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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Leah Weinstein
20 hours agoLast week, the Texas-based firm SeaD Consulting released the results from a study that shook the culinary scene in Charleston, South Carolina. A team of undercover testers had paid visits to randomly selected seafood restaurants around the city and used on-the-spot genetic testing to determine …
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1 week ago | 
pastemagazine.com | Leah Weinstein
My hometown is always on the precipice of completion, and the people there hold their cards quite close to their chest. I went home for the holidays this past winter, and as I passed by the remnants of the now defunct Sam Ash I grew up across the street from—the one that Mike Kinsella recalls to have purchased his first guitar at—I thought of how many remarkable things come from being surrounded by what feels inherently unremarkable.
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2 weeks ago | 
theneedledrop.com | Leah Weinstein
This past weekend, the annual Governors Ball returned to New York City’s Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens. Artists representing the best and brightest in pop, rock, and hip-hop came to perform across three days, bringing a flock of eager fans with them. The Needle Drop’s Jaeden Pinder, Leah Weinstein, and Victoria Borlando showed up all three days, teaming up to cover as much of the large music festival as possible (although, we unfortunately missed the promised Benson Boone backflip).
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3 weeks ago | 
theneedledrop.com | Leah Weinstein
Magnolia Pictures announced today that they have acquired U.S. rights to It's Never Over: Jeff Buckley, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg. The film follows the tragically short career of singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, who died suddenly at age 30 after the release of his debut album Grace.
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2 months ago | 
faroutmagazine.co.uk | Leah Weinstein
Tue 22 April 2025 13:30, UK Atlanta indie rock band Deerhunter became cult favourites during their run in the late 2000s and early 2010s. They subverted simple indie catchiness with something unique and entrancing. Their sound always had a September feel, fitting sprinkling sepia tones into the mix as the boom of the genre approached its darker days. Just before the beginning of their hiatus in 2019, frontman Bradford Cox sat down with Vulture to reminisce on some of the group’s best tracks.
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2 months ago | 
faroutmagazine.co.uk | Leah Weinstein
Sat 12 April 2025 4:00, UK Japanese Breakfast‘s Michelle Zauner came up in Philadelphia’s DIY scene, complete with the venue coat check she once worked at, which was named in her honour. Her punk band, Little Big League, spent their days playing basements and bars throughout the city, eventually landing themselves on a tour with fellow punk bands The Hotelier and Foxing.
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2 months ago | 
faroutmagazine.co.uk | Leah Weinstein
Fri 11 April 2025 8:00, UK Car Seat Headrest frontman Will Toledo was only 18 when he first wrote what would eventually become the 13-minute, three-act rock epic ‘Beach Life-In-Death’. The all-encompassing life-or-death feeling that comes with being a teenager is exemplified expertly sonically and lyrically with its jittery, rugged guitar parts and the immense detail in Toldeo’s anxious ramblings.
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2 months ago | 
faroutmagazine.co.uk | Leah Weinstein
Fri 11 April 2025 5:00, UK There isn’t a medium that Cher doesn’t excel in. The multi-hyphenate, who began as a backing singer for The Ronettes as a teenager, would go on to become a celebrated actress, a fashion icon, and the only solo artist to ever achieve number-one Billboard hits over seven consecutive decades. The 1970s, when Cher was in her 20s and 30s, was arguably the most tumultuous period of her career.
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2 months ago | 
faroutmagazine.co.uk | Leah Weinstein
Thu 10 April 2025 16:00, UK In a decade that was notably chock-full of cocaine, it’s not too difficult to call it when you see it in hindsight—at least, that’s what Adam Scott, star of hit TV drama Severance, says. Scott was only ten years old when Huey Lewis and the News’ album, Sports, was released in 1983, but the record has stuck with him over the past 40 years. “I mean, that was fucking it,” he says of the album to Pitchfork.
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2 months ago | 
faroutmagazine.co.uk | Leah Weinstein
Thu 10 April 2025 7:00, UK Sometimes, the worst thing a song can be is boring. Just four months before Charli XCX would enter the defining era of her career, she released a single that has already been largely forgotten. At this time, Charli had just wrapped up touring the Crash album, a record that she and her fans treated as a Schrödinger’s cat of sorts. Her vision for the record was to make a stereotypical major label pop venture, as it would mark the end of her contract with Asylum Records.
