Annie Nightingale didn’t only kick down doors in radio – she held them open by Fiona Sturges Fiona Sturges writes this splendid remembrance of Annie Nightingale, the first woman — and, for a shockingly long time the only woman — to … Continue reading Outside Reading — Spin with Me edition
Sometimes I want a track that absolutely pummels me. Don’t we all? Continue reading This Week’s Model — VIAL, “falling short”
It doesn’t feel like it’s been that long since the last proper studio album from Waxahatchee, but it has. The sterling Saint Cloud was released on the last week of March 2020, which placed it directly into the COVID time … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Waxahatchee, “Right Back to It”
HOTLINE TNT Cartwheel (Third Man) — The second album from Brooklyn-based band Hotline TNT is a ravishing mudslide of revival shoegaze. Largely the brainchild of Will Anderson, a transplanted Midwesterner who wears the influence of the many Minneapolis maestros of … Continue reading Medium Rotation — Cartwheel; Spiritual Cramp
“Heavy,” the new single from Dublin-based band Sprints, is about being wracked with anxiety, which seems like one of sanest topics for a powerful rock band to howl about in this age and day. The deadpan singsong of Karla Chubb’s … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Sprints, “Heavy”
In handing out plaudits around these here digital parts, the rundown of favored albums is typically followed by a set of similarly beloved tracks from the year just past. Unlike yesterday’s top ten assemblage, what follows here is not ranked, … Continue reading Five Songs from 2023
Taking one calendar off the wall to replace it with a new stapled-together procession of gridded-off months brings us back to this annual venture. I have no overarching observations about the year in music to tap out in this cursory … Continue reading Top Ten Albums of 2023
For the past few years, I come every Saturday to my little corner of the digital world to celebrate the pieces written by other people that most deeply burrowed into my brain when I read them during the preceding week. … Continue reading Outside Reading — Six from 2023
For the past thirteen years or so, I’ve known with certainty what would pop up in my little corner of the digital world every Sunday. It started when I stumbled upon a CMJ Radio Top Cuts chart that was published … Continue reading Countdown’s End
1. Go-Go’s, Beauty and the Beat (1981) The rejection letter was breathtaking in its condescension. By the time the Go-Go’s were sending their demo around to labels, they had already proved themselves and developing a growing following within their local … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #1
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