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Bright Eyes’ elegiac I Will be Grateful For This Day, a deep cut rarity never included on an official album release, is one of the most powerful tracks in their considerable catalogue. Featuring an against-brand electronic dance beat, lead singer/songwriter Conor Oberst waxes nostalgic about people’s he’s left behind in his home town of Omaha, Read more

Well, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? I guess that after single handedly saving the drill genre with my last album note, the gargantuan effort caused my creative brain to go into a brief stasis, from which I’ve just recently awoken. The End of the Touris James Ponsoldt’s second major film, following his The Spectacular Read more

Drill music is under attack! That particular flavor of rap, birthed in the underbelly of Chicago’s poorest districts and characterized by its plain spoken and nihilistic lyrics, became a local hit immediately, better reflecting the reality of survival for many living outside the notice of politicians and social safety nets. Its videos tend to be Read more

Que extraño…. how odd, indeed. Here we are barreling toward the spring, on the verge of world war, declaring victory over a pandemic that’s lasted ~3 years in a way that still somehow seems premature. These and other factors have contributed to an incredibly exhausting month and a painful playlist cycle, which is also thanks Read more

In Ancient Greek myth, Cassandra is one of the more interesting mortal figures. As a Trojan priestess of Apollo she was compelled to chastity (like a nun) — so when Apollo himself made a sexual advance on her, she naturally rejected him. His answer was to curse her with the gift of perfect prophecy — Read more

Apple MusicSpotify Not Fade Away I believe that one of the quickest ways to take a culture’s temperature, to really get a sense of the national mood, is to look at to what extent it is indulging in nostalgia. Glorification of the past tends to indicate hopelessness for the future, a sentiment that seems to Read more