Good & Good Fridays! 10.13.23

Howdy, and welcome to Good And Good For You, a newsletter about music and feelings. I’m starting a new thing where some Fridays, I’ll put out a music, memes, and pop culture roundup. I hope you like it!! And if you don’t, please don’t tell me—it will hurt my feelings!

New Music Out Today

• Squirrel Flower - Tomorrow’s Fire (album)
  For fans of Lucy Dacus, Wednesday, putting your makeup on/fixing your hair up pretty/meeting me tonight in Atlantic City

• Holly Humberstone - Paint My Bedroom Black (album)
  For fans of Gracie Abrams, Samia, bedroom pop (no pun intended)

• L’Rain - I Killed Your Dog (album)
  For fans of listen I’m not even gonna try with this one it’s very weird and difficult to compare but it’s trippy and entrancing and bizarre without being off-putting so if that’s your thing, give it a shot

• The Menzingers - Some Of It Was True (album)

  For fans of Spanish Love Songs, The Hotelier, being angsty

• Bad Bunny - nadie sabe lo que va a pasar mañana (album)

  For fans of reggaeton, a moodier take on ass-shaking, extremely handsome young fellas

• Land of Talk - Performances (album)
  For fans of Wye Oak, early The xx, yearning, taut indie pop with a Julien Baker endorsement

• Boygenius - the rest (EP)
  For fans of Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers, ever heard of them???

Other New & Notable

• This essay about grief and Sufjan’s (unbelievably beautiful) new album

• The NBA is back, babyyyyy. And ICYMI Jimmy Butler is emo now. Sorry I can’t embed tweets it’s horrible

• Ben Affleck is up to his little tricks again

• These baseball guys almost kissed i guess

• Kesha got dumped :(

• Year end lists have officially begun

• SZA described Justin Bieber in the funniest way imaginable

• And, finally, last but not least, a modern classic gets its due

Love you, mean it, have a good weekend xoxo

-Katie