Category: Music

Aster Bloom, Shostakovich Reverie

Bear witness.

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Taylor on the Mount

Taylor Swift is cool now. Get with the program.

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Ellie Goulding Stuns in New Interview

Never meet your heroes.

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There’s a Woman by the River: The Delta Blues with Lala Craig

“When she sings, her voice batters the crowd like baseball-sized hail. No one is safe.”

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Olivia Rodrigo’s Sponsored “get him back!” Video Fails to Be Iconic

Does Olivia Rodrigo have more to give than GUTS?

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Phoebe Bridgers Killed My Dog

Summer, set to a somber soundtrack.

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Dylan is the New Dante

“More than anything, Dylan and Dante share an unbroken sense of pity for the ‘ill-begotten souls’ of hell. Both in the position of outsiders looking-in, this subversion of time, space, and reality is what makes hell so mystical, and this carnival of characters is what makes hell so unsettling.”

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Wayward Lines: Setting a Soundtrack to Saidiya Hartman

With Hartman on the page and Noname in the ears, a Nass writer examines the musical tradition of documenting Black struggle.

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Sounding Off: John Bischoff’s Music is Just Noise

A writer searches for meaning in John Bischoff and James Fei’s recent sound performance.

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Perfect Songs

“The dead linger after their passing in the memories of those who knew them; this poem, however, lingers only on my hard drive, contextless and adrift in the sea of my thoughts and memories.”

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“Work Hard and Say It’s Easy”: Why The Strokes’ Debut Is Still Effortlessly Cool

Wherein the writer muses on the inevitable attraction of an indie favorite.

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Like Shooting Stars

Wherein a Nass writer reflects on his myriad relationships with music.

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