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Tag: Music

Charli xcx: Brat

It’s a rare thing I openly tell people I enjoy anything popular. It’s true, I don’t. I like popstars, though. The occasional dip into reality television because I love seeing gorgeous women, it girls, celebutantes. Charli XCX has made me aware of this because BRAT is an album that is self-aware of itself, what it — read more

Jun 13, 2025
Kenny Hoopla: how will i rest in peace if i’m buried by a highway?//

The first time I heard how will i rest in peace if i’m buried by a highway?//, I found myself startled by a random memory. I was sixteen again, in a car that smelled faintly of gasoline and fast food wrappers, listening to Bloc Party’s “Banquet” crackle through plastic speakers too small for the sound — read more

May 31, 2025
Bruce Springsteen: Borin in the U.S.A.

There’s a quote often attributed to Antonio Gramsci: “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.” As I type these thoughts, a lot has happened in America over the past five months. This month alone, Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s was arrested while — read more

May 27, 2025
And the Adjacent Possible Tour 2025

I like to test my luck—and this time, it paid off. I won two tickets to see OK Go live, something I genuinely never thought would happen in this lifetime. My fourteen-year-old self would’ve been absolutely ecstatic. Back when I lived in Makati, I bought their self-titled album OK Go on a whim from Tower — read more

May 21, 2025
Michelle Branch: Spirit Room

For the life of me, I wanted that blue Taylor 614ce. The one Michelle Branch held in old photographs—angled just so, girl and guitar gleaming like product and prophecy. I didn’t get the guitar. But I got the album. The Spirit Room. It came to me like most things did then: slowly, imprecisely, passed through — read more

May 10, 2025
Marina and the Diamonds: Family Jewels

I remember thinking Lady Gaga was referencing her—Marina and the Diamonds—in all those high-concept visuals, the performance art, the glamorous misery. Turns out it was Marina Abramović. Close enough. I’ve always been drawn to pop music that knows it’s pop music. Even when I was a scene kid in eyeliner and borrowed band tees, I — read more

Apr 21, 2025
Brand New: “Deja Entendu”

There isn’t much to say because I took a week to make this album review. Déjà Entendu by Brand New had always been such a pivotal part of my history as a teenager growing up in the early 00s. I admit I haven’t owned a single physical copy of Déjà Entendu. I was living in — read more

Mar 29, 2025