Josh Kitchen

By : Josh Kitchen / August 7, 2026 Photo Credit: Frank Ockenfels There's a moment toward the beginning of Phoebe Bridgers' new album Lost Weekend, where, after slowly reemerging from the proverbial Hobbit-hole she's been living in for the past few years, an ominous yet itchingly familiar male voice begins droning after a truly epic, Christopher Nolan The Odyssey-decibal level bass drop, followed by a fleeting guitar solo—a micro-epic of pent-up fury, cut short before it can fatally melt your...

By: Josh Kitchen / July 23, 2026 "Second wind, fill my sails and carry me again into the night / I will not be giving up the fight," Dent May sings on "Second Wind," the latest single from his upcoming seventh album, The Big One. It's another superbly polished and expertly crafted pop tune ahead of the album's release on August 14, but its optimism isn't immediate. In the new video for "Second Wind," May quite literally dances his way to salvation. "The song itself takes you on a journey from...

By : Josh Kitchen / July 3, 2026 Photo Credit : James Duran "I fucking knew it. I knew there was a piece of pencil stuck in me." ...is what Izzy DeVroede told me while discussing her brand-spankin'-new band, MOBY CLIT, and its debut single, "Lead Pencils," out today. She's not kidding either; she went on to show me a photo of a real jagged piece of graphite in her knee that had been there since she was in elementary school. [pictured below] It serves as a metallic razor-sharp metaphor for...