Prizefighter” is a good pop album–just not a great folk one Mumford & Son’s 2009 album “Sigh No More” was revolutionary for folk music and is widely credited with bringing sounds of folk music back into the mainstream, making the band one of the most influential...
Thursday March 19th: Asc. Scorpio by Oracle Sisters I drove to school this morning and my roommate played this on the way there. We’re both Scorpio Risings. “You’re Ascendant Scorpio. An element of blunder, a tenement, which number?” I’m not quite sure I love how...
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...
When discussing the current decade’s best albums, I kept coming back to one thought: “What are the best songs of the 2020s?” With so much music having been released over the course of the last six years, the task felt impossible. How could I narrow it down? Starting...
With spring having recently begun, it is the perfect time to curate your personal spring playlist. These are some suggestions for when you want to walk around, look at the flowers and take in the newly warm weather. “Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth”...
Few genres are as dependent on their audience as Go-go, which insists community as a central characteristic. In 1970s Washington, D.C., Washingtonians craved community. The city was divided into two economic classes. The first consisted of those affiliated with the...
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...
The Colonial Mindset of “World Music” Persists with Algorithms Several summers ago, my sister and I were scouring the music section at our local library searching for the K-pop genre. We recently learned of the genre and thought it would be a perfect accompaniment to...
March 12th: Not Ready To Make Nice by The Chicks Who remembers… Not me particularly, since I was quite young at the time of release. But this song is so important to me. I wrote a paper on the context of this song my sophomore year at AU. If you didn’t know, The...
On November 7th last year, British singer-songwriter Will Westerman, who performs as Westerman, released his most recent full-length EP, “A Jackal’s Wedding”. It’s 43 minutes of experimental art-rock full of unconventional song structures and heady lyrics that are...