Ryan Dombal
Co-Founder, Writer and Editor at Hearing Things
founder / editor / writer @hearingthingsco
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1 week ago |
hearingthings.co | Ryan Dombal
Yes, the current Brat arena tour is a well-earned victory lap. But because we’re talking about Charli XCX, one of the most self-aware pop stars of the last 15 years, it’s also more than a victory lap. It’s an interrogation of what a victory lap can mean in the culture at large. It’s a show that both contemplates and shakes its ass at the idea of oversaturation, of something being played out.
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2 weeks ago |
hearingthings.co | Ryan Dombal
Here’s an embarrassing thing about me: I still watch a ton of late-night TV. Every morning, as I munch on some Wheaties and groggily sip a cup of tea, I fire up YouTube and scroll through my subscriptions in search of a few clips to ease me into the day.
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4 weeks ago |
hearingthings.co | Ryan Dombal
“I don’t know if I’ve ever been this happy, which is really awesome,” Justin Vernon said. “If I was bumming out and making some breakup record now, how boring would that be?” It sounds like something the Bon Iver leader may have uttered during his recent interviews for Sable, Fable, which is being billed as a blissful mental and musical about-face after a career of sad-sack songs. But the quote is from 15 years ago.
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4 weeks ago |
hearingthings.co | Andy Cush |Ryan Dombal |Julianne Escobedo Shepherd |Dylan Green
Hello and welcome to the latest installment of Five Albums, the weekly feature for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we recommend you the new records from across genres that you need to hear. As music journalists, the question we get most often from friends is how to stay on top of what’s new and cool. This is our attempt to provide a practical answer. It’s Tax Day, which means many of us are staring down a hefty bill and trying not to freak out about how to pay it.
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1 month ago |
hearingthings.co | Ryan Dombal
Just a few years ago, Jane Remover was an introvert recording alone in their childhood bedroom, trying to sing quietly enough so that their family wouldn’t hear them. Back then, the teenager from suburban New Jersey was a hyperpop prodigy who used digital wizardry to crack open their emo heart. “Go to college, have a shit time,” they predicted on a fuzzed-out early song called “Seventeen.
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really loving evan’s newsletter, such a joy to read!
profiled claire rousay, whose album sentiment is my favorite of the year thus far
‘Gender and sexuality on a spectrum – I started to unravel all of that’: musician Claire Rousay on dating, depression and Jeff Tweedy https://t.co/7LKiFJ1WXL
feeling proud. and frustrated. we really did a lot of incredible work.