March Staff Picks
Every month, the Sunstroke Magazine team compiles a list of things — new and old — that we’ve been enjoying. Here’s to finding more things to love.
Spencer illustration by Diana Hernandez
Albums
Live Through This, Hole
Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan Stevens
Child’s Play, Alice Phoebe Lou
Inbred, Ethel Cain
I Love My Mom, Indigo de Souza
Laurel Hell, Mitski
LP1, FKA Twigs
Vince Staples, Vince Staples
Mercurial World, Magdalena Bay
Salvador, Sega Bodega
Moves, Suki Waterhouse
Musicians & Bands
Labrinth
Kee Avil
Bikini Kill
Samia
Magdalena Bay
Kaytranada
Chanmina
IU
King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard
Shamir
Of Montreal
Podcasts
The Freelance Fairytales with Alexandra Fasulo
Maintenance Phase with Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon
Afterwork Drinks with Isabelle Truman & Grace O’Neil
Books
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Float by Anne Carson
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithewaite
Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi
Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry by Jane Hirschfeld
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Flyboy in the Buttermilk by Greg Tate
TV Shows
The Righteous Gemstones
Euphoria
Gilmore Girls
Too Hot To Handle S3
Yellowjackets
Tampa Baes
Peacemaker
Films
C’mon C’mon (2021, dir. Mike Mills)
Us (2019, dir. Jordan Peele)
The Batman (2022, dir. Matt Reeves)
Spencer (2021, dir. Pablo Larrain)
The Worst Person in the World (2021, dir. Joachim Trier)
Fresh (2022, dir. Mimi Cave)
After Yang (2022, dir. Kogonada)
Dope (2015, dir. Rick Famuyiwa)
Drive My Car (2021, dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
Compartment Number 6 (2022, dir. Juho Kuosmanen)
Vertigo (1958, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Articles, Essays & Journals
A day in the digital life of an internet it-girl by Rebecca Jennings
I Can’t Stop Thinking About This by Kyle Chayka
Memento Millenial by Ayesha A. Siddiqi
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