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Two songs that played as a soundtrack to my embarrassing life
November 11, 2025Dear Diary, I can’t lie, life has been wild recently. I don’t know what’s going on with the universe — I think Mercury is definitely in retrograde. Either that, or the universe has developed a remarkable sense of comedic timing. These songs played in the most ridiculous situations all this week. I’m hiding inside my home from now on, for real. “Every Day’s a Lesson in Humility” by Suki Waterhouse & Belle and Sebastian Every day’s a lesson in futility Got to take the dogs out Every day’s a lesson in humility Got to eat my own words It’s so…
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2025 song of the summer shortlist
June 25, 2025It’s June, and the vibes are off. We’re in a climate apocalypse, the billionaires are feeling victimized, the aux cord is haunted, and we still don’t have a song of the summer. Can Benson Boone save us? No. Can the…
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Indigenous songwriters illuminating ancestral languages
June 21, 2024Content warning: mentions of colonialism. Elisapie [caption id="attachment_128577" align="alignnone" width="300"] PHOTO: Courtesy of Leeor Wild[/caption] Prolific Inuk singer-songwriter Elisapie’s latest album, Inuktitut, covers ten pop and rock classics translated into ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ (Inuktitut). She grew up around this language in ᓴᓪᓗᐃᑦ…
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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY
January 15, 2017Follow The Peak on Spotify to stay up to date on New Music Friday. https://play.spotify.com/user/thepeaksfu/playlist/7HbRmqa95k3W32UKFjZIzP “Doing Good” – Milky Chance Jessica Pickering: Hipster, indie, boring. I literally forgot I was listening to this. (I mean I got distracted by a…
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The worst songs of 2016
January 4, 2017“Me Too” – Meghan Trainor Meghan Trainor’s “Me Too” is the most painful thing I heard in 2016 — and that’s being nice. The chorus is just “If I was you, I’d wanna be me too” repeated multiple times. Did…
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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY
September 30, 2016Follow The Peak on Spotify to stay up to date on New Music Friday. https://play.spotify.com/user/thepeaksfu/playlist/3GPKrCAJ5DY7G92Ud6I6ai “False Alarm” – The Weeknd Jessica Whitesel: The first line that stood out to me was, “Six inch long, three inch wide,” so we are off…
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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY
September 9, 2016Follow The Peak on Spotify to stay up to date on New Music Friday. https://play.spotify.com/user/thepeaksfu/playlist/3XflbJlJ9myGU5uE3MZEot “Waste a Moment” – Kings of Leon Courtney Miller: The intro builds quickly, wasting little time to reach the quick tempo the song rides all the…
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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY
July 15, 2016Follow The Peak on Spotify to stay up to date on New Music Friday. https://play.spotify.com/user/thepeaksfu/playlist/0hYv4U3Nle5T982n3nZ2Fl “Go Off” – M.I.A. Courtney Miller: Intro is too cacophonous and disconnected, and vocals are too autotuned. It’s dynamic enough to be interesting, but it’s overall…
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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY
July 8, 2016Follow The Peak on Spotify to stay up to date on New Music Friday. https://play.spotify.com/user/thepeaksfu/playlist/1aR4clLFBJsJ5kecezb2CW “Friends” – Francis and the Lights feat. Bon Iver Jessica Whitesel: I’m really loving this. The mix of Justin Vernon’s vocals over a more bass heavy…
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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY
July 3, 2016Follow The Peak on Spotify to stay up to date on New Music Friday. https://play.spotify.com/user/thepeaksfu/playlist/2QJYif2Aw5KsNkWhVWCX7e “Augustine” – Blood Orange Courtney Miller: I get an ‘80s vibe from this, particularly from the whispery vocals that I’m not such a fan of. The…
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