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(04/23/15 3:19am)
Music is never just background noise; it’s ingrained into our selfhood. We segment our lives by the music we consumed at particular ages and associate places with the artists we loved there. Our music can bond us, our collective attempts to dougie as high school seniors cementing our generational ethos.
(04/09/15 5:02am)
According to Kanye West, “this is, like, the beginning of the new world.”
(03/26/15 4:37am)
Growing up, I found solace in television. TV felt easy, like instantaneous access to hyper-beautiful realms. My go-to programs were “Dawson’s Creek,” “The Real World” and anything else laced with heavy melodrama.
(03/05/15 5:50am)
I unashamedly watch E! News every weekday evening. The mostly Kardashian-related coverage might seem vapid, but I find celebrity culture pertinent to the films, music and other media I consume on a daily basis.
(02/19/15 5:53am)
Upon the surprise release of Drake’s “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late,” a 17-track “mixtape,” on Feb. 12, fans and critics alike devoured the music, consuming it with gluttonous determination.
(02/05/15 5:44am)
The Grammys encourage impressive collaborative performances, eccentric fashion and plenty of think-piece discourse about the music industry’s direction.
(01/22/15 4:59am)
The hype surrounding Sleater-Kinney’s “return” has reached a high point. This week, the punk band released its first album in 10 years, No Cities to Love.
(01/08/15 4:57am)
My 2015 began with a text: “You hear that new Kanye?” West released “Only One,” a collaboration with Paul McCartney, on New Year’s Day. The song is an exhibit of Kanye’s poetic deftness and spiritual depth, a departure from Black Skinhead-esque machine-gun rap and a nod to the introspective, vocally dominant Kanye of 808s and Heartbreak. Written from the perspective of Kanye’s late mother, Donda West, “Only One” is an honest expression of the coexisting happiness and sadness of lifelong grief.
(11/13/14 5:20am)
H ip hop isn’t my first language. As someone who is white and a woman, I never saw myself reflected in the scene.
(10/30/14 4:25am)
I have a confession: I own Taylor Swift’s Christmas album. As an individual who asserts her dominant musical interests as hard rock and hip hop, I must admit my affinity for Swift’s country-lite/Joni Mitchell-esque vibe. My journey with Swift begins, as everyone’s does, in middle school.
(10/02/14 4:56am)
O ne of my favorite Pearl Jam tracks is the aggressively poignant “Not for You” from 1994’s Vitalogy . Written after the complete mainstream appropriation of the Seattle Sound also known as “grunge,” the song is directed at culture vultures who lack the capability to respect art for art’s sake. Though I’m not a long-haired, flannel-clad grunge god, I’ve recently found Eddie Vedder’s words intensely resonant.
(09/18/14 4:42am)
“R ock is finally dead.”
(09/04/14 7:33pm)
Beyonce’s performance at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards was impressive. In a tightly choreographed 16-minute routine, Queen Bey slayed nearly every track from her self-titled 2013 visual album, aka the greatest surprise in the history of recorded music.
(08/22/14 7:04pm)
T he footage from Ferguson stings. Black men raising their hands, yelling, “Don’t shoot!” and confronting their default societal determination of worthless thugs.
(07/14/14 7:44pm)
What I loved about UNC-Wilmington wasn’t close proximity to the beach or an abundance of Seahawk Teal.
(05/24/14 5:55pm)
P roper etiquette on the London Underground is to evade eye contact. Coming home from classes as a study abroad student, I would stare at my hands or the posters advertising films and art exhibits as we slowed to each station. Some interesting people, though, would catch my attention.
(04/14/14 1:59am)
T hinking about Kurt Cobain makes my heart hurt. Nirvana has been, for quite some time, one of my favorite bands.
(03/31/14 2:13am)
T welve seconds from the end of “A Star is Born,” a track from Jay Z’s 2009 album The Blueprint 3 , J. Cole ends his featured verse with the exclamation: “Fayettenam !” Cole’s shout-out is a reference to our shared hometown of Fayetteville.
(03/18/14 3:32am)
Second only to “Milkshake,” Kelis’ most well-known song is “Bossy.” The opening lines of the track, “You will respect me/ you know why?/ cuz I’m a boss!,” operate under a guise of pseudo-empowerment. We use the term ‘bossy’ to describe women who are uncompromising leaders, who control their own lives and carry themselves with confidence and high esteem. The term, though, isn’t complimentary or positive. It’s really just a euphemism for a less family-friendly word: bitchy.
(03/04/14 4:10am)
I learned everything I know about basketball from ”One Tree Hill.” My only understanding of the game stems from its relation to whatever family drama is happening at the time: the divorce of a murderous father from a pill-popping mother or the discovery of a life-threatening heart condition.