Courtesy of Ross Wolfe My music tastes since childhood have changed and developed along a logical line. When I was five years old, my favorite band was the Ramones. When I was thirteen, it was probably… My Chemical Romance or Shinedown or something. Sixteen I had...
Courtesy of Wallpaper Up There is something inexplicably intoxicating about the haze of city lights. This is the quintessential playlist to accompany your midnight highway car rides past rows of interminably tall skyscrapers and neon radiance ÛÒ or escape to the very...
Courtesy of Lulus It's weird how music or a song can bring an entire set of memories with it. I was standing/rocking/trying not to make eye contact on the metro after another glorious day of unpaid work and Trouble by Cage the Elephant came on shuffle. However, this...
Courtesy of Ed Roman Alright ya'll, you've either just had a very stressful week or are about to have one; what can I say it's midterms. However, I have some relaxing tunes for your twisted souls. The Strawberry Alarm Clock is band for folks who need to relax. They...
Freshman and upperclassmen alike: Beware. The plague is pervading the campus and I'm not talking about strep throat (but seriously, y'all, wash your hands). I'm talking about the MUSIC RUT. If you're fixated on the same four songs, not able to escape “Closer” by...
PWR BTTM is a queer punk band comprised of Ben Hopkins and Liv Bruce, who met at Bard College in New York. While performing, the duo can be found clad in copious amounts of glitter. “For me, the most badass thing you can do is to be embarrassing,” Ben Hopkins,...
The first time I really got a glimpse of what kind of person my dad really is was when I was twelve years old. He pulled me aside from whatever I was doing to sit down in front of a speaker in our living room and listen to something. I heard one twenty-minute-long...
Hello and welcome to Just Press Play! Let's take a little trip back to 2012: the year of “Call Me Maybe," “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," and, yes, “Gangnam Style." Oh, what a year in music. But, at the end of that glorious year came a song that would...
Appropriately described as a “ Finnish dream-pop mystery man," Jaakko Eino Kalevi's electronic sound has this way of bringing you into a nightmarish daze. Listening to his music makes me feel like I'm existing in this in-between space where I'm connecting with my...
Long-time readers of “Another Kind of Currency” may recall a column I wrote my freshman year about Frightened Rabbit's “Poke,” which I always considered not only one of their most depressing songs (saying something if you know FR's catalog), but also one of the...