The Mathew Knowles Interview

by Sasha Klare-Ayvazian, Nico Carter | Nov 30, 2021 | Music

3:15 – family history 7:03 – Beyoncé and Solange as kids 8:08 – talking hoops 11:06 – equity and representation in the music industry 16:14 – Black-owned record labels 23:45 – Dr. Knowles’ favorite Destiny’s Child song...

The Adele Eclipse

by Simon Pruitt | Nov 26, 2021 | Music

Monday, August 21, 2017 It was my first day of school in a new town, Dallas, TX. I had recently moved from my childhood home in Tennessee, and this was my first real taste of the new environment. Coincidentally, my school’s opening day was the same as the first total...

An Evening with Silk Sonic Is The Trip Back In Time You Never Knew You Needed

by Chris Conner | Nov 24, 2021 | Music

It’s not often you get the opportunity to listen to projects that bring you back to a time you weren’t alive for. Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak provide that exact feeling with their long-awaited release, “An Evening With Silk Sonic.” The intent of this...

Nirvana’s Nevermind: 30 Years Later

by Carl Henderson | Nov 18, 2021 | Music

In Buddhism, ”nirvana” represents the ultimate state of transcendence. Many people chase nirvana their whole life. I found it at six years old. You know what…that’s a lie. I remember being a passenger in my dad’s car on the way home from school. My...

Oh Yeah, I Guess It Makes Me Smile: Five Reflections on Nevermind

by Nate Mondschein, Carl Henderson, Jim Trainer, Nico Carter, Simon Pruitt | Nov 12, 2021 | Music

It’s difficult to explain the seismic impact of Nevermind’s release thirty years ago this fall. The album (which hit number one on the Billboard Top 200), its singles (which became a staple of the one-time cultural hub MTV), and the band that created it were as...

We May Hate the Boys At School, But We Love the Woman Calling Them Out: A Night with Spellling in NYC

by Eliana Carter | Nov 11, 2021 | Music

As self-proclaimed President of the Spellling Stan Club, I was thrilled to see her perform at Le Poisson Rouge, in NYC, on October 23rd. A West Coast artist, this was Spellling’s only East Coast performance of the year, and her first time performing with her...