Album of the Week: Peter Oren’s Anthropocene
"Should we all write protest songs? Only if that’s what’s on your mind. I can’t help but write political songs."
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Jessie Glenn is an essayist primarily focused on parenting and taboo. Their exposé about MasterChef was "Best of 2018" in Salon Magazine. They’ve also had essays in NYT Modern Love, Washington Post, Cleaver, Toronto Star, and elsewhere. They are currently writing a memoir. Glenn teaches book publicity at Portland State University in the Master’s of Publishing Program. Jessie and spouse have a blended family with five children.
Album of the Week: Revelations by Shamir
"It’s not really that calculated anymore. I’m bearing my soul in these songs, and just giving it how it is."
Album of the Week: Julien Baker’s Turn Out the Lights
"Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively. You can’t just always let go."
Album of the Week: St. Vincent’s MASSEDUCTION
"You can’t fact-check it, but if you want to know about my life, listen to this record."
Album of the Week: Take Me Apart by Kelela
"The reality is that the way that I’m expressing myself on this record is coming from a place of vulnerability that is very much in the tradition of R&B."
Album of the Week: Moses Sumney’s Aromanticism
AROMANTICISM is a new vision of songwriting, a trip into contemporary loneliness, and proof that, nowadays, every man is an island.
Album of the Week: Annie Hart’s Impossible Accomplice
Annie Hart, singer, keyboardist, and bassist for Au Revoir Simone, is debuting a solo album, IMPOSSIBLE ACCOMPLICE, out via Uninhabitable Mansions.
Album of the Week: Forced Witness by Alex Cameron
"Where does one draw the line when you as a person believe in progress, but as a writer feel like you need to focus on people who would challenge that, who would ask us to regress?"
Album of the Week: Nadine Shah’s Holiday Destination
"The fact that they had no shame in saying that whilst being interviewed, on national television... it really shocked me."
Album of the Week: Call It Love by Briana Marela
Call It Love is Briana Marela’s third album, and her first after signing with Jagjaguwar. In the album’s ten tracks, the Seattleite explores the many facets of love, from its early…
Album of the Week: Vic Mensa’s The Autobiography
At only twenty-four, Vic Mensa is already an established member of the Chicago music scene and a social justice activist—from protesting his hometown police department after the shooting of shooting…