rooftop bar in Brooklyn Bridge Park yesterday. It was absolutely perfect weather, and everywhere there were young women donning fresh Eras Tour merch and moms struggling to maneuver strollers around big metal umbrellas. The tunes played at the joint were not super interesting to
Yesterday Kabir Kumar, who plays guitar in Guppy and has a solo project Sun Kin (I interviewed him about it for The Alternative), announced a new project called Left Tracks. It's a collaboration with his friend DI LEO and the first song, "Colorways," has awakened my
As soon as I saw "Running around on all fours biting people" linked in the Sighswoon Portal discord music channel, I knew I needed to get into it. Receiving a sliver of someone's mindset through playlist curation is one of my favorite bits of contemporary music
An Alternative Discord rec ("Don't sleep on this"). In 2023 you will not catch me sleeping on anything. I will be up all night with my eyelids held open with chip clips. "Crash!!!!!!!!! Burn!!!!!!!!" (nine exclamation points for the Crash, eight for the Burn)
My rawest musical mode just might be Shazam mode. My husband will stealthily raise his phone, shark-like, at the dance club to try to "id" a song a DJ is playing so he can pilfer it for his own collection. I will Shazam songs I don't
Doubtfull's YouTube bio says "'90s pop/rock in the 2020s" — and I think the pop is just as important as the rock here. The harmonies on the chorus specifically remind me of THE WALLFLOWERS, or even a little bit of COUNTING CROWS. The kind of