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...
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Pop Exodus: The Mysterious Case of The 1975 Concert
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...
Zen Palette: Girl Power & Producer = JOY.
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...
The Current: Flip It And Reverse It – When the Halftime Guest Steals the Spotlight
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...
Coo Coo Ca Choo: Emerson, Lake & Palmer and ’70s Rock
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,...
Keep Ya Head Up: Missy Elliott Performed At the Super Bowl and It Was Everything We Needed
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...
Another Kind of Currency: Is Over-Incarceration a Problem?
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...
The Tough Crowd: In The Bin at Joe’s Record Paradise
Courtesy of Rolling Stone.Until yesterday, I had never heard Willie Nelson's music. Today, I'm still not really sure if my life has changed in any way. I guess the question in and of itself means it hasn't. For this week's In The Bin, I went to Joe's Record...
Feedback: Mystery Skull, the Man of a Million Phases
Courtesy of Free Bike Valet.The man is Luis Dubuc, Mystery Skulls is his project and the end result is the best electronic pop music you'll hear this year. Mystery Skulls released its first full album, Forever, late in 2014 under the Warner Bros. label. Packed...
Homemade: Baltimore
Courtesy of Visit Baltimore. Baltimore seems to be the mid-Atlantic's best kept secret when discussing East Coast music scenes. The city's proximity to D.C. is both a blessing and a curse; while it's convenient for local bands to hop between music scenes,...