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Running the Trap: Four Undiscovered Artists

Running the Trap: Four Undiscovered Artists

By Cody Duane-McGlashan May 27, 2014

Recently, Electronic Dance Music (EDM) has become a prominent part of teenage mainstream culture. Dubstep crept into the public eye a few years ago, but its appeal was short lived. Trap music seems to...

Sam Smith: Rich Voice, Meaningful Lyrics

Sam Smith: Rich Voice, Meaningful Lyrics

By Liz Archer May 22, 2014

Rising British pop sensation, Sam Smith, makes singing seem effortless. As a featured artist in Disclosure’s latest hit song, “Latch,” Smith reaches the song’s chorus with ease, his voice melodically...

The Rise of Chance the Rapper

The Rise of Chance the Rapper

By Max Bayer May 19, 2014

If you’re a hip-hop head, you probably know about Chance the Rapper. If not, it’s time you found out. The rise of Chance the Rapper is directly attributed to the success of his mixtapes “10 Day”...

The Orwells Performs at Slims

The Orwells Performs at Slim’s

By Claire Donohue April 22, 2014

Garage rock band, The Orwells, leaned against their beat up van outside of Slim’s Music Hall in San Francisco on Sunday March 23.  The members of the band, none over the age of 21, held disintegrating...

TONING IT DOWN: “Morning Phase” is Beck’s 12th album and has a much softer sound.

Beck Mellows Out for Morning Phase

By Daniel Carroll April 20, 2014

It’s been nearly ten years since Beck released his quirky, psychedelic and loud album “Mellow Gold,” which included “Loser” the song that put him on the map. Since then, he has revealed the ever-expanding...

Review: The Square

Review: “The Square”

By Isabella Schloss March 25, 2014

Jehane Noujaim's Oscar-nominated documentary "The Square" is an intense and beautiful film that captures, from the perspective of several activists, the early days of the Egyptian Revolution and tumultuous...

The Wolf of Wall Street”: Acceptable Overkill

“The Wolf of Wall Street”: Acceptable Overkill

By Dom Quaranta February 25, 2014

Martin Scorsese wastes no time acquainting audiences with the origin of former stockbroker and ex-con Jordan Belfort and his twisted rise to financial success. “The Wolf of Wall Street” is based on...

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Kanye: The Best of the West

By Daniel Carroll February 11, 2014

“I am a God,” raps Kanye West on a track titled “I am a God” that lists God as a featured artist. This track, off of his latest album “Yeezus,” is just another moment in the last five years...

Eminems New Album Disappoints

“The Marshall Mathers LP 2”: A Disappointing Sequel

By Daniel Carroll December 20, 2013

In 2000, rapper Eminem released a CD filled with boasts about drugs, killing and hating gay people and women. This album, known as “The Marshall Mathers LP,” sold more than 21 million copies worldwide...

Dallas Buyers Club Shines

“Dallas Buyers Club” Shines

By James Finn December 13, 2013

“Dallas Buyers’Club,” the brilliant new film from director Jean-Marc Vallee, is the story of Ron Woodruff, a rodeo cowboy living with AIDS in Dallas in the 1980s. The movie follows Woodruff (Matthew...

Pearl Jam Review

Pearl Jam Still Jammin’ 22 Years Later

By Daniel Carroll November 23, 2013

Two decades after “Ten,” the album that boosted Pearl Jam to the level of Nirvana in the ‘90s world of grunge rock, Pearl Jam has released their 10th studio album, “Lightning Bolt.” As in the...

Graphic by: Cassie Jeong

“Bangerz” Brings Out Miley Cyrus’s New Identity

By Jasmine Caputo November 20, 2013

Media’s current “it girl” Miley Cyrus released her new album Bangerz on October 4, showing the world who the “new Miley” really is. With every song containing Cyrus’s country-rooted voice over...

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