a very nice chat with Nancy-Bleu and Maggie, two artists making their way

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.

behind the video with Ziemba ("We Implode")

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

Music Moots with Zachshots

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

vlog yrself clean with Hank Beaudoin

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)

pluckin a few extra petals from Daisy Chain Fields

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

Three Music Thingz with Buttchug 69

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

i tried to learn about all of the 2026 VMA Best New Artist nominees and then i got upset

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

Music Moots with Dan Boeckner

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

a roundup of indie music videos with the effervescence of a freshly opened can of seltzer

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

through the portal at the king gizzard synth table pop-up

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

thinking about "ray of light" as i often tend to do

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

i saw every group with "wolf" in their name at osheaga 2026, AMA

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