The Underground Sound of Emerson College
Happy fall y’all! It’s a folk fall (and winter, and spring, and summer…) and we’re here to celebrate it! “SIZE OF THE MOON” BY PINEGROVE Pinegrove has a knack of singing about every feeling that I can’t seem to put to paper, feelings that linger in the space of my cluttered notes app and never…
From our staff to you, we hope you’re having a grand ol’ semester… “I Went To The Store One Day” – Father John Misty It’s not hard to find love in the Canyon. At least for Josh Tillman. It’s the same temperature all year ‘round, but during fire season, our pretentious, selfish, but somehow loveable…
Welcome back milk crate nation! Here’s what our lovely staff listened to this summer… “Feisty” by Smerz There’s what we all thought clubbing was like as children, and then there’s what it actually is. On “Feisty,” the Norwegian art pop duo Smerz are zoomed in on reality. This is the most obnoxious track I’ve heard…
One more year down and the wonderful wheel of music journalism keeps spinning… Thanks for keeping up with the Milk Crate staff every Friday and letting us gush on about what we’re loving as of late. Milk Crate will publish over the summer, and be BACK in full action come fall. We love you and…
Oh yeah man? Staff Pix? Woahhhh……. Here’s what the Milk Crate crew has been listening to this bright shiny long weekend. “Dramamine” by Modest Mouse For a song about a medication that treats motion sickness, “Dramamine” is a dizzying spellbound. It’s a mindless wandering, the spaced-out state of the in-between: just like motion sickness, the…
Finals season’s roaring in on two wheels, but thankfully the music overlords up above have gifted us with plenty of wonderful music to keep those finger’s a-typin’! “Catch these fists” by Wet LEg I once had a friend ask me why I play the “same song all the time.” Unknowingly, she was actually referring to…
Toot toot! Dum dum dahhhh… Tweedlee-dee, tweedledee-da, wah woh… This week’s all about instruments! Here’s what the staff’s been rootin’ and tootin’ about. “最後の楽園” by Haruomi Hosono If there is one thing in life I am guaranteed to do, it’s rave about Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki, and Tatsuro Yamashita’s brilliantly dreamy Pacific. Give me the…
No Spotify? No Apple Music? Easy. Bandcamp is cool though. Take it back to the days before streaming and into the days of endless YouTube doomlistening with some of our favorite deepcuts. “u had it coming” by addison rae Before the success of “Diet Pepsi,” Addison Rae spent two years coping with the backlash of…
Here’s the new that the Milk Crate staff’s been listening to from the beaches of Miami. Happy Spring Break! “Unforgivable” by Alexandra Savior Doo wap sha blam sha boom! She’s back! “Unforgivable” officially breaks Savior’s five-year-long release drought. It’s a kind tune, notably less complex and heavy than hits from 2017’s Belladonna of Sadness and…