At this point, writing an article about cultural appropriation and race in pop music, specifically within hip-hop, is nothing new. Images of Miley twerking, Taylor Swift attempting to twerk, and Katy Perry...

On the night of its Tuesday album release, Alabama-born, Philadelphia-raised Waxahatchee brought a new breed of intimate punk to Black Cat. Waxahatchee, the newest indie-music incarnation of lo-fi darling...

Courtney Barnett is the quotidian lyricist our generation needs, although we certainly don't deserve her. With deadpan wit and rambling, 1990s grunge-soaked style, Australian singer-songwriter Barnett...

Spring break was a series of ice-cold cars and off beat record stores. After a sunrise flight into Chicago, Jack and I found ourselves at the mecca of Midwest hipsterdom: Wicker Park. In Wicker Park, grunge...

For an event that is self-proclaimed, marketed, branded and sold to audiences worldwide as “music’s biggest night,” the Grammy Awards are only somewhat about music. The formula for the Grammys,...

I was sitting in a coffee shop above another coffee shop on a street lined with coffee shops when a man from Detroit came onto the speakers. Americana folk music mixed with the familiar whirl of the...

Spring has most certainly arrived on campus. The birds are singing, flowers are blooming and people are dressed like it’s 85 degrees, even though the thermostat barely reads 50. But regardless of the...

My musical education was a haphazard thing — I learned a third of what I know from my dad and his love of The Kinks, a third from my brother and his refusal to be ashamed of having Miley Cyrus, Phish...

Ah, spring break. The mere words bring to mind mid-afternoon naps on the beach and nights you will barely remember. As I'm not really good at being a young person, I've never done the typical, tropical...

In the wake of Valentine's Day, the roads are still covered with fading rose petals and there's hardly a blood diamond left on the shelves of Jareds. All the world heaves either a sigh of relief that...

Does anyone else out there watch "Portlandia"? For those of you unfamiliar with the show, it's a sketch comedy that kind of makes me want to move to Portland every time I watch it … even as it pokes...

For every living being on the planet, January is a month of hastily-formed and just-as-hastily-waylaid resolutions — and Georgetown students are no exception. Why else would Yates be more crowded during...