The musician Victoria Park cold-emailed me in January 2022, asking me to listen to their debut record as Pictoria Vark, The Parts I Dread. The record depicts the emotional turmoil following their family’s abrupt move from New Jersey to Wyoming. I immediately connected with the record’s themes of
Hey all, I'm finally launching this thing on Tuesday - thank you all for your support <3 In the meantime, I wrote about Against Me! for Stereogum, and posted a long essay about why everyone's so preoccupied about Taylor Swift's identity on my
I'm Hannah Jocelyn, a music writer with bylines in Pitchfork, Billboard, Grammy.com, and many other sites. I also make music myself, under the stage name The Answers in Between. In late 2020, with nothing else to do, I started a Substack called The Only Times I'