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Music Monday: ‘Songs for You’ by Ben Barnes

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Songs for You by Ben Barnes is a lyrically poetic gem that showcases Barnes’ impeccable range beautifully through every track.

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Music Monday: “I Still Have Faith in You” and “Don’t Shut Me Down” by ABBA

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This is not a drill: ABBA is releasing a brand new album on November 5th titled Voyage and they’ve just released two new singles, “I Still Have Faith In You” and “Don’t Shut Me Down.” I’m absolutely, 100% writing through my tears while listening to “I Still Have Faith In You” on replay right now. The time for a breakdown to “Don’t Shut Me Down” is coming soon too. I know it is. An ABBA album is always going to be a hit, so I know Voyage will be everything we didn’t know we needed and more. There is already

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Music Monday: ‘Pressure Machine’ by The Killers

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The Killers are back with their seventh studio album, Pressure Machine, proving to us that you can never be too busy during a pandemic. Released just under a year after their last album, Imploding the Mirage, the band’s latest record is a concept album exploring Brandon Flower’s childhood in Nephi, Utah. The album also sees the return of guitarist Dave Keuning and the absence of bassist Mark Stoermer, who opted out due to COVID-19 concerns. The band also reunited with producers Johnathan Rado and Shawn Everett. While Imploding the Mirage was certainly bombastic, the Las Vegas band’s latest work brings

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Music Monday: “Permission to Dance” by BTS

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In their follow-up to “Butter” (the official song of the summer–I don’t make the rules), BTS are as done as the rest of us with the worldwide events of the past 16 months, and they’re showing us in the best way possible: with a brand new song called “Permission to Dance.” Instead of describing it, just trust me on this–watch the video. It is a brilliant and fun addition to their other recent disco-pop tracks. You will feel this catharsis in your very soul. Enjoy emo cowboy Jungkook and the rest of the yeehaw looks and come back after you

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Music Monday: ‘Long Lost’ by Lord Huron

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Long Lost, Lord Huron’s latest album is here and it’s incredible. (But then again, I haven’t listened to a Lord Huron album I didn’t like.) Long Lost features 16 songs and most of them are glorious. Long Lost even features a 14:18 minute long instrumental titled: “Time’s Blur,” and if you know anything about me, you know that instrumentals are my jam. It’s what I currently have on replay while writing this. It’s melancholic, but ephemeral and calming, all feelings that only lovely tracks can evoke. I have yet to pick a favorite from the musical tracks, but “Long Lost,”

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Music Monday: ‘Our Flashback Wedding’ by Vitamin String Quartet

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Vitamin String Quartet are back for our hearts, and we have 101 feelings about almost all the covers in the Our Flashback Wedding album. Oof. Imagine having this much talent. And the first cover we need to scream about is of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game.” Since Vitamin String Quartet are featured in the official Bridgerton score, here is our official plea to have this cover featured in season two because the song itself screams about Anthony Bridgerton and Kate Sharma. I haven’t taken this one off replay since it first released–it’s sheer magic, and you all know I’m right about

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Music Monday: 0X1=LOVESONG (I Know I Love You) feat. Seori, from The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE – Tomorrow X Together (TXT)

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After the poppy delight that was Blue Hour (along with their last mini album, minisode1: Blue Hour), the members of Tomorrow X Together (TXT) have released The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE—and believe me when I say the album is an entire jam with literally zero skips that gives the incredible talent of all five members ample room to shine both individually and as a unit. If you’re looking for an anthem to yell when you’re frustrated, car windows down, totally without a care whether anyone hears you, their title track this time around, 0X1=LOVESONG (I Know I Love You) feat. Seori,

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Music Monday: ‘Sour’ by Olivia Rodrigo

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Since its debut, Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR album has been the buzz online. We’re almost glad we didn’t write about “drivers license” when it first premiered as a single so we could finally talk about it now. SOUR by Olivia Rodrigo is stunning, vulnerable, and so raw as an album. Typically, here’s the tea about how I listen to music: I don’t like knowing things. Don’t tell me who the song is about, don’t make me speculate. I don’t want to know anything. I don’t care. I just want to listen to it and let it tell the kind of stories

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Music Monday: “Heat Waves” by Glass Animals

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I’d like to start this off by formally apologizing to all my neighbors and my family because I’ve had three versions of this song circulating on replay for about three months now. Actually, never mind, I’m not sorry. You’re all welcome. You’d think I’d be sick of it by now, you’d think maybe after a week or two I’d think: “okay, that’s enough,” but nope, I’m still listening to it. (Right now as I type this, too.) Glass Animals‘ “Heat Waves” is a BOP. The best part? There are three versions. There’s the original, which is the bopiest bop of

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Music Monday: “Beautiful Crime” by Tamer

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Do you also obsessively listen to a song on replay until you get sick of it or are you normal? Same. This week’s feature is from an artist I personally hadn’t heard of before, but I’ve been on such a Kaz and Inej fan videos kick that it’s where my discovery came from. “Beautiful Crime” by Tamer is something else entirely. It’s such a perfect song for the duo that you can’t convince me it wasn’t written for them. (This is my headcanon now. Let me have it.) No, but on a serious note, while the song is lyrically beautiful,

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Music Monday: ‘Miss Saigon’ 2014 (The Definitive Live Recording)

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Miss Saigon is one of the most beautiful stories, and you know what should be available but rarely ever is? Digital forms of purchasing Broadway Musicals. And yes I know that it defeats the purpose because it deserves to be seen in a theatre with a live audience, but we don’t always get the opportunity to catch shows and therefore after, we should be able to purchase it.  My point in all this is that I just need the 25th Anniversary of 2014’s Miss Saigon production starring Eva Noblezada and Alistair Brammer to watch on a loop constantly. But since

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Music Monday: “Love Story” (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift

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“Love Story” has always been a special song. While Taylor Swift’s Fearless album isn’t a particular favorite of mine, a few of the tracks are undeniably wondrous. The music industry is flawed and terribly corrupt, we’re seeing all the ins and outs of it through Framing Britney Spears and we got a colossal glimpse of it through Swift’s inability to secure the rights to her own songs. (How? Are the white men in this industry going to continue to wait years in order to issue a typed out apology likely done by their PR team through social media?) Anyway, onto

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