By Jessica Hayek | Staff Writer Rawayana predicts Venezuela’s future on their eighth album, ¿Donde esta el after?, days after its release. The album, released on January 1st, begins with the sounds of traditional Tambores Venezolanos. In celebration of the new year, they sing in Spanish: “Rawa wishes you a happy new year, and may […]
By Dylan Masvidal | Staff Writer First impressions are deadly serious. With attention spans dwindling by the second, the art of the single becomes a telltale sign of the cream rising to the top. Musicians who understand that the appetizer is just as important as the main course, whether it’s to usher in a new […]
Dylan Masvidal | Staff Writer “Bass Is the Name of the Game” takes us way back in time, when hip-hop was dominated by regional styles. The mainstream homogenization of the genre through echoing reverb and metallic synth leads has taken hold as of late, resulting in a lack of flavor that used to dominate distinction […]
Cosette Lipscomb | Assistant Entertainment Director After 18 long years of making music, Twenty One Pilots released what may be their last studio album for a long time. “Breach” is the perfect ending to over a decade-long story made by the band itself, starting in their fourth studio album, “Blurryface,” and all subsequent albums, which […]
Julian Menendez | Contributing Writer Café Tacvba began as a group of design students at the Metropolitan Autonomous University. What started as a creative side project soon evolved into one of the most influential and iconic movements in Latin rock. Drawing from Mexico’s indigenous cultures and folk traditions, the band blends these roots with a […]
Dylan Masvidal | Staff Writer Bad Brains. I could wrap this up now and you’d be satisfied by just the sheer mention of their name. A band whose seat at the hardcore punk high table is indicative of one thing: boundary pushers to the highest degree. This is not only due to operating in the […]
Dylan Masvidal | Staff Writer Nope, I’m not gonna do it. I refuse to waste a single word on the “thing” you all expect me to reference. That being said, Will Smith is undeterred in his attempts to repent for the incident. Except now he’s decided to go back to the art form where the […]
Bryan Baste | Staff Writer In 1992, The Sugarcubes [Bjork’s old band] had just gone on hiatus. Bjork, becoming more and more interested in the electronic music scene as well as the growing rave scene in England, was becoming disillusioned with The Sugarcubes’ indie rock sound. Being inspired by these two burgeoning scenes in England, […]
Dylan Masvidal | Staff Writer It’s not cool to be emotional anymore. I can’t pinpoint exactly when this cultural shift occurred; maybe it was the birth of top text/bottom text memes or something as far back as Eminem calling out Will Smith on “The Real Slim Shady”. Uncertainty aside, there was a significant moment in […]
Dylan Masvidal | Staff Writer If De La Soul declared three to be the “magic number,” Cypress Hill saw it as witchcraft, moving them closer to the gates of hell. Nothing was shocking about the West Coast hip-hop trio’s decision to step foot onto sinister territory with their third album. “Grim” was an appropriate way […]
Kaysea Suzana | Entertainment Director Consisting of a tactful trifecta of identities: salvia palth; Adore,1996, and his own identity: Daniel Johann Lines, this New Zealand artist brings another deadpan taste with “last chance to see”. Taking after the late author Sylvia Plath, Lines’ depressive, lo-fi rock persona salvia palth does what any good teenage-angst filled […]
Bryan Baste | Contributing Writer Vampire Weekend is a band that doesn’t need a huge introduction. The band started in 2008 and since then has been at the forefront of popular indie music for well over a decade. I could just play “A-Punk” and you would know what I mean, that song has been in […]
