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Hannah Jadagu Hopes You Get All Her Time
By: Josh Kitchen / October 24, 2025 “When I give someone my time, that means everything.” On her new album Describe, Hannah Jadagu opens up about love, growth, and realizing her time is the most precious thing she can give. Photo Credit: Sam Wilbert “I love being around the people I care about, and when I give someone my time, that means everything. My friends know I’m an introvert, so when I say, ‘I hope you get all my time,’ I mean it.” This declaration from Hannah Jadagu

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Oct 24, 20256 min read


Lindsay Ell Still Believes In Magic
Lindsay ell Announces 2026 Headlining Tour And Talks New EP Fence Sitter By: Josh Kitchen / October 17, 2025 Photo Credit: Alyssa Lancaster With just a week until her new EP fence sitter drops, guitar virtuoso and singer-songwriter Lindsay Ell has announced a headlining tour set to kick off in January in London, before making her way through her native Canada, New York, and wrapping up at the iconic Troubadour in Los Angeles this March. Ell has been making dynamic, genre-blen

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Oct 17, 20256 min read


JULESY Is Ready To Flip The Bed
By: Josh Kitchen / October 16, 2025 Photo credit: Charlie Hyman "These songs represent a period I was growing out of; I could feel myself changing, and I needed to release them before moving on," the emerging Brooklyn-based alt-indie singer/songwriter JULESY told me about her debut LP, Flip The Bed. At just eight tracks and under half an hour, Flip The Bed offers a glimpse into an artist in metamorphosis. Her first EP, The Current Self, was aptly named—recorded as JULESY was

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Oct 16, 20256 min read


Seriously, She's Fine. Ariana And The Rose Talks Breakups, Bad Dates, And The Comedy In Dating
By: Josh Kitchen / October 10, 2025 Photo Credit: Lara Callahan “Everything’s perfectly all right now. We’re fine. We’re all fine here...

Josh Kitchen
Oct 10, 20258 min read


Dave Alvin: Blaster, Guilty Man, & King of California
By: Josh Kitchen / October 3, 2025 Photo credit: Steven Dewall Perhaps no lyric better captures Dave Alvin’s personal and musical ethos...

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Oct 3, 202511 min read


Creativity Is Stronger Than Destruction
Automatic on Their Stunning New Album Is It Now?

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Sep 24, 20258 min read


Had to Come Here to Go There: Tei Shi Reaches New Heights
By: Josh Kitchen / September 23, 2025 Photo Credit: Danica Robinson Tei Shi [pronounced TAY-shee] has been at it for a while. Born in...

Josh Kitchen
Sep 23, 20256 min read


Willin’: Lauren Lovelle Brings a Breath of Fresh Air to Country Music
By: Josh Kitchen / September 8, 2025 Photo by: Deanie Chen "I been warped by the rain, driven by the snow / I'm drunk and dirty, don't...

Josh Kitchen
Sep 8, 20255 min read


Skipping Around & Playin' Dumb: Tchotchke Return With An Instant Classic
By: Josh Kitchen / September 4, 2025 Photo by: Taryn Segal "Let you explain how the world’s gone insane / And all the while, roll my...

Josh Kitchen
Sep 4, 20256 min read


Kiss And Tell With garbagebarbie
By: Josh Kitchen / August 28, 2025 From left: Anson, Fletcher, Daniell, Braedon - Photo by: Josh Deangelis garbagebarbie are a good...

Josh Kitchen
Aug 28, 20255 min read


Japanese Breakfast Find The Bliss In Melancholy At The Santa Barbara Bowl
By: Josh Kitchen / August 25, 2025 All photos by the author "Life is sad, but here is someone, someone, someone," Michelle Zauner repeats...

Josh Kitchen
Aug 24, 20253 min read


Purity Ring Drop Breezy New Single: “imanocean”
The pioneering electronic duo will release their self-titled fourth album in September By: Josh Kitchen / August 21, 2025 Photo by:...

Josh Kitchen
Aug 21, 20258 min read


All in a Jobber’s Day’s Work: Booked to Lose, Built to Last
By: Josh Kitchen / August 18, 2025 Photo by: Natalie Piserchio In 2023, Stereogum released their 40 Best New Bands of 2023 list. Looking...

Josh Kitchen
Aug 18, 202511 min read


Escapism in Overdrive: Nova May’s Neon Manifesto
By: Josh Kitchen / August 4, 2025 All photos by: Clementine Morri s Styled by Nadia Martin NOVA MAY doesn’t just work hard—she builds...

Josh Kitchen
Aug 4, 20256 min read


On the Shoulders of Giants: Dagger Polyester Emerges
By: Josh Kitchen / August 1, 2025 Photo by: Richie Lee Davis Dagger Polyester is an artist in the truest sense of the word. Imagine Kate...

Josh Kitchen
Aug 1, 20256 min read


Kennedy Shaw Is Pulling Out of Here To Win
By: Josh Kitchen / July 31, 2025 Photo by: Jordan Fiordaliso Fifty years ago - next month, Bruce Springsteen released Born to Run , and...

Josh Kitchen
Jul 31, 20256 min read


Tchotchke Return With Beach Boys Inspired New Single "Poor Girl"
By: Josh Kitchen / July 2, 2025 Photo courtesy of Tchotchke Doe-eyed Dolly has her parents fooled, Cryin’ Crissy is crying because the...

Josh Kitchen
Jul 2, 20253 min read


All 83 Songs on Bruce Springsteen's Tracks II: The Lost Albums - Ranked
By: Josh Kitchen / June 27, 2025 For over a quarter of a century, the Bruce faithful have held out hope that an epic second set of...

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Jun 26, 202535 min read


Blu DeTiger on Brian Wilson, Carol Kaye, and Why Geniuses Play Bass
By: Josh Kitchen / June 20, 2025 Photo by: Lucas Creighton Blu DeTiger is a genre-blurring bassist, singer, and songwriter whose...

Josh Kitchen
Jun 20, 20255 min read


Sail On, Sailor - Matthew Sweet Remembers Brian Wilson
By: Josh Kitchen / June 18, 2025 Matthew Sweet performs at the Tribute to Brian Wilson in March, 2001, in New York, NY. (Paul...

Josh Kitchen
Jun 18, 20253 min read
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