I got lucky in the freshman ResLife lottery: my next-door neighbor, Emily Kianka ’13, shares my love for Joanna Newsom.
Two-thousand-and-nine, in music, has come and gone. The “X Best Albums of the Year” lists have been tabulated, written, criticized, and discussed; the Pitchforks and Metacritics and the like have moved on, and so, by extension, have we.
“When the truth is found to be lies / And all the joy within you dies / Don’t you want somebody to love?” —Jefferson Airplane
Chris Correa, class of 2010, is sitting across from me in an armchair—one of those big, fuzzy ones that dot the entrance to SciLi.
This past August, Pitchfork writer Stuart Berman found himself in the position of defending the publication’s pick for top track of the decade: Outkast’s “B.O.B.”
“Is this a joke that everyone thinks is a graduate thesis, or vice versa?” —The Village Voice, regarding Das Racist
Yoni Wolf is the creative force behind WHY?, the Berkeley-based folk-hop outfit whose 2008 release, “Alopecia,” made waves in both indie and experimental hip hop communities—and found its way onto some notable year-end lists in the process.