On Oct. 3, Taylor Swift released her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”
To say that I and many other fans were disappointed is an understatement. From her lackluster and overused electronic...
Kendall Evans, Culture Staff Writer
• September 25, 2025
On Friday, Sept. 5, David Byrne’s eighth core studio album “Who Is The Sky?” hit streaming platforms.
It’s been seven years since Byrne’s last studio album “American Utopia,” but he did...
Emily Siess, Culture Staff Writer
• February 7, 2025
If you’ve forgotten what the feeling of discomfort is like, look no further than Ethel Cain’s new horrific soundscape of perversion and white noise to remind you.
“Perverts,” released on Jan....
Kendall Evans, Culture Staff Writer
• January 31, 2025
Mac Miller’s second posthumous studio album, “Balloonerism,” came out on Friday, Jan. 17.
This was more than seven years after his death and exactly five years after the release of “Circles,”...
Heartbreak, polaroids and red lipstick: Taylor Swift brings 2014 to 2023 with her highly-anticipated fourth re-recording: “1989 (Taylor’s Version).”
Released on Oct. 27, the re-recorded “1989...
Quinn Johnson, Culture Staff Writer
• March 15, 2021
Get ready to go on a tropical vacation in the midst of Vermont winter.
No Showers on Vacation, a home-grown UVM band, has just released its first full-length album “Aquaband” on Feb. 26, 2021.
“Aquaband”...
Connor Adams, Culture Staff Writer
• February 22, 2021
Student musician Matthew Fischer’s new album draws on both of house music’s most common cliches and it’s greatest strengths.
Releasing an album during the waves of COVID-19 is no easy feat, especially...
Sophia Venturo, Assistant Culture Editor
• October 9, 2020
In late July, I heard that Taylor Swift was releasing a surprise double album called “folklore,” a dreamy indie record with a black-and-white album cover showing a whimsical treeline. It set my teeth...
Connor Adams, Culture Columnist
• November 9, 2019
Kanye West has always gone through phases, but his latest may just be his least creatively fruitful.
In the past few months, Kanye has found new meaning in his religion and showed promise in improving...
The four members of Boys Cruise knocked one another to the floor and kicked in synchrony as they performed songs from their first album, “Jerry.”
Sophomores Jake Flaherty, Joey Krouse, Jackson Halus...
Look no further for the complement to your full-stop fall melancholy.
On her sixth studio album “Norman Fucking Rockwell,” Lana Del Rey is born again from the ashes of reckless abandonment and...
On the cover of the album, a young woman lounges in a bedroom underwater.
“Titanic Rising,” Natalie Mering’s fourth studio album under the alias Weyes Blood, is a grandiose and sprawling depiction...
