Lav's Music Corner

The National are a long running Ohio based indie rock band who first received critically success in the mid 2000's and have released a series of well received indie project since then. Their last album was released in 2017 after an extended break and since then the various members have participated in a number of side project including Planetarium  and Big Red Machine . After four singles that captured the attention of their fans and the broader indie community the band has returned shortly after their last project with one of their longest albums to date in I Am Easy To Find . Review By Lavender: Of all of the introductions I do one review after another prefacing the review with my own opinions leading up to the album I'm talking about, this one may be the most controversial. Of The National's 7 albums up to this point I really truly only consider myself an outright fan of one of them, 2007's Boxer . While some others like 2005's Alligator  and 2017'...

Sir Babygirl is the pop pseudonym of LGBT pop singer and Father/Daughter records artist Kelsie Hogue. She spent 2018 dropping singles like Haunted House  and Heels leading up to the release of Crush On Me her debut album. Review By Lavender: LGBT culture and the world of bubblegum pop go hand in hand. I had high hopes for this project to be an unrelenting and unashamed dancy pop powerhouse but it falls short in so many ways, ultimately proving that a great style and attitude aren't enough to make it in the world of bubblegum pop. Let me start by saying that I truly did believe in the success of this project. young LGBT genre bands have been a wave of creativity but it has been noticably hard for them to stick both landings in regard to establishing themselves on the back of their good music (see PWR BTTM or G.L.O.S.S). So when I watched her music videos and read her interview to discover that Sir Babygirl was a hilarious and creative young person toppling labels and doin...

Avril Lavigne is a legendary rock and pop singer who made a name for herself with a trilogy of commercially successful albums throughout the 2000's and a number of huge singles including, Complicated, Sk8er Boi, Girlfriend and My Happy Ending . Over the course of her next two albums Goodbye Lullaby and Avril Lavigne she began a shift away from rock into a pop/vocalist approach to her music and Head Above Water represents her complete transformation from rebellious rock singer to mature pop songstress. Review By Lavender: I do not like Avril Lavigne's music, it's important I make that very clear. I grew up with all these songs and at no point in my life have I considered myself a fan. Complicated has become one of the most grating and poorly aged pop singles of my lifetime over the course of the nearly 20 years since it was first released. Even tracks that I could sing along to today like Sk8er Boi and Hello Kitty are far more in the realm of nostalgic meme music...