On Friday, April 19, Taylor Swift released her long-awaited 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” Swift surprised fans with a secret 2 a.m. double release, bringing the total song count...

Taylor Swift's journey of reclaiming her own music continues following last week’s re-release of “1989.”    The re-recording of an entire discography is generally unheard of for musical...

Last month, the talk of the town around the NFL was in Arrowhead Stadium, where the Kansas City Chiefs hosted the Chicago Bears. The excitement had nothing to do with the game itself, however, because...

Everyone and their mother — my mother included — wanted tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. The excitement was palpable in the days preceding their release. If you had an internet connection and...

Before I get ripped limb from limb, I have some disclaimers.   Most of Taylor Swift’s work is not my cup of tea, and I am by no means a Swiftie. However, I respect her as an artist — she’s good...

Music does not exist in a vacuum in time and space. Rather, it is a meeting of chord progressions, instrumentation, syncopated beats, tempos and textures with the listener’s past histories, loves...

Flash photography, iPods, ‘90s grunge influence, outdated technology. I’m not just listing what was cool in the 2010s but describing aspects of the trending indie sleaze movement that is gaining incredible...

A slow-burning virus has finally anchored itself: we lack the attention spans and patience to experience an album in its entirety. We turn to singles and sub-half-hour EPs to satiate our hunger for new...

This Friday, Nov. 12 at 12 a.m. EST, marks a personal holiday: Taylor Swift is releasing a rerecording of her 2012 album, “Red.” If you’re unaware, Swift has committed to rerecording all of her...

The temperature dropped pretty considerably last week — naturally, so did my mood.    I checked my most streamed songs for the last four weeks using a Spotify extension called Stats for...

In a surprise posting on Feb 11, Taylor Swift announced her newest album, “Fearless (Taylor’s Version),” a rerecording of 2008’s “Fearless.” The album will have 26 songs, including six...

The moment I first saw Tan France on Netflix’s promotion for the reality show “Queer Eye” was the first moment I ever saw myself represented on television. Brown gay Muslim men seemed like an...