Lucy Dacus takes ‘night shift’ on indie rock throne
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Of course, it wouldn’t be right to talk about a Dacus show without mentioning “Night Shift,” a song with a refrain that had everybody in the venue screaming.
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Skeletons in the closet: How classic horror reboots are committing to better queer representation
Some of the most important works in the horror genre are retroactively letting the skeletons out of the closet, and this raises an inevitable question: Now that we’re out, where do we stand?
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Matt Berninger, Phoebe Bridgers finally give the people what they want in new single ‘Walking on a String’
Berninger’s signature baritone drawl waxing some kind of angsty poetic starts us off in the first version, with Bridgers joining in and leading us into when the song really starts to pick up.
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Girl in Red brings bedroom pop to stage at sold-out Great American Music Hall show
While Ulven shouldn’t be boxed into the assumption that she caters exclusively to queer audiences, the honesty in her music is universally important.
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‘Life is catastrophe,’ or how I learned to love ‘The Goldfinch’
Because I don’t care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat. Because, here’s the truth: life is catastrophe. The basic fact of existence — of walking around trying to
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Teeth of the young lions: A poem
when I was a child I always had this vision of us as glass.
someone tapped too hard one day and we shattered
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The National: Easy to find, not easy to listen to — ranking the band’s albums
Maybe it’s just my unwitting obsession with sad men singing about sad things, but maybe it’s something more than that.
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On ‘I Am Easy to Find,’ The National (mostly) stays in its mold — but it pays off
If you haven’t heard of or listened to The National, its eighth album I Am Easy to Find probably isn’t a good place to start.
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A communion of interiorities: At Bay Area Book Festival, readers and writers make personal, social discourses heard
The Bay Area Book Festival embodies the communal aspect of literature — its potential to bridge differences and highlight commonalities.
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Bay Area Book Festival honors local powerhouse at ‘Lawrence Ferlinghetti at 100: A Tribute’
On March 24 of this year, he turned 100 years old — an event that warranted celebration all around the world, including a birthday party at City Lights.
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