The Real Zach Schudson
by Alok Vaid-Menon, ’13 With Stanford Students for Queer Liberation, I invited Zach Schudson to come and perform in Terra House during Winter Quarter. I stumbled on Zach’s work through Facebook and was...
View ArticleScientists Want You to Be Happy
by Sibel Sayiner, ’15 Let’s face it. The world can really bring you down sometimes. You think that it’s a beautiful day, and everything is going according to plan: you’ve read all your emails, the...
View ArticleNo Rest For Activists
by Jomar Sevilla, ’14 Amid blooming orchards, we stare at the stone of Larry Itliong and are speechless. Itliong lies, appropriately unadorned, with his manongs (Filipino “brothers”) in a mass of...
View Article$ex Machine
by Lyla June Johnston, ’12 I wrote this poem on an airplane a few years ago. It’s been sitting in my notebook for a long time. I took it out the other day and decided I wanted to make a hip-hop track...
View ArticleUnblurring the Lines
by April Gregory, ’13 A recent onslaught of tits-in-your-face (TIYF) music videos has catalyzed much hullabaloo in the blogosphere. If you haven’t seen Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” Justin...
View ArticleTrayvon’s Eulogy
By Eli Arbor, ’15 This song didn’t come out of a place of musical clarity, of elation, of any sort of epiphany. It came from a single moment, a single shot in the dark on a rainy night, a single juror...
View ArticleThe Wilde Drops an Album for His Isolated Homies
by Mysia Anderson, ’17 In the academic realm, it seems Stanford University has become synonymous with research and engineering; however, Stanford does produce many talented artists. In fact, Sophomore...
View ArticleAbout a Girl: Why Nirvana’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Performance Matters
by Jacob Nierenberg, ‘17 A black and white picture of Nirvana It had to have been the most highly anticipated induction ceremony in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 31-year history, destined to be...
View ArticleHer Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: Pop Culture, Post-Feminism, and Lana Del Rey
by Jacob Nierenberg, ‘17 If there’s anything I wanted you to take away from my last article, it’s that there’s a dearth of women in music. From Lorde to St. Vincent to Neko Case, smart songwriters and...
View ArticlePure Imagination – Authentic & Charlie G
by Aidan and Charlie Geronimus, ‘16 (Authentic and Charlie G) Charlie and Aidan Geronimus are twin brothers who are passionate about two things: music and social activism. In an effort to blend the...
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