Molly Mary O'Brien's music musings.
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I was doing my horrid morning scroll on Twitter and came across a chunk of text that displeased me (this happens often on Twitter...it's what keeps me coming back, the displeasure...): As it turns out, this chunk of text came from a long Freddie deBoer newsletter about
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Welcome to another edish of the musicpulsestudios newsletter. To preview the format of the newsletter, in an Axios breakin'-it-down style, we have: a little bit of writing around a new-to-me song by an unfamiliar artist (last time I did that with Zimmer90, "What Love Is&
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Greetings, welcome to the newsletter. Today we have... recaps of recent shows by Of Montreal + Ethel Cain Blog Posts of the Recent Past a New Graphic Design Initiative in the musicpulsestudios blogiverse a teaser of something fun and new....hmm... two live shows in Sunny Los Angeles Justin
Music Molly
Welcome to another edish of the musicpulsestudios newsletter. To preview the format of the newsletter, in an Axios breakin'-it-down style, we have: a little bit of writing around a new-to-me song by an unfamiliar artist (last time I did that with Frank Lenz's "
Music Molly
I got a press invite to an interesting show last week—Joan As Police Woman (the alias of singer-songwriter Joan Wasser) was playing an intimate gig at the Cha Cha Lounge in Silver Lake. This invite was intriguing to me for three reasons: 1) I love a gig invite (I
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I read an absolutely wild piece of music writing last week. Tavi Gevinson, original Girl Blogger and founder of influential online magazine Rookie, self-published a zine about Taylor Swift in April called Fan Fiction. A few outlets covered this event—Vulture interviewed Gevinson about it, and across the NY Mag
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I try to avoid feeling too parasocial about my pop stars but I have to say it: I'm proud of Charli XCX. She must be feeling incredible right now in the wake of the release of Brat. A spiky Roman phalanx of fans flooding their social media timelines
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Sometimes it's fun to trace a particular musical enjoyment back to its origins. For example, why was I at the Cheekface show last week? Well... I'd seen the band name bantered around "music Twitter" a bit but did not investigate... ...then writer Jami Fowler
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One year of musicpulsestudios in the books!! Wow! I wanted to write something to celebrate this 12-month milestone, and to look at what I'm trying to do with this internet publication going forward. You cannot escape my metablogging. A year ago I published a couple of
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Greetings earthlings. I'm working on a consistent kind of newsletter format for the blog in addition to just plain blogging. Something that won't clutter yr inboxes too severely, mostly a recap of recent posts, but with a bit of freestyle content and "news you can
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I write to you, May 20th 2024, feeling something stirring in the air. The grasses are rustling, the crows are cawing, the meerkats are looking around with great interest. We've been at a weird point in popular culture for a while where, thanks to the decay of legacy
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Yesterday a curious video came across my desk (Twitter feed). A young white man who looks a bit like Steve Albini's zoomer son stood with his head poking out of a vehicle that was parked in the middle of what appeared to be the Soho neighborhood of Manhattan.