20 Years of “The Sunlandic Twins”
I feel a deep, personal connection to this project as I have also been a twin for twenty years. While me being born was less influential on the evolution of psychedelic music, there’s still time.
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Staff Pix 3/21: New Releases
Here’s the new that the Milk Crate staff’s been listening to from the beaches of Miami. Happy Spring Break! “Unforgivable” by Alexandra Savior Doo wap sha blam sha boom! She’s back! “Unforgivable” officially breaks Savior’s five-year-long release drought. It’s a kind tune, notably less complex and heavy than hits from 2017’s Belladonna of Sadness and…
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Lady Gaga is back with “MAYHEM”– Kind Of
“Is the old Gaga back?”
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Staff Pix 3/7: Sample Crate
Your favorite artist’s favorite artist…literally. This week’s Staff Pix is in the interest of reduce, reusing, and recycling with samples and interpolations galore! “Your woman” by white town I cannot tell you the first time I consumed “Your Woman,” if anything, it was probably unconsciously as a small child, tumbling about on our swingset as…
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Ichiko Aoba and “Luminescent Creatures”
Here, Aoba has managed to transcend the starkness of her previous work and transmit something much more primal, creating music that exists somewhere between the stratosphere and the pummeling ocean waves.
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“Delete Ya” and the anatomy of a breakup
“Delete Ya” singles out that broken piece, calling out to anyone who has uttered the sentence: “I wish we never met.”
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Karen Carpenter’s Timeless Soundscape
Every time I listen to her ballads, my heart swells with emotion. Her lyrics are poetry and the honesty in her tone elevates every word.
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Joost Celebrates His Past, Present, and Future on “Unity”
Joost is not only fun, but inspiring: He’s simply a boy with dreams.
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Staff Pix 2/28: Dive Bar Anthems
Another beer? Sure! Split your last one on the photo booth? Hey that’s okay… this is a place for loving hard and getting sloppy! It’s the dive bar for god sake! Throw another quarter in the jukebox and let’s find out what the Milk Crate staff’s queued up. “Lazy Eye” by Silversun Pickups This classic….
