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Last week‰'s Rainy Day Album was an album of relentless, visceral sorrow — an opportunity to use a rainy day to purge the darkest emotions in your nature. This week‰'s is the opposite, a light and carefree album to make the most of your time inside: the Shins‰'...

My addition to the Slint reissue circlejerk: There‰'s something about being immersed in the mundane, cyclical toils of prepubescent academia that has left me utterly unmotivated to follow this column‰'s self-imposed structure. I spend my days hunched over a...

An amalgamation of music genres by musicians isn‰'t all that uncommon these days. You even have new genres arising from time to time (PBR&B, Chillwave, Slowcore) to add to the confusion when trying to place a finger on someone‰'s brand of music. Thankfully, no...

This semester ran me over. In the last couple months I worked harder than I ever had before and encountered whole new stresses. But I know I am not alone. During this time of the year plenty of us have papers to complete and finals to study for. To help us all get...

Raggedy, full-grown beard: check. Loose fitting, probably vintage flannel: check. Greasy, lion‰'s mane hair: check. What more could you ask for from a three-piece, indie rock band? Well, besides a hardcore drumbeat to make you jump repeatedly and buzzing guitar...

Still from Angel Olsen’s “Tiniest Seed” music video. I don‰'t think there‰'s anything greater than an ethereal songstress, strumming softly on her guitar while wheezing haunting lyrics. This, dear friends, is Angel Olsen in a phrase. After releasing...

From North London, rapper and actress Simbi Ajikawo, known by her stage name Little Simz. Courtesy of BKLYN1834. As soon as Little Simz‘s latest mixtape “Blank Canvas” was featured on JAY Z’s Life&Times website, everyone wanted to know...

The world of Twitter is relatively new place for me. Over the past month or so I have been trying to navigate the waters of the social network and learn its intricacies. I have learned some but I still have some way to go to become a master sailor of Twitter. I find...

Last week‰'s pick, Dilute’s second album, was a piece of beauty that embodied rain in its sound as well as its abstract emotion. This week‰'s Rainy Day Album does away with the abstract and goes straight for the emotion: Hospice by the Antlers. Thanks to our...

Only two years after the release and success from their first album, Light Up Gold, the Brooklyn punk outfit Parquet Courts have announced the release of their new album Sunbathing Animal. Along with the announcement of their new album, they also released a new...