Category: Music
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The Singles Bar: Allison Leah – I Didn’t Know I Was Growing Up
“Time is slipping through my fingers,” sings Allison Leah with raw delicacy. “And I’ve been wishing it away.” That’s the real tragedy of human nature, isn’t it? As they say: youth is wasted on the young. We never know what we need or how to get what we want. We simply bumble our way through…
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Throwback Thursday: Hannah Montana’s ‘The Best of Both Worlds’ still a banger, 20 years later
In a past life, I worked the Speedway attraction at Disney World. I was 22, right out of college, and needing a holiday following a four-year acting intensive at West Virginia University. I didn’t know what I wanted out of life, but I knew I needed to be there. I grew up in the era…
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The Singles Bar: Wax Owls – Freckle
The one constant in life: human relationships are damn complicated. Indie folk band Wax Owls sculpt their song “Freckle” with this deep, rich understanding that existence is a series of intricate puzzle pieces that take time to properly fit together. “It used to be healthy to stay,” they sing. Their vocal adornments are profounding (and…
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Song Premiere: Brand New Heartache – Precious Days
To cherish life’s goodness, we have to endure the bad. Brand New Heartache (comprised of husband-wife duo Eleese and Matthew Meschery) learn that hard truth inside their new song, “Precious Days.” Evidenced by their live video (below), the song exudes an intoxicating warmth and gallop that’s akin to a horse reaching the horizon. “It took…
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The Singles Bar: Emily Vu – Attention
Emily Vu is about to get your undivided attention. Her new song “Attention” feels like a song you’d grind to at a dirty, invitation-only dance club down a back alley in NYC (complementary). Synths cry against a dark and deceptively somber backdrop, as Vu’s voice seductively slithers along a melody that’s like sweat dripping down…
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The Singles Bar: Dagny – Closet Disco Queen
Dagny takes a cue from Madonna for her brand new song, “Closet Disco Queen.” The spiritual successor of “Vogue” and “Express Yourself,” Dagny’s dance-floor confetti explosion turns the synths up to 100 and lets the sweltering heat sweep you away. Bodies grind; sweat glistens; and the night stretches on forever. “I’m gonna dance my heart…
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The Singles Bar: Adam Mac – Hate to See Me Coming
Country music has always been so gay. Look at rhinestone-studded nudie suits for crying out loud! While The Cowgays are taking over the scene, trio member Adam Mac continues his firestorm of solo music. His new song, “Hate to See Me Coming,” sees him reclaiming a genre he grew up loving but never saw himself…
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Record Revue: Kacey Musgraves – Middle of Nowhere
If you remember, Kacey Musgraves first became a meme following the 2013 CMA Awards. During Miranda Lambert‘s acceptance speech for Female Vocalist of the Year, the camera panned to Musgraves, whose natural resting face caused quite a stir. That ignited perceived bad blood between the two for 13 years, and the duet partners confirm suspicions…
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Thrill Me: The Bride!
If you’re queer, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! likely smacked you squarely across the face. It did to me at least. This week’s Thrill Me playlist unsurprisingly centers on, well, The Bride (Jessie Buckley), and features bold and dark songs. Some brim with unfettered feminine/trans/queer rage. Others are musically somber, dimly lit, and carry significant, throbbing…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Love, BB – Solitaire
Take a stroll down a dark alley to the local jazz club. It’s filled with smoke, and the dim light casts eerie shadows over the crowd. That’s what Love, BB (comprised of Brooke Backman and songwriter/producer Michael Leviton) beckon you to do with their new music video, “Solitaire.” Its classic film noir aesthetic is not…
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Thrill Me: Send Help
As India Ramey sings in the title track to her new album: “Welcome to my villain era!” It’s true. The past week has been a whirlwind of WTF and sadness. But like a phoenix rising from the ashes, I’m here. I have my health. I have my cats. And I have friends who care. That’s…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Psychic Lines – Horror Comedy
With animation by BPMT Studios, Psychic Lines‘ “Horror Comedy” video satiates my bloodlust for visual butchery. The images flicker past the eyeballs like some twisted acid trip. Heightening the barbed lyrics, lobbied at political power players, the musical buffet blasts you with bursts of color and hypnotic distortions so severe that it’ll toss you into…
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The Singles Bar: Daniel Arison – Sad
Feeling sad? In total despair? Or maybe you’re numb? Well, Daniel Arison has the syrupy elixir for you. “I lost someone I never had,” he sings in his effervescent new banger, “Sad.” Like all deceptively chipper pop tracks, overwhelming sadness is masked beneath waves of juicy production. Just how I like it. When summer hits,…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Juana Everett – Whatever It Takes
“Whatever It Takes” is like stepping back in time. Laundry day with Nana. Driving to the local Pigly Wigly. Taking that leisurely walk down by the lake after Sunday school. Juana Everett enlists Dylan LeBlanc for the honeyed and homey little number, paired with an equally cozy visual that’s just like warm butter in a…
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The Singles Bar: Moncrieff – Point Me to the Sky
Moncrieff is committed to making me cry no matter what. His new, deceptively anthemic “Point Me to the Sky,” explodes with some of his most earnest and vulnerable lyrics to date. “I burned all of my sage, but I’m still haunting my bedroom,” he sings. That emotional tug-of-war forms the bedrock of the song, moments…
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