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10 Must-Watch TV Shows To Get Your Cathartic Coming-Of-Age Fix Now That ‘PEN15’ Is Over
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(TV)
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... and ultimately cathartic. When I found out PEN15’s second season was its last, I felt like I arrived at school after summer break and found out my crush moved away– I was gutted. Fortunately, the show ...
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Created on 19 January 2022
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The Choice is Ours: This Year's 10 Best Musical Releases, according to BUS
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(Music)
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... makes the people come together. Yeah!" Here's our list of some of the best releases this year.
Aimee Mann
Queens of the Summer Hotel
In 2018, Aimee Mann set out to write the music for a theatrical ...
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Created on 30 December 2021
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Aimee Mann, Queen of Indie-Rock is Back with "Queens of the Summer Hotel," An Album Inspired By the Memoir "Girl, Interrupted" ...
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(Music)
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AIMEE MANN
Queens of the Summer Hotel
(SuperEgo Records)
In 2018, Aimee Mann set out to write the music for a theatrical adaptation of Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen’s bestselling memoir about ...
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Created on 20 December 2021
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Rain Phoenix's Artist Alliance LaunchLeft Celebrates "My Own Private Idaho" 30th Anniversary with NFT Gallery Featuring Collaborative Artwork by Cast and Crew including Flea and Gus Van Sa
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(Arts)
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... and her sister Summer, full of interviews with cast and crew like Van Sant, actor Mickey Cotrell, and Michael Parker, who was the real life inspiration for the character Mike Waters. They also hosted weekly ...
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Created on 10 November 2021
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Taylor Swift's "Red" Elicits Autumnal Heartbreak in Collections of Re-recorded Cuts From Past 6 Albu
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(Music)
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Fall can often be the time that a summer romance turns sour. So what better way to mend a broken heart than to scream along with Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble”? Nearly a decade after its ...
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Created on 08 November 2021
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Lady Gaga Dominates British Vogue’s December Issue Posing Nude, and in a Look Inspired by a “Shocking” 30s Perfume Bottle
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(Music)
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That time of year where we all love to cosy up by the fire with a cup of hot chocolate and a copy of Vogue’s December issue has returned. And as always, Vogue has not left us unimpressed. Being released ...
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Created on 03 November 2021
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Tkay Maidza Says What We're All Thinking With Latest EP, Last Year Was Weird Vol.
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(Music)
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... takes us on an eight-song trip as vivid and commanding as her visual presence, like in the psychedelic daydream video for single “Cashmere.” From easy summer singalong “Eden” to the trap beats and grimy ...
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Created on 07 October 2021
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Momona Tamada of "The Baby-Sitter's Club" Talks Season 2, Claudia's Fashion, and What She Was Really Like as a Babysit
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(TV)
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... inequality. Season two joins the girls as summer’s ending, and we see the effects of some pretty big changes that were set in motion at the end of season one. The girls are a little more grown up, the ...
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Created on 04 October 2021
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Lil Nas X Turns Dolly Parton's "Jolene" Into Haunting and Soulful Tale of Queer Heartbreak, and We're Here For ...
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(Music)
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Lil Nas X has transcended to new levels of queer cowboy greatness with his latest performance, a soulful rendition of Dolly Parton’s 1973 classic song, “Jolene.”
In celebration of his debut album, ...
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Created on 23 September 2021
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Bottlerock Festival Napa Gives Sense of Relief and Hope as Music Festivals Make a Comeback in COVID-Era Shifting Landscape
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(Music)
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... so much.”
Last summer, like most of 2020, Bottlerock Napa Valley was cancelled. Usually, Bottlerock takes place earlier in the summer around Memorial Day, but because of the pandemic the festival took ...
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Created on 20 September 2021
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Music From Around the World: New Albums From Three International-Experimental Musicians
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(Music)
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L'RAIN
Fatigue
(Mexican Summer)
On her sophomore album, experimental multi-instrumentalist Taja Cheek mixes moods and switches styles with chaotic energy. While spanning different genres, the ...
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Created on 08 September 2021
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The Last Starlet: An Interview with 1950's Bad Girl of the Silver Screen, Mamie Van Dore
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(Movies)
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Photo: photofest
Discovered by Howard Hughes at 18 and poised to become Universal Studios’ answer to Marilyn Monroe, Mamie Van Doren made a name for herself in the ’50s playing big screen bad girls. ...
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Created on 08 September 2021
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Amyl and the Sniffers' Amy Taylor on Surviving Lockdown with Bandmates, and the New Album, in BUST Interview
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(Music)
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... think it ended up being five or six months in lockdown last year. We started writing the album at the end of 2019, which is Australian summer and there were really bad bushfires, and so we were wearing ...
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Created on 27 August 2021
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Supernatural Sculptor Lauren Fensterstock Takes Us Inside Her Monochrome Fantasy World on BUST’s “Poptarts” Podcast
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(Poptarts)
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... in Fensterstock’s show Impermanent Conditions, at the Claire Oliver Gallery in New York this summer—play similar visual tricks with all-white palettes of light-reflecting glass and quartz. Both her imagination ...
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Created on 27 August 2021
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New Biography of Warhol Superstar, Nico, Explains It All: BUST Review
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(Books)
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... “The Velvets may not have sold many units but everyone who bought a copy started their own band.”
Nico spent 1967’s Summer of Love with The Doors’ lead singer and lyricist Jim Morrison often taking peyote ...
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Created on 10 August 2021
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Slacker-Pop Goddess Lauran Hibberd Releases Excellent New EP “Goober”: BUST Interview
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(Music)
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... h Of You" Will Have You Dancing All Summer Long: BUST Interview
And Then There Were Three: Mannequin Pu*sy's Latest EP, "Perfect," Sees the New Trio Get Vulnerable
Doja Cat, WILLOW, Lucy Dacus & Mor ...
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Created on 29 July 2021
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Mykki Blanco Creates a Journey of Life with Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep
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(Music)
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Mykki Blanco expertly harnesses inspiration from their worldly travels, experiences with a great love, and talented family and friends to create this concise, deliberate “mini-album.” Each of the nine ...
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Created on 26 July 2021
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Lucy Dacus Paints a Raw Coming-of-Age Story in Her New Album, "Home Video
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(Music)
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For her third full-length release, indie songwriter extraordinaire Lucy Dacus finds herself revisiting her formative coming-of-age years through candid and vulnerable autobiographical accounts. Her narratives ...
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Created on 26 July 2021
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Demi Lovato's Performance Of "Cool for the Summer" Was Jojo Siwa's Gay Awaken
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(Entertainment)
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... 18-year-old Siwa described “being a little too interested” in the way Demi danced with one of their backup dancers, Jojo Gomez, during a performance of “Cool for the Summer.”
Lovato was clearly thrilled ...
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Created on 19 July 2021
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Japanese Rock Band CHAI, Serves Up Food For Thought, on Lockdown Inspired Latest Album "Wink
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(Music)
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... lead, her bandmates say, agreeing it would make for “good merch.”
By Shannon Carlin
Photo: Yoshio Nakaiso
This article originally appeared in BUST's Summer 2021 print edition. Subscribe today!
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Created on 19 July 2021
