Category: Music
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Charli XCX: “how i’m feeling now” Album Review

One of the biggest reasons people flock to Charli so easily is because she’s a creative thinker who never takes herself too seriously.
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Hayley Williams: “Petals For Armor” Album Review

“The part of me that feels the most feminine is when I can really tap into how disgusting it gets.” – Hayley Williams
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Stonewall Initiative Virtual Concert Highlights

The Stonewall Gives Back Initiative partnered with WOW Presents last night to put together a virtual concert with a lineup of LGBTQ+ artists and allies for a fundraiser aimed at helping the queer nightlife workers affected by COVID-19. Here are some performance highlights from the livestream. (Donate here: https://stonewallinitiative.org/donate) 1. Kim Petras – Kim Petras…
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Rina Sawayama “SAWAYAMA” – Album Review

Rina Sawayama has been making waves across the globe for the past three years with ethereal synth pop records, and this new era shows her willingness to experiment with different sounds. Her brand new full-length project, “SAWAYAMA,” is a genre-defying mashup of breezy dancepop production on pulsing queer club anthems like “Comme Des Garçons (Like…
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Here’s Why Pitchfork Gave Fiona Apple’s “Fetch the Bolt Cutters” a 10/10

I will never forget the first time I heard Fiona Apple’s soul-crushing voice ringing through the speakers in my childhood bedroom. I had just finished my freshman year of college and was beginning to undergo the growing pains of transitioning into adulthood, and the only escape I found was through music. One night I was…
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Queering Gerard Way: Unconventional Weapons & Lola’s Pronouns

When people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up as a kid and I would tell them I wanted to be the lead singer of My Chemical Romance, they would get visibly uncomfortable or laugh nervously like it was a joke, almost like they thought I should feel shame for…
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Album Review: Dua Lipa “Future Nostalgia”

Attempting to bridge the past and the future with an 80s-influenced pop album is a noble and ambitious goal that has rarely, if ever, been successfully pulled off. But if Dua Lipa has proven anything throughout her burgeoning career, it’s that she’s an unstoppable force in the music industry, and questioning her rarely ends well.…
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Album Review: Conan Gray “Kid Krow”

“Kid Krow” is the product of a generation fed up with torrents of criticism we face from our elders, and how represented we feel when somebody finally speaks out on our behalf.
