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untitled-unpublished: How Did We Get Here?

Written by Kieran Kohorst on March 24, 2022

"It Was Never, Ever In The Plans": dee holt's Success Is a Welcome Surprise

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Andrea Bejar on Where and What Made Her

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untitled-unpublished: How Did We Get Here?

By Kieran Kohorst on March 24, 2022

It's not often that your best idea is born out of laziness and convenience. Perhaps that even disqualifies it from being your best idea. I choose to be an optimist, though. And with that, welcome to untitled-unpublished. While this is not a new platform, it's definitely grown up since the last time you've seen it. […]

"I Know There's A Lot More": Through The Strength of Others, Josef Lamercier Finds Himself

By Kieran Kohorst on April 13, 2023

At every turn, Josef Lamercier has been guided by his faith. Growing up in a religious family on the east side of New Orleans, son to a pair of ministers, Lamercier inevitably fell into the “mystic” draw of the church. It was here he would discover his love for music, singing faithfully in the choir […]

Bailey Bryan's Music Is Big Enough To Hold All Of Her

By Kieran Kohorst on April 13, 2023

Photo Cred: Slater Goodson Last Friday, Bailey Bryan celebrated a birthday. Not really, but at this point, who’s to say? “I just woke up and I'm like, ‘oh shit, it's release day,’” she tells me over Zoom, just over 12 hours removed from sharing her newest collection of music, Sensitive Bad Bitch Music Vol. 1. […]

By The Yearbook: Superlative Review - boygenius, the record

By Kieran Kohorst on April 6, 2023

There comes a point in an album's press cycle where nearly all perspectives or observations are exhausted. There's only so many divinely-crafted reviews, free-flowing profiles (plurality was intentional), personality-defining podcast interviews, and online discourse you can consume until your plate is empty. For most people, this oversaturation is a nonissue. The more you know, am […]

Gracie Abrams' "Good Riddance" Tour Review

By Kieran Kohorst on March 13, 2023

"Last night felt like an out-of-body experience," confessed Gracie Abrams, addressing the sold-out crowd at the House of Blues Chicago for the first time of the night, already having checked off a couple of songs from the setlist. "This feels real...I feel like this is really happening tonight." On the second night of back-to-back dates […]

Aftersun/son

By Kieran Kohorst on February 20, 2023

A faulty battery is all that stands between me and a life I can't remember. Parts of Aftersun, Charlotte Wells' directorial debut, are told through a handheld camera that Calum (Paul Mescal) and Sophie (Frankie Corio) bring with them to their Turkey holiday, the same kind of handheld camera I can hold in my hands. […]

My Albums of 2022

By Kieran Kohorst on December 31, 2022

The common denominator of the music I listened to most in 2022 was an unrelenting outpour of self on behalf of the artist. Those who took their individualized creativity, serenity, ugliness, and ambition and leaned all the way into it. The records on this list are painted in the true colors of the artists. Hypnos, […]

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