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After a long hiatus, singer-songwriter Lorde (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor) has returned to the music scene with her highly anticipated third studio album, “Solar Power.”...
Though it’s perhaps not strictly a biography, and perhaps a little out of place in this column, I simply could not listen to Barbra Streisand’s “Release Me 2” without considering how her cross-decade...
How does a relatively unknown popstar break the Spotify record for most streams of a single in one week?
17-year-old Olivia Rodrigo made waves in the music industry with the recent release of her record-breaking...
After 10 fond years, Washington, D.C. music fans said goodbye to one of their favorite music venues when U Street Music Hall shut down in early October. The independent music venues that have long lined...
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Indie singer Samia Finnerty’s “The Baby” was not written about coming of age during quarantine, but somehow the description fits perfectly.
Samia’s debut captures the nostalgia...
Five years after the release of its first album, “I Love You.,” The Neighbourhood made public its one-year plan of releasing a spate of songs, the focus of which is its fourth full-length album, “Hard...
The snap of AirPods cases opening and shutting. The visible struggles of untangling headphone wires. The echoes of beats vibrating from portable speakers. Faint lyrics heard over the whirring of the coffee...
In his best-known work, The Republic, Plato advises that there is no place for poets in an ideal society, since the “poet is an imitator, and therefore, like all imitators, thrice removed from … the...
Tauheed Rahim II, also known as rapper Marco Pavé, was named as Georgetown’s first hip-hop artist-in-residence this fall, working directly with students through the department of performing arts and...
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Swedish popstar Tove Lo returns from her two-year hiatus with her newest album “Sunshine Kitty.” The singer takes a new, happier direction on this LP and distances herself from...
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Lana Del Rey’s sixth studio album “Norman F-----g Rockwell!” marks a watershed in the singer’s career and image. Featuring her typical dreamy, psychedelic sound and sharp yet...
“Lover,” Taylor Swift’s latest release, sees the megastar return to the never-ending love present in her early albums, veering away from the icy and tough persona curated on her previous release...
