This Baby Don’t Cry

K.Flay was peak pop culture in 2017. She was No.1 Most Relatable, and also most played on the radio. Then she kind of dropped off. Her third album came out just 2 years after her breakout, but it just didn’t click the same. Nevermind it, …

Things I Say When You Sleep

I recently stumbled on Nina Nesbitt, an indie singer-songwriter from Scotland. She is not exactly a hitmaker or a household name. If anything, she’s best known for selling songs to better known artists. (A valid way to make a living.) She fits right into the …

The Thing Is

Foxygen never lived up to the high of their first album, which was a note-perfect pastiche of 60’s West Coast psychedelia, complete with woozy references to San Francisco flower children. You can’t blame them for not trying to spend the rest of their lives as …

The Thing About Things

Amanda Palmer is not for everybody. For every fan who wants to tattoo her autograph on their body (me) there is someone who finds her intensely offputting. She manages to upset people of all persuasions, for many reasons. She upsets the usual suspects who disagree …

There Goes My Miracle

Bruce Springsteen is among those whose singing career came about in spite of his technical limitations as a singer. One of those people who get up and sing out of some inner emotional drive to do so, rather than a natural gift for it. Many …

Thanks for the Dance

Any artist who has the temerity to die before the public is done with them, will inevitably have every scrap of unreleased material posthumously disinterred. This can be undignified or downright ghoulish, especially if the person’s death was untimely. Leonard Cohen’s passing was anything but …

thank u, next

I don’t have much use for the personal life travails of pop stars anymore; caring about celebrities’ personal lives is soooo 2005. But you’d have to be living in a hermetically sealed bunker to not have heard about the no-good very bad years that Ariana …

Terraform

The Dandy Warhols have been keeping the American alternative rock scene weird since the mid-90’s. They may never be a household name, but their legacy as a cult band is secure. It’s become hard to find records that are freewheelingly weird, and The Dandy Warhols …

Tempo

Lizzo wants you to have a Self-Love Summer. Every summer. And all year round too, please. The body positivity and size diversity movement has been mainstreaming for some time now – to the point that now even longtime holdout companies like Victoria’s Secret have bent …

Tell Me Lies

Here’s something by The Black Keys, a group that I don’t listen to very much, because of stupid reasons. Because a long, long time ago I read somewhere that Jack White doesn’t like them, and if Jack White thinks that their blues rock is inauthentic …