By DJ Amygdala A crowd packed into a sweaty basement, bodies moshing together, screaming every word to a song that means everything. Or maybe it’s a guitar circle on the beach, strangers-turned-friends passing rhythms back and forth like a secret…
By Roktima Godhuli I Am Trying to Break Your Heart by Wilco is the perfect opener to their 10/10 rock album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot(2001). Don’t play this at the function, though; it might be a bit of a party pooper…
By Roktima Godhuli PSUE DONIM, aka Ben Phipps, and I met in August. We immediately bonded through music, hanging out in the car on those hot summer nights and listening to the good stuff. We talked about our favorite songs…
By Roktima Godhuli As the honorable Black History Month comes to a close, there is one great musical technique that should be discussed: sampling. The Basics—What Is Sampling? Sampling, in music, is a process by which a portion of preexisting…
