Tag: scad radio
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Ella Mai Slips But Soothes on Full-Length Debut
After a trio of EPs, Ella Mai’s self-titled first full-length is a flawed but elegant record for the British R&B singer. The album opens up Mai’s inner psyche, as she presents her name like an acronym with each letter representing a feeling. Starting with “E” for “emotion” and closing on “I” for “inner”, the definitions…
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Mount Eerie brings hits to the stage in live album
Over the last couple of years, Mount Eerie has released two of the most heart-rending albums of the decade–a grief-stricken collection of ballads entitled A Crow Looked at Me, and it’s slightly more hopeful, yet still powerfully impactful Now Only. Detail by painful detail, Crow outlines the immediate backlash that Phil Elverum, the singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist behind…
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Hozier Returns With New EP
He’s back. That smooth blues-singing, bearded Irish man we all know as Hozier. His newly released EP Nina Cried Power is the first we’ve heard from him in four years since his last album, and with just four songs, it’s got a lot to say. The first track, “Nina Cried Power”, flies you through a…
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Let Courtney Barnett Tell You How She Really Feels
Courtney Barnett tackled angst and depression on her debut Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, and straight from the somber, twangy opening riff of “Hopefulessness”, her sophomore album seems to be heading down the same route. The line “Take your broken heart/ Turn it into art” sets the stage for a…
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SCAD Radio Oscar Predictions
Here at SCAD Radio, we love the Academy Awards just as much as our colleagues at the Manor and District. So much so, we took the liberty to make our predictions on who will be taking home the Oscars tonight. Best Documentary (Feature) Icarus Best Documentary (Short) Heroin(e) Best Film Editing Baby Driver (Paul Machliss and…
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Staffer of the Fortnight
Every two weeks we honor one of the members of SCAD Radio as our Staffer of the Fortnight. This week, we honor our assistant, Abby Hollis. We asked her a few questions about her role at SCAD Radio and about herself. What’s your role in radio? I’m the General manager’s assistant. Why did you join…
