From Blown Speakers

Saturday, January 24, 2026
you hear the cheers from the rafters/like when vince was on the raptors

Album of the week

Roc Marciano - 656

I don't really know what there is to say at this point. Marci's output has been so consistently great and here he is at his best--when he's doing almost all the rapping and all of the production. Every time I listen, there's another line that jumps out at me as the best one and the beats are unimpeachable.

Song of the week

Mitski - Where's My Phone?

MFW I see a cat on the street doing something cute.

"Where's My Phone?" is the first single from Nothing's About To Happen To Me out February 27th on Dead Ocean

Classic of the week

Joyride! - Emergency Broadcast System

I'm not sure what made me put on this perfect slice of NorCal pop-punk this week, but I ended up listening to this album about six times in a row.

More heat

Snail Mail - Dead End

All the really good Snail Mail songs sound extremely similar to me (complimentary because I want more of them)

True Green - Italian Lightning

An entry into the canon of modern classic American indie singer-songwriter jams and all the proceeds go to mutual aid operations in the Twin Cities. Fuck ICE.

Lightning Bolt and OO|OO - Cloud Core

The boys from Lighting Bolt and YoshimiO from the Boredoms coming together for an absolute noise-punk masterclass.

Doll Spirit Vessel - Kissing My Cup

I go back and forth between, "this 90s revival thing is out of control" and "hell yes. fuck yeah." This one inspired the latter.

now playing: Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers

posted by Quinn @ 11:10 p.m. Comments:0

Sunday, January 18, 2026
i start by holding your hand/and taking advice from the songs I like

Album of the week

Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore - Tragic Magic

Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore have both been making impossibly beautiful, atmospheric music for many, many years. And while they've collaborated in the past both live and in the studio, this is the first time we've been treated to an entire album.

Lattimore's harp keeps everything tethered to the ground, while Barwick's signature, delay soaked vocals, swirl up around everything, like they're reaching up into the heavens.

Nearly every time I get on a plane, I put on Barwick's 2011 masterpiece, The Magic Place. It's not like I'm a nervous flyer (the only mode of transportation I love more than a plane is a train), but there's something so soothing and so fitting about hearing her disembodied voice hanging in the air as you're hurtling through it. I've liked or loved all of her other work, but this is the first one that comes close to capturing that same feeling for me.

I can't wait til the next time I hop on a plane, because I know what I'm putting on.

Song of the week

Remember Sports - Nevermind

How the fuck is it possible that Remember Sports is actually playing here, but it's the same night as Wednesday/Gouge Away?! Why do I have to choose between hearing my second favourite record of 2025 live or hearing what's shaping up to maybe be my favourite record of 2026? The world is more of a tire fire than it's ever been in my (at this point pretty fucking long) lifetime and I didn't need this insult to injury, frankly.

Anyhow, I love this song a lot, but the thing I love the most about it is that "so, I heated pizza for dinner/let the pizza get cold again" couplet and the way it perfectly captures a feeling that--if you've ever felt it--you'll recognize instantaneously.

"Nevermind" is the fourth and final single from The Refrigerator, out on February 13th. Remember Sports play the Wise on April 24th.

Classic of the week

MJ Lenderman - A Long December (Counting Crows cover)

More heat

Ratboys - The World, So Madly

Ok, maybe this one's going to be my favourite record of 2026.

Cashier - Like I Do

Real Dinosaur Jr. hours. Who's up?

Modern Woman - Dashboard Mary

Early contender for album cover of the year and an absolute banger of a lead off single. This one builds and builds until it explodes and when it explodes, it's sublime (uhhh like the verb, not the band--no 3rd wave ska here).

Mitski - Where's My Phone

Obviously, this was going to rule. Also, somehow this is already gonna be Mitski's 8th(!) album.

Jody Glenham - Overtime

I'm a simple man: if I hear a new Jody song, I post the new Jody song. This one's my favourite from her forthcoming EP, Still Here (she's still here and I still get those ex-bandmate advance listening privileges), out on April 24th.

now playing: Haybaby - Pig

posted by Quinn @ 3:25 a.m. Comments:0

Sunday, January 11, 2026
freight train coming down the track/and it almost gave me a heart attack

Unfortunately, we've emerged from the holiday season and we're in "I have to do that thing 8-hours a day every weekday to live again" part of the year. But! That means that the lull in new music is over and there were too many great songs that came out this week.

Song of the week

Joyce Manor - I Know Where Mark Chen Lives

I didn't think I liked this band--and I went back to their really early stuff and I turns out I was right--but I'm really glad that I've been keeping tabs on the singles for their upcoming LP, because I liked the first one and love "All My Friends Are So Depressed." This one might be my new favourite and goes hard enough that I bought tickets to see them in May (though Militarie Gun opening the show helped that decision too).

I Used to Go to This Bar is out January 30th on Epitaph.

Classic of the week

Songs: Ohia - Two Blue Lights

A PSA to let you know that this record is finally back in print on vinyl. This is very easily my second favourite Jason Molina release (after The Magnolia Electric Co. ofc)

More heat

Robyn - Talk to Me

So far from this record, we've got two Robyn dancefloor bangers and one Robyn weirdo pseudo-rap jam (the album's title track, Sexistential, also out this week), one of which is a Robyn heartbreak number and two of which are Robyn "damn, I'm horny as Hell" tracks. This thing's already tracking to be album of the year (this song is one of the horny as Hell ones).

Gladie - Future Spring

It feels like an affront against me, personally, that Gladie's upcoming tour skips Seattle completely. But maybe I'll go to Toronto at the beginning of May, even though I'm going back to Japan in the middle of May and spend all Summer living like a broke skid as a throwback to the last period of my life when I used to write this thing regularly.

Cave Dwellers - Bitter Branches

Nasty, brutish, and short (complimentary), which is appropriate for the lead off single from an album called Let's Give the Land Back to the Animals.

Angel Du$t - I'm the Outside

Thank you to Angel Du$t for letting me keep my "not-a-hardcore guy who loves hardcore bands that aren't hardcore enough for nerds" thing going into 2026.

Mirah - After the Rain

I liked the dance-y power pop of lead-off single "Catch My Breath," but this is what I think about when I think about Mirah. 25-years(!) after You Think It's Like This, but It's Really Like This, it's amazing to hear something that shows how much she's grown as a songwriter while still being instantaneously recognizable as Mirah.

now playing: Joyce Manor - Think I'm Still in Love With You

posted by Quinn @ 11:13 a.m. Comments:0

Monday, January 05, 2026
want to take your hand as we drive to the store/want to blow your mind, make you beg for more

There still isn't a ton of new music coming out yet, but here's a few albums that I wish I'd spent some more time with in 2025 (and that I will/have been in 2026):

Home Front - Watch It Die

Georgia Maq - God's Favourite EP

Esther Rose - Want

Eliza McLamb - Good Story

Joanna Robertson - Blurrr

Prewn - System

Runo Plum - Patching

now playing: Momma - Cross Your Heart

posted by Quinn @ 1:53 p.m. Comments:0