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  Courtesy of Captured Tracks.With the ping pong tables pushed aside and the aroma of their famous “smoky‰” mushroom, mozzarella, bacon, and onion pizza permeating throughout the room, Comet Ping Pong welcomed local indie-pop band The Sea Life and alternative...

Courtesy of  TripAdvisor. Home of the Grand Ole Opry, Music Row and other legendary institutions, Nashville is known by many as Music City, U.S.A. As a city teeming with fresh talent, it‰'s overflowing with various labels, venues and artists, and while it may be...

Courtesy of The Independent. Instead of actually writing the first 10 pages of my thesis due this week, I decided I would just write about writing about it as a bizarre act of masochism. When you‰'re a literature major, you have a year to write a 25+...

 No matter how cruel the world is, you are always by my side. Every "tough" metalhead has a very sweet loving heart ‰Û_ pic.twitter.com/mCRp6gNjus— Tengger Cavalry (@tenggercavalry) February 14, 2015 Mongolia‰'s rich roots of conquest and constant, often...

  Courtesy of World In Photo.The Store The most underrated place in the world to get vinyl has got to be Goodwill. Really, any thrift store carrying mostly musty grandpa sweaters and old shoes will oftentimes have one lonely box of records right under the VHS...

Courtesy of David Stewart's Facebook. I‰'ve been listening to  David Stewart ever since I found his collaborative EP Dark Side of Paradise with Sango, released in 2012. Since then, I've been anxiously waiting to hear more from this young Londoner. If you dig the...

Courtesy of NPR. Does a memory ever come back to you so faintly and broken into such undecipherable pieces that it becomes hard to tell if it was a dream or an actual occurrence? I have this very faint memory (or dream) that I am in a restaurant with...

                                         Courtesy of New York Times.When I first picked current events as the theme of my column it seemed rather simple. Just talk...

  Courtesy of Glide Magazine.It‰'s very rare that I stumble upon covers of classic songs that I enjoy, let alone take time to write about. I‰'m especially skeptical when I come across covers of my favorite tracks.My readers should know by now the extent...

  Courtesy of The Grammys.Jack Black may have won his biggest award yet when his comedy duo Tenacious D took away the Grammy for best metal performance. The apt comparison many have made is giving Weird Al the award for best rap performance. Any writer...

  Courtesy of hotnewhiphop.A day after winning the Grammy for Best Rap Song & Performance his single “i‰Û, Kendrick Lamar released “The Blacker The Berry.‰” The newest single, or ‰statement‰' as Lamar prefers to call the music he releases, is a much...

Courtesy of Clash.  Guys, I swear I like other bands. There is just so much I have to say about Patrick Stickles and his band that I just need to write about it this week. Especially since I‰'m writing a paper for class about existentialism in science...

Do you want to be in a sisterly witch cult? Or possibly stroke wolves? How do you feel about hair that‰'s parted down the middle? HAIM raises these questions as I stare at my computer screen, cheap Starbucks in hand. I‰'m not entirely sure what‰'s going on in...

  Courtesy of Durcal. Family get-togethers for Latinos aren‰'t to see how much little Susan has grown or how Jimmy isn‰'t a starter on the soccer team. Latino get-togethers are to reminisce on the past. The presence of familiar faces takes us back...

Courtesy of Blahblahblahscience. To continue on with my female producer and girl power-infused articles, I decided to write about one of my faves this week: Mckenzie Ellis, known as Mothica. I love this girl and I probably favorite every single one of...

  I don‰'t know about anyone else, but this week was especially difficult to get through for me. It‰'s that point in the semester where you can feel the workload starting to pick up and the excitement of new classes beginning to diminish. However, music always...

  Courtesy of Getty Images.On a cold, bitter February night, I snuggled up on my couch for the second time. The first was to knock out a season of Grey‰'s Anatomy, but you know when you get snacks and return and it‰'s sort of like beginning a new activity. I...

Courtesy of Vector Diary. It goes without saying that the post-9/11 world that most college students grew up in is very different from the world that our parents or other older relatives grew up in. Personally, I only have very shaky memories of that day, but...

  Courtesy of Oddblog.The Red Hot Chili Peppers already have a pretty quirky name, but rumor has it that this level of quirky was a band meeting away from absurdity. The Red Hot Chili Peppers had two alternative names in the works, the alliterative Tony Flow and...

  My little hometown isn't exactly the best place for record shopping. Usually, I save my cash and wait to get back to school to blow all of it on records. But, thanks to a savvy punk and one metal as all hell pizza place, I ended up flying home with 4 EPs in my...

Courtesy of Atlanta Music Scene. It‰'s no secret that Atlanta is a city bursting with musical talent. Infused with genres and bands ranging from punk to indie to rap to country, Atlanta is a melting pot of different styles of music with a united bond of its...

Courtesy of Gigwise. I‰'ve been thinking about The 1975 a lot after I saw them live at Echostage in December. I knew who they were before the concert and I knew about their fanbase. The thing is, The 1975 is a Brit-pop alternative-type band from Manchester, but...

Courtesy of Starving Kids. At only 17-years-old, this Australian singer/songwriter is brimming with pure talent. Olivia McCarthy - known as  JOY. - sings elegantly and produces her own tracks. JOY.‰'s vocal style can be compared to...

Courtesy of Us Weekly. Watching a football game is not exactly something on my to-do list, but I feel that the Super Bowl is one of those things that you have to somehow witness. For me it normally involves sitting in a room where the game is on the TV but I‰'m facing...