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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…
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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…
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Album Review: “Bleachers”
Written by Ava Moon. Illustration courtesy of AJ Johnson. Bleachers, the indie-rock band fronted by one of the music industry’s most sought-after producers, Jack Antonoff, has had a reinvention of sorts, with their latest self-titled record. Having debuted just over decade ago, their signature sound has been characterized by smooth saxophone solos and Springsteen-esque coastal…