songs that change
image from Armand Hammer's "Doves" music video, directed by Ryosuke Tanzawa by sadie almgren the final project of my FYP class, Practicing Togetherness, was making a community oriented zine -…
Space Age Love Song – A Flock Of Seagulls
Image: Jive Records / A Flock of Seagulls I discovered “Space Age Love Song" as I was perusing through, or rather “stalking” people’s Spotify playlists the other day. The man…
Tubular Bells and Becoming My Mother
Image courtesy of Spotify At first, I thought it strange. Last spring I stumbled through the Denver Botanical Gardens alone during block break. I tuned out the hoards of families…
Cool British “People”
By Issa Nasatir British “people.” A phrase that holds a lot of contention in the American cultural sphere. Whether you can come to terms with those blokes and their teef…
Battle of the Bands Round 1 Recap 2024
By Yeowon Jung Photography by Dan Schmidt Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black captures the bustling audience’s (and my) attention with its opening notes and rhythm. Timeless and smooth, Right Swipe…
Keys To The Astral Gates And Mystic Doors II by Keys To The Astral Gates And Mystic Doors
so I was on youtube and I found this glowing, alchemical gem of premium lo-fi atmospheric black metal, straight out of the arcane unfathomabilities of madison, wisconsin. really takes me…
SOTD: Imaginate Me – Jim Marlowe
Imaginate Me by Jim Marlowe sounds exactly like what the title implies. The poppy electronic tune challenges you to revisit the powerful imagination you had as a kid, where magic…
Some Solace in the Beeps and Boops of Aphex Twin
By Linnea Anderson photo: Linnea Anderson “If aliens heard it, they’d know it’s music,” my brother once described his favorite band, Shpongle. Like those aliens, Shpongle feels foreign to me.…
Top 10 Performances of 2023
By Marina Malin As the year concludes my social media feed is inundated with Spotify statistics detailing music preferences of each unique music listener and their muses. Simultaneously, my inbox…
SoCC Writers’ Albums of 2023
From the rise of AI sound, trending musical theater to pop singer pipeline (as highlighted by Cat Zhang of Pitchfork), the comeback of shoegaze, and the Pavement and Sufjan Stevens…