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Last Monday, students at Minnesota liberal arts college St. Olaf College protested — and shut down — the campus after a racist, incendiary note was left on the windshield of Black student Samantha Wells’ car. It’s one of many traumas that Black students on college campuses have experienced, from UCLA
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Stephin Merritt is an observer by nature. As the creative force behind The Magnetic Fields, an indie-pop establishment, Merritt has spent the past 20-plus years of his life drawing out romance with a microscopic focus and blowing it up to grandiose proportions. Never mind the fact that he’s got a
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‘Memories … Do Not Open’ is a testament to their shamelessly brazen robotics, pre-packaged sentimentality that will inevitably pop up in house parties all year.
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With ‘More Life,’ Drake is having fun again. It’s the much-needed exhale after fulfilling the almighty, monolithic ambitions he set forth on ‘Views.’
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But it feels like the Dave Chappelle conundrum: Is the audience laughing because it’s some familiar white nonsense, or are they laughing because they think this never happens?
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Sampha’s career was built on asking big questions. Leading up to the release of Process, his debut album, the British singer served as a moral litmus test for other musicians, posing interior reflections for the already-introspective Frank Ocean (“What can I do to know you better?” he asks on the
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Migos’ second studio album, Culture, opens with a boast from perennial hypeman DJ Khaled. Maybe having DJ Khaled spit out his Snapchat truisms on a track is a symbol of the Atlanta-based rap trio’s heightened clout. But here, Khaled operates as a mediator — a middleman who handily, if bluntly,
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Even before reports of low attendance at President Donald Trump’s inauguration, his administration encountered an issue that was unprecedented in modern history: no one wanted to perform.
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Since the release of the xx’s near-perfect debut, 2009’s eponymous xx, and its fine sequel, 2012’s Coexist, the xx left and re-entered a pop space that has undergone a drastic tonal shift that they’ve helped to pioneer. There are acts like the Chainsmokers, who pilfered the hazy romantic chords of
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We’re only a few days into 2017. Morale is low, and rightfully so. A week from today, we’ll have a president in office with a motley crew of folks behind him looking to set back LGBT rights with a brute force that’ll go far beyond a single tweet. There’s incoming
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