Category: Highlights

Album of the Week: Time ‘n’ Place

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 …

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Music When The Lights Go Out | Butterfly Effect

Music When The Lights Go Out Concert Recap: October 7th Butterfly Effect Benefit Show By Ethan Clayman In which your assigned correspondent stands anxious behind fervid mosh pits, listens to metal screams and audience cheers, feels very jealous of many crowdgoers’ hair, and shines a phone flashlight to combat a campus-wide blackout.   OPENING Today …

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Album of the Week: The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We 

Mitski – The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We  By Kate Trebra | Top Tracks: Heaven, My Love Mine All Mine, Star    Mitski has entered a new era, one filled with self-love and reflection. Marking a new direction after 2022’s Laurel Hell, her new music feels more all-encompassing and personal than ever before. …

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Staring At the Sun: Sunroom Concert Recap

Staring At the Sun: Sunroom Concert Recap By London Massey   Sunroom, a Southern-California based surf rock band, performed a high energy set here in Washington D.C. on Friday October 6, with the help of their opener Sports Team.    With Luke Asgian doing lead vocals, Max Pinamonti on Bass, and Ashton Minnich on electric …

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Album of the Week: you can’t impress anyone with normal pictures of the sea

Flatsound – you can’t impress anyone with normal pictures of the sea By Alexandra Henriques | Top Tracks: forgive me, a glimpse of heaven, or wherever you are, the romance of the lighthouse On September 29th, Flatsound, the main project of musician Mitch Welling, released his newest album, you can’t impress anyone with normal pictures …

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Rainbow Kitten Surprise – How to: Friend, Love, Freefall By Amal Qazi    Rainbow Kitten Surprise, the 5 person indie rock band from North Carolina fondly known by fans as RKS, released their most recent studio album in 2018, following the success of their second and self titled album in 2015. The newest album, How …

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Album cover of Greg Mendez by Greg Mendez

Greg Mendez – Greg Mendez By Kate Trebra | Top Tracks: Rev. John / Friend, Maria    Philadelphia born-and-raised singer Greg Mendez packs so much life into his tracks that it’s hard not to slip in between them. After writing and reworking his self-titled album for over fifteen years, then taking over a year to …

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Gia Margaret – Romantic Piano By Kate Trebra | Top Tracks: Hinoki Wood, Cicadas, Guitar Piece I first listened to this album on an hour-long bus ride through rural Seoul, the quiet ambience reflecting the lush mountains, the pensive tones matching the light drizzle outside. Romantic Piano is twenty-six minutes of ambient bliss, rolling synthesizers, …

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Hana Stretton – Soon By Kate Trebra | Top Tracks: Captain’s Flat and Changing Weather   Home in the soundscape of Hana Stretton feels like a crackling fireplace with rain pattering on the window outside. It is intimate and soft, a warm embrace from the cold winds of (a Southern Hemisphere) winter. Soon, released seven …

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To Learn – Leith Ross | By Kylie Arbini Top Tracks: (You) On My Arm, I Just Don’t Think That You Like Me Anymore and We’ll Never Have Sex Leith Ross’ short and quaint discography has been occupying a comfortable space in our radio station’s studio for some time now. Just last week, “(You) On …

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