Alison Baitz is a freelance writer and zinemaker based in the Baltimore/D.C. area.
Sara Curtin’s second album was inspired in part by an unlikely source: culinary provacateur Anthony Bourdain. “Garden of Ghosts,” a soulful, country-tinged track from Curtin’s Michigan…
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First off, let’s get one thing straight: Don’t believe anybody that calls Prinze George a Brooklyn band. Sure, the trio…
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When drafting the lyrics for one of his band’s latest songs, Jake Reid took a cue from The Beach Boys…
Teen Mom frontman Chris Kelly says he wants to take a more personal approach to songwriting. But if his band’s…
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Olivia Neutron-John specializes in emotionally dense, unfiltered electronic music delivered live with throbbing intensity—and it’s safe to say there’s nothing…
By now, it’s a tired truth in pop culture: Male nudity is considered funny, not erotic. When we see it—in…