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🏖️ peaches & backpacks

🏖️ peaches & backpacks

🆕 On the Shelves 👸 Princess Peach Showtime Like Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Princess Peach: Showtime! appears to be packed with big, stage-changing moments. I really enjoyed the latest Mario game, Super Mario Bros. Wonder. It was perhaps the best 2D version of the game to date. Of particular praise was the

💽 The Collective by Kim Gordon

💽 The Collective by Kim Gordon

Kim Gordon has made a hip hop album. The miasmic, hair-raising beats on The Collective have more in common with the youth vanguard of plugg rap than they do with Sonic Youth’s pioneering noise rock. Her corrosive guitar in dialogue with Justin Raisen’s industrial production delivers a writhing,

🌎 Where in the World is Jack? #1

🌎 Where in the World is Jack? #1

I was a presenter during a Tinderbox web meetup in February, so naturally I was all-in using Tinderbox for publishing blogs. It felt good to spend time refactoring and tweaking the Tinderbox source document. The problem was that I’d recently gotten my Kirby-based blog to a good spot, so

💽 GRIP by serpentwithfeet

💽 GRIP by serpentwithfeet

Josiah Wise, better known as serpentwithfeet, has long celebrated Blackness and queer love with his angelic voice and irresistible production. His latest album GRIP centers the joys of gay nightlife with what follows after leaving the bar. The record follows the loose ark of finding love in the club, and

💽 shoelace and a knot by yungatita

💽 shoelace and a knot by yungatita

After Will sent me this review I immediately went and listened to the album because I had never even heard of yungatita. And boy did it deliver. This album feels tailor made for me. I’ve written in the past of my love for Waxahatchee, Beach Bunny, Hope D, and

💽 Heady Metal by Divorce

💽 Heady Metal by Divorce

Well, we made it through another week (barely)... I'm already hard at work on what this newsletter can become in the next season (on Jan 8th). You can see some of the new design and banners I'm playing around with in this issue, but there is

💽 Excelsior by Slauson Malone 1

💽 Excelsior by Slauson Malone 1

We've got a treat for this weekend edition: the first album review from our new music and arts critic, Will Kaplan. You'll be seeing his name on a monthly basis moving forward as he helps shed some light on lesser known indie musicians. And don'