In 2023, Mandy, Indiana crash landed onto the music scene with “Pinking Shears:” French poetry, cymbals, toms, and synths echoed like they were recorded in a cave–because they were.

“I am not cool,” Peter McPoland told the Tuesday night crowd at the 9:30 Club, most of whom kept their puffers on in the surprisingly chilly venue. There were a couple tentative whoops from the crowd. McPoland smiled and lifted one hand. “Come on, cheer!”

A couple decked out in fishnets, a spunky older woman with a pixie cut, and a pair of teenagers with tails walk into a music venue. This may sound like the setup for a joke, but it’s really just a fair representation of the crowd at last Friday night’s 2000s Rave at The Atlantis.

[Heated Rivalry] combines a raunchy, intense, angst-driven relationship with an eventual soft, warm-hearted, and sincere emotional tale.

Since its 2014 release, Five Nights at Freddy’s has exploded into a cultural phenomenon, captivating audiences through games, books, ever-popular YouTube playthroughs–and now full-length feature films.

How often do you live in your body? This isn’t a measure of activity, pain, exhaustion, or any external metric—how often do you feel everything, from your temples to your toes, from your core to the envelope of your skin, all at once?

Scrunchies. Croquet. Virgins. Forgery. Murder. Pocketed quietly away in Village C, a high school girl bathed in the spotlight recounts to the audience with her diary entry on the first day of school.

Don’t blink or you might miss Marty Supreme, a comet streak among this year’s film releases.

Waxhatchee (Katie Crutchfield) and MJ Lenderman—two of the biggest names in the modern indie folk-country scene— are fresh off the tracks of an incredibly successful year with both of them earning Grammy nominations for their respective 2024 albums, Tiger’s Blood and Manning Fireworks, both of which were met with near universal critical acclaim.

"I think the sound that came out of me was like a wounded animal or something," said Florence Welch, frontwoman of Florence + The Machine, describing the aftermath of a near-death experience and the subsequent medical procedure that saved her life.