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The Music of 2023

Written by Kieran Kohorst on January 18, 2024

untitled-unpublished: How Did We Get Here?

Written by Kieran Kohorst on March 24, 2022

Aimee Vant on Surviving the "Life or Death" of Her 20's

Written by Kieran Kohorst on January 18, 2024

"I Think I Wanna Make Cursed Music": PIAO on Taking Her Time and Having Fun

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The Music of 2023

By Kieran Kohorst on January 18, 2024

This year was a doozy. In the end, I take away what it took to get through it. From the angry to the soothing to the crushing to the comforting, here's the sounds that carried me through. Honorable Mentions: PinkPantheress, Heaven knows - A riveting album where each song possesses moments that can feel cinematic […]

untitled-unpublished: How Did We Get Here?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 And with that, welcome to untitled-unpublished.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. […]

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

By Kieran Kohorst on October 2, 2023

For most artists, seeing their name on global playlists and their face on a billboard is part of the dream. It's almost as if none of it is possible unless first imagining these accomplishments as a distant fantasy. But this was never part of the plan for dee holt, the 19-year-old Quebec-born pop darling whose […]

Andrea Bejar on Where and What Made Her

By Kieran Kohorst on September 28, 2023

Music’s evolution has brought us to a place of ubiquity, to the point where it is often described nowadays with vague terms: music is genreless, music is fluid, music has no bounds. Genres are less categories than they are archetypes, segments of sound whose influence is meant to inform its subjects and not classify them. […]

AWKWARD CROSSOVERS: Faye Webster As Theme Music

By Kieran Kohorst on September 1, 2023

To be a person of faith is to go through life looking for signs. The direction these signs suggest is negotiable, likely depending on your chosen perspective and favored outcome. A sign I learned early in my consumer development was that if you were in a store and came across a pair of shoes that […]

"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 […]

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