Category: Opinion
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Underrated: Shocking Blue
With the smorgasbord of music and artists that exist out there in the world, many bands slip through the cracks of public knowledge. It’s been this way since the dawn of time. That being said, many people have still been able to find the hidden gems that deserve a first or second chance at an actual…
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Alice’s Restaurant Massacree: A Thanksgiving Song of Resistance
If you’re a small-town New Englander who was raised on folk and whose aunts and uncles actively protested the Vietnam War, your family probably holds off on unearthing those non-denominational winter tunes long enough to enjoy an annual listen of a folky Thanksgiving classic. If you meet none of the aforementioned criteria, chances are you’ve…
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Cardi B: The Year Of Accomplishments
2017 is wrapping up and for some of us, this year has been nothing but disappointments and term papers. However, for everyone’s loud and proud Latina, this year couldn’t have been better. Whether you love her, hate her or just liking screaming how no one can mess with her if they wanted to, you can’t…
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Top 10 Horror Movie Scores
Horror and Halloween are inseparable. In an ever-changing world, this is a constant. The month of October becomes one big excuse to watch every horror movie you could get your hands on. It’s the one time of the year where people who can’t stomach it won’t judge you for staying up until 2 in the…
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Exchanging Thoughts with a Savage
Savages are one those bands that come around maybe once in a lifetime. That statement might be a tad bit overused, but I’m being honest in this context. How many bands can you name that once they reach a certain level of success manage to keep a sense of earnestness, sincerity, and ferociousness to…
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A Face In The Crowd: My Tom Petty Experience
I was 15 when I saw Tom Petty live. It was 2013, on the outskirts of Manchester, Tennessee at the Bonnaroo Music Festival. Everyone was telling me that I had to see so many different acts. I had to see Paul McCartney because he might not be performing for much longer, I had to see…