Taylor Swift is a poet. The evidence dates to a contest held by Creative Communication in 2000. “A Monster in My Closet”, Swift’s fifth grade piece, won its category. Her…
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…
My most recent live show was “The Strokes” on New Year’s Eve, my most coveted live show to-date. However, I could not have imagined that it would be my last…
Glam rock has been gone a long time. When David Bowie died in 2016, not only was a legend taken from us too soon, but suddenly nothing was shocking. That…
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In the way I see it, TikTok is the application software from Hell. Yes, TikTok has some very significant benefits for up and coming musicians that I will discuss in…
Fiona Apple debuted her career in the nineties with her first genre-blending album, Tidal. A powerful start to a long career, Tidal is blunt and honest in its lyrics while…
“Man from the music shop, I drove too far/ For you to hand me that starter guitar.” With Joni Mitchell-inspired acoustic chords and simplistic vocals, HAIM targets perhaps the most…
Today, we come out of our posting hiatus of two weeks. Like many others, we did this to leave valuable internet real estate for the crucial circulation of pertinent information…