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Listening Party: Batuco, Son Rompe Pera
I was sitting on my bed with the window cracked open, letting in the sound of late-night cars humming down my street like spaceships. Too lazy to get up and flip the vinyl, I streamed Batuco on Spotify instead, my body still and humming faintly. Sometimes you just need percussion that wakes your bones up β read more
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Listening Party: In/Casino/Out, At the Drive-In
I found In/Casino/Out in a piano room at St. Ceciliaβs Hall. No one had came back for their things. It was just a pile of CDs, abandoned, along with a copy of Deftonesβ Around the Fur and a burned mix CD that opened with βWhen I Come Around,β by Green Day. Someone once listened to β read more
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Listening Party: 7 piano sketches, AndrΓ© 3000
Few artists have rerouted the current of hip-hop as profoundly as AndrΓ© 3000. As one-half of OutKast, alongside Antwan βBig Boiβ Patton, AndrΓ© helped detonate the myth that Southern rap had to sound one way. Then, just as the world caught up, he disappeared. Hey Ya!, still somehow omnipresent two decades later, wasnβt just a β read more
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Listening Party: Brat, Charli xcx
I donβt usually tell people I like anything popular. Itβs not rebellionβitβs instinct. But I love popstars. Not pop music, necessarily, but the machinery of it. The myth-making. The kind of woman who enters the room like she invented the door. Reality TV is full of them: women whose every gesture is curated, every meltdown β read more
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Listening Party: how will i rest in peace if iβm buried by a highway?//, KennyHoopla
KennyHooplaβs how will i rest in peace if iβm buried by a highway?// is a short, electrified work, feverish and vibrant with both cultural memory and contemporary unrest. It evokes, almost uncannily, the wiry, adrenal pulse of early 2000s post-punk revival, particularly Silent Alarmβera Bloc Party with their clipped rhythms and almost ascetic guitar lines, β read more
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