Allow me to paint a familiar picture for you: The end of the concert you’re at looms across the horizon. The band/artist/whatever onstage has played a myriad of fun tunes for the past hour or so and is starting to wind down. One of the members waltzes up to the...
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Soccer Mommy Comes to Town: Fans demand more
What show could be so coveted, so highly awaited that it would deserve an added night of performance? The answer is no other than the one and only Soccer Mommy. After a rapid sell out of a first performance, it would have been an injustice to DMV indie fans to not...
Now Playing: The Many Faces of Rock
Fifty new songs, five categories, and all devoted to the umbrella of rock. Daylight savings time has thrown me for a loop, and I’m positive I’m not the only one. It just doesn’t seem natural for the sun to be dead and gone by the premature time of 5:30 PM. This week,...
Color Theory: Pale Blue
Hello! It’s that time of week again—welcome to Color Theory! Today, I’m talking about the idea of ‘pale blue’. When thinking about the color and songs I wanted to look at this week, what really struck me is a lyric from “This Love” by Taylor Swift. “This Love” is one...
This is why I don’t turn this off: Paramore keeps alternative music alive
At approximately 10:40 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 4, in the middle of my AUx class, my hand shot to my mouth, barely masking the gasp that jumped from my mouth. I looked around to see if I’d made a scene, but no one was looking my way—in the corner of Anderson Hall’s AUx...
TikTok Tanks Concerts, According to Artists: What’s Next?
“Kids these days just don’t get it” and this time it’s not your out-of-touch Grateful Dead loving parents saying it, it’s all live music loving folk. Concert goers and artists all around the country are in uproar about behavior in our post Covid-lockdown live music...
Concert Preview: Dayglow with Ritt Momney at 9:30 Club 11/14 & 11/15
Dayglow is a solo indie pop band featuring Sloan Struble. A Texas native, Struble had released music under the name Kindred before creating Dayglow in 2017. First hitting the limelight in 2018 with their song “Can I Call You Tonight?” gaining popularity on TikTok and...
Shauna Dean Cokeland Won’t Be Staying In Place For Long
I could go on and on about Taylor Swift’s new album, but we’ve seen that. It was amazing, we all know it (unless you don’t know it, then you should get on to knowing it). But on October 21st, while Taylor Swift was releasing Midnights, Shauna Dean Cokeland was...
Everything You Need to Know About Taylor Swift’s Openers for The Eras Tour
Taylor Swift took to Good Morning America to announce The Eras Tour shortly after earning the top 10 spots on the Billboard Top 100, becoming the first artist to claim the Hot 100’s entire top ten. This is remarkable given that Swift had released the album, Midnights,...
Animal DJs and Digital Musical Instruments: An Unrelated Analysis
The other day I was sent a TikTok of dog behind a DJ controller blasting techno music in a dingy, yellow-tiled area that might as well be the backdrop to the latest backrooms video. With over 1.2 million views, the TikTok is quite popular, and it’s easy to see why;...









