It's a cold November morning, the time of year when it would still be dark on the bus ride to school. My normal group of neighborhood friends have either missed their buses or have been lovingly driven to school by their mothers; thus leaving me alone to ponder...
Set the scene: you're at a high school party, feeling much cooler in the moment than you ever will looking back on it, when you look over and see someone you kind-of sort-of have a crush on flirting with someone else. Catastrophe. Pandemonium. Later when you go home,...
The emo scene is evolving. It used to be middle schoolers with jet black jagged hair writing Never Shout Never lyrics on their hands. In the early 2010s, it slid into bed with indie rock after a night of too many menthols and PBRs. Out popped greater. This new...
Photo by Rosa Pyo. From left to right: Chris, Mikey, Peter, & Neil Sitting in the back parking lot of Comet Ping Pong, yes the one that had “pizzagate," I sat down with the band Peach Pit, a chewed bubble gum pop band that hails from Vancouver, Canada to ask them...
Photo by Brightest Young Things Okay, but can we talk about The Bam Bams? The duo of Gabriela Torres and Ivy Lopez released their single through DC's own Cricket Cemetery Records in 2012. Although The Bam Bams may have been a shooting star of a band, their music has...
You are missing out if you haven't heard of T-Rextasy. I remember the first time I listened to T-Rextasy: it was not at some house show or tiny venue pressed between other sweaty teens, or even a music recommendation from one of my friends. I was in the gym, working...
Photo by Criterion Production Director, screenwriter, and producer Robert Altman's auteur style can be described as meticulously laid out chaos, with intertwining narratives built to display webs of relationships. Altman applied his vision to a film revolving around...
Photo by Miguel Wilson They say the best things in life are born from spontaneity. My experience at Kid Cudi's A Night of Passion, Pain, and Demon Slayin' show at Echostage on October 8 proved this idea true. I found out that I had a ticket at 8:00p.m., made it to...
Contrary to its succinct, blunt definition on Urban Dictionary (made by someone named Keith in 2004), “Nayhoo” has nothing to do with being a “very uncool person of African American heritage.” I know, you're scratching your head thinking “What is nayhoo'?”...