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When a musician disappears off the face of the Earth and  leaves behind an album titled “U.F.O.,”  some may speculate if aliens had anything to do with it. Such is…

Before becoming one of the undisputed kings of the Atlanta rap scene, Gucci Mane first had to claim the throne. Throughout the 2000s, the rapper released an astronomical 20 or…

Liberal arts schools, like Emerson, engage in a culture of music that largely revolves around songs from the alternative genre. To define it loosely, alternative/indie music refers to music that…

When Irish-born legend Hozier’s second album, Wasteland, Baby! dropped in March of 2019, you couldn’t just hear the influences that jazz legends held over his incredibly tall head (the folk-rocker…

Picture this: the sun’s shafting rays stream through your supposedly light-blocking blinds as you struggle to put an end to the “Party in the U.S.A.” blaring through your alarm clock’s…

If you’re anything like me, finding yourself at concerts quite often, you have that one music venue that you consider to be “the best.” Maybe it’s a venue where you…

We live in an age where media is consumed at an astronomically fast rate. New projects are put out just as quickly as they are consumed, while new streaming services…

AUTHOR’S NOTE: In honor of the Black creators who inspired this piece, and for every Black person who lost their life at the hands of the biased judicial system, I…