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-6 posts tagged "punk rock"
Willoughby Thom | Monday, August 24, 2020
Last week I decided to ask my friends on Instagram if they wanted me to make them a playlist. This idea was born because of two things: boredom and the love of music. Honestly, I didn’t expect many people to respond. Perhaps a few close friends would reach out in support. To my surprise, I
Jacob Neisewander | Wednesday, April 8, 2020
With so much couch-time, folks across the country have been spending much more time inside enjoying music and art. Up-and-coming musical artist Vincenzo Torsiello, on the other hand, has been making it. Last week, Torsiello released his first punk-rock infused jazz single “Garbage Boy” on streaming platforms everywhere. Stuck indoors but committed to making new
Willoughby Thom | Friday, November 22, 2019
Existentialism is not a movement but a mindset. On Tuesday, Notre Dame’s Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts hosted their first lecture of their Distinguished Lecture Series with a lecture from Alice Kaplan of Yale University. Alice Kapalan—the John M. Musser Professor of French, chair of the department of French, and founder of the
Willoughby Thom | Thursday, August 29, 2019
Punk rock gets a bad rap. Punk is often seen as an aggressive and violent cultural movement filled with screams, safety pins and neon mohawks, but that only makes up a small fraction of the scene. Yes, there are aspects of the underground punk scene that are more aggressive than others. There are people who
Ryan Israel | Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Jonatan Aron Leandoer Håstad’s latest album, “Nectar,” is to his musical career what a finsta is to a rinsta. For readers without Instagram accounts, let me explain: the “finsta” is the latest social media trend that has captured the hearts of young people everywhere. Finsta, an abbreviated term for “fake Instagram,” stands in contrast to the
Kelly McGarry | Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Punk rock has acquired a dubious reputation in the past decade. It simply doesn’t hold the place in the counterculture that it used to; angsty teens are more likely to find solace at an EDM show than a punk show, leaving punk behind to a primarily older audience susceptible to nostalgia. On the Menzinger’s “After the