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Every summer I end up returning to playlists compiled years ago that make me feel like I’m a part of a coming-of-age movie with terrible acting but a killer soundtrack that can never escape from my mind.  “Romance is Boring,” off of the Los Campesinos! album sharing the same name, was released in 2010 and...

Every summer I end up returning to playlists compiled years ago that make me feel like I’m a part of a coming-of-age movie with terrible acting but a killer soundtrack that can never escape from my mind.  “Romance is Boring,” off of the Los Campesinos! album sharing the same name, was released in 2010 and...

This week in music history, a celebrated soul singer became a legend. “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” by Otis Redding became the first posthumous No. 1 hit. The song was recorded shortly before Redding died in a plane crash on Dec. 10, 1967. Redding was traveling to a concert in Madison, Wisconsin, when...

This week in music history, prosecutors from New Jersey warned US record dealers that if they sold John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s experimental album, Two Virgins, they would be charged with distribution of pornography. On January 24, 1969, Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins was put under fire. The cover proudly showed Lennon and Ono...

Singer-songwriter Naethan Apollo joins Impact’s entertainment editor Norene Bassin and volunteer writer, Arden Vanover, to talk about his path to where he is today, what the future holds, his next lore-driven project and a little bit about Dungeons & Dragons.  The “Person in the Mirror” singer grew up in the small town of Solon, Iowa....

With a release date just a little over a week prior to Halloween, it was only right for Taylor Swift’s Midnights to have at least one eerie track. Swift released the album on Oct. 21, with it initially having 13 songs, then she released Midnights (3am Edition) with seven additional songs. Though it isn’t the...

This week in music history, Fleetwood Mac released their most experimental album, Tusk. This was the band’s twelfth studio album, and it was released on Oct. 12, 1979; at the time, it was the most expensive rock album with production costs coming in at over $1 million.  Following an extremely memorable and popular album, like...

Chloe Moriondo has slowly been straying from the “Kalmia Kid” she made her debut as. She grew closer to indie rock with her second album, Blood Bunny, but her newest album, SUCKERPUNCH, takes her fans in a vastly different direction while they reminisce about their childhood through a blend of hyperpop and early 2000s pop...