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BL Shirelle in action image courtesy of DJC Records

RSVP HEREBL Shirelle plays P.P.E. Into Prisons Zoom Benefit + MORE

Behind the screen, so much of the live show magic can be lost, but when I saw BL Shirelle during the Die Jim Crow Records P.P.E. Into Prisons Zoom benefit I couldn't look away. Her energy was so palpable it felt like we were in the same room together. BL Shirelle is a Philadelphia-based hip-hop...

Tarra Thiessen

RSVP HERENihiloceros Livestreams via Radio Free Brooklyn + MORE

He is always stage-side, taking photos and promoting every show happening that week on his band's social media accounts. From the looks of Instagram, he has taken the transition...

Tarra Thiessen

ONLY NOISEPlaylist for a Schoolgirl Crush

ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we’re shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, Erin Lyndal Martin shares a selection of songs that bring back the rush of a schoolgirl crush. No matter how old you get, there’s something that stays dreamy about...

Erin Lyndal Martin

ONLY NOISEBeautiful Losers

Repeat after me: Loser. Double loser. Whatever. Moron. If you were a certain age in the late 1990s, this insult – when paired with the correct hand motions – was the ultimate dis to peers, siblings, and losers of every stripe. The term “loser” in the nineties and early ‘00s was plastered all over...

Madison Bloom

ONLY NOISEMarching Songs

Despite their history, politics and pop culture have an unsteady relationship. When we look specifically at music and politics, there lies an on-again, off-again affair that is as fickle as a middle school romance.

Madison Bloom

ONLY NOISEMemento Mori-Alan Vega

“I think all art comes out of conflict.” It was the American novelist Joyce Carol Oates who spoke these words, but it was Alan Vega who lived them.

Madison Bloom