On Revisiting 3614 Jackson Highway (1969)
When most people think about Cher, they think diva. They think about her …
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The Next Great Venue: Live Music at a Distance
Whether it be an enormous concert hall, a hole-in-the-wallbar, or packed Allston basement —it all came to a halt in March…
The Poetic Irreverence of Cadderwall
Clem Cahill has just skated home from their bi-weekly Covid test. They text me that they might run a little late…
Staff Pix: Best of the 2000s
The Milk Crate staff’s favorite tracks of the week, presented with blurbs worthy of a promotional sticker on a CD release…
The Odd Musical History of ACAB
By now everyone has heard the term ACAB, “All Cops Are Bastards”. While it’s been in circulation in leftist…
Nappy Nina’s New Single “Weight” Speaks to the Experience of Black Isolation
Oakland-born rapper Nappy Nina, best known for their 2019 album The Tree Act…
Redefining Folk via Fast Folk Musical Magazine
When I bought a random edition of Fast Folk Musical Magazine’s LP compilation series this summer, I had no idea…
Phonk, Fonk, Funk, and France?
When phonk entered the mainstream around 2017, it became a fitting score for skate videos, chill music live streams, and any other setting that fit the vaporwave fad. Almost four years later…
Revisiting Elliott Smith’s Figure 8
There is something haunting about the final track of Elliott Smith’s Figure 8. Titled “Bye”, an instrumental lullaby of sorts, it ends the last album that Smith would…