What makes pop music? Does it have to be popular, i.e., achieve mainstream success? Are terms like avant-pop or indie-pop oxymorons? Must all pop be …

All the time I see “Oldies but Goodies” playlists on Spotify seducing people’s nostalgia. I love old music, but nothing compares to the exhilaration of …

Growing up in Texas, Austin “Post Malone” Post pursued a career in metal music after discovering a knack for Guitar Hero. When he realized hip-hop …

What makes a conscious rapper? The term originally came to define overtly political artists like Public Enemy who sought to destroy racism and the powers …

Every great musical features a pivotal song of epiphany, where a character comes to crucial revelation which sets the rest of the show in motion. …

Could there be a one-hit wonder in the age of the internet? As soon as you get done listening to the smash single, the next …

So it’s a Friday night. All your buddies are out of town because they went home for Easter. No matter. It will be nice to …

In 2012, two up-and-coming R&B artists released breakthrough smashes. The Weeknd and Frank Ocean dropped “The Trilogy” and “Channel Orange,” respectively. Frank Ocean (the sweetheart) …

On a frigid night, the final night of spring break, as UNR students regrettably returned to Reno in the hail, two stellar bands stopped in …

If you are hanging around Reno for spring break, bummed out as you look at your friends’ Instagram posts from Cabo and Panama City Beach, …