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PLAYING PHILLYSea Offs Take Root with Playful, Soothing Dream Folk EP

When I met Sea Offs months ago at my favorite coffee shop, I didn’t expect that our meeting spot would soon close down, or that I’d eventually write about the band while watching the children across the street play outside in hand-sewn masks. Similarly, Sea Offs didn’t...

Amanda Silberling

ONLY NOISE20 Years Ago, Outkast and Goodie MOB Were the Soundtrack to My Budding Bisexuality

ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we’re shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, Rebecca Bodenheimer reflects on an important friendship with a fellow fan of Southern rap legends Outkast and Goodie MOB - one that would eventually lead to her...

Rebecca Bodenheimer

INTERVIEWHailey Wojcik

The title of Hailey Wojcik's single "XO Skeleton" presents an excellent opportunity to examine the artist as a whole. It's cute yet creepy, with a wink of charm that rightly earned her the description "the Wednesday Addams of her genre," a characterization I wish I had come up with myself....

Sophie Saint Thomas