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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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Listening Party: Spirit Room by Michelle Branch
For the life of me, I wanted a blue Taylor 614ceβthe 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 β read more
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Listening Party: The Family Jewels by Marina and the Diamonds
I remember confusing Marina and the Diamonds with Marina AbramoviΔ. 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 β read more
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Listening Party: Deja Entendu by Brand New
DΓ©jΓ Entendu by Brand New is an album meant for nostalgia and emotional complexity. It shaped my adolescence, even though I never owned a physical copyβjust 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 β read more
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