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From “Jesus Take the Wheel” to “Break Stuff”: country pop girlies in their alt rock era (opens the original)
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Girls these days are embracing rock and rewriting the traditional narrative of the 90s that centers corporate grunge to highlight a more demographically and stylistically diverse modern rock canon. Olivia Rodrigo has singled out The Breeders and The Cure as inspirations and collaborators and revived her own version of Lilith Fair; Charli XCX’s latest album nods to everyone from Lou Reed to James Murphy to Kim Gordon; Chappell Roan has called on the likes of Kate Bush and KMFDM; and on the indie
Slop vs. ‘iPod music’: frictionlessness, vibes, & the end of the modern episteme (opens the original)
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Jodi Dean argues that AI-ideology frames its telos as unrestrained - and in psychoanalytic terms, infantile - wish-fullfilment. “The fantastic promise is AI is limitlessness, unboundedness”: no labor, no delayed gratification, no need to overcome and/or assimilate difference, no need to respect a law, prohibition, or taboo. In fact, the limitlessness is the point. To respect a limit is to subordinate oneself to an authority; the rhetoric and performance of unboundedness demonstrates one’s freedo
Slop-doom-ism (opens the original)
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It’s late summer 2026; as I start writing this post, it’s Lollapalooza weekend. My TikTok FYP is full of videos of Charli XCX and Slayyter’s performances at the megaconcert. My Bluesky feed is full of Gen X music critics and scholars skeptical comments about Billy Corgan’s attempt to rebrand his cranky North Shore libertarian image for Gen Alpha.None of this has anything to do with what’s happening at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Today the top 10 is:Ella Langley, Choosin TexasTaylor Swift,
Rock Vibes: Charli and The Strokes (opens the original)
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The Strokes and Charli XCX both have new indie rock records out in late summer 2026, and everybody including me wants to compare them. Sonically, Casablancas’ vocals gesture towards the heavily-AutoTuned style of Charli’s previous album brat, and Charli’s album gestures towards the modern rock tradition The Strokes were once hailed as rescuing from middlebrow corporate grunge.This looking to the past as a way to disiden
Its Her Factory on the radio on Inhailer.com (opens the original)
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I have a radio show every Sunday from 5p-7p Eastern on Inhailer.com. I’ve decided to publish my playlists here, both to keep track of my shows for my own records and to give y’all a sense of what I’m spinning in case you can’t listen.I also curate an Apple Music playlist with the mostly current songs I’m playing/loving.Its Her Factory on Inhailer - June 21 PlaylistIbibo Sound Machine - Return to SenderUnderworld - Born SlippyGenesis Owusu - StampedeGetdown Services -
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