Cage the Elephant: the band of a generation Shayan Shirkhodai December 3, 2018 Columns and Opinions Any sort of rock music, as a whole, has been kicked out of the mainstream since Nirvana’s unfortunate collapse in the mid 90s. Afterwards, few rock bands have consistently topped charts and dominated mainstre...
Joanna Connor and Thornetta Davis play at Kingston Mines and I reflect on the state of the blues in 2018. Jack Austin December 1, 2018 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews 1 Comment Kingston Mines was filled with music from 7:30 pm until 3 in the morning. This is a pretty typical night at this famous blues bar in Chicago and, on November 23, the crowd of mostly local Chicagoans was treated...
In a sunburned country: The Aussie rock comeback is upon us Clementine Zimmer November 29, 2018 Blog, Columns and Opinions Ah, Australia. Land of kangaroos and sausage rolls and Foster’s beer (at least according to the advertisements). Most of what I know about the country comes from Jim Jefferies stand-up and Bill Bryson’s tra...
A venture in the slipstream: Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks turns fifty Madeline Rohner November 29, 2018 Columns and Opinions There are few albums that seem to have a profound effect on not only its listeners but on fellow musicians as well. Bruce Springsteen said that it gave him “a sense of the divine.” It has been described as ...
A night in the Yellow Submarine in Havana Celia Davalos November 1, 2018 Columns and Opinions, Interview, Photos It’s 5 PM and still sunny, 90 degrees fahrenheit with an equally as high humidity percentage, my constant reminder that it’s mid-August and peak hurricane season in Cuba. I have a hyper-awareness of the fac...
Noname’s Room 25 gets revamped Joshua Hauser October 28, 2018 Columns and Opinions, News Just over a month after the release of her critically acclaimed debut album, Room 25 (2018), Fatimah Warner (AKA Noname) tweeted on October 15th that she will be replacing the album’s cover art after the arti...
Pearl Jam then and now: Vs. and today Shayan Shirkhodai October 21, 2018 Album Review, Columns and Opinions “I will scream my lungs out till it fills this room / How much difference does it make?” This helplessness from the song "Indifference" epitomized early 90s music found few better poster boys than Eddie Ved...
Crawling back to Tom Petty: remembering a great Shayan Shirkhodai October 6, 2018 Columns and Opinions On October 2, 2017, the world lost Tom Petty; typing these words out one year later, this simple fact of life still shocks me now as much as it did the day I found out about his death. Whether it was his work a...
lo fi article to study/chill to Walker Spence August 2, 2018 Columns and Opinions, Interview the beauty of 24/7 live streams is that you can hop in at any point and have very little catching up to do, so in that spirit i’m eschewing capital letters. there are no beginnings and endings, only content. ...
British soccer fans release chart-topping single, ode to Donald Trump Natalie Silver July 23, 2018 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews On January 20, 2017, the day of President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, a group of English soccer fans released the charting single, “Hey Donald Trump, I Wanna Know Why You’re Such a Cunt,” culminatin...
A comprehensive list of all (yes, all) of your ex-boyfriends as bands you love Leka Gopal July 2, 2018 Columns and Opinions I don’t know the exact date of when cuffing season ends, or when (what’s the opposite of that? Breakup season?) starts, but there’s a brief period of time where you can look back fondly (or less than fond...
Janelle Monáe is the icon the LGBTQ community deserves Rebekah Gonzalez June 23, 2018 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews She is standing at the top of a pearly white set of front angled stairs. The crowd at San Francisco’s The Masonic auditorium roars beneath her. Just half an hour ago, Janelle Monáe seemed cooler than ice. In...
Apparently there might actually be something very wrong with living like this: On the road with FIDLAR…again Natalie Silver and Rosie Davidowitz May 15, 2018 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Hi, my name is Natalie Silver, and I am a raging narcissist. Hi, my name is Rosie Davidowitz, and I am a raging narcissist. Hi, my name is Sofia Duarte, and I am Editor-In-Chief. Hi, we're FIDLAR, and who ...
Divin’ into Disco in 2018 Devyn White April 26, 2018 Columns and Opinions It was New Year’s Eve on the Rooftop of the Ace Hotel. There were crowds of people at the bar, chilling on chairs and couches, and quite a few others dancing. Unfamiliar with DJ-ing and house music at this ti...
The Beach Boys don’t like the beach anymore: an Earth Day playlist Hannah Hartt April 22, 2018 Columns and Opinions, Mixtapes Earth Day became a national holiday in 1970, in light of a growing concern for the planet’s health. In the 25 years following World War II, the United States experienced a major increase in the number of cars...