Stick season: the period between fall and winter in Vermont when the leaves have left the trees but the snow has yet to come. I am not from Vermont, nor have I ever visited. I […]
“Skip this garbage!” While the 11-year-old I pick up from school’s reaction to the songs was a bit extreme, I won’t lie — part of me felt the same way listening to the Backseat Lovers’ […]
I sat at my desk in my college dorm room and logged into my parents’ old Amazon music account. I scrolled through the dozens of playlists I had made when I was in middle school, […]
Arctic Monkeys are a rarity in music. How often do bands with universal acclaim almost completely reject the style that built their careers in favor of something radically different — like evolving from a rambunctious […]
Identifying with music can sometimes feel like baring your soul to the world. It’s vulnerable, candid, and often reveals aspects of your character that you’d like to keep buried. Art tends to do this whether […]
If anyone shouldn’t “get it,” it’s Matty Healy. He looks like a dirtbag. A greasy mop of hair sits atop his head, he holds his cigarettes like a flamboyant aristocrat, and he talks about “the […]
Sitting in the passenger’s seat of my older brother’s black Volvo, I watch the yellow street lamps of my Tennessee suburb ease past us. We are listening to an Icelandic artist on one of my […]
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