Love Sux proves Avril Lavigne is the queen of pop-punk
Avril Lavigne Love Sux DTA / Elektra · February 25, 2022 […]
Articles by Molly Larson
With Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, Big Thief creates a gem
Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You 4AD · February 11, 2022 […]
Pip Blom’s sophomore album, Welcome Break, comes up short
Pip Blom Welcome Break Heavenly · November 12, 2021 Welcome Break is the sophomore album of the Dutch alt-rock quartet Pip Blom. The quartet is led by a vocalist and guitarist of the same name and her brother, Tender. The siblings grew up listening to their parents’ British rock records and these influences are the […]
Okay Kaya’s voice is the perfect vessel for the haunting intimacy of The Incompatible Okay Kaya
Okay Kaya The Incompatible Okay Kaya Jagjaguwar · October 22, 2021 The Incompatible Okay Kaya is the fourth album Kaya Wilkins has released under her stage name, Okay Kaya. In her Spotify description, Wilkins describes herself as “Singer-crywanker, Maker of Smut pop, Kind of like seasoning, A little someone for anything, Meme approved, Bottom.” The […]
SONGWRIGHTS APOTHECARY LAB is an artful investigation of music as healing
Esperanza Spalding SONGWRIGHTS APOTHECARY LAB Concord · September 24, 2021 The SONGWRIGHTS APOTHECARY LAB album is the culmination of three periods of reflection, collaboration, and contemplation led by Esperanza Spalding and her cohorts in a project of the same name. Esperanza Spalding (also known as Irma Nejando or i.e.) is a renowned vocalist, bass player, […]
Mild High Club’s Going Going Gone feels like a good day waiting to happen
Mild High Club Going Going Gone Stones Throw · September 17, 2021 Going Going Gone is the third album of Alex Brettin’s solo project, Mild High Club. It comes five years after his ambitious sophomore album, Skiptracing. Brettin’s musical style seamlessly fuses indie, pop, psychedelic, and jazz elements to create layered tracks that defy genre. […]
Meet the WRBB x LMA Spring Show Lineup: Louis The Child
Bedroom Discotheque, a collaboration between WRBB and LMA, takes place on Wednesday, April 14, from 8-9 p.m. EDT! Take a minute to get familiar with Louis The Child, and we’ll see you at the show. North Shore Chicago-based duo Louis The Child – composed of Robby Hauldren and Freddy Kennett – began making music together […]
Writhing Squares’ ‘Chart For The Solution’ is a relentless cacophony that is almost too much to bear
Writhing Squares Chart For The Solution Trouble In Mind · March 26, 2021 Philadelphia-based duo Kevin Nickles (sax, flute, synth) and Daniel Provenzano (bass, vocals) bring forth relentless musical chaos as Writhing Squares. Chart For The Solution is their third studio album, and contains two LPs. The double album is “chock full of…heady, progressive, psychedelic […]
Chad VanGaalen’s ‘World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener’ is a wonderful pile of garbage
Chad VanGaalen World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener Sub Pop · March 19, 2021 Chad VanGaalen likes to eat his vegetables like a deer grazing through the garden – “I get down on my knees…It’s nice to feel the vegetables in your face,” he says. His eighth studio album, World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener, is a […]
Fruit Bats’ ‘The Pet Parade’ is a timely contemplation of isolation and existence
Fruit Bats The Pet Parade Merge · March 5, 2021 The Pet Parade is the eighth studio album from Eric D. Johnson’s indie folk-rock project, Fruit Bats. Johnson named the album and its titular track after the wonderfully bizarre pet parade outside of Chicago that he attended with his grandmother as a child. From this […]