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Music is all about the feeling, and the New Sincerest (led by Connor Ferguson) is here to share curated selections of alternative music with the most sincerity you'll find on air.
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📻 NEW SINCEREST: 8/10/26 (opens the original)
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On a recent installment of their “Perfect 10” interview series, Pitchfork asked Hot chip frontman Alexis Taylor what he considered to be a perfect record: he named Prefab Sprout’s 1985 sophistipop record Steve McQueen as his selection, highlighting it’s subtle experimentation hidden under the adult contemporary and new wave genres popular at the time of its release. Despite my love for this era and these genres, Prefab Sprout was a blind spot for me, so I listened to Steve McQueen in full on Sun
📻 NEW SINCEREST: 7/6/26 (opens the original)
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Ranking our favorite albums of the year so far at the start of July is a tradition here at The New Sincerest (…and every other music blog), and 2026 is, possibly, our most exciting countdown yet. For the first time since the start of this Substack, contributor ’s and I’s lists are vastly different with only two crossovers, and the different music tracks we’ve been on in 2026 gives us the opportunity to highlight a list of records from an array of genres, subcultures, corners of the internet, and
📻 NEW SINCEREST: 6/29/26 (opens the original)
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As Pride Month 2026 comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting on what “pride” means in my life as a self-identifying queer man. When I came out of the closet at fourteen years old in a small farming town in Iowa, pride meant being myself unabashedly in public and private spaces, searching for hours online on a molasses-slow home computer for LGBTQ+ artists and movies I could rent from my local library or watch in chopped up segments on YouTube; this was “pride” as a means of establishment, acceptan
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