Guess That Makes Me the Supervillain
I think there’s a Shakespeare in every corner of the South Bronx. And maybe a few Homers sprinkled throughout Fort Greene. All my favorite poets have always been rappers.
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Songs We Used to Hate (But Now We Love)
The Milk Crate staff considers the music we didn’t like at first but grew to love. A portion of this article is featured in our Spring 2022 zine “Guilty Pleasures”.
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Big Thief Stole My Heart
Big Thief has been one of the best concert experiences I’ve had ever, period.
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A Playlist for a Sunset Flagstaff Hill Celebration
We’re finally two-thirds of the way through April, and we’ve got music to help you celebrate this extravagant occasion that is the twentieth of August.
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Be Patient, TikTok Singer-Songwriter Ash Tuesday Works Best On Her Own Time
With around 20k followers on the video-making platform and 40k streams on Spotify for her debut single, “Calypso”—a midwestern emo-esque lo-fi track about a love tainted by Stockholm Syndrome, like that of the relationship between the siren Calypso and Odysseus—Ash remains humble in the face of her rising popularity.
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It’s All Just a Dream, and I (Don’t) Wanna Wake Up: Lorde at the Wang Theatre
Lorde’s performance reaffirmed why I love going to concerts.
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Staff Pix 4/15
The Milk Crate staff’s favorite recent releases, presented with blurbs worthy of a promotional sticker on a jewel case. Tune in Fridays from 1-2 EST to the Staff Pix radio show.
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Wet Leg Rises from the “Chaise Longue” to Make Debut Album
Wet Leg released their self-titled debut album last Friday, April 8, with Wet Leg, a twelve-song ode to heartache, introversion, and disappointment. The album culminates much of the band’s inner turmoil surrounding relationships and love without the typical melancholy tone of heartbreak songs.
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Lizzy McAlpine’s Rebrand in five seconds flat
Lizzy McAlpine is honing her craft in five seconds flat, outgrowing her previously established acoustic shell and layering her songs with a new level of emotional depth. This record incorporates a storyline of love and heartbreak with instrumentals that convey the story with heavy plucking of strings, crescendos and staccatoed strums, and exposes a new side to McAlpine’s music— one that shows more than the joy and brightness of love.
