Past Presence The Wake of the Wake By Dr. Emily Price • June 30th, 2023 Folk-punk, increasingly experimental band AJJ is best listened to when you randomly remember them, like a book of poems you skim through annually and then put back on the shelf.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – June 2023 By Noah Springer • June 28th, 2023 It’s half-way through 2023 somehow, so it’s time to round up some notable releases from the first half of the year.
Feature Excerpt Don’t Hurt Girls When You Dance (Or Any Other Time) By Juno Rylee Schultz • June 23rd, 2023 I don’t know if Kurt Cobain would still be here today if he had the ability to inject estrogen instead of heroin, but I know his journal pages carry the same pain as me.
Always Autumn Last Night I Went to a House Show By Autumn Wright • June 13th, 2023 Folded arms, cold gazes, straight couples dressed like they wanna be at a club in Williamsburg, which is to say “Kind of gay, but don’t be mistaken.”
The Burnt Offering The Kosmische Cosmos By Stu Horvath • June 6th, 2023 Electronic music is thoroughly modern music. And the truth about the folklore that these sorts of projects score is that it’s thoroughly modern folklore.
Noise Complaint Black Metal Mythmaking, Gatekeeping, and Points In Between By Ben Sailer • May 31st, 2023 Black metal musicians have long used secrecy and controversy to generate notoriety.
Noise Complaint Calling In a Noise Complaint By Ben Sailer • April 26th, 2023 After four and a half years of writing the Collision Detection column, Ben starts something new by going back to something old.