Olivia Rodrigo Forced Me To Confront Some Harsh Realities

I like to think that I’m still young. Until the pandemic hit, I was with the youth frequently. At work I was in charge of a group of teens, and on Wednesdays I led games for a middle school youth group. I had a handle on what was hip, what was trendy. I was technically

Drunk II (2019)

Mannequin Pussy The year 2020 has filled me with so much angst and longing that I have dived headfirst back into loud music. Punk, the emo, DIY stuff, anything that makes me want to put my head through the wall from sheer adrenaline. My fingertips tremble just thinking about it. These songs let me feel

Gaslighter (2020)

The Chicks The Chicks have dropped the Dixie from their name, severing one of their last ties to the Country Music scene that showed them such love only to snatch it away the second they refused to play nice with Republicans. As one of only two acts that have ever been successfully canceled (the other

Clumsy (2006)

Fergie // Song of the Week “Clumsy” is Fergie’s best song, and that is hard for me to say. Front to back, The Dutchess is all hits. It spawned five multi-platinum singles and it still feels underrated. We did not know what we had with Fergie, and I for one will forever be grateful to

Teenage Dirtbag (2000)

Wheatus // Deep Cut In an unprecedented move for this blog, I’m going to talk about a song that is Bad! It’s truly terrible, but I find it so very funny, and I’m sure if I had heard it when I was 13 it would have been my favorite song of all time. Plus, I

Work (2014)

Iggy Azalea // Song of the Week There are many hills that I will die on, mostly because if I did all the work to climb up that hill, why would I want to come back down? I’d rather stay put so that I don’t have to put in that kind of effort again. But

Fast Car (1988)

Tracy Chapman // Deep Cut Last year I was so depressed that I started listening to “Fast Car” for the first time ever (on Spotify) in March, and it ended up being my number one most listened to song of the year AND OF THE DECADE on my Spotify Unwrapped. Those of us who care

Oceans (2013)

Hillsong // Deep Cut Where I work, there’s a phone that’s been disconnected for the past three years. It got replaced with a more modern desk phone that had a few more features and an LCD display. Fancy stuff. But it doesn’t have the capability to buzz employees into the building like the old phone

Ribs (2013)

Lorde // Deep Dive In October of 2013, when iTunes was still alive and thriving (Rest In Peace, miss you babe) the free single of the week was “Ribs” by Lorde. This was around the time that “Royals” was popping off (which also means it was around the time I requested it on the local

August and Everything After (1993)

Counting Crows We love an album where every track feels like it should be the closing number! All eleven tracks would close out the show on a lesser album, but Counting Crows KNEW that we could handle eleven grand finales one right after another. This album is the direct result of the early nineties obsession