A Rockstar Sometimes, A Mommy Forever
“Mommy! Yes, mommy! I love you, mommy!!” the crowd cheers on. It’s pitch black out on a Saturday night, and the crowd is ecstatic to see everyone’s favorite mom perform live at the Fox Theater in Oaklan...
Love Lives in the Bay: Soft Blue Shimmer Debuts Their New Record at Neck of the Woods
“my dreams always seem concerned with your well-being…i can’t seem to shake…maybe one day we’ll learn to grow separately. maybe one day i’ll grow on my own. maybe one day this piece of you inside of...
Far from a Wayside: Bedouine’s third album displays songwriting brilliance
Azniv Korkejian, also known as singer-songwriter Bedouine, pulls in listeners with her poetic lyricism and elegant style. With her third record released just over a year ago on October 22, 2021, Waysides contin...
From the mind of Björk spawns Fossora
With no choice but to isolate during the pandemic, many of us, in our collective boredom, spent our days coping with various outlets. Some of us took up new hobbies, like baking bread or crocheting. Others look...
An ode to sensitivity: Nilüfer Yanya’s hypnotic sophomore album Painless
Nilüfer Yanya’s ethereal sophomore album Painless (ATO, 2022) chronicles the complexities of loneliness and uncertainty. The Chelsea artist’s brutal honesty adds an edge to her signature dreamy, pop-rock s...
A Race to my Downloads with Alex G
Alex G’s 2010 self-released album, Race, is an ode to the trials and tribulations of young adulthood. Released when Alex was a mere 17 years old, the pains of being a teenager growing up in suburban Havertown...
I don’t know about you, but both my favorite album and I are turning twenty-two: A love letter to 69 Love Songs
On September 7th, 1999, a new life was brought into the world. Though only a newborn, it was filled with complexity, somber observation, cynicism, and underneath it all, a guarded sense of optimism. Two days la...
Lianne La Havas: self-titled, self-possessed
English singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas just released her self-titled album, and though her previous records were filled with soul and rock sensibility, this cohesive record which focuses on the cyclical na...
Vampire Weekend’s Father of the Bride depicts the beauty within chaos
The six years of painful silence from indie-rock band Vampire Weekend came to its anticipated end with Father of the Bride (2019) serving as a generous comeback filled with brightness and electricity. With its...
I got high and listened to Electric Guest’s new album Kin
To make it clear, I’ve gotten high less than 10 times, and during the handful of times I’ve had a bad trip, only music can calm me down and stop me from feeling like I’m sinking into myself. Electric Gues...
Unapologetic, brash, brilliance: JPEGMAFIA at The New Parish
JPEGMAFIA relishes the stage. Swaggering around as if possessed, a mischievous grin peering out from under his Air Force cap, Peggy (as his fans affectionately call him) is in his element. “Stage presence”,...
Kanye stands in Kanye’s way on Jesus is King
Kanye West has always thought of himself as a prophet of sorts, a conduit destined to receive divine inspiration from God himself. This belief, or dare I say delusion, that he has been chosen by the creator h...
Jaime: Sunday mornings with Brittany Howard
Growing up, I would come downstairs after sleeping in on a Sunday to my mom making crêpes in the kitchen. Picture spring in Portland: rain, dread (because it’s still raining and it’s June, literally where ...
“Oh My God”: a divine masterpiece from Kevin Morby
Kevin Morby’s latest album (his fifth since 2013), Oh My God (2019), presents a masterpiece “non-religious religious” concept album, that is epic in ambition as it digs for explanations of what it means ...
Karen O and Danger Mouse, Lux Prima album review
Five years after her debut solo album Crush Songs (2014), Karen O (former frontwoman of the iconic 2000s rock band, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) is back. And this time, she’s not alone.
On March 15, the ...