Bubó
By Ross Bretherton Plenty of students release albums while at Tufts, but not many first years can boast being at the forefront of a musical movement in their own hometown. […]
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Aaron Mentos
We recorded over a beat Tarik made, and then we recorded over a beat I made. Want to hear them?” I’m sitting in Aaron Mentos’s room on Boston Avenue […]
Atlanta’s Kodie Shane Is Playing By Her Own Rules
Kodie Shane is 18 and already one of the most exciting up and coming artists out of Atlanta.
Tacocat: Fighting Beard Rock and Gentrification in Seattle
Tacocat really had to force a scene that wasn’t… We had to make space for ourselves because there wasn’t a place for us. I think that’s a thing a lot of women don’t do: take credit for what they did. This was a real thing that happened. It was hard. We got a lot of terrible things said to us, and a lot of terrible things said about us. It was pretty hard and degrading, but we made this great scene.
Hypersexuality and Women in Rap
Catering to the male gaze, or a form of empowerment?
Downtown Boys on the TPP, the BLM movement, and the privilege of going to college
A lot of the reason why people end up in a private university in the richest country in the world is because you have been sheltered and you do have some kind of privilege… Because right now someone else is not in that situation. That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be going to college. We should be doing that! It’s just realizing what that means… And then trying to figure out who you yourself are. Whether you’re that young chicana woman trying to make it or that white person with a ton of entitlement and privilege, whoever you are! Just realize it.
A Quick Question With: Frankie Cosmos
We caught up with Frankie Cosmos on the first stop of her tour to ask her just one very important question
Puberty 2: Mitski
Though built on a foundation of murky and despairing emotions, the album does not—and will not—get eaten alive by this ill-willed darkness. Instead, Puberty 2 emerges with a sense of clarity for the listener. A gripping and reaching for a feeling of being grounded in some littler things in life, some gentleness, and some idea of a meaningful existence. Puberty 2 unabashedly screams, shouts, and aches against loose rhythms and fuzzy guitars, but then ultimately soothes. Today, Mitski will wear her white button-down.
Melisma’s SXSW Music 2016 Recap
Melisma Magazine covered this year’s SXSW Music festival, and it was equal parts blissful, stressful, and overwhelming. At the end of this article is a recap of our favorite artists at SXSW this year.
Eskimeaux: I want to meet Gabrielle Smith’s dog Frankie
I think the most formative moment was hearing David Berman say, “All my favorite singers couldn’t sing” in the Silver Jews song “We Are Real.” I was like, “You know what? It doesn’t matter how well a line in a song I’m writing is delivered, it matters what I’m saying.” I like to think of my songs as poems above anything else, so it was important for me to hear that so I could move forward with confidence.
