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...
Standing in line for an hour and a half in the cold and rainy weather was all worth it. Other attendees in outfits so unique yet still cohesive with each other filed in, to the point I couldn’t even tell where the line ended. When my friends and I entered The Anthem,...
Every year, there's this horrid and insanely vile horde of emotions that takes over your brain during winter. It feels almost inescapable, some days feel heinous, and others feel like a permanent state of “bleh”. The only thing that can get you out of this endless...
As Black History month comes to an end, the first playlist featured in this column will be one celebrating Black voices. “Freedom” by Beyoncé (feat. Kendrick Lamar) may be most famously known as the anthem for Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential election, but it also...
We are now six years into the current decade, and with that time has come lots of incredible music. From the development of hyperpop to the relative fall-off of modern country music to the constant rebranding of indie rock, the 2020s have given us plenty of...
You’ve heard it before: “The era of college bands is behind us.” The conventional wisdom goes something like this—music today belongs to the solo bedroom producer, to the Doechii’s, the Clairo’s of the world, to whoever is quietly uploading demos to SoundCloud at 2...