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PREMIERESt. Lorelei Ponders the Moon and the Matrix on Debut LP Beast

Lorelei - likes to create worlds with her lyrics. "I tend to write material that's based on more of an internal world, whether that's about love or just imagining fictitious...

Annie White

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NEWS ROUNDUPInternational Women's Day, Leaving Neverland, and MORE

Maggie Rogers, Mavis Staples, Phoebe Bridgers and Brandi Carlile meet at Newport Music Fest. Photo by Danny Clinch. The artists shared this photo along with messages of empowerment for International Women's Day via Twitter. It's International Women's Day! Though some form of International Women's...

Lindsey Rhoades

ONLY NOISELike A Summer Thursday

One of my favorite descriptions of summer, particularly its languid, melancholy months, comes from Don DeLillo’s first novel, Americana: “Summer unfolds slowly,” DeLillo writes, “a carpeted silence rolling out across expanding steel, and the days begin to rhyme, distance swelling with the bridges,...

Madison Bloom

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 NOISELove Songs (Without All That Baggage)

I speak from personal experience when I say that dating a socially inept log who, literally cannot “get with my friends,” is nothing short of excruciating.

Madison Bloom