This year's Grammy nominations are out, which offers me an exciting opportunity to take a look at a questionable amalgamation of nominees in categories that never quite line up. But who doesn’t love award shows! This year, Kendrick Lamar leads the pack with a total of...
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Reframing the Sabrina Carpenter Album Cover Controversy
Over the past few years, you most likely noticed the gradual rise of a pop superstar. Although not new to the limelight, the release of Sabrina Carpenter’s fifth studio album “emails i can’t send” and the virality of its song “Nonsense” propelled her to a new level of...
“I wouldn’t exist without y’all, and that is simply facts” – Meet Emma Andersen
As she breaks into the music world, Emma Andersen, an emerging folk-pop singer-songwriter, is driven and grateful for the communities that surround her as she gains her footing in the industry. “The whole community aspect that goes into music is why I love to do it,”...
Album Review: Mon Laferte’s “Femme Fatale”
Mon Laferte, one of the biggest artists in Latin America, has released her new album “Femme Fatale”. Laferte is a Chilean Mexican singer whose music transcends genres. She creates gut-wrenching songs; some might even call her the queen of yearning. Her breakout song...
Album Review: Lux – Rosalía
Lux is a wildly ambitious album: Rosalía sings in 13 different languages, weaves together orchestration, and explores spiritual themes by relating them to her own life. She told NPR that she wanted to “fit the entire world in an album”, and I think she managed to do...
How The Soundtrack in “The Royal Tenenbaums” Shapes the Story and the Viewer
“I always wanted to be a Tenenbaum” says Eli Cash in “The Royal Tenenbaums” directed by Wes Anderson. It is also the name of my playlist encompassing the score for the movie. On my second viewing, I created this playlist as the movie developed with the hopes of...
Twenty One Pilots’ final message to their fans in their album “Breach”
I watched the “City Walls” music video on Sunday night just a few days after it came out. I’d come off one of those weeks you have as a senior that makes you contemplate your entire life course, one where assignments seem to never end and every stressful thing...
Album Review: Melt – Not for Radio
During a cold winter in upstate New York, María Zordoya began crafting what she describes as her “alternate reality”. Pulled away from the loud world of the music industry, she set out to create music simply “for the love of experimenting”. That resulting project is...
Press Shuffle and Take the Metro
Midway through the fall semester of my junior year of college, I’ve found myself living more independently than ever. A weird experience, might I add, but a rather profound one that has contributed to a period of self-discovery. My favorite moments of being on my own...
Concert Review: Twilight Override @ The Lincoln Theatre: A Night With Three Tweedys
Short beards, knitwear, too-small beanies, and wire-rimmed glasses; on Oct. 26, Jeff Tweedy brought his classically eccentric audience to the Lincoln Theatre. The room itself felt like a relic from another decade: red velvet seats, ornate gold trim curling around the...









