Cupid Deluxe: An Ode to Queer Love
With 11 beautiful, soulful, and intense tracks, Cupid Deluxe (2013) compresses the feeling of giving to someone who can never be pleased—the constant chase for validation, for proof that your love means som...
“The Land, The Water, The Sky” is a love letter to Indigenous strength and ancestral land
The Land, The Water, The Sky (2023) by Black Belt Eagle Scout is a love letter to Indigenous strength, interwoven with the cedar trees and tides of the Swinomish. It is a testimony to enduring hope that lingers...
Closing your eyes: A moment alone with Julia Holter’s Something in the Room She Moves
For the grand majority of us, listening to music is as easy as opening up your phone, connecting to your various bluetooth devices for proper amplification, and choosing a song. Everything in the world, every...
Reflecting on Sidney Gish’s “No Dogs Allowed” as an anxious and awkward 20-year-old
Your morning begins with a day-old cup of coffee. The bitter taste of hardwood and ruthlessly closed doors. You scrub the floorboards of your mind, try to rid yourself of the stench of your second overdue assig...
My thoughts on “When a Thought Grows Wings”
What happens when the Asian-Canadian thought daughter of our generation goes through a breakup? Luna Li's latest and greatest LP When a Thought Grows Wings (2024) provides a lush, heart-shattering answer. Captu...
BRAT: a shiny, lime green breakdown
“Who the fuck are you? I'm a brat when I'm bumpin' that.”
This summer has been colored lime green and it’s all Charli xcx’s fault.
Charli xcx’s latest album BRAT (2024) has taken over the pop mu...
Love like religion: A Dollface album review
Hana Bryanne released her debut album titled Dollface on September 15, 2023, at twenty years old. It was written entirely by Bryanne and produced by Carter Jahn and Maxwell Bienert. Its namesake deriv...
plum blossom (revisited) tour- a reflection into the past
What were you like at seventeen?
The answer to that question is often one filled with an awkward pause before replying with some form of “I was naive and didn’t understand love,” or “I was still ...
Chronicles of a Diamond – Black Pumas, an album review
The first time I heard the Black Pumas was when their song “Colors” popped up on my Spotify Discover Weekly. Since then, it’s become an absolute star on my playlists, with its building chorus and messag...
The complexity of love and loss in the Beatles’ “Now and Then”
“One, two…,” counts Paul McCartney, but he is not about to launch into a rollicking, “Well, she was just seventeen! You know what I mean!” This McCartney count-in is more methodical, of lower timbre, ...
Why you should be digging Dijon: an Absolutely album review
The electrically honest debut album titled Absolutely (2021) moves in mysterious ways and pulsates with such raw emotion that it feels like the music is bursting free from Dijon’s safekept psyche. With th...
The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We: A Lyrical Exploration of Mitski’s New Album
You can’t live in this house anymore. There’s more mold than grout between your bathroom tiles. The foundations are rotting and slowly sinking into the earth. You asked your landlord to do something about i...
“Jazz!! is!! back!!:” The release of Laufey’s “Bewitched” and thoughts on the future of the genre
In early 2021, a friend of mine sent me a link to a TikTok accompanied by an innocuous message somewhere along the lines of, “Thought you’d like this.” Intrigued, I clicked, and a curly-haired girl in a p...
HANNAH SHARES APERTURE WITH THE BAY
Support from Miloe & Lance Redeker primed what became Hannah Jadagu’s stage through and through. She breezed into the city Wednesday night, immediately following her show at the Echo 24 hours prior, to pl...
Ultra Q Reunites with Hockey Dad for Rickshaw Nostalgia
Australian surf rock duo Hockey Dad fathered Jakob Armstrong, Chris Malaspina, Enzo Malaspina, and Kevin Judd through their first full US tour when the boys still went by Mt. Eddy in 2018. Five years later, Jak...