I love Bailen. Their sound is gorgeously and casually empowering. To hear their debut, Thrilled To Be Here, is like turning your heart’s wonders into…
Do we ever stop growing up? What is a young adult, and when do I become one or stop being one? These are the questions…
Hearing Olivia O’brien’s debut, after seeing her live, I was so happy to hear how she transferred her personality into recording. She truly is a…
To Home Body, if there is anywhere in the world that you can get weird, it’s in a soundscape. In the wake of so many…
If mod-rock had a baby with reggae, it would call the child Claude Fontaine. Her new, self-titled record is like jar of cherries for your…
When I heard the title of Gus Dapperton’s debut, Where Polly People Go To Read, I thought of multiple meanings. Polly people, to me, meant…
Cage The Elephant’s Social Cues is aptly titled because most songs sing to the cues we miss and the ones we burn through. On earth,…
Jamestown Revival goes to the HEART of country music. I recently saw a film that described country songs as “three chords and the truth.” In…
I love Jade Bird. She has a voice that is clear in emotional intent as it sings to becoming purposeful. In her self-titled debut, she…
For Jess Ribeiro, making a record is a lot like falling in love: it’s a dive into the unknown with the belief that the currents…
There is no denying the power of movies. They make life feel bigger in the falsest, most beautiful of ways. It would be nice to…
If Bjork had a baby with Nirvana, and then that baby grew up to make a horror, disco film, it would be Billie Eilish. She…
Frankie Cosmos’ Haunted Items 1-4, actually, feels haunted. When we think “haunted” we picture ghoulish mansions filled with ghosts that cannot accept they are dead.…
You know a song is good when you are doing a “stank face,” and Lion Babe’s Cosmic Wind will make you “stank face” several times.…
The minute you press play on You’re The Man, your heart smiles because you are hearing the voice that molded so many other artists. Anybody…