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(02/10/19 11:37pm)
Looking for a last–minute Valentine’s Day date for you and your music–loving significant other? Well lucky for you, Philly is chock full of great concerts from Feb. 14th–15th, whether you and your sweetheart want to get lost in the mosh pit together or just sway to some sweet tunes. Or maybe you’re just looking for some way to pass the time by yourself while everyone else is out on dates. Either way.
(02/12/19 6:46am)
Ah, February. A month full of the blistering cold and a barrage of midterms, but also a time for love. Valentine’s Day is coming up once more and cuffing season is nearing its end—so, it’s the perfect time to kick back with your honey and enjoy some love songs. Of course, one can’t assume that everything is going all fine and dandy—every relationship goes through its ups and downs, and occasionally an inkling of worry creeps into your soul. However, music has a special power to heal or strengthen the ties that bind couples together. The best medicine to your relationship woes is a few songs, compiled here, that will make your significant other fall in love with you again:
(02/12/19 9:55pm)
Need to recover from heartbreak or not getting that text back? Street has you covered with some soulful, romantic songs that will make you believe in love again this Valentine’s season.
(02/10/19 2:35am)
Despite branding herself as the music industry’s most polarizing celebrity, we can all agree on one thing—Taylor Swift knows how to write a damn good love song. Whether she’s banging out an acoustic ballad about her first crush or crooning into Auto-Tune about her first enduring love, Taylor knows how to turn her personal love stories into universal ones. To put it simply, she hits you right in the feels. In sticking close to a one note melody that lets storytelling shine, Taylor has uncovered the key to love song gold: unabashed honesty and a heavy dose of simple romance.
(02/12/19 5:54am)
It was 1973 when Paul McCartney and Wings said “Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs,” and the statement holds true nearly fifty years later. Spotify’s Valentine's Day Love playlist has 100 songs and over 300,000 followers. While true love songs do exist, every so often a song will come on the radio, or on a love song playlist, that sounds beautiful...at first. Then, after a few listens and a close reading of the lyrics, that “love song” turns out to be about something else entirely. Here are a few tracks to consider taking off those Valentine’s playlists and mixtapes for crushes.
(02/13/19 5:57am)
There’s nothing that sets the mood like music does, and let’s be real, no one wants to actually get down to songs like Mo Bamba or Sicko Mode. You don’t need to be hooking up or having sex to listen to this playlist, as long as you’re in the mood for something a little spicy. There are a lot of “bedroom playlists” out there on platforms like SoundCloud and Spotify, but there’s always that fear that you’ll shuffle it and come across a not–so–sexy song that will kill the vibe. Don’t worry, Street has your back with this essential sex playlist, filled with songs that are sure to put you in the mood.
(02/07/19 3:18am)
Cherry Glazerr has always been a band of tumultuous music and unpredictable sounds, but on Stuffed & Ready, that’s used to its benefit. The three–person band (named after Chery Glaser, a radio host on KCRW), features singer/guitarist Clementine Creevy, drummer Tabor Allen, and bassist Devin O’Brien (synth player Sasami Ashworth has since left the band to pursue her own solo project, Sasami). With this newest release, Cherry Glazerr breaks their conventional mold to explore even more confrontational rock. The album is far more cohesive than their previous works, providing a fluent experience from beginning to end, and showing the full extent of Clem Creevy’s incisive lyrics. Combining gleaming guitar riffs with Creevy’s sharp-witted words, Stuffed & Ready is necessary listening in 2019.
(02/20/19 6:39pm)
What if I told you that for just $25 you could get a season pass to the Philadelphia Orchestra? Well, it's true, because the eZseatU membership program offers college students just that. That’s an amazing deal, considering that a single ticket ranges between $30 and $100 for non–students, depending on the show and seat. "The eZseatU program was started in 2009 to give college students the ability to experience orchestral music live in a really affordable way," said Geoffrey Cohen, Director of Audience Engagement at the Philadelphia Orchestra. The Philadelphia Orchestra is a world–renowned symphony orchestra. In fact, it's one of the “big five” American orchestras, alongside the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra. The Kimmel Center, where the Philadelphia Orchestra is based, is only a 20 to 25 minute SEPTA ride away from Penn’s campus. What’s not to love? If that doesn’t persuade you, here are three performances in February and March that are sure to blow your mind.
(02/05/19 2:00pm)
Four–piece Florida pop punk band Set it Off always seemed to be on the second string of its genre, never quite as famous as acts like Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, or All Time Low, although the latter band had a hand in Set it Off's development. Frontman Cody Carson was inspired to create a band of his own after being invited to perform with All Time Low at a Cleveland show in 2008. With the recent release of the band's fourth LP, Midnight, on Feb. 1, Carson and the other three members of Set it Off seem poised to join the ranks of their inspirations.
(02/06/19 3:59am)
Mask and Wig isn't your average group–it's the oldest all–male collegiate musical comedy troupe in the country. Although it's filled with integral members such as the performers, business staff, and stage crew, the band is also crucial to tying the show together. Full of musicians from across the country, it's an eclectic group of guys who love to come together and deliver a great show, and Street got to catch up with a few members and talk about this semester's performance.
(02/05/19 2:00pm)
Sports enthusiasts have the Super Bowl. Movie buffs have the Oscars. And we music aficionados have music’s biggest night of the year—the 61st Annual Grammy Awards—to expel all that pent–up competitive energy into the universe. See how Street’s staff picks for some of the Grammy’s biggest awards measure up against your predictions and that sadly falsified list of leaked winners that surfaced on twitter last week.
