Molly Mary O'Brien's music musings.
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A few weeks ago, Charli XCX hosted a birthday party at a bar in Los Angeles. Unless you were literally Billie Eilish or Sabrina Carpenter, you likely witnessed this party via photos taken by Mark "The Cobrasnake" Hunter: flash photos of party people, standing on a booth or
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Hello, it's me. I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to read...my blog. Hello to the blog readers and the newsletter subscribers. It seems like a good time to hit you with a Musical Moments Megamix...last time I wrote about enjoying
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The people in front of me in the Sphere security line fucked up. Dead & Co had already started playing, you could hear tinkling guitars piped all through the interior of the venue. We were the last stragglers in the TSA-esque experience that precedes all large format concerts now, and
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I was doing my horrid morning scroll on Twitter and came across a chunk of text that displeased me (this happens often on Twitter...it's what keeps me coming back, the displeasure...): As it turns out, this chunk of text came from a long Freddie deBoer newsletter about
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Welcome to another edish of the I Enjoy Music newsletter. To preview the format of the newsletter, in an Axios breakin'-it-down style, we have: a little bit of writing around a new-to-me song by an unfamiliar artist (last time I did that with Zimmer90, "What Love Is&
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Greetings, welcome to the newsletter. Today we have... recaps of recent shows by Of Montreal + Ethel Cain Blog Posts of the Recent Past a New Graphic Design Initiative in the I Enjoy Music blogiverse a teaser of something fun and new....hmm... two live shows in Sunny Los Angeles Justin
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Welcome to another edish of the I Enjoy Music newsletter. To preview the format of the newsletter, in an Axios breakin'-it-down style, we have: a little bit of writing around a new-to-me song by an unfamiliar artist (last time I did that with Frank Lenz's "
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I got a press invite to an interesting show last week—Joan As Police Woman (the alias of singer-songwriter Joan Wasser) was playing an intimate gig at the Cha Cha Lounge in Silver Lake. This invite was intriguing to me for three reasons: 1) I love a gig invite (I
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I read an absolutely wild piece of music writing last week. Tavi Gevinson, original Girl Blogger and founder of influential online magazine Rookie, self-published a zine about Taylor Swift in April called Fan Fiction. A few outlets covered this event—Vulture interviewed Gevinson about it, and across the NY Mag
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I try to avoid feeling too parasocial about my pop stars but I have to say it: I'm proud of Charli XCX. She must be feeling incredible right now in the wake of the release of Brat. A spiky Roman phalanx of fans flooding their social media timelines
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Sometimes it's fun to trace a particular musical enjoyment back to its origins. For example, why was I at the Cheekface show last week? Well... I'd seen the band name bantered around "music Twitter" a bit but did not investigate... ...then writer Jami Fowler
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One year of I Enjoy Music in the books!! Wow! I wanted to write something to celebrate this 12-month milestone, and to look at what I'm trying to do with this internet publication going forward. You cannot escape my metablogging. A year ago I published a couple of