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What Your Favorite Music Genre Says About You
According to today's guest writers, it's nothing good. But there's a concert ticket giveaway here to soothe any bruised egos.
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Gabbie
, 
Mister Ketchup
, and 
billy bearham
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What New Bands Belong on the Lilith Fair Stage in 2025?
A dream second-stage lineup for the would-be 2025 Lilith Fair that Sarah McLachlan hasn’t booked (yet)
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Caroline in the Garden
74
Bonus Tracks From a Mixtape for Your Oldest Brother, Justin McElroy
A feature length video interview! A super special bespoke nerdy new music playlist on your streaming platform of choice! Free candy, maybe!
1:01:23
A Mixtape for Your Oldest Brother, Justin McElroy
New Music DNA Pt. 4 - Justin McElroy of My Brother, My Brother and Me on having "uncool" music taste, chasing that fizzy feeling of recognition in new…
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Gabbie
19

July 2025

The Best Albums of July 2025
And we'll remember this when we are old and ancient, though the specifics might be vague.
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Gabbie
7
Loose Ends & B-Sides
An assortment of extras for your weekend: new playlists, more giveaways, listening parties, new music catch-up, album announcements, and more.
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Gabbie
9
How to Avoid Being Called an Industry Plant
In music, you can pick two: fun, sexy, or female. If you're all three, you might be an industry plant.
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Gabbie
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The Best Albums of 2025, So Far
Celebrate New Bands for Old Heads' one year anniversary with my most listened to albums of the first half of 2025. Also: giveaways and listening parties…
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Gabbie
43

June 2025

The Playlist Grand Tour
If you didn't know I make playlists... now you do. Here's an FAQ, a link dump, a directory, a reference, a bookmarkable cheat sheet. Whatever you want…
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Gabbie
11
New Music DNA - Pt. 3: Dragging Stat Significant’s Daniel Parris Out of His 2000s Rut
Can human curation beat the data that says music discovery dies at age 31?
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Gabbie
 and 
Daniel Parris
28
If You Like Nine Inch Nails, The Gossip, TV on the Radio, or Nina Simone...
An "If You Like [X] Then You'll Like [Y]" quick hit.
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Gabbie
28
Before You Dismiss Pop Music, Give It An "Academic Listen"
Someone who actually understands music theory helps me take down antipoptimists in a way I never could on my own: by deconstructing actual pop music by…
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Gabbie
 and 
The Ririverse
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