A love letter to…Drake. Illustration by: Matt Fabrizio Aubrey Drake Graham, better known mononymously as simply Drake, seems like he’s not himself lately. As contentious of a topic as this is, I might be treading on thin ice when I say: Drake has been in a slump since his 2018 record “Scorpion.” It’s my opinion…
Pictured: Reneé Rapp in “The Sex Lives of College Girls.” PHOTO CREDIT: Variety.com I spent this Thanksgiving especially grateful for music, with new releases coming from my long-time favorite artists at the top of my Spotify Wrapped list, and others who I got to know throughout November. In 2018, while watching a friend compete in…
With “jazzy” and “avant-garde” sounds, the album “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea” by Neutral Milk Hotel has heavily influenced modern indie music. PHOTO CREDIT: Spotify Neutral Milk Hotel may not be a household name, yet their 1998 album, “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea,” is one of the most important and influential albums in…
Here is our web editor’s ranking of Taylor Swift’s albums. PHOTO CREDIT: lsureveille.com Over a month after the release of Taylor Swift’s “Midnights,” I think I finally have a strong enough grasp on all of the music to rank her albums. Since the start of her career in 2006, Swift has released 10 albums (not…
Musician’s Guild band Superposition creatively found their name and sound in early 2022. Photo Courtesy of: instagram.com/_superpositon Local quintet Superposition is looking to bring their “raucous emo” sound to New England. The band, formed in January, is composed of Sean Ovalles on vocals, Michael Diehl and Tristan Pagliaroni on guitar, Matt Delaney on bass and…
K-pop group ITZY played at MGM music hall in Fenway Park. PHOTO CREDIT: David Broccoli | Staff Reporter My brother and I both love K-Pop and share music with each other a lot. We both have our favorite bands, his being ITZY and mine being Stray Kids. I had just been to my first concert…
The University of Rhode Island’s seventh music convocation of the semester, in spite of having to take place on a Wednesday instead of a Friday due to Veterans Day, still went off without a hitch, drawing the usual large crowd which included students, faculty and staff, and featured six student performers. Each convocation is held…
Guilty pleasure, easy listening. PHOTO CREDIT: bbc.co.uk As of the time this paper will be published, I am 22 years old, which means that six years of my life is a pretty long time. Six years is almost one-third of my life. 27.3% of my life, to be exact. Yeah, that’s right. I did math…
PHOTO CREDIT: amazon.com This week marks the 67th anniversary of the introduction of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. On Nov. 12, 1955, Billboard released their first edition of the Hot 100, with “Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing,” from the soundtrack for the film of the same name, by the Four Aces topping the chart. On…
Vocalist and music composer Louis Shriber continues to perfect his practice. Photo courtesy of: Louis Shriber Louis Shriber, a second-year music composition major with a focus on voice, continues to grow his passion for music in his college career. Shriber is a part of many musical groups in Rhode Island, such as the Rhody Rhapsodies,…