Lavender Sound
Max FreedmanAbout music, by and for LGBTQ+ people.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 79 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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Rushing Out Album Reviews Is Useless
Album artwork for Madonna’s ‘Confessions II,’ released on July 3, 2026, via Warner Records.
In both hobbyist and professional writing about music, there’s a pressure many of us have succumbed to for years. And as someone who’s currently a...
Is Lizzo's Pass Really a Thing Anymore?
Album artwork for Lizzo’s total flop of a fifth album, ‘BITCH,’ released June 5, 2026.
On the July 2, 2026 episode of the podcast Pop Pantheon1, host DJ Louie XIV brought on George Civeris and Sam Taggart of the equally great StraightioLab...
I Ranked (Yes, Ranked) My Fave 2026 Albums So Far
Look, I get it: Ranking one’s favorite albums verges on pointless. After #5 or #10, is there really that much of a distinction between how much someone enjoys one album compared to another? Is album #12 really any better than #19?
Honestl...
Mitski's Indie-Rock Breakthrough Is 10 Now
Album artwork for Mitski’s Puberty 2, released 10 years ago today on June 17, 2016.
If you knew, you knew. In late October and early November 2014, if you were in college radio, an active reader of big-name online music publications, or a...
For the last time, I'm changing how I listen to music
Illustration by my friend Mary Beth Marler!
Well, I tried.
In the first two posts of this ultimately three-part series, I detailed my quest to get entirely off streaming, why I was doing it, and how else I‘d be listening to music:
In Apr...
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