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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Joji evolves on “Nectar” in an unprecedented way
Since the very beginning of his musical career, George Kusunoki Miller, better known by his stage name Joji…
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Staff Pix: Halloween Edition
The Milk Crate staff’s favorite tracks of the week, presented with blurbs worthy of a promotional sticker on a CD release…
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Pamela Adlon’s Musical Intimacy in Better Things
Pamela Adlon loves music. “I collect hella vinyl,” she tells Pitchfork.
