At the end of each month, Afterglow presents a staff-picked list of new albums and singles that left an impression on our ears.
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The Philly musician tells two stories at once: one in which she experiences her adolescence as it happens, and another in which she meditates on it as an adult who’s grown past its heightened emotions.
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Blending the loud, raunchy rhymes evocative of his earlier work with the sonic and emotional explorations prevalent in IGOR and Flower Boy, the thirty-year-old rapper’s sixth studio is a canon of his entire discography.
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Local artist Emily Wolfe performs at the new Haute Spot in Cedar Park on Saturday, June 26.
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Despite scattering a handful of confident clichés throughout its 36-minute glory, MARINA’s mature fifth studio album marries social commentary and break-up blues beautifully.
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In honor of Bandcamp's second Juneteenth fundraiser, we've put together a short list of Black American artists to support today, and every day.
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A look into the latest music trend taking YouTube by storm, complete with Middle English, medieval aesthetics, and plenty of memes.
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Even after decades of professional management, football clubs are still grounded in the communities of their birth, not their billionaire owners. There’s no better proof of that than football chants.
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Eighteen years after Leslie Cheung’s untimely death, his music and the pop culture of 1980s Hong Kong seem more relevant than ever.
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A collection of songs to sashay to in your at-home Pride parade this year.
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From Frank Sinatra to Solange, here’s what helped our graduating members through both the monumental and mudane of collegiate life.
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Listening to songs that have no business being next to each other in a playlist? More likely than not for the new age of classical fans.
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Living room catwalks never sounded so good.
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Bartees Strange scales new sonic territory with confident ease, traversing explosive post-punk and acoustic meditations with the help of choppy samples and swelling choruses — all while focusing on what it means to resist genre conformity as a Black man.
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At the end of each month, Afterglow presents a staff-picked list of new albums and singles that left an impression on our ears.
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If philosophers and Indie artists have one thing in common, it is this: they talk a whole lot about love. Explore all the facets of the innately human emotion by listening to these hits.
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CSNY’s “Ohio” boldly responded to the murder of four students on Kent State University’s campus by the Ohio National Guard at a May 4, 1970 protest of the Vietnam War.
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This modern retelling of “The Iliad” explores the friendship and eventual romance between Achilles and Patroclus. “Song of Achilles” inspires a playlist to follow their lives and love story, ending in just as much tragedy as the book itself.
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