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Detail from the cover art for Better Lovers' God Made Me an Animal features two dark figures with heart eyes attached to each other by their tongues. On each of their chests is one half of a broken heart.

Better Vibes With Better Lovers

By Ben Sailer • July 30th, 2024

Ben goes to see metalcore supergroup Better Lovers and comes away with a renewed affection for his city and the power of the riff.

Noise Complaint
Several guitar effects pedals are propped up on a stony outcropping on a mountain trail.

Kawaii, Kaiju, and Guitar Pedals: Window Shopping With Effects Bakery

By Ben Sailer • June 28th, 2024

Ben falls in love with an impossibly cute guitar pedal company that brings kawaii style and rock and roll together.

Holomatixx: A New Wave Order

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 10th, 2024

Coming at you straight from the Pink Aisle!

Casting Deep Meteo
A black-and-white photo of the Zazen Boys looking cool as cukes in their short-sleeved button-downs.

Zazen Boys and the Healing Riff

By Levi Rubeck • June 7th, 2024

Zazen Boys, even after so long, is clearly not afraid to confront multiple shades of life, breaking time and time signatures while remaining achingly human.

A screenshot from tchia with a colorful underwater scene with green kelp, blue fish, red and white coral, and a young girl scuba diving among it all

How Music Makes Tchia’s Story Hit Home

By Nina Penner and Paul Drotos • June 4th, 2024

The pastoral style isn’t as much about nature as it is about harmonious relationships between humans and nature.

Noise Complaint

May 2024

By Ben Sailer • May 24th, 2024

There’s no reason to believe there’s some sort of age cutoff where your place on stage has to be replaced with a seat at the bar.

Art from the movie Blue Giant with the title on the left and a young saxophone player in jeans on the right photographed from a low angle just wailing on his horn

A Duet of Anime and Jazz: An Interview with Director Yuzuru Tachikawa

By Autumn Wright • May 21st, 2024

“My intent was to especially treat live performances like what would be done for an anime action scene.”

Noah's Beat Box
A close-up photo of Drake on the Grammy Awards red carpet. A red "X" has been drawn over his face.

Post-Truth Beef

By Noah Springer • May 21st, 2024

This may become known as the first post-truth beef in hip hop.

Noah's Beat Box

Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Vinyl 4LP Boxset

By Noah Springer • April 10th, 2024

Of all the albums from the ’90s alternative rock scene, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is one of the most deserving for a deluxe treatment like this.

A grainy photograph of Kurt Cobain playing his guitar and singing into a mic while wearing a slip dress and rhinestone tiara.

Don’t Hurt Girls When You Dance (Or Any Other Time)

By Juno Stump • April 5th, 2024

We may never know for sure, but I think there’s a reason that so many trans women have been able to identify with Kurt Cobain’s joy, pain and suffering, so strongly.

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