Columns and Opinions

By the time my friend and I arrived at the Fox for the Mitski concert on March 5, the formidable line was already snaking down the block, terminating on the far side of the adjacent parking lot. With Mitski’s...

– DISCLAIMER: I, the author of this article, have played two of the livestream shows discussed in this article. When mentioning the artists involved, I am not referring to myself. I have tried my best to rema...

As my twenty-first birthday quickly approaches and with it the looming threat of becoming an actual adult, I’ve been spending much of my time reminiscing and clinging to the last of my adolescent and teenage ...

It is of no surprise that hip-hop is one of the broadest genres in music. Foundational to the vastness of its modern sound is the use of sampling, which in short is characterized by isolating the drum beat, cho...

When it first hit the web late September, pop star Zolita’s music video for her newest single, “Somebody I F*cked Once” (2021) became an almost-overnight hit. This newest contribution to pop didn’t just...

Alex G’s 2010 self-released album, Race, is an ode to the trials and tribulations of young adulthood. Released when Alex was a mere 17 years old, the pains of being a teenager growing up in suburban Havertown...

It’s been 18 years since we lost the legendary singer-songwriter, Elliott Smith. Although he died shortly after I was born, I’ve always related to his music, since his music is often intimate and conversati...

The season of the supernatural is upon us, and it’s been a long time coming. Thou who shall not be named (hint: rhymes with “shmaronavirus”) hindered our chances of celebrating last October’s divine dar...

Following his embarrassing feud with Eminem, a rapper who’s pushing fifty and still failing to recreate the music that made him big in the first place, rapper Machine Gun Kelly attempted to subvert the rap i...

Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast may be one of the most important rockers to arise in the 2010s. Since 2016’s Psychopomp, Zauner has experienced personal loss and indie success. She now holds a strange, ...

Photo by Robert Freeman Ranked 83rd on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time,” The Beatles’ “Norwegian Wood” lit a fire in the burgeoning psychedelic music community. Part of the folk-...

As this final virtual semester comes to a close there is finally a light at the end of the tunnel; a promise that as August rolls around, we will be once again flocking to our beautiful campus and not sitting i...

As we approach the one-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic, examining the impact of social isolation on mental health has become pivotal as we process the year we have spent quarantined. For artists, the faults ...

Two weeks ago I dared to do what I had never done before: I stepped out of my comfort zone and explored new genres of music. Realizing my taste in music was not as broad as I claimed it was, I decided to reach ...

Within the past month as I have been rewatching the 1999 television drama Freaks and Geeks, I am reminded of the first time I watched it and became introduced to the Grateful Dead.  As I now watch high scho...