The Singles Jukebox

Can’t get enough Jukebox in your life? Here’s our weekly digest of what our writers have been up to lately:

• For Pitchfork, Katherine St. Asaph reviewed Caroline Polachek’s solo debut Pang: “Love songs about the moment of surrender, the pain preceding it, and the euphoria after.”
• For The Young Folks, Leonel Manzanares de la Rosa wrote about Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, sharing some personal perspectives about poverty in the process.
• Over at Rock and Roll Globe, Thomas Inskeep took a look at Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart of this week in 1989: “…[the] chart was just 13 months old in October ‘89 and it was… well, kinda weird.”
• Kayla Beardslee hosts a weekly radio show called Pop Excellence on whcl.org Tuesdays from 2pm-4pm Eastern Standard Time, and the upcoming theme this week might be of interest to some: Charli XCX! Previous playlists can be found on popexcellence.wordpress.com.
• For CityPages, Josh Langhoff created a SUPERFUN TRIVIA QUIZ based on Pitchfork’s recently published Best Albums of the Decade list. (Can confirm: it is super fun.)
• Josh, also for City Pages, chronicled the career of Banda el Recodo, Mexico’s longest-running brass band.