Until You’ve Heard The Dark Side of The Moon I’m sure that at some point, everyone has seen the iconic prism refracting a beam of light into a rainbow on an all-black square and wondered what it is or where it came from. It probably wasn’t until middle school that I learned it was an […]
A Review of Misadventures by Pierce the Veil When people talk about Pierce the Veil’s best work, the album Collide with the Sky (2012) tends to dominate the conversation. Between that career-defining release and their recent comeback album, The Jaws of Life (2023), sits Misadventures (2016), an album that is often overlooked and misunderstood. While […]
The saying, “Everybody is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day,” is an annual justification for rowdiness and community. In the United States, the holiday may conjure reverence and celebration, especially for the life of the first Roman Catholic, Irish-American President, John F. Kennedy. For others, like the 100 million people worldwide who claim Irish ancestry, though […]
Iceland’s Gem With Valentine’s Day now behind us, there may be no better time to reflect on one of the most compelling breakout artists of the 2020s: Laufey. Since emerging in 2020 with her debut single “Street by Street,” Laufey has steadily built a career defined by authenticity, classical training, and a distinctive jazz-pop sound […]
Investigating An Instagram Trend One of the crowning achievements of classic rock is its enduring, timeless charm that continues to stay relevant to each new generation. The vibrant songs of The Beatles are still sung as lullabies from parents to children, Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” is the seventh-inning staple for Red Sox games at Fenway […]
I’ll never forget the summer after fifth grade when my mom made us show up hours early to the Imagine Dragons concert. I didn’t understand why we would do that. Sure, I absolutely loved the band at that age, but the concert started at 7 p.m., so why would we show up at 3 p.m.? […]
My Spotify interface is a sacred space. I have been perfectly curating my most impressive playlists for years, and I take pride in the upkeep of these greats. Being the busy senior that I am, I haven’t been able to sit down and comb through my playlists in the way that I used to. This […]
The world has been in suspense over these past few months in a state of eager anticipation for the release of Emily Brontë’s classic on the screen: Wuthering Heights. Set on the wild moors of Yorkshire, Cathy and Heathcliff explore an equally wild, untamed love riddled with complications, passions, and tragedy—right in time for Valentine’s […]
Whether you’re in love or alone, The Police are your Valentine’s band. Why? Well, even if you haven’t been the biggest music listener in your lifetime, it is impossible that you have not heard some of The Police’s songs over the radio, in public, or just out and about. For a while, the band was […]
The 1960s and early 1970s were very generous to the singer-songwriter Paul Simon. Simon was a part of the internationally known folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel. Their most popular years, which saw greater creative control and worldwide recognition, with the release of five albums that spanned from 1963 to 1970. The duo had hit their […]