Category: Music
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The Singles Bar: Leah Jane – Girl, You’re Fine
Leah Jane scrawls a much-needed pep talk with her new song, “Girl, You’re Fine.” Twinkling piano and jangly other instruments give the track a fluttering quality, as though she’s puffing dandelion seeds into the summer breeze. “Never thought I’d fix my broken heart,” she sings into a musical kaleidoscope. The production is glossy and perfectly…
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Beyond the Music: Leah Jane on Girl, You’re Fine
In 2026, I think we all need a little pep talk to get through the day. Leah Jane offers her new song, “Girl You’re Fine,” as a much-needed injection of optimism. It’s not easy to flip that switch from perpetual doom to joyous existence, and Jane makes it look, or at least sound, easy. In…
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The Singles Bar: Emily Hackett – Crowded Room
Making room for every part of yourself, particularly as you grow older, is an essential part of the human experience. Sometimes, it can be difficult to accept certain things, but it’s mostly a transcendent process. With her new song, “Crowded Room,” Emily Hackett works through her own development with a sharp-toothed pen. “There’s part of…
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The Singles Bar: EG Vines – I Like ’em Braindead
The Evil in the White House should be used to being skewered in art. From film to TV and music, creatives have and (hopefully) will continue letting the poisonous vipers they’re not wanted. With his new song “I Like ’em Braindead,” alt-rock slayer EG Vines worms his way into a scratchy, hypnotic alternative track that’d…
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The Singles Bar: Isabella Han-Bolelli – Asian Enough
Isabella Han-Bolelli confronts the feeling of not being “Asian Enough” with her new song. “How can I call myself Chinese when I butcher the five words of Mandarin I know? How can I call myself Chinese when I go to a Chinatown restaurant and the waiters see a foreigner?” she says about the song’s thematic…
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Record Revue: Psychic Lines – Horror Comedy
Reality is stranger than fiction these days. “In the grasslands, the fire is tall and proud,” sings Phil Jacob, known professionally as Psychic Lines. The eerie soundscape throbs with raindrops of synths and mourning. “In the Grasslands” shimmers beneath a cataclysmic collision of manmade forces, dark and twisted, and serves as a thematic backbone to…
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The Singles Bar: Kennedy Taylor – Burning on My Mind
Sometimes, obsession takes root in your soul and blossoms into something dark and twisted. That’s the feeling of listening to Kennedy Taylor‘s “Burning on My Mind.” Banjo dances in the background, as Taylor leans into a pop sunrise that casts a warm glow over the rest of the production. “I kept igniting the flame, but…
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The Singles Bar: Todd Adelman – This Rounds on Me
Songs like Todd Adelman‘s “This Rounds on Me” just make you feel all warm inside, as though you’ve taken a shot of whiskey and it’s quickly settling in your stomach. “Lay down your worries, leave them behind,” Adelman encourages over a rustic arrangement. “This rounds on me / You can get me next time.” It’s…
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Join B-Sides & Badlands in Raising Money for The Trevor Project This Pride!
The time is now. To come together. To raise money. To burn the MAGA system to the ground. For Pride 2026, B-Sides & Badlands is raising money for The Trevor Project to support vulnerable queer youth. The goal is $1,000, and I’m hoping we reach that, or better yet, exceed it. I have countless video…
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The Singles Bar: Tehya – Burn for Me
Tehya yearns to feel the heat from a crush, but there’s nothing, not even a tiny spark. “Burn for Me” swims in the rising tides of unrequited love. Her voice drips with the ache of unbridled desire. She can’t do anything but pour her heart out onto the record and just hope that same throbbing…
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Thrill Me: Faces of Death (2026)
Daniel Goldhaber’s Faces of Death reimagining (don’t call it a remake!) is easily one of my favorite remakes/reimaginings of all time (more on that soon…). It takes the source material and gives it a necessary upgrade. There’s an actual plot and characters to latch onto and follow! Dacre Montgomery delivers a particularly unsettling performance as…
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The Singles Bar: Ryann Ross – Irish Exit
There’s something beautifully haunting about Ryann Ross‘ “Irish Exit.” Its acoustic luminescence carves out a stunning and blinding sketch about love and scorn. “You don’t have to love me, if you won’t,” she sings, her voice charred and gritty. Drums thump; piano flutters, and Ross stands amidst a furiously and dangerously cold landscape. A frigid…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Neon Sines – Adeline
We all know how I feel about Neon Sines‘ latest song “Adeline” (psssst, I love it!), and we now have a video! Directed by Kenny Cash and Laura Cash, the visual splashes the audience with bursts of color—like you’d find in one of those Creepy Crawlers playsets from the ’90s—as it follows the duo becoming…
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The Singles Bar: Niko Moon – Rich Man
No matter where life takes us, there’s no straining the roots out of our blood. With his new song “Rich Man,” Niko Moon recenters himself on the things that actually matter in life—people and moments. Life is fleeting, so we’d better enjoy it while it lasts. “I’d be a rich man without a dollar to…
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Record Revue: Deblois – Cut and Run
When you hear Deblois rip into the title track, you get the very clear sense she’s lived so much life. Her voice is perfectly imperfect and world-weary, excavated from the earth, but it carries a special kind of warmth. There’s a coarseness to it, too, that shakes you and won’t let go. Deblois sketches her…
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