By: Anshuman Iddamsetty

THE FULL BODY PROJECT — the moment belongs to no one else.

By: Colin Dickey

Widespread Panic — I don’t care whether or not you like them.

By: Alice Boone

COSTUME JEWELRY as Oblique Strategy.

By: Dan Fox

Thomas Dolby’s EUROPA & THE PIRATE TWINS. Unrequited love — or Brexit?

By: Claire Lehmann

THE APPARATUS REVEAL

By: Erik Davis

Tuxedomoon’s “Time to Lose”: a haunting layered confection of longing and regret.

By: Drew Daniel

The Human League’s “Marianne”: the emotional stakes keep changing.

By: Jessamyn West

Blondie’s “Hanging On the Telephone” — fuck this intermediated bullshit!

By: David Smay

The B-52s’ “Dance This Mess Around” — a cargo cult for Bubblegum music.

By: Tor Aarestad

Oingo Boingo’s “Little Girls”: Swiftian, or adolescent Hitler skit?

By: Deb Chachra

Rough Trade’s HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL. It still sounds dangerous.

By: Adam McGovern

Lene Lovich’s “Lucky Number” — squeaky, staccato, pioneering.

By: Brandi Brown

Wikipedia Talk

By: Ingrid Schorr

Ian Dury’s “Clevor Trever” — “Got no right to make a clot — out of Trever.”

By: Tim Carmody

Talking Heads’ “Life During Wartime” — a mantra for our paranoid days.