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Album Review: Various Artists – Barbie The Album

Lucas Martins·July 31, 2023

Barbie The Album is an exercise in balancing acts and compromises: Between the vision for a Barbie album...

Rob Hakimian·June 19, 2023

Of course Janelle Monáe has always been impossibly cool, but tracing the development of their music career is...

Rob H·December 8, 2022

Paramore are releasing a new album called This Is Why in February, and after sharing the title track...

Jeremy J. Fisette·September 19, 2022

There’s a certain gravity to a band releasing their 10th studio album. It’s basically the equivalent of a...

Lesbian Jesus, Hayley Kiyoko, is back with her latest single and “For The Girls” is the queerest track...

Tim Sentz·March 18, 2022

There are two Hollywood films titled Crash. One is the tone-deaf Oscar-baiting by Paul Haggis that’s almost universally...

Marc Griffin·January 19, 2022

Cordae has been praised by nearly every musical legend you can possibly think of. And for good reason....

Ana Leorne·November 8, 2021

Sometimes the fourth time is the charm – especially when it comes to establishing an indelible mark in...

John Amen·October 29, 2021

Todd Haines’s I’m Not There is overtly a fictionalized take on Bob Dylan’s mythologized persona. The movie focuses...

Rob H·October 26, 2021

Ahead of the release of their new album I Don’t Live Here Anymore this Friday, The War On...