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The rap gods have blessed us more than usual in 2015, especially in the cases of Drake and Future who have both dropped albums and mixtapes this year. When the duo announced a joint project, the internet went into a frenzy.
In the age of the Internet, you don’t need a record label or a TV network to reach a loyal fanbase. These days “millennials” have YouTube, Soundcloud, and other various “user uploaded content” sites. With this freedom comes various hits and misses in the quality of the posted content. However, when things get good, they […]
With a quick rise to the top in just a little over a year, Ashley Frangipane, better known by her stage name, Halsey, has kept her audience on their toes in anticipation of her first full-length album Badlands. In her short time in the spotlight, Halsey has opened up for The Kooks, Imagine Dragons and has even […]
David Burd, known more famously for his stage name Lil Dicky, is an American rapper straight from Philadelphia who also integrates comedy into his raps. If you’ve ever seen his YouTube video “Ex-Boyfriend” from his first mixtape “So Hard,” you would see how it went viral and launched his career into the rap stratosphere.
If you could pick any interval of your life to present yourself to the masses, which would you pick? In his new studio album, “Summertime ’06,” Vince Staples picks an essential period in which he describes as, “the beginning of the end of everything [he] thought [he] knew.” At a whopping 20 tracks, “Summertime ’06” gives insight into […]
After generating buzz with the release of her EPs “Handmade Songs” and “Foreword,” as well as the riff heard around the world in her take on Michael Jackson’s “P.Y.T.,” Tori Kelly officialy makes her mark with her debut full-length album “Unbreakable Smile.” It’s finally here. This is not a drill. I repeat, THIS IS NOT […]
Expanding the way musicians interact with their fans, Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment have produced something that is absolutely magical and absolutely FREE (because that’s the one thing that catches ANY college student’s attention, am I right?).
Steadily rising in the mainstream, Twenty One Pilots just released their 4th album a day earlier than planned, on May 18th, 2015. I think I can speak for most fans when I say the wait has been almost unbearable…but it’s finally over!
IT’S HERE! “Cherry Bomb,” with a total of 13 songs, was released late Sunday night, or early Monday morning for us in Texas, and boy is it different from Tyler’s previous albums. For those of you have not heard the album, direct your ears to the Spotify playlist below as you flow through the sonically […]
Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress, the newest album from seminal Canadian post-rock outfit Godspeed You! Black Emperor, is the first material to be released since their hotly anticipated 2012 album Alleluah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! which arrived after a nearly 8 year hiatus. Godspeed has been touring sparingly since the release of that album honing the material for Asunder. As with any […]
Adventure, aptly named, feels like a human journey. “La Lune” addresses the melancholic proposition of aging, featuring vocalist Dan Smith from the band Bastille. “OK” is an anthem to happiness with no labels or cause- simply the feeling. “Pay No Mind” featuring Passion Pit, an addictive banger, encourages independence and love. From beginning to end, Adventure […]
Jeff Rosenstock has his roots set in ska and punk rock music, once singer and guitarist for Bomb the Music Industry!, a band that formed in 2004 and disbanded (heh, see what I did there?) just last year. Fortunately, the band’s bright melodic approach to punk is mostly gone by the time Rosenstock released this […]
“From the beginning we’ve always been trying to write pop music.” -Corin Roddick The Canadian electric duo composing of Corin Roddick and Megan James, otherwise known by their band name “Purity Ring,” finally released their new album to the United States this past Tuesday. Their last album from 2010, Fineshrine, received lots of praise for its […]
The band that many 90’s kids channeled their early teenage angst through has come back, and like many of us, the band changed in their Hot Topic skinny jeans for cooler, trendy Urban Outfitter jeans. I can only compare it to seeing a friend/relative after they’ve grown up and come back from college. Sure they’ve […]
“I’ve gotten to this point in my career and realized that, yeah I got a lot more dreams and I want to go further, but at the same time I don’t want it if it’s at the expense of my happiness…” -Jermaine Cole On November 16th, rapper J. Cole arose from the darkness and announced […]
Fifteen years in the game and Eminem and Paul Rosenburn’s label Shady Records has delivered an album that reflects exactly that, fifteen years worth of music and hard work. SHADYXV, consists of two discs, the first is packed with 12-tracks worth of new material from the likes of Slaughterhouse, Yelawolf and the main man himself, […]
Producer Ryan Hemsworth’s new full-length LP is a solid, smooth and cool atmospheric album from start to finish. Regardless of whether your definition of “chill” stems from downtempo ambient sounds to dark bass-filled trap like XXYYXX, there is something for you on this album. From the dark, trippy opening track “Small + Lost” to the […]
Editor’s note: this review was written by Bryan Dupont Grey in cooperation with The Daily Cougar. During his up-and-coming rise to fame, Mac Miller had often been viewed as a Pittsburgh rapper whose mixtape and commercial material stayed centered around money, weed and women. It was charming at first, but after a while, the recycled […]
