For Algorithmic Perfection, All You Need Is Tove Styrke and Ritual’s New Single
@blakexcharles/Tove Styrke/Twitter Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week: “Love Me Back” by Ritual and Tove Styrke (Island Records, 2019) Why we’re into it: This classic electronic-pop track is a master class in contrasting melancholy lyrics with upbeat production. Look, this song may sound exactly like “Closer” 2.0 in the way that it…
Stream “Juice” by Lizzo Right Now, You Cowards
Lizzo/Twitter Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week: “Juice” by Lizzo (Nice Life Recording Company, 2019) Why we’re into it: Unapologetic and in-your-face, “Juice” is proof that making bad music isn’t in Lizzo’s vocabulary. The Minneapolis-based flutist is starting 2019 with a retro-glam-pop (isn’t that a thing?) song that is funky, fun, and extremely danceable. From the first…
L Devine’s Message to a Homophobic Mom Perfectly Captures One Key Part of the Queer Experience
L Devine/Twitter Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week: “Daughter” by L Devine (Warner Bros. Records UK, 2018) Why we’re into it: Part confession and part love letter, this track is vulnerable and honest, evoking an inner and outer world of character and conflict. Coming out is one of the most sacred…
Aly & AJ Are Back Again. And They’re Good. Like “Potential-Break-Up Song” Good.
Aly & AJ/Twitter Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week: Ten Years (Deluxe) by Aly & AJ (Aly & AJ Music LLC) Why we’re into it: The girls outshine their studio tracks with two newly released live recordings and a brand new studio recording. It’s been a hot minute since Aly &…
Here’s What a New Generation of Trans Leaders Say it Takes to Fight Back and Find a Voice
Maciej Luczniewski/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last summer, almost 300 people gathered on one of Chicago’s northern lakeside beaches and the conditions were perfect: sunny, clear, and 90 degrees. Beach parties by Lake Michigan are a time-honored tradition during Chicago summers, but this one was different. Hosted…
Rina Sawayama’s Single Is Your Cuffing Season Anthem
Rina Sawayama/Twitter Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Another week in the long haul of 2018 is over. While you clean, or lie in bed thinking about how nice it’d be if all those chores were already done, we got a nice little upbeat pick for you for this week’s Friday Find. This week: “Cherry” by Rina Sawayama (Different Recordings, 2018) Why we’re…