Screw Parenting Books, I Have Noah Kahan

Screw Parenting Books, I Have Noah Kahan

“You guys are so happy right now, I feel bad for what’s about to happen,” Noah Kahan jokes from the center of Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway’s stage. It’s a running joke for the musician, but although he plays music that makes people want to cry, his New England-inspired poetry is more powerful than…

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Here Are Our Editors’ Favorite Albums of the Year

Here Are Our Editors’ Favorite Albums of the Year

Bartees Strange performs on August 9, 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Credit: Matt Jelonek/Getty Images) Arsenio Orteza, Senior Editor Everything’s Better, The 1910 Chainsaw Company The band’s name is a riff on the 1910 Fruitgum Company, a late-’60s bubblegum act that scored three Top Fives, none of which are as catchy or diverse as any of…

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REEFER MADNESS – SPIN

REEFER MADNESS – SPIN

“Mothers who use cannabis are better mothers,” says David Lucito, who for decades has been preaching the multitudinous wonders of weed.  Unfortunately, David says, while he grew up in a “loving Catholic household” in Opelousas, Louisiana, his parents were “very anti-drug.” Growing up in such an environment, it took him 19 years to break free…

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Tiffany, ABBA Soundtrack ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5

Tiffany, ABBA Soundtrack ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5

Familiar tunes from Tiffany (“I Think We’re Alone Now”), ABBA (“Fernando”), Michael Jackson (“Rockin’ Robin”), the Psychedelic Furs (“Pretty in Pink”) and Yello (“Oh Yeah”) help enliven the soundtrack to the just-released fifth season of Netflix’s Stranger Things, the first volume of which is out now digitally from Legacy Recordings. As expected for a show…

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