Columns and Opinions

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...

One of the most influential and record-breaking bands hails from Guadalajara, Mexico. Maná, originally named Sombrero Verde, translates to good energy. To illustrate just how loved and special this band is, th...

Rediscovering artists is one of my most cherished feelings in the world. Maybe you loved the album the first time or maybe you hated it the first time. Regardless, organically stumbling upon an album again afte...

“Rise and Shine, let’s get it.” These are the words that Tyron Framton, more commonly known as Slowthai, shouts on the opening track of his sophomore album, TYRON (2021). After his last public appearance ...

Machine Gun Kelly, or MGK, released the wildly successful pop-punk album, Tickets to My Downfall, in September of 2020. In January 2021, he directed and released a 50-minute masterpiece of a short film, Downfal...

This winter has been rainy, strange, and of course filled with the notes of isolation we've come to know and hate. That's partially why more than any other winter, we could all use a pick me up. Enter Neo-perre...

2020 was a year of isolation, sure, but in a time where the world shrank to a room, the music of the year became expansive, willing to adventure sonically in ways the listener couldn’t physically. In the new ...

One of the most amazing things about music is the way that it seeps into our subconscious and has the ability to elicit a very specific feeling before we even know the artist or the name of the song. Maybe ther...

Jam sessions: the ones where you sit in a fellow twenty-something year old’s hot-boxed, heatless bedroom while they pluck the strings of their prized guitar. Friends humming along until all thoughts are lost ...