The Underground Sound of Emerson College
Design by Sophie Parrish By Heather Thorn October 12, 2025 marked 47 years since Nancy Spungen, American girlfriend of Sex Pistols’ bassist Sid Vicious, was found fatally stabbed on the bathroom floor of room 100 at the Chelsea Hotel. In 1978 on the morning of October 12, Vicious woke to find Spungen dead from a…
“My Girlfriend Is a Witch” by October Country She’s on a broom… she’s riding high… she’s leaving trails of smoke across the sky… she’s my girlfriend, and my girlfriend is a witch! October Country’s 1968 smash hit “My Girlfriend Is a Witch” spooks with a classic Halloween trope: the witch with spells up her sleeves….
Design by Christian Jones By Bryannah Basil Suppose you ask any Imogen Heap fan how they first encountered her. In that case, you’ll most likely hear one out of a slew of options: she’s one half of Frou Frou with Guy Sigsworth, her song “Hide and Seek” was featured in an episode of The OC…
Design by Christian Jones By Christian Jones and Sophie Parrish Halloween – Siouxsie & The BansheesPain – Boy HarsherOvercome – TrickyPiel – ArcaBeatrix – Cocteau TwinsNotget – BjorkMascara – DeftonesCome to Daddy (Pappy Mix) – Aphex TwinLimewire – untitled (halo)Suffocation – Crystal CastlesA Forest (Live in France June 1980) – The CurePoison Tree – Grouper?????…
Design by Diego Gonzalez By Salem Ross The internet of the past is long forgotten. What was once a suggestive space made of people that had the power to rip themselves off the screen and form in the real world has now turned into a showcase of pixelated slop. Is it too late to change…
Design by Kristen Lee By Mimi Newman A lot of artists love to talk a big game about spreading joy, but few (if any) have managed to embody that message as wholeheartedly as David Byrne does on his Who Is The Sky? tour. Now 73, Byrne has certainly had a couple of trips around the…
By Diego Gonzalez With new releases from FKA Twigs, Amaarae, Rochelle Jordan, Oklou and more, 2025 has been a monumental year for dance music, and Pinkpantheress is clearly eager to establish herself as one of the trailblazers of the increasingly popular electro-recession pop zeitgeist. Earlier this summer, Pinkpantheress released her mixtape Fancy That to widespread…
Design by Charlotte Heintz By Emeline Chopin This past Wednesday, October 15, Modest Mouse performed at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway, joined by support from the band Built to Spill. The show marked their tenth performance on their Fall 2025 tour, celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of their celebrated album The Moon & Antarctica. On…
“There Is No I” by feeo This track is the aftermath to the apocalypse on the rest of Goodness. Static hangs upon the air like fallout in a deserted city. A slide guitar weeps notes that veer in and out of tune. feeo’s voice emerges breathy and high, like a beam of light: “You keep…