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Evan McKenna | Friday, May 13, 2022
I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder last month. I start with that not for the shock factor or for the sympathy, but because I can’t imagine another way to begin. Whether I like it or not, my experience with mental illness has colored my college experience in innumerable ways. This was especially true my
Matthew Munhall | Thursday, April 5, 2018
Kacey Musgraves’s first two major label albums — 2013’s “Same Trailer Different Park” and 2015’s “Pageant Material” — served as a kind of diptych on small-town life, which she documented with equal parts scorn and affection. The country singer’s debut was filled with the cutting observations of someone who desperately wanted to escape her hometown of
Matthew Munhall | Tuesday, October 3, 2017
When I try to make sense of Miley Cyrus’ evolution as an artist, I can’t help but think about something she said in a 2013 Rolling Stone profile. Just days after inciting a nationwide moral panic with her VMAs performance — you know the one, with the tongue wagging, foam finger licking and, yes, twerking
Matthew Munhall | Wednesday, January 28, 2015
“Our love is a long goodbye,” Natalie Prass sings over and over again towards the end of “My Baby Don’t Understand Me,” the stunning opening track of her self-titled debut album. This statement serves as the thesis not only for the eight tracks that follow — which chronicle the drawn-out end of a relationship —