Lav's Music Corner

Teen Suicide is the lo-fi indie and experimental music project of Baltimore musician Sam Ray who solidified their status in the early 2010's as one of the most intriguing underground acts in the indie circuit, culminating in their acclaimed 2016 album It's The Big Joyous Celebration , Let's Stir The Honeypot . After changing the name of the band to American Pleasure Club and operating under that moniker for numerous releases, honeybee table  is the return of the Teen Suicide name for the first time since Big Joyous Celebration .  Review by Lav: I think I was a sophomore in high school when I saw teen suicide in concert for the first time and bought a Stir The Honeypot  shirt. For the next few years I wore that shirt a genuinely exhausting amount of times. To me Teen Suicide was one of those bands that only cool people liked and if I saw anyone in a Teen Suicide shirt I would assume they were cool and hoped for that same courtesy in return. Does that make me look like even...

Kitty Ray AKA Kitty, AKA ❤kitty❤, AKA Kitty Pryde is a rap/pop singer with a winding history of music in the 2010's. From the critical acclaim of major music outlets to the ire of old-head rap fans it can be hard to pin down retrospectively what exactly happened with the rise of Kitty but tracing it is essential to understand how we arrived at Rose Gold . Review By Lavender: Luckily I've been a Kitty fan for a long, long time. The Lizzie McGuire Experience came out when I was in 8th grade and as much as I was learning to admire the heroes of rap who built the rules of the genre I was equally intrigued by those willing to break those same rules. When Okay Cupid blew up in 2012 I was right there defending Kitty online and retrospectively I think this music holds up better than I would have imagined if you had made me really think about it back then. Haha I'm Sorry  and D.A.I.S.Y Rage  are unique, sign of the times internet rap albums that refuse to follow in line a...

American Pleasure Club formerly known as Teen Suicide is the Baltimore based indie project fronted by Sam Ray that has been putting out experimental and low-fi music for the better part of this decade. On the back of a studio album and two well received EPs re-released as a set Teen Suicide made a name for themselves in the world of indie music. They released their most popular album in 2016 with It's The Big Joyous Celebration, Lets Stir The Honeypot  on Run For Cover records before announcing the name change to American Pleasure Club the next year. Since then the band has released three projects under the name and dropped three singles prior to the release of Fucking Bliss Review By Lavender: I fell in love with Teen Suicide in 2016, and it wasn't the old stuff that really did it for me it was Lets Stir The Honeypot  that turned me from a Sam Ray skeptic into a devoted fan overnight. So in 2018 when the band transitioned into American Pleasure Club and Kitty becam...