(02/02/19 2:00pm)
In May 2017, a new–aged Lord of the Flies took place with Instagram influencers and the millennial elite ransacking an island for shelter, subsistence, and WiFi connection. The infamous Fyre Festival, a joint venture between hip–hop heavyweight Ja Rule and Bucknell University dropout Billy McFarland, recently became the topic of scathing Netflix and Hulu documentaries. These documentaries aim to answer two questions almost as large as the music festival McFarland aimed to throw: why did Fyre Festival fail so spectacularly and who’s to blame? The answer, shockingly, starts with ourselves.
(02/01/19 10:05pm)
On Monday, January 28th, indie rock band The Mountain Goats livestreamed a performance at the Wizards of the Coast headquarters in Renton, WA, with frontman John Darnielle singing and playing guitar in front of a massive dragon statue named Mitzy. The reason: to promote their upcoming album In League with Dragons, inspired by the seminal Wizards of the Coast tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons.
(02/04/19 4:07am)
Michel Legrand, a celebrated composer and conductor best known for his film scores, died on Saturday at 86 years old. Over his career, Legrand collaborated with musicians like Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra, working also as a jazz pianist. Legrand’s achievements are extensive: He won three Academy Awards and five Grammys. His Oscar–winning songs—“The Windmills of Your Mind” from The Thomas Crown Affair and “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?” from The Happy Ending—are among his most well–known compositions. However, Legrand’s profession as a composer and arranger of film scores hasn’t always earned him recognition. Considering Legrand's impact on film history, let's take a look at how scores and soundtracks have shaped movies, and vice versa.
(01/29/19 4:04am)
Newsflash: the album is dying, but the vinyl is gaining a whole new life. A relic of the pre–Spotify era when DJing meant more than just queuing a playlist, the record represents our wildest Gen Z fears—commitment, authenticity, and fragility. And yet, we can’t stop buying them. In 2018, vinyl sales increased by 12.6 percent, while tangible album sales plummeted by more than triple that. With those statistics, it feels like everyone and their trendy little sister is getting in on this vintage trend. And you can, too, by building a vinyl collection that has everything the music section at Urban Outfitter’s doesn’t: hidden classics, genuine collectibles, and even the spare cassette tape.
(01/29/19 4:47am)
Lizzo started her year off right, dropping her single “Juice” onto an unsuspecting world. Drenched in retro synths and hazy guitars, Lizzo fills the song with confidence and swagger, singing, “I'm the pudding in the proof/ Gotta blame it on my juice.” By the time the horn section closes out the song, you can’t help but dance, and Lizzo’s braggadocio is contagious, infecting the listener with positivity and affirmation. For anybody looking for somebody to take the lead in inspiring 2019 goals, Lizzo is not a bad place to start.
(02/04/19 2:00pm)
“Chano, Chatham’s own,” Chance the Rapper pops with energy in the opening lines of the track, “Juice," off his second mixtape Acid Rap. Referring to himself as “Chano,” Chance gives tribute to West-Chatham, a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago where he was born. In “Memories on 47th St.,” rapper Vic Mensa paints a picture of his younger self, as a boy who wants to take on the city of Chicago despite being surrounded by violence and racism growing up on Woodlawn and 47th street. The names don’t end there. Noname. Joey Purp. Saba. Mick Jenkins. Besides being rappers, all these artists have something else in common: they have their roots in Chicago. Over the last few years, Chicago’s music scene has given rise to a myriad of musical groups and artists, but why this particular city? What about it puts so many young rappers in the spotlight? Due to its cultural relevancy and tight–knit community, the Chicago music scene is made up of young artists to look out for in the near future.
(01/30/19 11:50pm)
Hoodie Allen (whose real name is Steve Markowitz) isn't your average rapper—he’s also a former Penn student that used to stroll down Locust Walk like the rest of us. As an undergraduate, Markowitz (W ‘10) was a member of the Sprint Football team and a brother in the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity while working on a budding rap career. He got a job at Google post–graduation, later decided to quit to pursue a full–time career in music, and hasn’t looked back since—he’s released multiple charting albums and EPs in the past decade. Given his time at Penn, let’s take a look at his relationship with the university where he studied and began his rise to success.
(01/29/19 3:49am)
Legends are often unpredictable. Billy Altman of Rolling Stone proclaimed that hard rock “has unquestionably hit its all–time low” with AC/DC’s High Voltage, while Lester Bangs derided Black Sabbath’s debut album as “a shuck.” Meanwhile, 1992’s best–selling album Some Gave All by Billy Ray Cyrus doesn’t exactly hold up 27 years later; “Achy Breaky Heart” is more a joke than a party playlist staple. With the benefit of hindsight, Street has chosen the most important and influential albums of five, ten, and twenty years prior.
(01/24/19 10:18pm)
James Blake is an artist whose music is so distinct that, despite his significant popularity, it's almost impossible to describe. Blake’s forte lies in his fearlessness to experiment, never failing to bring in mysterious sounds and bizarre electronic interludes. Assume Form, released January 19th, has the elements of a more matured, experienced Blake, featuring a broader range of guests and heavier rhythms, though it's not completely rid of the desolate loneliness of his previous albums. In tracks like “Mile High,” “Where's the Catch?,” and “Tell Them,” Blake collaborates with hip-hop artists from Metro Boomin’ to Andre 3000.