Headphoning it In: “Uncut Gems” Reimagined
Madee Sadozai
March 27, 2020
Reflecting on a time when movie theaters were still open, I have spent a substantial amount of my free time thinking about a film I saw earlier this year, Uncut Gems. Following their previous hit Good Time, visionary brothers Josh and Benny Safdie collaborated once more with production enterprise A24...
Serotonin for the Soul: A Playlist for Comfort
Marjorie Blum
March 26, 2020
The past couple of weeks have truthfully been some of the most alarming and paralyzing weeks of my life with leaving my life at college to move back home amidst the largest public health crisis of our lifetime. However, even when the world is turning upside down, music can still serve as the connective...
Quaran-tunes: Revisiting “I Don’t Like Sh*t, I Don’t Go Outside”
Shannon Durazo
March 25, 2020
In March of 2015, Thebe Kgositsile aka Earl Sweatshirt gave the public a look inside the mind of a tortured isolationist in his darkest and most honest work yet, “I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside.” Now, five years later, the album is more relevant than ever in the era of social distancing...
Quarantine Szn: How are Bands and Artists dealing with COVID-19?
Joseph Patella
March 24, 2020
With recent developments regarding COVID-19, many states have been placed on lockdown, and the federal government has started to recommend “social distancing,” which entails staying at least six feet apart from others, as well as not attending events or gatherings of more than ten people. As expected,...
Respect the Classics- Iggy Pop (The Stooges) and Matt Schultz (Cage the Elephant)
Zoe Joy
March 24, 2020
Though The Stooges and Cage the Elephant do not sound remotely similar to each other, the lead singers of both bands are cut from the same cloth. For a Respect the Classics first, the lyrics and sounds of these two bands will not be compared; instead, let’s talk about their electric stage presences! For...
Feeling Sad and Hopeful: Soccer Mommy’s “circle the drain”
Johanna Zenn
March 7, 2020
Since I was about 12, I’ve had some pretty nasty on-and-off periods of major depression. It becomes kind of blurry when it would stop and start up again, but I know for certain that I only really started coming out of it in a major way a little over a year ago. It’s a very daunting experiment to...
Monthly Mixtape: Meet Me On The Quad
Claire Daniel
March 6, 2020
If Wednesday was any indication, quadding season is quickly approaching and one of the most vital components of a good ~quadding sesh~ is the music. Your playlist can make or break the time that you spend with your friends and its importance cannot be understated. So I have decided to lend a hand through...
Cats: When Movie Adaptations Fail
Jessica Anthony
March 5, 2020
So, the Cats movie was a thing. The world went through that and we survived giant weird CGI furries on the big screen, and now we as a society can collectively move on from whatever the hell that was. Except, not really, as it continues to tour the United States and has dates in cities across ...
Queens of R&B: Ari Lennox: Living in Dreamville
Maggie Mahoney
March 3, 2020
In the wake of her recent SUB sessions performance in The Tavern at AU, it seems only fitting to examine Ari Lennox’s music career and recent work. Born Courtney Shanade Salter and known professionally under the aforementioned stage name, Lennox grew up in Northern Virginia and spent the formative...
Songs for the Signs: Aries Arrangements
JJ Smith
March 2, 2020
Ever wonder what an Aries might listen to? Lucky for you, the season is almost among us, and the playlist below has an assortment of arrangements certain to ease you into the insights of this passionate, powerful sign. Ranging from March 21 to April 19, an Aries’ season comes with the start of springtime....
Headphoning it In: “The Truman Show” Reimagined
Madee Sadozai
February 28, 2020
The Truman Show is an existential trip of a film about the reality TV show revolving around Jim Carrey’s titular character, Truman Burbank, that he is completely unaware exists. His life unfolds within a simulated world, populated entirely by actors and broadcasted on live television through hidden c...
Local Creators: Kzmiblzf
Georgia Abdow
February 27, 2020
Kzmiblzf (kaws-me-bloo-sef)–whose name you might have to read over more than once–is a local hip-hop and R&B duo from Silver Spring, Maryland. With only three singles released, Ahmed Kazmi and Obi Igbo have managed to establish themselves as a talented and driven duo with a growing fanbase in...
