Laufey unites past with present on jazzy, sophisticated “Bewitched”
Rating: 4.5/5 stars Jazz has an awkward position in pop music. Critics used to encounter it in underground clubs and bars, then jazz became synonymous with commercial pop to the ire of snobs as “failed art music” or even capitalist…
Oswego hosts Aux Cord Wars at OzFest
It is not often that the audience chooses the opening music to a concert. But at OzFest 2023, Aux Cord Wars handed the show to SUNY Oswego students. For each round of the Aux Cord Wars, hosts Jay Dukes and…
Mac DeMarco’s 199-track snoozer ‘One Wayne G’ egotistic at its core
Rating: 1/5 stars Readers expect a music reviewer to listen to the entirety of an album. It is only 30-90 minutes of the reviewers’ time, they say. But sometimes it is the artist’s fault. Musicians, like experimentalist AG Cook (“Apple”)…
Protesters may have proven Trump’s point
The protest preceding Cherise Trump’s speech at the Marano Campus Center auditorium did more to hurt the trans community than it did to protect them. At 6 p.m. on April 5, the area near the auditorium hosted more students standing…
Frost Children reinvent indie rave in post-hyperpop world on new album ‘SPEED RUN’
Rating: 3/5 stars What actually is hyperpop? The dynamic genre has been the subject of debate amongst both middle-aged music critics and teenagers in TikTok comments. Some say it is the future of pop; some say it died with SOPHIE…
Indie-rockers Wednesday put noise in country on ‘Rat Saw God’
Rating: 3.5/5 stars The indie world has an inconsistent relationship with country. The trademark hipster rejects country pop as a successful bourgeois attempt at convincing rural farmers that they can find representation in a rhinestone cowboy; they also listen to…
Singer-songwriter Guy Davis tells story of taxi driving, music, spirituality
Even with an affluent childhood, a career adorned with awards and nominations, and a life traveling across the country, the highest point of Guy Davis’s life was when he drove a taxi in New York City. Davis said while he…
Lana Del Rey continues to flaunt artistic abilities with new album
Rating: 2.5/5 stars On her ninth studio album, Lana Del Rey (“Blue Banisters”) asks the listener if they knew about the dormant Jergins Tunnel in Long Beach, California. Developers designed the tunnel in 1927 as a tourist attraction leading to…
‘10,000 gecs’ flaunts digital sound, emotional lyrics of 100 gecs duo
When pop-punk revivalists like Machine Gun Kelly (“Mainstream Sellout”) or Olivia Rodrigo (“SOUR”) poke at Gen-X nostalgia, they provoke criticism about their authenticity, whether they are “true pop-punk” and whether pop-punk itself is “true punk.” So what does being punk…
Lack of gender-neutral bathrooms creates concerns for transgender inclusivity
Most people believe that a bathroom should not be a site of stress. However, for many or trans and nonbinary people, the search for the “correct” bathroom is its own struggle. Lil Bresee, the president of SUNY Oswego’s LGBT club,…
