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Courtesy of Vector Diary. It goes without saying that the post-9/11 world that most college students grew up in is very different from the world that our parents or other older relatives grew up in. Personally, I only have very shaky memories of that day, but...

  Courtesy of Oddblog.The Red Hot Chili Peppers already have a pretty quirky name, but rumor has it that this level of quirky was a band meeting away from absurdity. The Red Hot Chili Peppers had two alternative names in the works, the alliterative Tony Flow and...

  My little hometown isn't exactly the best place for record shopping. Usually, I save my cash and wait to get back to school to blow all of it on records. But, thanks to a savvy punk and one metal as all hell pizza place, I ended up flying home with 4 EPs in my...

Courtesy of Atlanta Music Scene. It‰'s no secret that Atlanta is a city bursting with musical talent. Infused with genres and bands ranging from punk to indie to rap to country, Atlanta is a melting pot of different styles of music with a united bond of its...

Courtesy of Gigwise. I‰'ve been thinking about The 1975 a lot after I saw them live at Echostage in December. I knew who they were before the concert and I knew about their fanbase. The thing is, The 1975 is a Brit-pop alternative-type band from Manchester, but...

Courtesy of Starving Kids. At only 17-years-old, this Australian singer/songwriter is brimming with pure talent. Olivia McCarthy - known as  JOY. - sings elegantly and produces her own tracks. JOY.‰'s vocal style can be compared to...

Courtesy of Us Weekly. Watching a football game is not exactly something on my to-do list, but I feel that the Super Bowl is one of those things that you have to somehow witness. For me it normally involves sitting in a room where the game is on the TV but I‰'m facing...

Courtesy of Popdose. Minutes before leaving for the airport to return to D.C., my mom - shoutout to Pam - wrote me a list of the music she grew up listening to. Of course, as a teenager in the 1970s, she loved Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, and Genesis, to name a few,...

Courtesy of Billboard.I wasn‰'t really looking forward to Katy Perry‰'s Super Bowl performance, assuming it would be cartoonish, poppy and possibly include Katy appropriating a cultural identity or two. However I ended up enjoying the show much more than I had...

Courtesy of The American Reader. You may or may not have been around a few Wednesdays ago when the American University chapter of the Young Americans for Liberty tabled in front of MGC to spread the word about their current project Incarceration Nation, with the...