Apr 09
Lil Yachty – Let’s Start Here By Addis Ngo | Top Tracks: “The Black Seminole” and “Drive Me Crazy!” Known for his playful bubblegum trap and SoundCloud rap, Lil Yachty completely reinvents himself with his 2023 album, Let’s Start Here. In this album, Yachty dives into the alternative genre with sounds of psychedelic rock, funk, …
Feb 11
Cameron Winter – Heavy Metal By Kate Trebra | Top Tracks: “The Rolling Stones”, “Nina + Field of Cops”, and “$0” Cameron Winter’s Heavy Metal is an album made between the margins of intense emotion and liminal sound. Best known as the frontman of New York-based band Geese, Winter steps away from the band’s expansive …
Nov 15
Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future By Kate Trebra | Top Tracks: “Free Treasure,” “Candleflame,” and “Already Lost” Adrianne Lenker’s music feels like poetry. Recording entire albums on an eight-track tape, Lenker’s sincerity shines through both her sound and her process. Her previous album, songs and instrumentals (2020), was created in isolation, removed from the intimacy …
Sep 30
MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks By Kate Trebra | Top Tracks: “Joker Lips,” “She’s Leaving You,” and “Rudolph” MJ Lenderman, rocketed into the alt-country-rock scene with 2022’s Boat Songs, is a masterclass in storytelling. Ordinary struggles are painted with an easy, tongue-in-cheek narration that both pokes fun at and sympathizes with men who are down …
Sep 13
The Doors – Morrison Hotel By Meghan Colovos | Top Tracks: “Waiting for the Sun,” “Indian Summer,” “Ship of Fools” Ringing in the new decade early on, February 1970 heard the release of Morrison Hotel, the Doors’ fifth studio album. Following the harsh criticism of their previous 1969 album The Soft Parade, the Doors proved …
Apr 17
A$AP Rocky – Long.Live.A$AP By Noah Temple | Top Tracks: “Wassup”, “Keep it G”, “Houston Old Head” A$AP Rocky has 34 million monthly listeners and people will look at you with a straight face and say he’s overrated—one of the most insane things you’ll hear in your life. The worst part is you’ll listen to …
Mar 26
Friko – Where we’ve been, Where we go from here By Kate Trebra | Top Tracks: Where We’ve Been, Get Numb To It!, Cardinal Chicago-based indie band Friko, composed of Nico Kapetan (guitar and vocals) and Bailey Minzenberger (drums), has returned with their debut album Where we’ve been, Where we go from here. The …
Jan 22
Lisa Lerkenfeldt – Halos of Perception By Kate Trebra | Top Tracks: Limestone, Cobwebs When thinking of abandoned structures that might rest under a city (perhaps one such as Melbourne, Australia), it’s easy to be suffocated in the silent, damp air. How does sound travel through a concrete maze in an era of rapid urbanization? …
Dec 01
It’s All In Your Head by Dandelion Hands: The Perfect Autumn Album By Alexandra Henriques | Top Tracks: How To Never Stop Being Sad, I Like You, My Friends Don’t Know (I Know They Hate Me) As temperatures finally start to drop and the leaves on campus begin turning lovely oranges and reds, it is …
Nov 10
Kero Kero Bonito – Time ‘n’ Place By Tifa Nguyen Content Warning: Contains Reference to Self Harm Kero Kero Bonito is a band you’ve probably heard of if you were in those kind of edgy online “meme” spaces back in 2016 where middle schoolers would worship alt-right Youtubers and unironically do Fortnite emotes in …
