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1 month ago | 
ringtonemag.com | Lavender Alexandria
To cite sources on JUST how good some of those instrumentals are, you don’t have to look far. Opener “TWICE REMOVED” sets up several motifs for the record, including the hard-hitting digital sonic chaos erupting at a dizzying pace and the near-constant references to and samples of Jane’s own work.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
ringtonemag.com | Lavender Alexandria
Classic wizard sleaze. Catherine also has her own thoughts about what does and doesn't count as wizard sleaze. Oklou? “Wizard sleaze as FUCK.” 10,000 gecs? “Peak wizard sleaze.” Like most subcultures, there’s also a distinct regionality to the aesthetic. “Wizard sleaze is West Coast. Like you don’t wear a coat in the winter, you don’t own an umbrella, you’re wizard sleaze. Frost Children are New York’s best claim to wizard sleaze,” she explains. “I have STRONG feelings about what is wizard sleaze.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
ringtonemag.com | Lavender Alexandria
Leah Levinson is best known as a member of the black metal band Agriculture, but for longer than that band has even existed, she’s been releasing her own material under the name Cali Bellow. “I’ve been doing the project in various forms for over a decade. The oldest album I have online is from 2016, but the music on it dates all the way back to 2012,” she explained.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
ringtonemag.com | Lavender Alexandria
The rise of hyperpop, as confusingly vague of a genre label as it is, was dominated by a few major events. In its early days, PC Music compilations and SOPHIE’s PRODUCT laid the groundwork for the genre’s fundamentals. Then Charli XCX’s 2017 album Pop 2 featured future genre stars like Caroline Polachek, Kim Petras, and Dorian Electra. And a few years later, 100 gecs completely blew the doors open with their frenetic 2019 debut.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
ringtonemag.com | Lavender Alexandria
The biggest problem with SOPHIE does not exist at the album's core. In fact, the ideas and ambition contained at the record's outset are strong. Take "The Dome's Protection," a sprawling 7-minute spoken word epic with a masterfully captivating vocal performance courtesy of Nina Kraviz. And "Do You Wanna Be Alive" captures, for lack of a better word, a cuntiness that SOPHIE always seemed artistically enamored with.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
ringtonemag.com | Lavender Alexandria
If you don’t want to mosh at the El Rey Theater, staying out of the way is easy. During her previous LA date at The Roxy, a largely flat and often congested venue where the rowdiness of a mosh pit will inevitably touch nearly everywhere in the room, underscores repeatedly set up high-intensity moments soaring through her best songs and the crowd responded appropriately. The El Rey Theater played host to her newest LA date, the first show on her Hometown USA tour.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
ringtonemag.com | Lavender Alexandria
SOPHIE died suddenly and tragically three and a half years ago. She was already an iconoclast of the hyperpop era, an innovator in microgenres like deconstructed club and industrial dance whose mysterious demeanor and understated speaking voice contrasted the social bombast presented by so many of her peers. In death, SOPHIE has gone on to mean so much more to so many people.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Lavender Alexandria
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
hotnewhiphop.com | Lavender Alexandria
BYLavender AlexandriaPublished 5 mins agoNEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 28: Recording artist Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino attends the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Madison Square Garden on January 28, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)A full three minutes of the show was shared with fans online. Zack Fox is already a comedian, rapper, writer, and general internet personality at large. But he's expanding the range of his creative output even further in the world of anime.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
hotnewhiphop.com | Lavender Alexandria
BYLavender AlexandriaPublished 5 mins agoNEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 22: NLE Choppa attends NLE Choppa "Cottonwood2" NYC Listening Party on March 22, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images)He's been thankful for their support of his song "SLUT ME OUT 2."NLE Choppa has made one thing clear in recent weeks, he's in support of the LGBTQ community.
