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.
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Finding Meaning within the Madness with Winkler
Meet Winkler, masterful cultivators of the vibe and purveyors of a great time.
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Snail Mail Reclaims the Stage
Valentine, an album that fell flat for many, including our own Izzy Desmarais, truly did the opposite live. The vulnerability of presenting deeply intimate lyrics live is no small feat, and Jordan truly bared her soul out on stage.
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Sidney Gish Comes Home to Boston
Sidney Gish greeted me backstage in the Paramount theater, perched alone on a chair in a dressing room that dwarfed her. On and off stage, she is a self-contained unit of musical energy, a one-woman band with a loop pedal and an ear for the perfect layered sound.
