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You check your notifications and your friend who never seems to have homework texted “Glade at 1?” The sun is finally out and you type “yes,” but quickly delete it to respond “I can’t.” While your friends are living out the college brochure lifestyle on the Glade, you’re stuck writing a
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I was wearing my own Sunday best for the Fleetwood Mac concert at Oracle Arena: my lucky jean jacket, a white cropped sweater from my dear friend, a shiny pair of loafers and the delicate feather necklace my mom gave me when I left for college. I was dressed for my lord and savior, Stevie Nicks.
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Jack Symes has been in three bands over the span of his musical career. Though he’s now primarily a solo artist, in his past musical lives, there was the high school group the Beefcakes and the college projects the Shady Ladies and the Midwest Can Company.
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Statuesque, bearded men sipped beer and rocked back and forth on their haunches to tales of gothic folk intimacy in San Francisco’s The Chapel. It had taken more than half a set to get here, but Marissa Nadler had managed to silence the aging male crowd. Her songs weave intimate
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Indigo presents confectionary ‘80s pop infused with electronic experimentation, mixing with darker themes. It’s faithful to Tatum’s influences.
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Yet the more time I spent with the melodramatic heartbreak melodies, I realized there were more than two genres of breakup music.
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Sometimes, other people’s love of the music you’re playing is only a side effect of the feeling you get from playing that music for yourself.
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With an audience that seemed happy to race past the openers to get to the main event, this performance might not have been the one for Roan, but if her physical and vocal presence are anything to judge by, then the next one very well might be.
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My younger brother was the first person to show me “What Makes You Beautiful,” released in 2011. We probably played that song 30 times that afternoon and danced nonstop around the living room the whole time. We watched the music video and critiqued the attractiveness of all the lead singers
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Grief comes in waves, and these waves never go away permanently. During the last few years of his life, my paternal grandpa brought our family to the beach twice every summer. He was too frail to come down to the sand, so he enjoyed the view from the picnic area.
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