I bought tickets to MGK’s downfall. Here’s how it went. Amber Ellertson November 10, 2020 Album Review Machine Gun Kelly, or MGK’s, sixth album Tickets to My Downfall (2020) is a prime example of creativity without limits. The rapper stayed true to his high school roots while straying from his typical sound w...
Clipping are masters of 2020 horror in new LP Noah Larsen November 1, 2020 Album Review, Reviews, Uncategorized Clipping’s new album Visions of Bodies Being Burned (2020) has one hell of a story to tell you. Released on the 23rd of October, the album serves as a sequel to last year’s LP There Existed an Addiction to...
5 Albums That You Missed This Year Sravya Gadepalli November 1, 2020 Columns and Opinions, Uncategorized Though this year has been an absolute whirlwind of unexpected events, it has been an incredible year for music. From psychedelic music to rap to flamenco to rock, 2020 did not disappoint. With all of these new...
Metal for Halloween! Tyler Harding October 29, 2020 Album Review, Reviews Halloween is celebrated through disparate traditions by cultures around the world. Globalization in the United States has turned the season into an amalgamation of customs from across the world, the simulacrum...
Revisiting Sufjan Stevens’ Age of Adz in the era of hyperpop Noah Larsen October 12, 2020 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Reviews, Uncategorized As I was scrolling through the #sufjanstevens tag on TikTok (as one naturally does), I clicked on a high-quality video in which user @boyjr.69 covers Sufjan Stevens' indie hit song “Mystery of Love” in the...
Kyle reminisces on his youth with latest album Amber Ellertson October 11, 2020 Album Review, Reviews, Uncategorized Rapper and singer Kyle, from Ventura, CA, recently dropped his fourth album, See You When I am Famous!!!!!!!!!!!! (2020). A mix of new and old styles, SYWIF is a collection of songs which both remind of us of ...
BLM! Albums of Experience Stanley Quiros July 30, 2020 Columns and Opinions, Uncategorized Black lives matter! Black songwriters, musicians, and artists are an integral part of American music history. Jazz, blues, and rock music were all founded by Black people, and all around the world, regardless ...
Top Metal EPs of 2020 (So Far) Tyler Harding July 24, 2020 Album Review, Reviews The metal underground has seen a massive revival in the digital age, and it can be daunting to parse through dozens of terrible one-man basement black metal groups to find a gem. I can attest to this, as the 1...
Unwhat the world? Grimes strikes again on Miss Anthropocene Stanley Quiros March 21, 2020 Album Review, Reviews In 2015 Grimes, or Claire Boucher, proved to non-believers that she was more than just Garageband bangers and beats with Art Angels. Her fifth and “last Earth album,” Miss Anthropocene (2020), sees the now...
Vampire Weekend’s Father of the Bride depicts the beauty within chaos Brianna Luna March 17, 2020 Album Review, Reviews The six years of painful silence from indie-rock band Vampire Weekend came to its anticipated end with Father of the Bride (2019) serving as a generous comeback filled with brightness and electricity. With its...
Album Review: King Krule’s Man Alive! Everett Williams March 3, 2020 Album Review, Reviews Archy Marshall has grown up. The 25-year-old Londoner behind post-punk act King Krule recently got married, had a baby girl, and moved from South London to Wigan. Hey World!, a short film featuring four new so...
Going home through Hyperspace: Beck’s comforting closer to a discomforting decade Stanley Quiros December 8, 2019 Album Review For over twenty-five years, Beck has been a known variable in music for his experimental pop and genre-defining innovation. Hyperspace marks fourteen studio albums, his third of the 2010s, and twenty years sinc...
The 2010s: Editorial’s picks you might have missed Stanley Quiros December 5, 2019 Columns and Opinions Popular music from the 20th century onward is often categorized into decades. These decades are not always so clear cut, and many different musical movements and trends pervade each. As the 2010s are coming to ...
King Princess delivers queer realness with debut album Cheap Queen Daniella Ivanir November 24, 2019 Album Review Mikaela Straus, known better as King Princess, recently released her debut album Cheap Queen (2019). The queer pop icon has racked up a lot of attention since dropping three singles last year: “1950,” “Pu...
(Still Not) Over It: Summer Walker’s drops her debut album Sanjana Sanghani November 19, 2019 Album Review I had been awaiting a full-and-loaded album from R&B/soul artist Summer Walker for what seemed like way too long. So when Over It (2019) was finally released in early October, it's all I listened to for at ...