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  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...

Courtesy of Popdose. Minutes before leaving for the airport to return to D.C., my mom - shoutout to Pam - wrote me a list of the music she grew up listening to. Of course, as a teenager in the 1970s, she loved Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, and Genesis, to name a few,...

Courtesy of Billboard.I wasn‰'t really looking forward to Katy Perry‰'s Super Bowl performance, assuming it would be cartoonish, poppy and possibly include Katy appropriating a cultural identity or two. However I ended up enjoying the show much more than I had...

Courtesy of The American Reader. You may or may not have been around a few Wednesdays ago when the American University chapter of the Young Americans for Liberty tabled in front of MGC to spread the word about their current project Incarceration Nation, with the...

  Courtesy of Rolling Stone.Until yesterday, I had never heard Willie Nelson's music. Today, I'm still not really sure if my life has changed in any way. I guess the question in and of itself means it hasn‰'t. For this week‰'s In The Bin, I went to Joe‰'s Record...

  Courtesy of Free Bike Valet.The man is Luis Dubuc, Mystery Skulls is his project and the end result is the best electronic pop music you‰'ll hear this year. Mystery Skulls released its first full album, Forever, late in 2014 under the Warner Bros. label. Packed...

Courtesy of Visit Baltimore. Baltimore seems to be the mid-Atlantic's best kept secret when discussing East Coast music scenes. The city's proximity to D.C. is both a blessing and a curse; while it's convenient for local bands to hop between music scenes,...

Courtesy of BuddyTV. Have you ever wanted a long, illustrious singing career spanning well over a decade? Do you want to fade out of Pop Culture‰'s consciousness only to reinvent yourself several years later? Luckily for you, I‰'ve created an easy-to-follow guide...

Courtesy of Miami New Times. Reggeaton has its roots in Latin America, mainly Panama, and the Caribbean as it infuses aspects of salsa, bomba, Jamaican dancehall and Trinidadian soca. What pushed its boundaries were the Puerto Rican artists who added vocals,...

   Courtesy of Absolutely Kosher. Okay is a collection of earworms that could only be creations of Marty Anderson‰'s questionably sane brain and tortured body. After turning minds inside out with Dilute‰'s cosmic blizzards that took spider web...

 Courtesy of Newbury Comics. I think we can all agree that we all have one song that is objectively quite awful. You either cannot stop listening to a new, unoriginal pop song or, in my case, one song that is clearly the worst song on an album but...

  “A pope is a fraud / A church is a lie / A queen is the same damn thing / You should pray to your fake god that she die‰Û Attention citizens, this is not your normal aggression. Or maybe it is, just fitted with new words twice as hyperbolic. Is this the kind...

   The Store: Up until last week I had never been to a record fair, so since this column is challenging me to explore different record purchasing options, I decided to attend this weekend‰'s fair at Penn Social. For the purposes of this challenge, and its...