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Tag: Music

Listening Party: Spirit Room by Michelle Branch

For the life of me, I wanted a blue Taylor 614ce—the kind Michelle Branch had slung across her shoulder in press photos, radiant and reverent, the very image of the millennium’s girl with a guitar. I never got the guitar. But I did get The Spirit Room, and that was enough to make me believe — read more

May 9, 2025
Listening Party: The Family Jewels by Marina and the Diamonds

I remember confusing Marina and the Diamonds with Marina Abramović. An easy mistake to make if you’re twenty, half-jaded, and just beginning to think that pop music might be smarter than you’d been led to believe. I thought Lady Gaga was referencing her with the artifice, the glamour, the grandiosity. But it wasn’t her. It — read more

Apr 20, 2025
Listening Party: Deja Entendu by Brand New

Déjà Entendu by Brand New is an album meant for nostalgia and emotional complexity. It shaped my adolescence, even though I never owned a physical copy—just a collection of LimeWire downloads and a Walkman phone. The album defies easy categorization, often labeled alternative rock but carrying the weight of something more introspective, more unraveling than — read more

Mar 28, 2025
logged off: Listening

The movie Almost Famous made Philip Seymour Hoffman’s portrayal of Lester Bangs feel cuddly, like an old sweater pulled over the sharp bones of reality. That’s the Cameron Crowe effect. Even the most intolerable characters come lacquered in nostalgia, softened by the ebb and flow of a story so neatly woven it’s hard to tell — read more

Mar 9, 2025
logged off: Reading

There’s a shelf in my living room. My husband and I share it. His books are on one side, mine on the other, separated by two thin shelves like a border no one respects. Most of my books are unread. I pick them up, put them down, forget why I wanted them in the first — read more

Mar 5, 2025