Yo, I'm porting over my newsletter's renowned content series MUSIC MOOTS™ to this-here blog. For those who don't know, this is when I ask someone I know either IRL or URL to recommend me a song to listen to that they've been
Oh my god, something is happening at the intersection of music and the internet, so you know I (Molly O'Brien) have to be there with my own thoughts and opinions. A few days ago, a video popped up on my TikTok For You page of a young man
I saw a Todd in the Shadows tweet last night and was going to quote-tweet it to respond but then I was like, well, this blog is supposed to be for random music thoughts, and I have one this very moment...why not just blog about it? No character limit
New chune out from Chicago's Griefeater — a reflective, just-shy-of-doom-y rock song that builds to a big stormy finish. If you like to hear someone just absolutely WAILING on the crash cymbal as an act of emotional exorcism, you will love "Dust." This is off their upcoming
Jocelyn, Jocelyn, Jocelyn. The music video shoot doesn't match your vision. The dancing isn't as tight as it could be. And if this song flops, it is going to be so fucking embarrassing. It is only natural to blow off some steam with some buds, and
IT'S JENNY DAY!! I just listened to Joy'All, the latest, newly-released album from Jenny Lewis. Ms. Lewis has put out four studio albums with Rilo Kiley, one as Jenny & Johnny with her ex-partner Johnathan Rice, one with the all-female band NAF, and now four solo
Call me old-fashioned but I love trying to pick out songs of the summer just to be cheeky. Last year, realistically, it was "Girls" by the Dare even though I don't think that song came out 'til August. This year my first pick was "
I am committed to watching as many fictional portrayals of female pop stars as possible — from Lady Gaga's incredible omega-grindset torch-singer Ally in A Star Is Born to Natalie Portman's baffling, household cleaning product-quaffing Celeste in Vox Lux — therefore it is my duty to watch the
I have gone zero to 1000 on GHÖSH: a Philadelphia duo bringing the sounds of jungle, nü metal, grime, punk, hip hop, and horrorcore together, blending them into a gnarly smoothie, and serving it up with a sinister smile and a splash of your choice of canned energy drink on
I slept on Sparks for so long, even though they've been referenced constantly as inspiration for other artists in interviews I've read over the years. Then I finally got Sparkspilled with the Edgar Wright doc The Sparks Brothers — GREAT movie. FUN movie. CLEVER editing. I watched
I heard this song at a rooftop bar in Brooklyn Bridge Park yesterday. It was absolutely perfect weather, and everywhere there were young women donning fresh Eras Tour merch and moms struggling to maneuver strollers around big metal umbrellas. The tunes played at the joint were not super interesting to
Yesterday Kabir Kumar, who plays guitar in Guppy and has a solo project Sun Kin (I interviewed him about it for The Alternative), announced a new project called Left Tracks. It's a collaboration with his friend DI LEO and the first song, "Colorways," has awakened my