By Nick Erickson,Staff writer In the modern music scene, it’s not often that a cappella groups break into mainstream success. The critically-acclaimed “Pitch Perfect” film series glorifies the talents of those groups, but there are simply not many out there drawing fame currently. However the group Pentatonix, hailing from Arlington, Texas, is the exception to Read More
By Nick Erickson, Staff writer Artists have a natural urge to want to create what they truly want, but it seems often that the pressure to conform gets to them, forcing them to keep within the confines of the genre they’re expected to stay in. However, there are artists that fight that mentality, refusing to Read More
By Nick Erickson, Staff writer While a majority of pop artists and groups are eaten up by the masses, there still remains a percentage of people who view it with disdain. However, there are the occasional artists who manage to win over those people’s hearts. With their fourth studio album, the pop-rock quintet OneRepublic attempt to Read More
By Nick Erickson, Staff writer The punk-rock trio Green Day are a textbook-example of musicians who refuse to accept their aging, and continually pump out tunes deriving sound from the same roots they’ve always had. After 25 years, their twelfth studio album has come around, and while being the band’s first non-concept album since 2000’s “Warning”. In Read More
By Nick Erickson, Staff writer In today’s society, a large amount of people enjoy modern country music. With that being said, there is also a huge portion that loathes it. A well-known stereotype is that most country music on this century has a very narrow lyrical plane, with a majority of songs focusing on booze, scantily-clad Read More
By Nick Erickson, Staff writer Every genre of music, ranging from rock to EDM, country to hip-hop, has their own respective artists that are considered the “pinnacle” of that genre. These artists set the bar for younger and aspiring artists and are forever influential to that style of music. Like Britney Spears to pop or Snoop Read More
Review by Nick Erickson, Staff writer The music scene has spent the last two weeks mourning the loss of a pop icon, Prince, and praising Beyoncé’s newest diss album on her husband, Jay Z. Out of the blue, the world has been graced with a new record from the Toronto rapper Drake. “Views,” which was “Views from the Read More
Review by Nick Erickson, Staff writer Nostalgia has its place in pop culture. People associate certain sounds and color schemes with a particular era of their life. Nostalgia can be easily attributed to music, with M83 being a clear example. The French synthpop group has fully grasped the essence of the word with their seventh record, “Junk.” Akin Read More