It was a weird summer, and often not a great one. We all had Covid-19 and other illnesses along the way... And there was the Dobbs decision, the terrible Ukraine war...
I've found myself drawing back to the music I was listening to most intensely at the tail end of high school and through much of my time in college -- the hardcore, emo, and riot grrl music of the 1990s.
I'm ready to come back to it now -- back to 'base' -- but the version of it I want now is more diverse and inclusive than the version I experienced at the time. There's a lot of Fugazi here, yes, but more Black voices (Bad Brains, but also Orange 9mm, the first line-up of Dag Nasty), and woman-fronted bands like Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, Slant 6 and PJ Harvey.