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TUNES // Shocking Blue - Venus

TUNES // Shocking Blue - Venus This song played in Trader Joes tonight. Everyone I passed was singing it absentmindedly as they shopped, each having our own private Venus moment.

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She found comfort in thinking about herself as a thing in cocoon. You know, transforming. She had given up long ago any expectation that it might actually happen – in fact, she was finding more and more that where the aspirational butterfly used to be a more grown up version of herself, the creature now seemed to have veered away from the world of possible outcomes and rather…

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EP // Fairy Godmother - Spit It Out

EP // Fairy Godmother - Spit It Out Fairy Godmother, shared her with us her vision of these songs in a series of watercolor sketches; little rain streaked windows into a world which is lovely and cold, and very solitary, but which contains just the perfect amount of softness for growing love again.

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I first heard Fairy Godmother earlier this year when I stumbled upon Attic Space, their first EP. I was struck by apropos it all was, because that collection of songs is like finding something magical in a dark corner of the attic where you had only come to cry. It’s whimsical, dreamy, soft.

Fairy Godmother’s newest EP emerges from that dimly lit space, with its safe low ceilings,…

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TUNES // Ramengvrl - Whachu Mean

TUNES // Ramengvrl - Whachu Mean This song is a suit of armor for your day. Like putting a pair of sunglasses on over narrowed eyes.

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This song is a suit of armor for your day. Like putting a pair of sunglasses on over narrowed eyes, not because you need to hide from anything, but because sometimes it’s fun to be a mystery. The sheer propulsiveness of the beat is enough to keep the day’s bullshit at bay, while Ramengvrl’s flow flicks away any remaining distractions with a long, sharpened fingernail.

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ALBUMS // Swamp Dogg - Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune

TUNES // Swamp Dogg - Lonely "Love, Loss, and Auto Tune is disruptive. It's something approximating classic soul in conversation with a computer. Passion pleading with a ruthlessly young technology. It's messy and sexy." An essay about soul. Revolution. And Auto Tune.

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I was at work when I heard this album. I opened an email with the stream on my lunch break intending to listen to a couple of songs and move on, maybe tag it for a longer listen at a later date. Instead I started to play “Lonely” and sat breathless for the better part of an hour.

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PREMIERE // Saltlick - Circles

PREMIERE // Saltlick - Circles The second single from Saltlick's debut full length album is here! Read about frontwoman Brianna Snider's inspirations for the evocative "Circles."

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As this song’s chorus goes viciously round and round, I see two people walking in a circle. They move at the same speed, and follow the circumference of the circle precisely. In the image in my head there’s nothing else around, no light except for a bright spotlight overhead, which is making them both sweat. In this experiment, each person was told to follow the other. It is going…

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TUNES // Campdogzz - Souvenir

TUNES // Campdogzz - Souvenir Grinding, cold hangover rock.

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The percussion in this song is like a punishment for something. Drum beats tearing unrestrained into paint thinner air. A sincere belief in loudness as the prayer, inventing out of nothing the patron saint of Next Time.

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TUNES // toe - Dual Harmonics

TUNES // toe - Dual Harmonics Japanese math rock and a dream about rain.

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The first storm of the season starts off with only a few drops. Some darkened spots on the pavement that you can keep track of. Then there are no more dry spots on the ground and that smell starts to fill the air. A fattened drop rolls from the petal of a peony and splashes as it hits the black dirt below. And suddenly the rain is everywhere, falling through trees and cascading down…

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TUNES // Black Belt Eagle Scout - Soft Stud

TUNES // Black Belt Eagle Scout - Soft Stud Powerful grungy rock meditating on hard learned lessons in wanting and needing.

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The difference between need and want is not as simple as your kindergarten teacher made it sound.

“No, you need food, clothes, and water. You want to play with the fire truck.”

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  But look at you now, learning it the hard way. Whittling down the…

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TUNES // Miss World - Put Me In A Movie

TUNES // Miss World - Put Me In A Movie LA, punk rock, and earthquake preparedness.

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People in LA talk a lot about The Big One. You know, the overdue disaster that awaits us out here on the fault line of American culture and also tectonic plates. We discuss it casually, after work, over a beer, how we might die in moments crushed beneath the rubble of our twelve story office. What else is there to do.

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TUNES // Katy Kirby - Peppermint

TUNES // Katy Kirby - Peppermint A sweet & minty tune from Katy Kirby and a few things I miss about being a slightly younger person than I am now.

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There are several things I miss about being just a slightly younger person than I am now. One is listening to my political science professor talk about Simone de Beauvoir. One is being able to drink until the morning and remain alive. One is getting sad about love for the very first time.

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ALBUMS // Sarah Shook & the Disarmers - Years

ALBUMS // Sarah Shook & the Disarmers - Years Music for by and about tough, resilient women, and it celebrates their triumphs while offering a rare and poignant poetry about the price of the struggle. 

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I’ve never met Sarah Shook, but I feel as though I know her.

I grew up in the deep country, which means I grew up listening to country music on the radio. Country radio is funny; it’s the only music I know that defines itself entirely through nostalgia for the present moment.

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TUNES // Dumb Things - Crash Barrier

TUNES // Dumb Things - Crash Barrier The childhood game of holding onto each other's arms while spinning around.

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remember the childhood game of holding onto each other’s arms while spinning around? the centrifugal force scrambling our bellies while the weight of a friend kept us from skittering off into the pavement. and at the peak letting our heads fall back, eyes closed, disappearing into that sensation of not knowing.

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TUNES // Champagne Superchillin - Amor Fati

TUNES // Champagne Superchillin – Amor Fati

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los angeles is almost glamorous on the drive between north hollywood and downtown after 10pm on a night that is perfect and smothering. say what you will about the freeways but nothing beats the thrill of peeling off the one-oh-one going the whole speed limit. things glitter brighter than the stars on their best nights.

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TUNES // Jordana - Jackie's 15

TUNES // Jordana - Jackie's 15 This song makes me think about the tenderest things.

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This song makes me think about the tenderest things.

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  Like once when things got really bad my friend came to stay with me. She brought over herbal tea, eggs, and oatmeal because she wasn’t sure when I’d last gone shopping, and a new-agey book about feminine power…

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TUNES // Charles - Darker Shade Of Green

TUNES // Charles - Darker Shade Of Green Funk and meditations on jealousy and friendship.

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That night when you saw your ex at the bar and you were ready to let it ruin the whole night, but your friends were having none of that so they bought three shots of tequila and requested Drake.

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TUNES // Good Good Blood - Bury Heads

TUNES // Good Good Blood - Bury Heads Good Good Blood makes the kind of music that is music but is also a place. This place is the one you go to in that fantasy you have of hiding from everyone forever.

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Good Good Blood makes the kind of music that is music but is also a place. This place is the one you go to in that fantasy you have of hiding from everyone forever. It’s cool and early. It’s always perfectly early and never late, especially never too late. The ground is soft and it smells like moss in the rain.

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TUNES // Glad Rags - Wonder Under

TUNES // Glad Rags - Wonder Under A costume ball held in a vacant lot.

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This song is a costume ball held in a vacant lot. Tumbleweeds and broken bottles catch at the whirling silk skirts. Sweethearts spill out into the abandoned intersection where traffic lights blink a slow disco for no one. When Cinderella loses her shoe everyone runs barefoot to the drive-thru and they all order fries.

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