November 13 was St.Paul Minnesota band Hippo Campus' first time headlining a show at the 9:30 club in DC. They have toured in DC a few times before opening up for other artists and headlining at The Black Cat. This is my second time seeing them, the first time being...
Just to prep y'all, this post sort of relates to my last one, so check it out. I remember the first time I saw this band. They opened for The Neighbourhood (another great band) at Summerfest in Milwaukee some years ago. It was my first concert ever, and I was not...
Still taken by in-studio shot by Brian Harrington Morgan Saint is awesome. She's talented, stylish, and dedicated. Although she's quiet, she knows what she wants. Her debut EP, 17 Hero, dropped in mid-October and she's ready to show the world what she's about....
Matt Nathanson is one of the few acts I have had the privilege of seeing live more than once. So far the only others are Frank Turner and Frightened Rabbit. But he has the special distinction of both times occurring when I was still in high school. I've mentioned...
The past few days I've been making plans for Thanksgiving break, which is only ten sleeps away! The closer it gets, the more I start to think about seeing my family, and the more one specific album has started popping up in my mind and in my headphones. Free to Be…...
Art by Suah Cheong Kari Faux doesn't have time for small talk. You've heard her music on insecure, Childish Gambino's mixtape STN MTN, and seen her tweets on the popular page. She's a self-described “rap sanger, game changer, flame branger” and we see no lies....
Photo: Wordpress Are you into music from other countries? Do you consider yourself a connoisseur of hits that make you feel like you “were born in the wrong decadeÛ? Well, do I have the app for you! Radiooooo (yes, with that many o's), is an app that allows you to...
Photo: Stereogum A bad trip has never sounded so cool. Car Seat Headrest's album Teens of Denial slips your drugged induced panic attack into a leather jacket and gives it a swipe of oxblood lipstick. Maybe it's not a true concept album, but all 12 songs revolve...
Photo: Vevo Lorde isn't your average musician. She is effervescent. A phenomenal woman. Despite starting in the music industry at fourteen, an age usually ripe of neon braces and awkward romantic encounters, she irrevocably had “it.” Je ne sais quoi. Divine energy....