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Julien Baker’s “Turn Out the Lights” Album Review
Alex St. Peters Web Editor/Writer astpeters@lc.edu Her 2015 debut album, “Sprained Ankle”, was very personal, depressing, and had a sense that it was made in isolation. It was almost like finding lost recordings of person…
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Ugly God Aims to Shock!
Royce Rodriguez is better known by his stage rap name: Ugly God. An American rapper, he is lyrically crude and rhythmically sluggish. Ugly God is a rapper and producer who broke out during the…
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March Music Roundup – Matt’s Music Corner
Matt Monroe Webmaster March has been a pretty spectacular month for music, with great releases all across the board in folk, pop punk, indie rock, hip-hop and electronic. So, with the month coming…
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The 2017 Low Effort Album Review, Pt. 1 – Matt’s Music Corner
Matt Monroe Webmaster 2017 has been an insanely great year for music so far, but with so many albums, it’s easy for a few to get lost in the shuffle. So, here’s some…
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The Best Albums of 2017 So Far – Matt’s Music Corner
Matt Monroe Webmaster Around this time in 2016, I was still reeling from the death of David Bowie and the impact his last album, Blackstar (released two days prior to his death), had…
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The Best Songs of 2016
Matt Monroe Webmaster Song lists have always been pretty difficult for me. I’m generally a very album-centric guy, so when it came to picking out my favorite songs of previous years, I could…
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Taking A Quick Look Back on Music in 2016
Matt Monroe Webmaster For all 31 days in December, I posted a video album review every day on my social media accounts. Specifically, albums that came out in 2016. And also these reviews…
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2016 Offers Some Great Music
Matt Monroe Webmaster Overall, 2016 has been a great, but tragic year for music. While we had incredible releases all across the board, we also suffered the loss of some of music’s most…
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Album Catchup for the Fall
Matt Monroe Webmaster Now that we’re well into fall, I wanted to look into some of my favorite, and least favorite, albums of the season so far, as September and October have been…
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Frank Ocean Finds Himself On “Blonde”
Matt Monroe Webmaster In July 2012, Frank Ocean came out with his debut “channel ORANGE,” and I didn’t quite understand it. At the time it wasn’t the album I needed considering my music…