Taylor Ruckle

Arlington, Washington, D.C., United States

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Articles

Jensen McRae Is Staying True to Her Emotions

1 week ago | floodmagazine.com | Taylor Ruckle |Bao Ngo

BACKSTORY: After earning a BA in Popular Music Performance at USC Thornton School of Music, a viral Phoebe Bridgers parody and a smart, folky debut album landed McRae a deal with Bridgers’ label, Dead Oceans FROM: Los Angeles YOU MIGHT KNOW HER FROM: That song about the guy from Massachusetts that was all over your TikTok feed NOW: Releasing her sophomore record, I Don’t Know How but They Found Me!, after enduring two destabilizing breakups “Very, very late” one night in July 2023, Jensen...
GW Students Unite the D.C. Scene With Plenty Happening, a Compilation for Trans Health Care

2 weeks ago | washingtoncitypaper.com | Taylor Ruckle

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Throughout their college years, George Washington University students Max Cohen and Carolina Carmo have felt a void at the heart of D.C. music. The two met through WRGW, the school’s student-run radio station, where Cohen served as board member and blog editor and Carmo worked as production director and blog contributor.
Sacred Paws: “The things about me that I sometimes hate are also my favourite” | Interview

1 month ago | thelineofbestfit.com | Taylor Ruckle

After an informal six-year hiatus that brings us new album Jump Into Life, Glasgow sunshine purveyors Sacred Paws are back with the confidence to reconcile their silly, sunny side with the more sombre parts of being a grown-up, as they tell Taylor Ruckle. Why do Sacred Paws tag their music as “devotional” on Bandcamp? Could it be a commentary on the Glasgow duo’s drum-driven, dance-ready sound and the spiritual benefits of physical movement? An allusion to groove as a mindfulness practice?
Pictoria Vark, “Nothing Sticks”

1 month ago | floodmagazine.com | Taylor Ruckle

Pictoria VarkNothing SticksGET BETTERWhen Victoria Park drops a key change on “Sara,” the opener from her sophomore record as Pictoria Vark, Nothing Sticks, it lifts more than just the song’s tonal center; it raises her standard for songwriting. Even that undersells the effect—when the guitars and trumpets swoop in on the last chorus, they all but lift her off the ground.
Cheekface: “You’re not supposed to grow up, duh!” | Interview

2 months ago | thelineofbestfit.com | Taylor Ruckle

Cheekface keep on cheeking on after a year of health crises and breakups, using their new record Middle Spoon to move through the mire, as they tell Taylor Ruckle. How many times can you do the same bit before it stops being funny? Don’t ask Cheekface; they don’t care as long as they’re still laughing. That’s how we ended up with the song “Noodles” from their 2022 album Too Much To Ask. It has only two lyrics chanted over and over, first in monotone, and then screamed: “A big cup of noodles.
Bartees Strange: “Everyone becomes afraid of you” | Interview

Feb 3, 2025 | thelineofbestfit.com | Taylor Ruckle

Horror directors tend to have a recognisable stylistic mark – an audio or visual sensibility that follows them from one film to the next, even as their subjects and subgenres shift. John Carpenter has his synth scores, Guillermo Del Toro his fixation on spindly monster men, and though he practices an entirely different discipline, Bartees Strange has a similar habit.
The Weather Station, “Humanhood”

Jan 21, 2025 | daily.bandcamp.com | Taylor Ruckle

ALBUM OF THE DAY The Weather Station, “Humanhood” By Taylor Ruckle · January 21, 2025 The Weather Station Toronto, Ontario follow &check; following unfollow ... Humanhood The Weather Station . / pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to track .
Rembering Will Cullen Hart, King of Cubist Castle

Jan 16, 2025 | daily.bandcamp.com | Taylor Ruckle

LISTS Rembering Will Cullen Hart, King of Cubist Castle By Taylor Ruckle · January 16, 2025 Will Cullen Hart had a four-track mind. People who knew the Athens, Georgia painter and tape savant who co-led The Olivia Tremor Control and Circulatory System remember him as a constant font of insight and humor—if a sometimes unintelligible one.
At Mosh Madness, a Slam Dunk for Local Music and Community

Jan 13, 2025 | washingtoncitypaper.com | Taylor Ruckle

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! At the end of Pinky Lemon’s set at Mosh Madness on Saturday, drummer Danny Williams tossed his sticks off-stage, but they didn’t make it to the crowd of cheering shoegaze fans. Instead, they clattered onto the basketball court of Takoma Park Presbyterian Church’s Don Patti Memorial Gym, where the makers of local music zine Haus Magazine faced off against local musicians competing under the name the Free Agents.
Emergency & I Is Turning 25, But the Album’s Fans Are Only Getting Younger

Oct 18, 2024 | washingtoncitypaper.com | Taylor Ruckle

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Twenty-five years later, wintery young-adult alienation still creeps over “Spider in the Snow” like frost. The fourth song on the Dismemberment Plan’s Emergency & I starts with synthesized strings wafting like steam through a sidewalk grate.