Monthly Archives: October 2016

One night as I lay in bed asking myself random questions, I asked, how can you tell if somebody is a good drummer? Eager to find out, I reached out for my phone and opened up YouTube. Immediately, I noticed a video with over a million views titled "How can you tell a good drummer…

I can easily say that my biggest form of procrastination is deciding what I want to listen to while I study. When you realize you’ve been sitting at Library West for about an hour now just scrolling through Spotify. Should I listen to my “Discover Weekly”? What “Mood” am I in? Do I really have…

In a recent Rolling Stone interview, Stranger Things score composers Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein said they had one directive when putting together the show’s composition: be “scary as fuck.” Scary as fuck, they were. …and have been. The Austin, Texas duo makes up half of the synth-driven quartet, SURVIVE, whose music both before and…

I, like many avid music fans, can rarely ever be found without headphones in my ears. Listening to music is always the first thing I do in the morning, and it is always the last thing I do before bed. Admittedly, I sometimes struggle to find the right tunes to listen to. Often times I…

Home to just over 130,000 people, Gainesville isn’t normally described as a metropolitan city. Based around the University, the town extends a couple miles in every direction before becoming vast swamplands filled with sawgrass and alligators. When people think of places that had a large influence on producing musicians, Memphis, Chicago and pretty much the…

The GAP band lets out a surging, pulsating synthesizer to begin their song “Burn Rubber On Me”. It’s a melodramatic song that deals with an abrupt heartbreak. The female lead drives away, and all that is left is the song’s protagonist expressing his sorrow through a catchy but gloomy dance beat. Rick James, another great…