Breaking Down Spotify’s ‘New Music Friday’ Playlist: Oct. 11
Friday, Oct. 11, Spotify updated its weekly ‘New Music Friday’ playlist. This week’s edition includes another new 98 musical releases featuring new songs from chart-topping artists such as French Montana, Sam Hunt, Green Day and The Black Eyed Peas. For…
Breaking Down Spotify’s ‘New Music Friday’ Playlist: Oct. 4
Last Friday, Oct. 4, Spotify updated its weekly “New Music Friday playlist.” This week’s edition includes another new 98 musical releases featuring new songs from chart-topping artists such as Travis Scott, Camila Cabello, Charlie Puth, Halsey or Chris Brown. If…
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds outdoes everything, even death
Throughout most of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ 35-year career, death served as a karmic plot device for the characters in Cave’s songs. Death was justice meted out to bad people who did bad things, a well-deserved emotional catharsis…
One Direction heartthrob Niall Horan kicks off new album
On Oct. 4, Niall Horan released his newest single, “Nice to Meet Ya,” along with a brand new, easter egg filled music video. This is Horan’s first single off of his upcoming new album, which has not yet been named…
The Beatles ‘Abbey Road’ turns 50, still as influential as ever
The British Invasion rocked the foundations of music during the 1960s. With bands like The Who, The Kinks, The Animals, all the way to The Rolling Stones, music was slowly redefining itself. In the midst of it all emerged one…
Breaking down Spotify’s ‘New Music Friday’ playlist: Sept. 20
Last Friday, Sept. 20, Spotify updated its weekly “New Music Friday” playlist. This week’s edition includes another new 98 musical releases, featuring new hits from artists such as Lauv, Maroon 5, blink-182, Hailee Steinfeld, Alicia Keys, Liam Payne and Bebe…
BROCKHAMPTON’s ‘GINGER’ not as innovative as predecessors
BROCKHAMPTON, a San Marcos-based music collective, has been known for the never-ceasing impressive tracks they have been pumping out for the past two to three years, with the likes of GINGER’s predecessor, “iridescence” and the “SATURATION” trilogy. With a diverse…
Lana Del Rey ends America’s whole career in new album
Norman Rockwell was America’s greatest propagandist. The majority of his early work was a gauche exercise in the picket fence ideals of white America painted during a time where water fountains were segregated and corporate strong men beat any notion…
‘The Fall of Hobo Johnson’ successfully fuses different genres
It has been around a year and a half since Frank Lopes Jr., otherwise known as Hobo Johnson, turned into an internet sensation of sorts with his live backyard renditions of his and his bandmates’ original songs. The most popular…
