Lauren Boisvert lives in Nashville, TN, where she also writes about music on the blog Lauren is Listening. She is in the top 0.001% of Arctic Monkeys listeners, and wants to remind everyone that Chumbawamba is and always will be anarcho-punk.
Posts by this Author
-
Photo by Omer Taha Cetin/Anadolu via Getty Images Suno Is Now (Legally) Training AI on Licensed Music After First Lawsuit Settlement With Major Label
Warner Music Group’s partnership with Suno is bearing fruit, allegedly, as the AI company is now legally allowed to train on licensed music.
-
Photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty Images Longtime Rock Band Forced to Change Social Media Handles so Meta Can Launch Identically-Named AI
Meta took Muse the band’s social media handles away because its AI product wanted them and little Muse AI always gets what it wants, isn’t that right?
-
Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images Dolly Parton Revisited an Old Hit for This 1980s Icon’s Posthumous Release, and Now It’s a Memorial to Them Both
As Dolly Parton’s death comes four years after Olivia Newton-John’s, their final “Jolene” duet serves as a beautiful memorial to them both.
-
Photo by Lionel FLUSIN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images 3 Albums That Will Have You Drifting Off to Peaceful Sleep Before the Final Track
These three albums might help you drift off into an easy, restful sleep, but we’re not responsible for any weird dreams as a result.
-
Photo by Joshua Applegate/WireImage 3 Dark, Chilling Albums That Benefit From Nighttime Listening
These albums are great in the daytime, but to experience them on a transcendent level requires darkness outside and total immersion.
-
Photo by Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images 3 Signs You’re Nostalgia Listening Instead of Discovering New Music
Hi, 911? The person reading this has been listening to the same three albums from 2005 on repeat for six months, can we get an ambulance? Yes, I’ll hold.
-
Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP via Getty Images Family of Celeste Rivas Hernandez Calls for D4vd to Face the Death Penalty for the 14-Year-Old’s Murder
The family of murdered teenager Celeste Rivas Hernandez is seeking the death penalty for singer D4vd as the high-profile case reaches the one-year mark.
-
Photo by ARNAUD FINISTRE / AFP via Getty Images From Poppin’ Tags to Public Protests: How Macklemore’s Activism Evolved and What He’s Doing Today
Macklemore started out poppin’ tags, but quickly became one of the more surprising activists publicly calling for a free Palestine.
-
Photo by Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images 5 Reasons You Keep Listening to the Same Song on Repeat
If you can’t stop listening to one song on repeat, have you considered you might be cursed by a witch?
-
Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images for ABA Carrie Underwood Just Covered Limp Bizkit, and the Results and Reactions Are As Strange As You’d Expect
Did Carrie Underwood knock it out of the park? Or does her Limp Bizkit cover make you want to “Break Stuff”?
-
Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images for ACM Kacey Musgraves Has Big, Sparkly Balls, and This Fellow Country Star Doesn’t Like It (Yes, It’s a Man)
John Rich doesn’t like Kacey Musgraves’ giant disco balls, while praising Ella Langley for *checks notes* not having a ballsack in her stage design.
-
Photo by Josh Brasted/Getty Images 3 Pop Stars That Disappeared After One Perfect Album (And Where They Are Today)
These pop stars released their debut albums before effectively disappearing, leaving old fans brokenhearted and later fans in for some bad news.