Lila Mago, Contributing writer
• September 27, 2023
Many current college students can remember the childhood joy of searching for a disc in a big book of plastic pages, taking it out, rubbing it vigorously against their shirt to clean it and inserting...
On Friday, Sept. 8, 20-year-old singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo released her sophomore album “Guts,” a fitting title for songs that have just that: vulnerable lyrics that encapsulate the experience...
Though New Orleans jazz legend Conrad “Connie” R. Jones left us almost five years ago, his memory still lives on through local musicians.
On Tuesday night, Loyola University New Orleans...
Conrad “Connie” R. Jones’s traditional New Orleans sounds may no longer ring from his own cornet, but his 60-year long career lives on through the Connie Jones Legacy Band, set to play Loyola...
After his quintuple Grammy Awards win last year — a feat that involved beating chart toppers like Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift for the Album of the Year — Jon Batiste was essentially...
Ian Faul, Associate Arcade Editor
• April 26, 2023
It’s 10 a.m., and I’m sitting in the courtyard behind the Commons preparing to write this article when a mildly muddy, yet spicy smell catches my attention. No, there is nothing like it — it’s...
Which was more culturally significant, the Renaissance or the “Born to Die” music video? When I was 12 years old, Lana Del Rey's "Born to Die" music video fundamentally altered my prepubescent brain....
On Tuesday night, a crowd of all ages swarmed the House of Blues to see Crowe Boys and Judah and the Lion. Women stood clad in shirts with half-cubist, half-clipart lions grouped in front of the stage....
On March 20, Sabrina Carpenter stopped at the Orpheum Theater on her "emails i can’t send" tour. Once a Disney Channel starlet, Carpenter has shed the shell of corporate pop and emerged as an artist...
Seeing ROLE MODEL in concert was like spending an hour with your quirky best friend, if your quirky best friend could sing.
On March 1, ROLE MODEL took the stage of Devlin Fieldhouse for...
On Wednesday, March 1, Adam Melchor played at the Toulouse Theater in downtown New Orleans. Melchor, a singer-songwriter from New Jersey, captures a romantic, pop-folk sound. He balances his self-deprecating...
At age nine, I discovered Nicki Minaj. If I had to name the top three most pivotal moments of my life, then the moment I first heard a Minaj song would make it in that list. This may seem dramatic,...
