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Reissues & Rarities
With December in full, terrifying swing (my god, there is so much due), newspapers and blogs like Pitchfork will start to publish their annual end-of-the-year lists: the best of the best movies, music and television released (according to some overly-analytic nerds who aren’t like me in the slightest). It’s fun to go back to these…
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Netflix’s new show “Alias Grace” is all-too-relevant
Coral Ciupak Viewpoints Editor For those still reeling from Hulu’s TV series adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Netflix recently released “Alias Grace,” a six-episode miniseries adaptation of Atwood’s novel of the same name. “Alias Grace” is the story of Grace Marks, a young Irish immigrant to Canada who in the mid-nineteenth century…
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Remembering Lil Peep and the legacy he left behind
Toshiko Tanaka Contributing Writer News leading up to Thanksgiving Break was full of heavy anticipation for the coming holiday, of meeting loved ones and family and just being stress free from work or school, but for others it was cumbersome. Upcoming emo-hip-hop artist Lil Peep passed away on Nov. 15. To expand on his acclaimed…
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Ta-Nehesi Coates’ “We Were Eight Years in Power” is a must-read
Kamal Morgan Contributing Writer “Out here, in the concrete and real, sentences should be supernatural, words strung together until they compelled any listener to repeat them at odd hours, long after the bass line had died.” These are the words of Ta-Nehisi Coates, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, author, journalist and comic book writer…
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Navigating black identity in a largely white music scene
Sharah Hutson Contributing Writer On this past Saturday, Nov. 25, I traveled to the Agora Ballroom for the first time to witness the music festival Snowed In. With headlining bands such as Adult Mom, Diet Cig, Saintseneca and PUP, I found myself being excited to see a lot of these bands for the first time.…
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Delete your Spotify account and look beyond streaming
Andy Kilbride Contributing Writer Get off Release Radar. Stay away from [insert your favorite band’s] Similar Artists page and forget any way of finding new music that doesn’t involve driving two hours to a record shop where the clerks make fun of you because your taste in black metal isn’t kvlt enough. Okay, don’t actually…
