• Thank You, Metallica: A Love Letter to my First Metal Band

    Thank You, Metallica: A Love Letter to my First Metal Band

    Illustration courtesy of Kessy Sambou. When you’re freshly 16, angry, angsty, and frustrated, trying to understand why no one else understands you, it’s easy to fall into a dangerous pit of “I’m not like everyone else.” However, when you’re too shy to dress like a nonconformist, you listen to music like one. So you dive…

  • Why Carly Rae Jepsen was the Pop Princess we Needed in the 2010s, but Didn’t Deserve.

    Why Carly Rae Jepsen was the Pop Princess we Needed in the 2010s, but Didn’t Deserve.

    Written by Flora Cerabino-Hess. Illustration courtesy of Fon Leigh. If you’ve never looked further than the sexy hunk of man meat in Carly Rae Jepsen’s 2012 hit music video “Call Me Maybe,” then you’re missing out.   Now that we have distanced ourselves from the overplayed, overproduced pop of the 2010s, we must give credit to…

  • Staff Picks Week 3

    Staff Picks Week 3

    Illustration courtesy of Connley Sewalls. Happy Staff Picks Sunday! Have you ever thought about your final song? That one song you’d imagine playing as you gracefully walk away from an explosion or die a glamorous death? Here’s our staff picks for “going out in style.” Logan – 212 by Azealia Banks Taylor – Sugar, We’re…