Category: Music

No Accounting for Taste

Two swordsmen cross blades, each pushing hard against the other.

Music and Memory in Midgar

By Adam Boffa • November 12th, 2021

Final Fantasy VII Remake uses its music to dramatically reshape a familiar story.

Rookie of the Year

A sun, superimposed with a crosshair, sets behind a craggy mountain.

The Summers Wind

By Matt Marrone • November 8th, 2021

Sometimes nostalgia is a gut-punch from the past. Sometimes it’s a nice breeze. More often than not? It’s both.

The Beat Box

A man holds the hand of a young boy and points up towards the top of a tall building.

Noteworthy Hip Hop – October 2021

By Noah Springer • October 31st, 2021

Noah doesn’t review Donda.

The Beat Box

Noteworthy Hip Hop – September 2021

By Noah Springer • September 22nd, 2021

And now for something a little different.

Rookie of the Year

The Busking Stage from the Newport Folk Festival

Folk On

By Matt Marrone • August 24th, 2021

Matt goes outside, to a concert of all things!

The Beat Box

Noteworthy Hip Hop – August 2021

By Noah Springer • August 23rd, 2021

Noah goes mainstream!

Feature Excerpt

A naked person holds a tamed snake up for entertainment.

On Orientalism and Exoticism in Videogame Music

By William Dowell • August 18th, 2021

The insidious way that Orientalism exists in videogame music.

The Beat Box

Noteworthy Hip Hop – July 2021

By Noah Springer • July 30th, 2021

Chill beats to do stuff and improve one’s life to.

The Beat Box

A greyscale image album cover for Unlocked 1.5 by Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats.

Noteworthy Hip Hop – June 2021

By Noah Springer • June 30th, 2021

Noah moved this month but he still put this together for us all. What a guy!

Always Autumn

Egress

By Autumn Wright • June 3rd, 2021

Autumn explores cycles, hurtling towards the way out of things.

Exploits Feature

Variations

By Autumn Wright • June 1st, 2021

What these recordings offer in their canonization of different variations is a juxtaposition that glimpses lives and careers.

The Heavy Pour

An illustrated Gillian Anderson in bed with David Duchovny and Chris Carter based on the iconic photo.

Creep

By Sara Clemens • May 14th, 2021

Whatever makes you happy. Whatever you want.

Exploits Feature

Queer Black Manhoods

By Oluwatayo Adewole • May 3rd, 2021

Black men in the West are offered two models for existing and neither have room for queerness.

The two band members of 68 in a red stylized image, overlapping. This is a section of their album cover for Give One Take One

’68 Releases a Menu Worthy of the Meal

By Levi Rubeck • April 13th, 2021

This wasn’t a boast but a call-to-arms, and there are many who took on the charge.

Detail from the cover art for We are Always Alone of a girl in a schoolgirl outfit, a purple and red light above her head.

portrayal of guilt’s Anthems Against False Hope

By Levi Rubeck • April 5th, 2021

Anthems for sinking ships, as if the tide itself was a choleric spirit drawing you down to a lightless ocean floor.

The Beat Box

A man with smoke coming out of his mouth, standing in front of the American flag.

Noteworthy Hip Hop – March 2021

By Noah Springer • March 22nd, 2021

You’ve got to hunt for these albums!

Feature Excerpt

Painting of two people gathering potatoes.

Car Rides and Crooning: Bridging the Gap with A Woman’s Heart

By Christine M. Estel • March 18th, 2021

Music has a certain power to bridge the general divide.

World Tour

Australia

By Oluwatayo Adewole • March 9th, 2021

Throw something on the barbie, Tayo’s going down under!

The Beat Box

A man with gold teeth within concentric circles.

Noteworthy Hip Hop – February 2021

By Noah Springer • March 1st, 2021

Hey you guys! Noah is doing album roundups again!

Feature Excerpt

Videogame Chamber Music

By William Dowell • February 26th, 2021

“One Winged Angel” is plenty haunting to start but then you hear the string quartet version. Find out what goes into that.

Letter From the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – February 2021

By Stu Horvath • February 14th, 2021

February sure is long for the shortest month, right? Pass the time with the new Unwinnable Monthly.

Rookie of the Year

More Songs About Bob and Judy

By Matt Marrone • February 3rd, 2021

Did David Byrne invent Twin Peaks? Matt thinks so.

The Beat Box

RIP MF DOOM

By Noah Springer • January 29th, 2021

Just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man name.

Exploits Feature

Two Minutes to Late Night – Bedroom Covers

By Ed Coleman • January 3rd, 2021

Our pick for best thing on the internet that makes the pandemic bearable.

Fear of the Dark, Side B

By Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath • January 1st, 2021

Maiden Voyage season one wraps up with the departure of Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden! (Decades old) PLOT TWIST!

Rookie of the Year

365 Days of Halloween

By Matt Marrone • December 29th, 2020

Practically every time we saw Phoebe Bridgers in 2020, she was wearing a full-body skeleton costume.

Best of 2020

The Best Music of 2020

By Team Unwinnable • December 29th, 2020

Despite the shit show of 2020, musicians soldiered on, doing what they do and providing us all with the briefest of respites from staring at our phones, our walls or each other.

Fear of the Dark, Side A

By Ed Coleman and Stu Horvath • December 25th, 2020

Ho, ho, ho! What could be better than a new episode of Maiden Voyage for Christmas?!? What’s that? You had a whole list of things you asked for and a new Maiden Voyage episode wasn’t one of them? Well, consider this a fun, unexpected stocking stuffer!

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