BY SERENA IMANI KORN With the right kind of music, a homework session can prove very successful, but students are often divided on whether or not they like to study while listening to music. Some people need to listen to something—anything. Other people need specific types of music. Then there […]
Oh, Rose: That Do Now See
BY JOSH WOLF Wandering between shivering vibratos and dreamy swoons, Olympia band Oh, Rose will shake your bones. The vocals can lift you away in hypnosis, as easily as they can command your attention, and although there is some solid instrumentation in the release, the vocals carry the songs. In […]
Book Review: The Ruins of Mars
BY RAY STILL Evergreen alum Dylan James Quarles has always been fascinated by the reports of canals seen on Mars through mankind’s first telescopes. These reports, which later proved to be optical illusions, fueled Quarles’ imagination to write and publish “The Ruins of Mars” trilogy. Only the first two books, […]
Artist Statement: Serena Imani Korn
(two last names, no hyphen, and no, I have NO affiliation with koRn) BY SERENA IMANI KORN Uh, I am an artist. I guess. I really have never considered myself an “artist.” I make art, so I suppose that makes me an artist? But I’m far from classically talented. I […]
Artist Profile: Patrick Semple
Jaimie Nadel: What’s the title of the collage on the cover? Patrick Semple: I haven’t thought about. I guess it’s “Dharma Punxx.” JN: Untitled is a popular title. I wonder who first used that as a title. PS: A genius. What class are you taking next quarter? Untitled. JN: That’s […]
It’s Always Cloudy in Olympia
Netflix Shows and their Comfy Counterparts BY SARA FABIAN As the unofficial college uniform, loungewear is a universal piece of our academic and personal experience. Clothes for comfort are perfect for hanging out in your room, walking around your building, studying, or even sleeping. For good reason, Olympia doesn’t go […]
Brooklyn Quintet Fuses No-Wave and Hip-Hop
BY ISSAC SCOTT Ava Luna hails from the heady Brooklyn music scene that favors the often impossibly intricate and angular experimental rock evidenced by Dirty Projectors, Akron Family, and Battles. Listening to these bands, it is clear they emerge from the epicenter of every musical style from no-wave to hip-hop. […]
Artist Profile: Allyson Yarrow Pierce
Children learn like this: creating, playing, thinking, mimicking, impressions, tactile wondering, repetitive characters, signs, and symbols. Sacred ancient forms of understanding. Physical feeling, wandering emotions. Repetitive situations and patterns; developmental behavior. This is how (good) stories are told. Fables have characters that carry the same steps and leave the same […]
Handwritings: ‘boring, dumb & fine’
BY BLAINE EWIG In Handwritings’ first album, lo-fi indie rock is brought back to its roots with sounds akin to those of Pavement and Dinosaur Jr. With prominent and purposeful feedback, they take what many listeners might perceive as flaws and make them into strengths. In Handwritings’ first album, lo-fi […]
Artist Statement: Anders Rodin
BY ANDERS RODIN I grew up on an island. Always having the ocean in view is kind of like looking at a photograph of the earth from space. It reminds you that there are limits, that we live on a finite amount of space with shorelines and atmospheres that protect […]
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