Photos: Emo Valentine’s with Loose Joints
Loose Joints and Track Meat photographed by Hannah Davis at the Emo Valentine’s Day show hosted by UMass SALT in Amherst, MA.
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On Healing & Hope: Saba’s Return With Few Good Things
How do we salvage a past comprised of fractured memories? How do we piece together the broken dreams of the men we reaped? Saba’s Few Good Things captures reconnection.
Dragon New Warm Mountain is an Equally Literary Experience As It Is Auditory
Their usual folk, pastoral sound, blends with surprising tracks guided by a synthesis of acoustic with drum pads and mainstream bass sounds. This all culminates in an album reminiscent of Fourth of July fireworks hitting suburban pavement and shooting into the sky above grass and wheat fields on the outskirts of town.
Staff Pix 2/11: Valentine’s Day
The Milk Crate staff considers their favorite songs for Valentine’s Day: the love songs, the anti-love songs, and Adam Sandler’s contribution to the holiday. Tune in Fridays from 1-2 EST to the Staff Pix radio show.
Hippo Campus LP3: Ode to the Audience
LP3 proves to be a synth-heavy, honest release concerning the importance of taking a step back and checking in on oneself.
Ants From Up There & The Future of Black Country, New Road
It’s a sophisticated, diverse, and sublimely self-referential album, trading the sharp and angular melodies of For the first time for a rounder and more relaxed sound.
Animal Collective’s Time Skiffs: Cool Dad Music
Time Skiffs is audibly sexy, swift, and smart. Animal Collective continues making contemplative and experimental music for contemplative and experimental people– And cool dads.
boylife’s first album release is a vulnerable vignette on life
As his first solo album, Yoo made this his most personal work yet. gelato functions as an honest exposé of the challenges many people face – religious trauma, prejudice, mental illness, gender identity, and even self-love. Together, gelato pieces together an honest vignette on growing up.
Ghent and the Promise of Culture
As I remain in this black hole of culture, I’m going to continue to travel, continue to consume different art, different literature, different films, and different music, even if it is all digitized. Once that black hole ends, I’ll be ready.