Dear Besties 💌 Wicked Winter, Best New Music and the Holy Dyke Carabiner Trinity

a discovery playlist featuring my recent top 10 new music releases

1. Annie Dirusso, Ruston Kelly- Wearing Pants Again: Annie DiRusso is THE moment right now and this collab is SO good. Such an iconic song— the lyrics are insane and so real (taken right from their journals)

2. Searows- calico: new Searows EP has me crying. This was only two additional songs but they both were such hard hitters. Calico is beautifully written and sounds so bittersweet

3. Charlie Hickey- Cash In: Charlie has been an absolute favorite of mine for awhile now… any song he puts out becomes an instant favorite. I’ve been waiting for new music from him for what feels like ages now and I was not disappointed.

1. The holy dyke carabiner trinity…

2. Barbie Summer and Brat Summer walked so that Wicked Winter could run

3. The Tik Tok that put our BOTW Jake Minch on the map 😍

4. The Mk.gee lookalike contest being mostly lesbians is a huge W

5. Lucy Dacus performed a new song in London over the weekend! 

6. Lesbians stay winning 

7. The first 9 minute song by a British milennial gay man to do this…

8. The Japanese House shares the first song she ever made on Muna’s Gayotic Podcast

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

1. Apparently I am super into knitwear this right now because I have yet ANOTHER small knitwear shop for you… Eleanor Rose Knitwear finds and restores vintage knits that are SUCH cool pieces

2. If winter to you means listening to phoebe bridgers on repeat, here’s your winter soundtrack

3. I found this Holiday outfit guide for the Fun Aunt and and obsessed… this is exactly the energy I want to have at family functions

new movies and tv shows on my radar right now

1. I’m sure you’ve all been overwhelmed with WICKED content, but the movie now holds this global record… I’m not a huge musical girl but I think I need to check it out…

2. Another big movie recently is Gladiator! Recently it was disclosed that this star was initially considered to play Paul Mescals role which has me dying lol

3. I had no idea they’re making a live-action Lilo and Stitch but the first movie poster is here and I'm actually super excited about it? This movie was big part of my childhood & I'm excited to relive that

BOTW Jake Minch

Jake Minch is an emerging indie-folk artist whose debut EP, How Many, captures the emotional complexity of coming-of-age experiences with heartfelt lyricism and dreamy acoustic melodies. Known for songs like "strip mall" and "I'd pick up flowers," his work reflects themes of nostalgia, heartbreak, and identity, resonating with listeners navigating life’s transitions. With over 80,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, Minch has become a rising voice for those seeking comfort and connection through music.

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 What does life look like for you right now?

 Ins and outs for this month? 👑📅🫶

ins: beer, my moms birthday, Jessica Hoop, twitter fight videos, geek bar

outs: people dying :(, vodka, 100 million dollar movies, working out, wallets

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

drawing! Id love to get into sculpture stuff next year.

Fashion pieces you’re interested in lately? 👜👡🧥

I have 5 t shirts, 3 long sleeves, and 4 pairs of jeans!

Piece of media that’s influenced you 🎼🖼️🎬

Been on a Harmony Korine movie kick since October. Its like the guy goes “lets throw a bunch of nuns out of a plane” and then builds a film around that. Super fun to watch, it always feels accidentally smart.

Any interesting/silly/fun recent tour anecdotes?

November of last year I played Salt Lake City opening up for Jeremy Zucker and a kid threw me a pair of sunglasses and I caught them and put them on and it was awesome. He came to the merch table after the show and was like “my phone numbers on the side of them, text me!”, and I was like “lmfao how old are you” and he was like “17” and so I obviously didnt text him, but I remembered him and one day he DM’d me saying something along the lines of “Hey Jake, not sure if you remember me, but I am about to leave for my mormon mission and I’m putting out an album, I’d love for you to hear it”. It is my favorite album ever. It’s all instrumental except for one song, and to this day, its the only album that has ever made me cry. He is currently in Guatemala I think. Its called ‘dearly’. I will link it below if they let me do that. 

Describe your recent work with a color/mood/season

• Recent release: trying to sleep with the spins.

• Unreleased: the morning after that, except your friends are over so you still have that ‘morning after’ heart rate thing happening but someones like “you were super normal last night, lets get breakfast!”.

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

I saw Ryan Beatty at a lollapalooza after show and I think that when I die I will wake up back in that room.

What are you listening to right now?

Maximus Madsen’s ‘dearly’ is playing as I write this lol. At this point I can’t be in an airport without it. I have also been listening to Tom Waits’ ‘The Early Years Vol. 2’ at least twice a week. Also the new Katie Gavin record. There are nights where I cannot sleep until I have listened to ‘Sketches’. Dearly: https://music.apple.com/us/album/dearly/1760890787 // https://music.apple.com/us/album/dearly/1760890787

What song/lyric are you most proud of?

This song I wrote called ‘twice’. It will come out next year.

What’s a lyric you think about often?

“Your world was collapsing, you couldn’t have stopped it, your jokes became armor, your pain became gossip.” From Christian Lee Hutson and (sorry doing 2) “Did you know that you are the guardian of a part of my life that I had long forgotten” by Frog 

What’s your dream collab?

Phoebe Bridgers

Top 4 favorite films?

‘Secret Life of Walter Mitty’, A24’s ‘Close', ‘World’s Greatest Dad’, and I have seen ‘My Old Ass’ like 30 times since it hit amazon prime.