Opinion

In 2015, I stumbled across a YouTube video that would inadvertently alter my consumption of pop music for years to come. After randomly browsing videos for hours, the YouTube algorithm directed me to a new tren...

Vinyl records used to be the primary—or only—means for bands and labels to distribute their music and for fans to find, support, and engage with the music they love. However by 1968, it had a solid competit...

A rapper's biggest enemy is their K-12 teachers— or so many rap songs like to portray.  From Biggie’s “to all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothin'” and Juice Wrld’s “I remember ...

The year is 2015. You are 14 years old getting ready for school and looking for your pair of Doc Martens. Your parents come in and you quickly hide your pack of cigarettes. Your room is filled with posters of L...

“I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped-up four-wheel drive” is a lyric that will always hit. The sheer passion the song makes me feel is truly unmatched. “Before He Cheats” (2005) by Ca...

Swedish singer-songwriter Molly Nilsson is no stranger to exercising her independence. Writing, producing, and publishing her own music — through her independent record label Dark Skies Association —  allo...

– 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...

Even if no one wants to narrow it down to just one, everyone has a favorite album of all time — the one piece of art they would save if every other work of music vanished from the place we call Earth. My albu...

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 ...

If it wasn’t obvious enough last year, the rap ladies are providing the best of the genre. With dream collaborations coming into fruition and envelope-pushing visuals, the ladies did everything to exceed expe...

If you are like me, who happens to be a huge fan of Taylor Swift while also having a borderline masochistic relationship to sad music, then you were probably counting the days for Red (Taylor’s Version), spec...

It was your typical college Friday night: the warm ambiance of soft chatter, the occasional laugh, and just the right music to match a clamoring group of new friends. That night I had been given the high task o...

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...

When lockdown hit, I returned to my childhood bedroom, with its high ceilings and austere white walls, and dreamed of being somewhere different, anywhere other than where I presently was. I became repulsed by t...

Before last year, I never would have pegged myself as a post-grunge, nu-metal fanatic, but since the rebirth of 2000s music and pop culture, I have found myself banging out a little too much to My Chemical Roma...