By Ben Sooy My buddy Ryan saw Sufjan Stevens live back in 2006 . Before the show started, a couple of guys around Ryan were getting impatient, and one asked, “Where is Sufjan??”  “He’s proba...

A fan-made Sufjan Stevens advent calendar featuring one write-up every day from December first until Christmas Day.

Ben Quad are back. Not only are they back, but they’re fucking huge. Or at least that's what it feels like for those of us in the emo world, anyway. I first discovered Ben Quad because I was endeared...

The ground is firmly under your feet. Your gaze rises to greet an open street lined with trees and grass and apartment complexes that are knotted like corridors of a maze. The wind is warm and breezin...

It’s hard to look around lately and think ‘You know what the world could use more of? hate .’ Of course there’s an abundance of hatred, animosity, division, and destruction right now. I’d argue it’s ...

You know that James Baldwin quote that’s something along the lines of “Every writer has only one story to tell, and he has to find a way of telling it until the meaning becomes clearer and clearer”? W...

It’s hard to look around lately and think ‘You know what the world could use more of? hate .’ Of course there’s an abundance of hatred, animosity, division, and destruction right now. I’d argue it’s ...

I am still working on learning that people can only give me so much. Nobody can provide me with all that I need. I spend so much time railing against others’ expectations of me that I owe them grace w...

In recent years, I’ve found myself growing tired of the increased reliance on nostalgia that seems to hold up a lot of the art being released into the world. I definitely understand the desire to mo...

The newest iteration of my rotating playlist of 15 songs - a little saucy, a little spicy, and always lovingly curated

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When I first started transing my gender way back in 2020, whenever I felt myself spiraling out about where my life was at, my therapist would always remind me that trans people are starting over. No m...

Content Warning: This article discusses religious trauma, sexual abuse, and cults. I dug my fists into my thighs as my eyes stung with tears. I was once again the center of attention in our tiny ch...

We’re halfway through 2025, and it feels like my brain is contorting into shapes it was never meant to hold. Unlike my intro for our favorites of Q1 , I’m going to try my best not to go on a screed, ...

We’re halfway through 2025, and it feels like my brain is contorting into shapes it was never meant to hold. Unlike my intro for our favorites of Q1 , I’m going to try my best not to go on a screed, ...

When I was 19 years old, I first heard Listener’s album Wooden Heart Poems , and it made me realize that listening to music wasn’t good enough. Wooden Heart Poems was an invitation to write, and ...

Well, well, well. Once again, we find ourselves back in the Gizzverse. It wasn’t even a year ago that I was here telling you all about how death, taxes, and King Gizzard are life’s only certainties....

After being on the road for a week, first traveling up to Ohio for Fauxchella 8, then to Detroit, and finally to Knoxville, I finally made it back home to North Carolina. After a collective 1,900 mile...

Any music festival that starts with a wall of death and a band smashing a guitar is cool as fuck in my book. Any festival where the lineup is comprised of mostly trans and queer musicians is powerfu...

The ‘Bruise is back, baby. That’s right, after making one of my favorite albums of 2022 , participating in one of the best splits in recent memory , and re-recording their debut , the pride of Indi...

I’ve been fortunate enough to know New Jersey post-hardcore band With Sails Ahead over the past several years, ever since I found them in 2021 through their single “ In Fear and Loathing .” It’s diffi...

If you have even a passing interest in the currently unfolding alt-country renaissance, there’s a good chance that you already know the name Greg Freeman. His 2022 album I Looked Out has been gain...

There’s new music coming out constantly, and sometimes it’s hard to keep up.  Since January of 2021, I’ve been creating monthly playlists with the sole purpose of housing new music. Say what you...

Recently, I’ve made a resolution to get out of my apartment and go see more movies. It's been a drought so far this year, with my second-to-last entry being A Minecraft Movie , during which an eight-...

Until recently, Home Is Where’s bio across streaming services read simply, “our band could be yr neighborhood.” It was a fun play on a classic Minutemen line that gave an entire book on indie rock it...

You remember the beginning of The Powerpuff Girls ? In the beautifully stylized intro , we see a silhouette of Professor Utonium combining “sugar, spice, and everything nice” in order to create the ...

It’s not often that I find myself spellbound. I expect so much of myself and my life that I’m constantly moving, churning away, always attempting to get my boulder to the hilltop. Even when I’m motion...

Emo bands love a few things: weed, guitar tapping, and (apparently) the FX sitcom It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia . Fittingly, the first time I noticed this trend came from one of Philly's stronges...

Although native to Marquette’s isolated and jagged shores, Charmer is not defined by their surroundings. The group’s third full-length, Downpour , is their first in five years and features the unit...

At this point, the word “emo” is not super helpful as a descriptor for what a band actually sounds like. When you hear that a band is an “emo band,” you start to ask yourself, are we talking early pos...

If you guys know one thing about me, I want it to be that I love Minus The Bear. They were the band I saw most throughout high school and college, usually catching them in Portland at the second-to-la...

Because I am a dork-ass nerd obsessed with metadata, organization, and digital architecture, I was thinking about file names long before this website ever went live. Back when Swim Into The Sound was ...

There was an album that someone once described to me as so dense that the best way to understand it was if you were standing with the artist on the same corner of the same street on the same summer af...

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