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AF 2021 In ReviewA Year Of Divorce, Heartache, And Grief

Carly Pearce // Photo Credit: Allister Ann The world might have opened back up in 2021, but it was still a year branded with heartache, sorrow, and grief. Even if you didn’t endure the death of a loved one, you likely knew someone who did 一 or perhaps you wandered through some of the biggest...

Bee Scott

AF 2021 IN REVIEWOur Favorite Albums and Singles of The Year

If you went into 2021 with high expectations, you weren’t alone. Even if it was hard to feel optimistic this time last year, it certainly seemed as if things could get no worse. Live music did return, after all – though with the appearance of Delta, and now Omicron, the joyful noise comes with a...

Lindsey Rhoades

ONLY NOISEAdele Threads Together Regret and Growing Older from 25 to 30

ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we’re shaped by our chosen soundtrack. In this installment, Jason Scott soothes their growing pains with the balm of everyone's favorite siren singer, who released her fourth studio album last week. I can’t listen...

Bee Scott

NEWS ROUNDUPThe Grammys, New Study on Gender Disparity in Music and More

The Grammy Awards On Sunday night, the music industry’s most momentous ceremony returns to New York City after ten years in Los Angeles. The 60th Grammy Awards will be held at Madison Square Garden and this year the pressure is on for the Recording Academy to prove that they are still relevant...

Jasmine Williams

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ONLY NOISESongs From Abroad

The plan was as simple as it was unprepared; utilize my two-week vacation in Paris and the UK to discover new music, catch some live shows, and, well…write about it. It would be a piece of cake (or, as the French say, a piece de cake). What I didn’t expect was that my innate aversion to planning...

Madison Bloom

Op-Ed + Live ReviewKlava Alicea + Adele + The Importance Of Music Education

Having been fortunate enough to receive a robust, extensive and varied music education coming up through the Waldorf School system, I can attest to how it permeates every other aspect of learning: its power to shape and grow the brain and its ability to bridge every gap imaginable, be it culture,...

Marianne White

NEWS ROUNDUPParquet Courts, Bernie Sanders, and Animal Collective

Parquet Courts Debut New Songs The Brooklyn-via-Texas punks performed “Dust” and “Outside” on WFUV, and also announced an upcoming album titled Human Performance. “Dust” has a loping, cowboy Western feel, spacing tendrils of guitar riffs between suffocating lyrics: “It comes through the window, it...

Emily Daly