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Hannah's Encounters - September 2025
After - Outbound RIYL: hazy Disney Channel reruns in a hotel room when you're five years old, Hilary Duff, Natalie Imbruglia, Windows XP, Lots of acts are doing this kind of early-2000s revival, but nobody is as convincing as After except for maybe Pale Waves once or twice.
Beauty In The Breakdown: Idarose - Cool Around You
Songwriter Alexis "Idarose" Kesselman breaks down her great new single "Cool Around You".
Lavender Sound: Why Are the Pop Girlies’ Co-Writers and Co-Producers So Rarely LGBTQ+? (Excerpt)
Hi all! Beauty in The Breakdown, my series breaking down music with LGBTQ+ producers, is finally properly returning, and the next few issues will be syndicated on Max Freedman's great Lavender Sound website. I also wrote a review for Mal Blum's excellent new record The Villain,
Doing The Hustle: Boys Go To Jupiter Director Julian Glander on Florida, Karl Marx, and Animating His Beguiling New Movie In Blender
Boys Go to Jupiter, out in theaters in NY via Cartuna and coming soon to a bunch of other places, is an exceptionally silly new film from Julian Glander. His illustrations have blessed newspapers, Dua Lipa’s music videos, and more. He previously released a sweet short about the life