Megan's Staff Picks

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  BADBADNOTGOOD Fan Baby Rose's Flame on 'Slow Burn'

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  PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2024

  Baby Rose has the type of instrument that immediately strikes both awe and fear — the former for its richness and its sense of having been...

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  Blondshell and Bully Are a Match Made in Grunge-Pop Heaven on "Docket"

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  PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2024

  Blondshell and Bully are both artists operating under monikers that start with the letter B who released noteworthy albums last year ...

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  Blunt Chunks Wrestles with Expectation on "High Hopes"

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  PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2024

  Expectation will be the death of me. I think I’ve known this for a while; whether it’s what I unconsciously find myself expecting of others...

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  Lizzy McAlpine Uncovers Timeless Truths on "Older"

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  PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2024

  McAlpine's third studio album, 'Older,' has been previewed with its cyclical title track...

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  Thermal Are Burdened but Alive on 'Plaster Girl'

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  PUBLISHED Nov 24, 2023

  Thermal's music feels like a heaving chest, heavy with the weight of thick guitar fuzz, claustrophobic emotional landscapes and a racing he...

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  Pony Girl Release the Pressure Slowly on 'Laff It Off'

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  PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2023

  Some just pop the balloon, others untie the knot and apply pressure to let the air out slowly. Pony Girl's new album is an exercise in the...

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  Flyte Are Light as a Feather on their Self-Titled Third Album

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  PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2023

  Listening to this Flyte record on a drizzly autumn day, as feels intended, casts a warm glow across the room. Like the crackling embers of...

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  Mali Velasquez Embarks on a Series of Beginnings with 'I'm Green'

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  PUBLISHED Oct 20, 2023

  "I drive you to the ER / But don't feel old enough," Mali Velasquez observes on "Turn Red," the kind of meditation-in-an-emergency Frank O'...