Music

Jason Isbell//Life is Good Life is clearly good for Jason Isbell. Since embracing sobriety five years ago, his career has seen an upward trajectory with a string of critically and commercially acclaimed...

Top 10 Albums of 2017 Many years produce an album or two that scream year’s best album from the first listen. This was not that kind of year. In fact, picking a top album was tough since there wasn’t a...

For NEEDTOBREATHE, three is the magic number. Early this year, the Grammy-nominated band from South Carolina announced their “All the Feels” tour, an all-encompassing trek across the U.S split into...

CHEVELLE //  THE NORTH CORRIDOR Chevelle might not be considered one of the top acts in hard rock. The Chicago-based trio hasn’t had multiple platinum albums of bands like Disturbed or Shinedown, and...

Josephine Vander Gucht, the female half of Alt-Pop duo Oh Wonder, has a theory: if the crowd brings the energy, they must double it. Vander Gucht and Anthony West tested said theory at Iron City, the...

FOO FIGHTERS // BJCC On Thursday, Oct. 26th, the Foo Fighters made their long-awaited return to Birmingham, Alabama. After canceling three shows earlier in the week, the band was back in full swing ready to...

Susto// “& I’m Fine Today” Susto’s backstory is as unique as its name. It begins with frontman Justin Osborne becoming fed up with music at the age of 26, moving to Havana to study anthropology,...

Book Review//Beautiful Politics of Music//Trova in Yucatán, Mexico by Gabriela Vargas-Cetina About the book An exploration into the history and practice of trova, a genre of music that is the soul of...

Justin Moore//Somebody Else Will Justin Moore was not one of those people who grew up dreaming about having a career in music, where he’d make albums and tour around the country. “I had no desire to...

Hall & Oats//Tears for Fears Ray Charles once asked the rhetorical question, “What is a soul? It’s like electricity—we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a...