The Day The Music Came To Life Stuartstock ’22 Showcases the Best Music PC has to Offer Jack Downey ’23 On April 29, music could be heard echoing throughout Providence College’s campus. The reason? WDOM’s annual festival, Stuartstock. Last year, Stuartstock was a bright spot during a gloomy COVID-19 pandemic year. This year’s festival built […]
Look How Far We’ve Come, Providence College Quinn XCII Performs at PC’s 2022 Spring Concert By Grace Whitman ’22 Two years ago, the Providence College student body was excited to return to campus after spring break to see Two Friends and Matoma perform at Spring Concert 2020, but the world had other plans. Yet throughout […]
Where the Crawdads Sing Controversy Taylor Swift Unfairly Criticized for Involvement in Film Adaptation By Grace O’Connor ’22 Many readers have been anxiously awaiting the release of the film Where the Crawdads Sing, which is based on the New York Times best-selling novel of the same name. The book centers on a woman named Kya […]
A Potentially Massive Win for Small Victories An Interview with Alex Norocea By Jack Downey ’23 In two weeks, Small Victories, a Providence-based booking agency, is hosting their biggest event of the year, Small Victories Spring Week, or SVSW. It is sure to be one of the most legendary musical events the Rhode Island area […]
“Tell the Driver, Make the Radio Play” Ed Sheeran Wins “Shape of You” Lawsuit By Claudia Fennell ’24 In 2017, the now 31-year-old artist Ed Sheeran released one of his most famous songs to date: “Shape of You.” The track, a single off of his album Divide, was an instant hit on the charts. Indeed, […]
“Just Having a Really Good Time” Olivia Rodrigo: driving home 2 u Celebrates the Artist’s Rise to Fame By Caitlin Ariel ’24 Olivia Rodrigo’s megahit “drivers license” shattered Spotify records worldwide after its Jan. 11, 2021 release, such as most global streams in a day and most streams in a week. The song, as well […]
Taylor Swift to Receive Honorary Doctorate From NYU Singer-Songwriter and NYU’s Graduates Will Be “Feelin’ ‘22” Olivia Riportella ’25 Taylor Swift will soon be able to add a doctorate degree to her already long list of achievements. After her busy year of releasing chart-topping albums Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version) as well as […]
The Multitalented Tate McRae A Look at the Popular Artist’s Rise to Fame Riley Coyne ’24 Even from a young age, it was evident that the talented Tate McRae was born to be a star. The “you broke me first” singer did not always plan to pursue fame through singing, though. For much of her […]
April Show(er)s A Multitude of Musical Events Coming to Providence Jack Downey ’23 For fans of local music at Providence College, this article will surely put a smile on your face. This month, a number of concerts are set to take place in the city of Providence. Later tonight, April 7, there will be a […]
Spotify Songwriter Controversy Writers Protest the Streaming Service’s Pay Policies Grace O’Connor ’22 Spotify has become a world-renowned music-streaming app, boasting over 406 million active users and 106 million paying subscribers as of Dec. 2021. According to Variety, “the platform rose from 7 [percent] of the U.S. market in 2010 to a whopping 83 [percent] […]