Pop, Lock & Bops: Best of March 2018
Enjoy songs by Leann Rimes, UNBLOOM, Halo Circus, Ross Cooper, Prince Fox and more!
Welcome to Pop, Lock & Bops, a monthly playlist series documenting our favorite windswept country tunes, heartfelt tearjerkers and down-right intoxicating dirty-pop club bangers.
Trixie Mattel ruffled some feathers on some corners of the blogosphere recently, but great art is supposed to elicit strong reactions, yeah? She’s bold, beautiful and fearless ⎯⎯ and making some of the best damn country music this year. One Stone is refreshingly honest about her journey, of feeling suffocated by the world and its archaic traditions. She bares her heart and soul for the world without fear of recourse. It’s lovingly built on real instruments and a feathery but brawny vocal. There’s no disclaimer, no unnecessary instructions for her to ditch her sequins and vibrant makeup. She lives fiercely, and we could all learn a thing or two from her. If you find her aesthetic “shock”-ing, you haven’t seem much of the world, have you?
So, her standout “Little Sister” begins the latest edition of Pop, Lock & Bops, a monthly playlist highlighting the best new songs. She’s followed quickly by Courtney Marie Andrews‘ career-defining performance of “May Your Kindness Remain,” the title cut to her eight studio record (peep our review), Exnations‘ sonic battle cry “Can’t Get Hurt” and Fickle Friends‘ ’80s-plunged “Wake Me Up,” the opener to their long-awatied debut, You are Someone Else (which is easily the year’s best pop album so far).
B-Sides & Badlands has compiled 70 songs in total for your perusing, ranging from such Americana-smoked musicians as Ashley McBryde, Great Peacock and Ross Cooper to the invigorating, rooftop daze of Prince Fox, Halo Circus, Calum Scott, George Ezra, The Aces, Todrick Hall, OMYO, FRANKIIE, Kate Nash and THRILLCHASER.
But the playlist doesn’t stop there. We’ve also got CHVRCHES, Kodaline, UNBLOOM, Lexxi Saal, Whiskey Wolves of the West, Jukebox the Ghost, Hayley Kiyoko, Jessie Reyez and Towers and Trees, among others.
Writer Chris Will also contributed his personal favorites.
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