Music Makers
We are so back with another rendition of Three Music Thingz, the blogseries where I ask musicians for three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Today we have willoh! The 19-year-old musician from Missouri has had a short but fruitful history of making idiosyncratic, ambient pop;
Music Molly
My friend Phoebe recently sent me a link to a Rolling Stone piece about the band Kim Theory—a quartet of L.A.-based teenagers making punk music, who named their band after the holy trinity of punk rock Kims of the late 20th century (Deal, Gordon, Shattuck). The thing
Music Molly
I want to tell you about the Taiwanese soft rock show on Friday, but I also want to tell you about the driving I did on the night of the Taiwanese soft rock show. Sometimes in L.A. a night is planned more around the driving one needs to do
Music Makers
A great music video can create an entire universe in the span of a single song. You press play and go through the portal. Your cells are altered, your vision adjusts to the concept of another dimension (another dimension...ₐₙₒₜₕₑᵣ dᵢₘₑₙₛᵢₒₙ). You leave changed, perhaps forever. Sorry, I'm
Music People
We are extremely back with Music Moots™, the blogseries where I ask someone to recommend me a song they like, and then I listen to the song and then write a little about it. Today we have Lauren Napier, a multi-hyphenate artist who recently published a memoir, Tattooed, Pierced,
Music Molly
Long time no megamix. I was getting hype for summer last time. Now summer...is over? Does anyone have a pencil sharpener I could borrow? I was reminiscing with my friend Dana about how one aspect of my elementary school personality was "feeling nervous about needing to get up
Music Molly
I couldn't really see Aldous Harding for much of her set at Pacific Electric last night. She was sitting down amid her ensemble, and the club was full of Talls. And normally I am not an "I must seeeee the singer everryyyyy secondddd" type of concert
Music Makers
We are extremely back with Music Moots™, the blogseries where I ask someone to recommend me a song they like, and then I listen to the song and then write a little about it. Today we have Half Nelson! Operating out of Louisville, Kentucky, the band—Ann Gilly on guitar,
Music Makers
In 2024, I went to an event thrown by Sunday Brunch Collective and sat at a table—could you call it a 'kiosk'? might be stealing Kiosk Valor to do so—with a sign in front of me, asking to talk about music. It was a great success.
a blog for people who enjoy music, by molly mary o'brien
I get so excited about new music from Ziemba that I feel like the artist name should be spelled and said with an exclamation point: Ziemba! I've been a fan of René Kladzyk's musical project since interviewing her for The Alternative—that chat was about the
We are extremely back with Music Moots™, the blogseries where I ask someone to recommend me a song they like, and then I listen to the song and then write a little about it. Today we have Zachshots! The NYC duo of Zach Galsky and Annika Haakonsen, who also play
Recently, my TikTok FYP blessed me with a video that seemed designed specifically for me to enjoy: a 21-year-old filmmaker named Hank Beaudoin, newly obsessed with LCD Soundsystem, went to a bunch of their 2025 Knockdown Center residency shows, then spent a whopping sum ($8K, to be exact)
I went to Olivia Rodrigo's inaugural one-day festival, Daisy Chain Fields, this past weekend. I wrote about it for Consequence, my first piece there: Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields Showed the Power of a Girls-to-the-Front FestivalOlivia Rodrigo’s inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival
We are so back with another rendition of Three Music Thingz, the blogseries where I ask musicians for three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Today we have Buttchug 69! Originally formed in Columbia, Missouri (and now living all over the U.S.), this three-piece indie rock
When the MTV Video Music Awards announced the nominees for Best New Artist, my favorite podcast Who? Weekly said it all by simply retweeting the @PopBase tweet of their names with no commentary. As a deep-fried millennial whose pop cultural consciousness-raising came pretty much directly from watching the
We are extremely back with Music Moots™, the blogseries where I ask someone to recommend me a song they like, and then I listen to the song and then write a little about it. Today we have Dan Boeckner! A Canadian indie rock legend who has played in some incredible
I ENJOY MUSIC VIDEOS! Here are some that I have enjoyed lately. "Love Is In The Rain" - Lane Love me some Lane. "Summer's here and there and everywhere /I can't complain" - yes! Wow, this is their first video—a collage affair directed
Much has been made of our current urban culture of line waiting. Frozen yogurt, matcha, pop-ups where you can try new beauty products, limited edition Trader Joes miniature tote bags. When I was in New York a few months ago, a street in Soho was shut down and segmented
The Ray Of Light album was the first Madonna album that came out after I started caring about and remembering music. I had already been listening to '80s Madonna since I was a kid—True Blue was one of the only albums I had on cassette, I would often
Sunday evening at Osheaga I couldn't stop crying! First I caught the end of Clipse's set and they played "The Birds Don't Sing" which is about the deaths of Pusha T and Malice's parents. Their visuals for that song were
We are so back with another rendition of Three Music Thingz, the blogseries where I ask musicians for three thingz that are essential to their music-making. Today we have Josaleigh Pollett! Pollett is a Salt Lake City, Utah-based singer-songwriter and a longtime fave of the I Enjoy
