When I saw U.S. Girls for the first time at SXSW last year, it nothing short of changed my life. It was the last day of my last anticipated SXSW and I was standing in the basking 5pm sun in … Read the rest
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Can You Break Sometimes: Blood Orange and the Future Past
What does it mean to go back to who/where you used to be? What does it mean to go forward from going back? In late September, I returned to Central Park Summerstage for the first time in over a decade … Read the rest
Fever Ray, FKA twigs, and (Queer) Intimacy
May 12, 2018. I’m back in Brooklyn. More specifically, I’m back at Brooklyn Hangar in Sunset Park for another show during Red Bull Music Academy’s annual May residency in NYC. When I was living in Brooklyn from the fall of … Read the rest
Kelela in Three Acts
“Some of you don’t know who the fuck I am. My name is Kelela.”
It’s Friday afternoon at the Pitchfork SXSW day party at Barracuda and Kelela is midway through her set as the headlining act. After doing the three … Read the rest
We’ll Do It Again (In A World At War)
In the middle of the summer of 2017, Lana Del Rey’s Lust For Life entered the musical atmosphere like a whirlwind, a mixture of vulnerability, politics, and pop hooks that pulled in many different directions while simultaneously keeping its course … Read the rest