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I was fortunate enough to interview the one and only Liv Wood, an up-and-coming AU Pop Star. Here is the background, the future, and the reasoning behind this great voice. Liv, a broadcast journalism major here at AU, has always been a part of the music world....

Allow me to paint a familiar picture for you: The end of the concert you’re at looms across the horizon. The band/artist/whatever onstage has played a myriad of fun tunes for the past hour or so and is starting to wind down. One of the members waltzes up to the...

Fifty new songs, five categories, and all devoted to the umbrella of rock. Daylight savings time has thrown me for a loop, and I’m positive I’m not the only one. It just doesn’t seem natural for the sun to be dead and gone by the premature time of 5:30 PM. This week,...

Hello! It’s that time of week again—welcome to Color Theory! Today, I’m talking about the idea of ‘pale blue’. When thinking about the color and songs I wanted to look at this week, what really struck me is a lyric from “This Love” by Taylor Swift. “This Love” is one...

At approximately 10:40 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 4, in the middle of my AUx class, my hand shot to my mouth, barely masking the gasp that jumped from my mouth. I looked around to see if I’d made a scene, but no one was looking my way—in the corner of Anderson Hall’s AUx...

I could go on and on about Taylor Swift’s new album, but we’ve seen that. It was amazing, we all know it (unless you don’t know it, then you should get on to knowing it). But on October 21st, while Taylor Swift was releasing Midnights, Shauna Dean Cokeland was...

Taylor Swift took to Good Morning America to announce The Eras Tour shortly after earning the top 10 spots on the Billboard Top 100, becoming the first artist to claim the Hot 100’s entire top ten. This is remarkable given that Swift had released the album, Midnights,...

The other day I was sent a TikTok of dog behind a DJ controller blasting techno music in a dingy, yellow-tiled area that might as well be the backdrop to the latest backrooms video. With over 1.2 million views, the TikTok is quite popular, and it’s easy to see why;...

Get to know who will be performing with Taylor Swift on her upcoming tour: Paramore Formed in 2004, this alt-rock band quickly rose to fame amassing countless fans and impact on the music industry. Being the opener for the first date of the tour Paramore will most...

Chappell Roan is transforming pop music as we know it. Originally from the small town of Willard, Missouri, Roan was discovered when she was a teenager by Atlantic Records. Under Atlantic, she released a few singles and an EP in 2017 in addition to opening for Declan...

         “It’s me/Hi!/I’m the problem, it’s me,” Taylor Swift proudly proclaims on “Anti-Hero”—track three of her new album Midnights. The record celebrates Swift’s return to pop music with 80’s-inspired synths and catchy choruses, but she also delves into deeper and...

We all have that one playlist. THE scary playlist with 100+ of the most gut-wrenching sad songs that we try our absolute hardest to avoid. Sometimes, it calls our name and there is just no ignoring it. Well, I have that playlist and then the one I play right after....

We’re not playing anything this week but some Halloween-themed tunes. With Halloweekend coming up, you’re going to need a playlist to get you into the right mood—and I’ve got you covered. This week, I’m not updating “now playing” the playlist, but rather I’m plugging...

Hello! Welcome to the second ‘Color Theory’ article! Now, recently it seems like everyone I’ve talked to (myself included) has been in a funk. Midterms have been somehow going on for the past two weeks, the weather is back to being mildly hot, and now Halloween is...

As someone who couldn’t wait to leave my small hometown for a big city, I would not have expected to relate to the complicated and complex themes of homesickness that are woven throughout the captivating lyrics of Noah Kahan’s newest album, Stick Season.  Kahan...

In my last article, I left off on a bit of a cliffhanger. Now I plan to see my analysis through: how do video games have anything to do with the 90s electronica revival?  The answer comes from the history of electronic music and video games. The influence video games...

Alec Duckart, who releases music under the name Searows, is an up and coming artist with a melancholic, overcast sound that any indie-folk lover will crave. He began releasing his music through his Tik Tok account in 2020, with his first viral video being an acoustic...