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Time Capsule: Heart, Dreamboat Annie
The first time I heard “Magic Man” was in Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides as Trip Fontaine struts on the screen to that searing opening riff in his brown leather jacket with his mushroom-shaped hair. “Try to understand / He’s a magic man,” Ann pleads over a nasty groove from the rhythm section and, staring at Josh Hartnett, I more than understood. This track is one of Heart’s biggest hits for a reason: All the pieces of Heart thrive together, from Ann’s attitude-laden wail to Nancy’s groovy guitar backing to Howard Leese’s funky keyboard synth to Roger Fisher’s slick guitar solo, making for five-and-a-half minutes of pure rock bliss.
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Blu De Tiger Fender Session BTS
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Hunter Schafer 'Cuckoo' Premiere
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Knox Backstage Pass
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Allegra Krieger Interview
Featured Works
There Is Still Time: The Euphoria, Dysmorphic Fantasia and Nostalgic Terrors of the I Saw the TV Glow Soundtrack
I Saw the TV Glow’s musical and narrative arcs collide as Sloppy Jane’s song “Claw Machine” saunters into frame. Dahl’s old bandmate Phoebe Bridgers, too, makes an appearance onstage with her, and the whole scene plays out like something you might have seen at the Roadhouse in Twin Peaks. It’s Lynchian from beginning to end, and Dahl singing “I think I was born blue, I think I was born wanting more” sets Owen’s destiny aglow, as he unlocks moments of his own repression—including him trying on a dress at Maddy’s house. If Julee Cruise was David Lynch’s muse, then perhaps Haley Dahl is Jane Schoenbrun’s.
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Tierra Whack’s Multi-Hyphenated, Multi-Dimensional Authenticity
One of the most complex parts of being suicidal is coming out on the other side and looking for your purpose. Planning for the future goes out the window when you live for so long under the weight of thinking you won’t be around to see any of it through. The beauty in sticking around is seeing what comes from your strength to hold on. “It’s honestly like a mind fuck,” Whack says about surviving past 27. “I just sold out Webster Hall—1,300 people before the album was out. People care about me. For a long time, I felt like no one cared about me, and I don’t know why. The mind plays tricks on you. But I’m having fun, I’m living a dream.”
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Hole’s Live Through This Gave Us Femininity That Embraced Its Gnarly, Flawless Truths
With a cover inspired by another underestimated complex female character, Carrie White, Love told us who she was even if people weren’t ready to listen. Like many autres of the female experience before her, Love’s lyricism drips with misery—anthems for the girls who lost their innocence too young and became doomed to continue living in a world that couldn’t hold them. Live Through This is a Dorian Gray-esque portrait of womanhood, showing how ugly it can genuinely be.
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Time Capsule: Queen, News of the World
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In the mid-1970s, there was a tidal wave of change sweeping the music industry. An ear-splitting new sound was taking the forefront, as bands like the Sex Pistols and the Ramones drew attention and spurred a rising punk subculture. This new craving for music that disrupted society as much as the current state of music led bands like Queen, who thrived in the opulence of prog-rock, to adjust to put on new clothes or get left behind.
How Maria BC Let Go of Their Past Lives
Growing up is hard to do. For Maria BC, that means more than just getting older. It means shedding their past lives. Understanding who we are is life’s most complex mission but, to have a truly complete sense of self, we must look back before going forward. Maria BC aimed to solve that difficult inner battle on their sophomore album Spike Field.
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Font Collage Rhythm and Absurdity Into the Dynamic, Dominant Strange Burden
In pure Talking Heads fashion, rhythm and absurdity drive every aspect of Strange Burden. Font pair unlikely things together in a collage of delightful musical textures that waltz together in harmonious glee—as if they are reaching through the stereo with a guiding hand and asking you to dance. And, with beats like these, you can’t help but move. Even when operating through a multitude of moving parts, each sound still stands strongly on its own.
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