When the music plays twice
Never, without exception, is there a reason someone should cover The Beach Boys. Of course, I love me a Fiona Apple cover of Across the Universe, but The Beach Boys is a whole different ball game. One weekend a...
A Marxist Take on Idols & Items: Skin to Consume and Rhythm to Exploit
“...Park Jimin, Kim Taehyung, Jung Jungkook, BTS!”
Imagine you are in my shoes, or really, my seat. It is 2017 and the BTS WINGS concert in Anaheim, California has just commenced. I was in a craze, v...
Songs that make me gag: soundtrack to my high school years
One evening during my sophomore year, my roommates and I sat in our living room and scrolled through our Spotify accounts in search of songs that we could not stand to hear anymore. Whether these were songs tha...
Closing your eyes: A moment alone with Julia Holter’s Something in the Room She Moves
For the grand majority of us, listening to music is as easy as opening up your phone, connecting to your various bluetooth devices for proper amplification, and choosing a song. Everything in the world, every...
On quoting Laura Snapes: put women in your headlines
On Wednesday the 20th of February, when Matty Healy of 1975 got on stage with the rest of the band to accept a Brit award, he took the chance to point his finger at the undiscussed misogyny in the contemporary ...