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Staff Picks: Albums of the Year

Staff Picks: Albums of the Year

Imaginal Disk Magdalena Bay Mag Bay’s newest album encapsulates autumn with its perfect blend of synthpop, psychedelia, and weird glitches. I was not …

Jamie xx Returns With Record of Heartfelt, Dancefloor Ready Bops, In Waves

Jamie xx Returns With Record of Heartfelt, Dancefloor Ready Bops, In Waves

Though best known for work with pop and indielectronica band The xx, member Jamie xx has also garnered success as a solo artist in the past decade. Mo…

The Alchemist Embraces Uncle Status on The Genuine Articulate

The Alchemist Embraces Uncle Status on The Genuine Articulate

Al’s latest record flexes his lyrical muscles. Boasting a discography that extends longer than a CVS receipt, The Alchemist has established hims…

LE SSERAFIM Is Back and Crazier Than Ever

LE SSERAFIM Is Back and Crazier Than Ever

Falling under the umbrella of the “Big 4” entertainment management in the K-Pop industry, LE SSERAFIM will always be guaranteed moderate success…

‘Short N’ Sweet’ or Hot N’ Cold?

‘Short N’ Sweet’ or Hot N’ Cold?

In May of 2023, my floor ticket to Sabrina Carpenter’s emails i can’t send tour was just $50. Earlier this month, her Short N’ Sweet…

Rites Wrapped

Rites Wrapped

GOOD Orion Sun: It was Orion Sun’s first time in Nashville, and she came out dressed for us: cowboy hat, Lacoste polo, and boots, just oozing swag. He…

Usher’s New Coming Home: A Marketing Ploy or Real New Music?

Usher’s New Coming Home: A Marketing Ploy or Real New Music?

I know, I wasn’t expecting it either. I didn’t even know Usher was still releasing new music— let alone a 20 song album the same week as his Super Bow…

Sufjan Stevens’ Javelin pierces the heart and soul

Sufjan Stevens’ Javelin pierces the heart and soul

Sufjan Stevens has always been an achingly raw writer, bringing universal themes to life through metaphor in a way that reads like a story. With Javel…

CULTURE…

The Rise (But Not Fall) of a Lesbian Summer

The Rise (But Not Fall) of a Lesbian Summer

Chappell Roan is Redefining Queer Pop. After 18 years of bisexual girlhood, the summer of 2024 has been my gayest yet. In following the internet trend…

Has the Concept Album Died?

Has the Concept Album Died?

Before answering that, you have to know what a concept album is. Essentially, it is an album with tracks that hold greater meaning together than indiv…

How Jimmy Buffett Found Authenticity in Escapism

How Jimmy Buffett Found Authenticity in Escapism

For some time, country music has struggled to balance pageantry and authenticity. Between the rhinestone-clad pop country icons of yesteryear and thei…

Hip-Hop’s Dangerous Dance with Death

Hip-Hop’s Dangerous Dance with Death

In the present day rap scene, violence has become a mainstay. However, the community has ended up losing more than what they can gain.. literally. Nip…

The Genre Problem

The Genre Problem

When a friend of mine declared they had no interest in rock music, yet couldn’t stop raving about Florence and the Machine, I was taken aback. To me, …

PROFILES…

Goldfish Yearbook Doesn’t Wanna Be Yours.

Goldfish Yearbook Doesn’t Wanna Be Yours.

Headquarters Coffee is a gem sandwiched between eclectic, industrial antique storefronts. The café calls out to you with its handpainted windowpanes…

The Higher Louder TurboPower of Nico Zaca

The Higher Louder TurboPower of Nico Zaca

Flaxen light soon gave way to navy night, mostly starless in its competition with Nashville’s metropolitan glow. It was Musician’s Corne…

The Soundtrack for Moving On: Still as Stone

The Soundtrack for Moving On: Still as Stone

August 23: Ian Nussdorfer and The Badlands to Release “Still As Stone” EP on all Streaming Platforms. The table is set with a margaritas…

kingfisher

Kingfisher, the Long-Distance Band You’ll Love

Kingfisher is a 10-piece band dispersed across the Midwest. They may meet as a whole ensemble infrequently, but when they do, it is to create audio …

Amelia Day's Big Day

Amelia Day’s Big Day

Amelia Day is a singer-songwriter from Sumner, WA and a senior at Vanderbilt University. Citing queer folk titans like Tracy Chapman, Brandi Carlile…

The Tireless Spirit of Marcus Hummon

The Tireless Spirit of Marcus Hummon

With an almost thirty-year-long music career, Marcus Hummon is a star-studded veteran of the Nashville country scene. But from the way he discusses …

Brennan Wedl Won’t Hold Back Anymore

Brennan Wedl Won’t Hold Back Anymore

Brennan Wedl has been working in Nashville for years as a recording singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Simultaneously they’ve been taking on s…

How the Vanderbilt Steel ‘Dores’ Bring the Rhythmic Heartbeat of Trinidad to Nashville

How the Vanderbilt Steel ‘Dores’ Bring the Rhythmic Heartbeat of Trinidad to Nashville

Everyone recognizes the resonant and percussive three-note pulse of the 2007 chart topper “Crank That.” Its melodious but distinct timbre is produce…

MOMENTS…

Staff Picks: Albums of the Year

Staff Picks: Albums of the Year

Imaginal Disk Magdalena Bay Mag Bay’s newest album encapsulates autumn with its perfect blend of synthpop, psychedelia, and weird glitches. I was not …

Let’s Get the Band Back Together

Let’s Get the Band Back Together

I consider myself a lucky man: I was brought up in a time of peak access to any music, book, or movie I could want. Sure, there is plenty of controver…

‘I Had Some Help’ In Liking Country

‘I Had Some Help’ In Liking Country

Post Malone Changed My Mind. I have hated country music for as long as I can remember. Most of the songs I heard had little to no creative expression.…

The 21st Century Rockstar’s Blueprint: Cage the Elephant’s Neon Pill Tour

The 21st Century Rockstar’s Blueprint: Cage the Elephant’s Neon Pill Tour

Cage the Elephant was the soundtrack of my childhood. Since Cage’s 2009 self-titled debut, my older brother had lead singer Matt Shultz’s swagge…

AN MF DEEP DIVE: DOOM, DUSTER, & DELVING IN

AN MF DEEP DIVE: DOOM, DUSTER, & DELVING IN

I’m a Playlist-making hobbyist. Translation: I often avoid my myriad responsibilities by surfing through music streaming accounts. A month ago n…

On 21 Pilots and transcending coolness

On 21 Pilots and transcending coolness

There’s nothing memorable about “Madden 16,” with its over-designed cutscenes and main menus distracting you from a lazy reskin of the same game they’…

The Timeless Nostalgia of City Pop

The Timeless Nostalgia of City Pop

It’s 3 a.m. and I’m hearing colors. The sheen of billboards and buildings flashes before my mind’s eye as the deliciously funky basslines and peppy tr…

“Pandemonium” From a Classical Nerd’s First Live Concert

“Pandemonium” From a Classical Nerd’s First Live Concert

My Navy-enlisted friend texted me one morning back in September. This usually means quickly debriefing each other about daily random inconveniences, b…