Somewhere in Sacramento, Stefan Burnett paced down a workplace hallway wearing all black and a gas mask. He tested every door, with his friend Zach Hill on his tail, recording him for a music video. Eventually a door opened, and an empty printing room sat there. A...
Carter’s Classics
Carter’s Classics, Vol. 4 – “Blonde”
I remember sitting in bed at 2:30 in the morning, glued to my phone a little over halfway through my sophomore year of high school. That night (or morning, if you may) was Frank Ocean’s first live performance in six years: Coachella 2023. But little did people who...
Carter’s Classics, Vol. 3 – “Heavy Metal”
It seems like everybody and their mother is talking about Geese and their lead singer, Cameron Winter, these days. The band’s sudden emergence in the indie rock scene has come largely due to the success of their 2025 album, “Getting Killed”, but also due to the eyes...
Carter’s Classics, Vol. 2 – “Getz/Gilberto”
The 1960s are known to be one of the most influential decades in music history – here grew the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Beach Boys, to name a few. This emergence of rock began the takeover where jazz would start to be overshadowed. The works of Miles Davis and John...
Carter’s Classics, Vol. 1 – “I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it”
The term “classic” is often thrown around when it comes to music. The truth is that something being “classic” is subjective, just like music in and of itself. That’s why in my column, “Carter’s Classics”, I will be diving into projects that some people don’t...




