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a discovery playlist featuring weekly top 10 music releases

1. Audrey Hobert- Sue Me: This song is kinda like if Hannah Montana was still making music today and to put it simply I am obsessed with that. 

2. Sunday (1994)- Silver Ford: this band stays at the top of my list for artists I’m looking forward to seeing at All Things Go. Every song they put out transports me to another world, probably a 90s coming of age movie. This one reminds me of the movie Challengers for some reason. 

3. Men I Trust- Carried Away: This entire album is so vibey and precious. It makes me want to throw a dinner party on a rooftop in a city sometime around sunset. 

1. Rachel Chinouriri kicked off her tour in DC and we are getting so excited to see her.

2. I love this song… sue me! 

3. Happy mothers day from Lucy’s crowd.

4. This is not a drill Lola Young single this Friday!!!!!!

5. Sunday 1994 released an EP last week and the vibes are immaculate.

6. My vibe listening to the A.G. Cook YIPPEE-KI-YAY remix.

7. Ummm hearing whispers about album 2???

8. I liked Diet Pepsi before, but now I LOVE Diet Pepsi. Release the full version noooowwww.

things that i’ve been super into lately that i need to share with you guys

1. Been on the search for some cool new baby tees and found this depop shop, Funny Like A Clown! The prints are all so pretty and unique and many are one of a kind! 

2. Spring is always the season for change and new chapters– graduation, changing of seasons, moving out of apartments. Here’s a playlist that captures the highs and lows of dealing with change. 

3. I found my new jewelry obsession, 1ucky Sunday, which sell such beautiful lockets and rings and even locket rings. It’s all vintage, antique, and reworked pieces, which is insanely cool. I am anxiously awaiting their next drop. 

movies, tv shows, and actors on my radar right now

1. The Honey Don’t trailer is FINALLY OUT!

2. Our lovely White Lotus star Walton Goggins made his SNL hosting debut & I love him even more.

3. I saw “A Minecraft Movie” last week for the nostalgia. The whole time I was thinking, wish I was just watching them build stuff and mine instead of making up a story. Maybe I should just be watching a youtuber instead of a movie. Thankfully I didn’t experience any Chicken Jockey craziness.

BOTW: Sarah Kinsley

Sarah Kinsley is known for her dreamy, self-produced sound. Born in California and raised partly in Singapore and Connecticut, she began classical music training at a young age. While studying at Columbia University, she started producing her own music. Her 2021 breakout single “The King” gained viral attention on TikTok, followed by the acclaimed EPs Cypress and Ascension. In 2024, she released her debut album Escaper. She will grace the ATG NYC stage in 136 days!

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What does life look like for you right now?

Ins and outs lately? 👑📅🫶

Ins: ordering a Guinness and sparkling water at the bar, taking walks or riding a bicycle with no music, talking to (nice) strangers, cold vegetable dishes (cucumbers, radishes, pickled onions), personality quizzes, placing tiny trinkets all over your home.

Outs: screen time over five hours (I am not immune to this), Teslas, not flossing, jump scares, jackets with no pockets.

What’s your favorite hobby right now? What’s a hobby you want to get into this year? 🛹🧘‍♀️📷

I can’t stop playing chess. I’m a very very recent convert. And I’d love to learn how to knit or do figure drawing.

Piece of media that’s influenced you 🎼🖼️🎬

Most recently Luca Guadagnino’s film ‘Queer’. That film stayed with me for weeks on end. I also saw an exhibit on 'orphism’ or ‘orphic cubism’ that was very inspiring as well.

If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why? 🦸‍♀️⚡️🕸️

To speak any and all languages.

Any interesting/silly/fun recent tour anecdotes? 🎆🤪🙈

We opened for NIKI in Australia last month which basically felt like a beautiful insane vacation. My band and I visited Rottnest Island off of Perth where quokkas are from - they are the cutest little marsupial that only exist on that island. And they always smile. It was incredible.

What artists are on repeat for you right now? 🎧📻💿

The Marias, Dora Jar, SASAMI, Dan English, The Sundays, Solange, Japanese Breakfast.

Describe your recent work by a color/season/mood/something interesting 🍂🌨️🌼

Golden autumnal effervescence … fleeting glimmers …

Is there an artist you’ve seen live that blew you away? 🪕🎫🎤

I saw L’Rain at the Music Hall of Williamsburg and that show absolutely shifted how I understood live music and the flow of a set. It was so undeniable - she was just unstoppable. I felt the same way watching Florence & the Machine at the Hollywood Bowl. I was just reminded completely of why I am an artist, why I am on this path. When I opened for Mitski last year that was another moment of true pure catharsis. She was electric and just so free.

What’s your hidden talent(s)? 🎭💃🏓

Supposedly impressions and certain accents. And (with liquid courage) I’m not too shabby at pool.

What have you done as an artist that you are most proud of? Whether it be a song lyric, a music video, a performance, etc,. 🥹👏👍

Despite how I feel about some of this music now … I still remain really really proud of the first EP I ever made between the ages of 18 and 19: ‘The Fall’. I was a freshman in college in New York and I had no idea how to go about music production or what releasing a project entailed. I was attempting to prove myself for the first time. I was so hungry for this dream. I’ll never forget it.

Top 4 favorite films? 🎞️⭐️🎥

Arrival. Pride and Prejudice. Howl’s Moving Castle. Darkest Miriam (this is a short film but I absolutely loved it at Tribeca).

Are you excited to play All Things Go? 👏💖☁️

All Things Go has been a dream festival of mine for a few years now so I’m very stoked to be on the line up !

Where do you see yourself in 10 years—musically and personally? 🎤👶🎼

I hope I have a few more albums under my belt. I hope I tour across more of the world, to bring this show to thousands of people. The dream is to just continue this outpour of music and creation - I want to score films, write soundtracks and what not too. I’ve always had this vision of my 30s being this incredibly joyous and alive time. The real high of the trajectory of life. Hopefully I’ll be wiser, maybe a little taller. I genuinely can’t wait !