Broken Records: How Songs of the Past Depict Our Current Reality
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…
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Virtual Concerts: The New Normal?
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…
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Kiss This, Misfit
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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[TICK]Tok: The Bloodsuckers of the Music Industry
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…
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Who The Heck Is Fiona Apple?
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…
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From Condescending Guitar Center Encounters to Grief: HAIM’s “Women In Music Pt. III” Tackles It All
“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…
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20 Alternative Black Artists You Should Know
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…
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Mission: Music Aims to Provide Relief to Local Musicians
Those often forgotten in situations with economic strife are the independent workers- artists who sustain their living based on live performance and profitable community engagement. With the world in a…
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Unearthing Boston’s House Show Scene: DIY Doc Premiere
“It really felt like a place you could shamelessly embarrass yourself in.” When graduating Emersonian Breana Del Gatto found herself interested in documenting DIY performance spaces throughout Boston, she didn’t…
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