Steaming! Foam-y! Flowery! Refreshing! Just like music, you can have your tea any way you’d like. We’ve compiled a list of songs that match the vibes of your favorite teas: a music lover’s cup of tea and a tea connoiseur’s dream playlist.
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Afterglow photographer Olivia Cagle crafted a visual representation, as well as a soundtrack, to a formative year in her life: her first in a new state for college.
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Hyperpop heavyweight Caroline Polachek explores what it truly means to desperately want someone on her recent project Desire, I Want To Turn Into You. The highly anticipated record blows expectations out of the water with ethereal production, sonic versatility, and her signature falsetto.
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Buried in the archives of the hyper-positive '80s Japanese commercials, a music mystery unravels, featuring UFOs and cigarettes.
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The ethereal score and shoegaze soundtrack of “Mysterious Skin” builds the film’s unsettling haze as its characters’ repressed memories resurface.
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Being the first band signed to Verswire — a label backed in part by Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz and Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus — is no small feat, and neither was sitting down to ask the newest darlings of grunge and pop punk, Beauty School Dropout, about where they’ve been, where they’re at, and where they’re going.
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Afterglow kicked off the new semester with music by Lefty Parker and the White Soxx Band, Wednesday Kid, and Avara on February 10, 2023.
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The self-described “swaggy, sticky, and authentic” five-piece band sat down with Afterglow to talk drunken recording sessions, their love of Deftones, and their anticipated upcoming single, “Bryn.”
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Could any artist ever top Nina Simone’s heartbreaking cover of “The Other Woman?” Probably not, but Jeff Buckley and Lana Del Rey offer sensationally different covers from the perspective of “The Other Woman.”
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Pop artist Ella Jane played the 3TEN club on February 12, 2023 with openers Grace Gardner and Carliane Tamara.
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Pop artist YASMEEN* performed with her band, The Jays, at the Bourbon Stage at The Free Man Dallas on February 4, 2023.
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On January 27, alternative bands Sports and Rebounder performed at Far Out Lounge in Austin, Texas.
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At the end of each month, Afterglow presents a staff-picked list of new albums and singles that left a lasting impression on our ears.
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Show your partner who’s boss (lovingly, of course) with this femme power playlist on taking the reins.
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With its heart-tugging strings and earnest vocals, “Machote” defies machismo and offers a much-needed depiction of healthy trans love.
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Australia’s newest kids on the block have more to say on their sophomore album, and the Digital Deluxe re-release of Here Comes Everybody includes four new tracks that truly showcase that.
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Courtney Barnett takes shots at the music industry with the snarky lead single from Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit.
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Attention, all water-bearers: Get ready for a villainous rebrand.
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