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‘Cuts & Bruises’ Gets in Some Good Punches

‘Cuts & Bruises’ Gets in Some Good Punches

By Celeste Viana March 16, 2023

★★★★☆ Expectations run high for your band when the lead singer’s father is the most famous musician to come out of Ireland in the last century. Such is the case for Inhaler, an indie rock...

For Graduating Student Band Back to Yours, College Culminates in Debut Album

For Graduating Student Band Back to Yours, College Culminates in Debut Album

By Alexandra Brunjes April 30, 2020

Indie-rock group Back to Yours had their first performance in the fall of 2017, during the culminating showcase of Georgetown University’s one-credit “Guild of Bands” class, a semester-long course...

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Concert Review: LANY at Fillmore Silver Spring

By Tarina Touret October 10, 2017

“This experience can only be heightened by enthusiastic response and involvement.” As the lights dimmed, these words filled the and the crowd began to scream. Suddenly, Paul Klein, the lead...

Album: Sleep Well Beast

Album: ‘Sleep Well Beast’

By Mac Dressman September 15, 2017

★★★☆☆ Political strategist Karl Rove described The National’s song “Walk It Back” as “a euro tech pop thing.” The National’s response? “F---k you, Karl.” Rove was asked...

Album Review: ‘Humanz’

By Liam O'Donnell June 4, 2017

★★★☆☆ When the British virtual band Gorillaz began recording its fifth studio album, “Humanz,” in 2016, its creators, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, invited collaborators to join...

Album Review: ‘Being No One, Going Nowhere’

By William Leo April 28, 2017

For indie rock buffs across the country, this is an exciting decade. Since the genre broke into the mainstream in the early 2000s, the style and tone of the music has radically matured, departing from...

Interview with Georgetown Band Almeda

By Nick Harrison April 28, 2017

The Washington, D.C. music scene is among the nation’s best, boasting stadium-sized concert halls and offbeat venues all within a few streets of each other. Georgetown students, however, need look...

A Conversation with Bastille’s Kyle Simmons

By Meena Raman March 24, 2017

British pop-rock group Bastille quickly rose to fame in 2013, following the release of hit single “Pompeii” — one of the most streamed tracks that year. Since then, the band has lost none of...

Album Review: How to Be a Human Being

Album Review: How to Be a Human Being

By Marina Tian September 2, 2016

“How to Be a Human Being,” the sophomore album of English indie rock band Glass Animals, is perhaps best described by a line in the album’s third track, “Season 2 Episode 3”: “Sometimes it...

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Gabe Spadaccini (COL ’17), Dillon Denehy (MSB ’17), Peter Laughlin (COL ’16) and Ethan Beaman (COL ’16) of band Faces for Radio

The Search for New Sounds in Studio D

By Anna Shuster October 23, 2015

A new jazz-inspired alt-rock band, Faces for Radio, is quickly gaining recognition on campus. The band’s jazzy covers and original tunes along with their recent appearances at Kickback and Phoebe Ryan’s...

Old Moonlight

By Jess Kelham-Hohler January 17, 2014

It all started with an ad on Craigslist. “I was at work in Houston,” Danny Goldberg (NHS ’14) said. “I’d never been on the musician’s thing on Craigslist, but did so at work because...

Mellen

By Emily Troisi January 17, 2014

Last September, the five members of Mellen, a folk-rock band, were finally in a position to come together and embark on a new, exciting and banter-filled musical journey. Although the unofficial leader...

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