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Feeling that mid-semester slump? All you need is a good pump-up playlist so that you can tackle that midterm paper or get through those all-night study sessions. As the Queen of Procrastination, here are some tried-and-true tracks that‰'ll get you moving and excited...

“Track By Track‰” is a biweekly feature that picks a great album every two weeks and briefly gushes about each song on it in order. Dedicated to the experience of listening to and loving an entire album rather than a few standout tracks, because when a band has...

It‰'s not country. It‰'s not rock. It‰'s not punk. It‰'s POP. Pop. An entire musical genre built around three letters. Those three letters could not be less specific. Before we can understand what “pop‰” might mean in 2013, though, we have to understand that pop music...

It‰'s a great week to live in D.C. and have enough money (and time) to go to concerts. If that campus job cash is burning a hole if your pocket, then pick a concert off the list and trade your hard earned cash for sweet sweet tunes. Even if you‰'ve already spent all...

You can tell spring is ready to bloom: The traffic of joggers is beginning to increase on campus, around neighborhoods and along trails. You admire their efforts as they run in circles around you. You might even feel inclined to join in and run or go to the gym. While...

The Virginmarys‰'s new album King of Conflict is the unfiltered embodiment of grunge in a new age. The album, released in the United States Feb. 12, seemingly came out of nowhere, but no one is complaining. The Virginmarys are a relatively underground band from the...

Spanish electro-pop has never sounded so good. Alex Anwandter comes back all the way from Chile, three years later after the sudden break up of his first band, Teleradio Donoso. The emperor of Spanish electro-pop returned with his LP Rebeldes, full of youth, idealism...

After a five-year hiatus from the music world, I have missed JT. Besides hosting SNL, starring in Friends with Benefits, being featured on a few tracks and being present on many of my mix CDs, he has not been a large presence in my life. But, if you haven‰'t heard, JT...

Because I‰'ve been ill (not in the cool, street cred way) these past few days, I‰'ve been listening to Frank Ocean‰'s “Forrest Gump‰” on repeat and excessive amounts of emotional music in general. As a result, this playlist was made as an ode to miserable sick days...

Valentine’s Day has come and gone, leaving people talking a lot about love songs, romantic playlists and other wishy-washy goodness. Now is my turn to analyze one of my favorite love songs, its significance and its performers. “Fly By Night‰” by Loma Prieta is the...