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Pleading for a visual hip-hop album | Sing About Me

Aidan Mega February 5, 2023
Why don't visual albums exist within the scope of hip-hop — especially considering its stature as the pinnacle of musical storytelling?
Avril Lavigne on her Black Star Tour in September 2010. Lavigne's new album “Head Above Water” was released Friday. COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Avril Lavigne aims to keep her ‘Head Above Water’ with comeback sixth album

Austin Pak February 19, 2019
Avril Lavigne released her sixth studio album, “Head Above Water,” Friday after a long six-year hiatus, only to disappoint with a stagnant sound.
“Collapse,” the latest album by electronic musician Richard James, known by his alias “Aphex Twin,” released Sept. 14. PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

REVIEW: Aphex Twin’s new EP experiments with style, deviates from his strange norm

Kai Hellberg September 16, 2018
Aphex Twin's new album “Collapse EP” will prove any doubts about their legacy wrong. By today’s standards, this EP is extremely outlandish.
People with Projects: The art of music videos: dying or changing?

People with Projects: The art of music videos: dying or changing?

Kelsey Mihachik December 1, 2017

Last week, two music videos featuring celebrities were released back-to-back on YouTube. In addition to having star power, the videos, “Beautiful Trauma,” by P!nk, and “Santa’s Coming for Us,”...

No Sugar, No Cream: I have nothing but love for Desus and Mero

No Sugar, No Cream: I have nothing but love for Desus and Mero

Nashid Fulcher October 25, 2017

I have a love-hate relationship with nearly everything I love — likely born from my love-hate relationship with playing devil’s advocate. I rarely find myself appreciating things without trying to...

Ryan Reynolds accepts the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 2017 Man of the Year award Friday in Cambridge. PHOTO BY OLIVIA FALCIGNO/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Hasty Pudding Theatricals welcomes Ryan Reynolds to Cambridge

Sophie Will February 8, 2017

After receiving the 2017 Man of the Year Award from Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals on Friday night, Ryan Reynolds revealed why “Deadpool” was so popular among millennial audiences...

Cast members of the new comedy “Everybody Wants Some!!” Blake Jenner, Tyler Hoechlin and Ryan Guzman speak to members of the press Friday afternoon at the Eliot Hotel. PHOTO BY SOFIA FARENTINOS/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

INTERVIEW: “Everybody Wants Some!!” cast shares ’80s lightheartedness

Conner Reed March 27, 2016

At one point in Richard Linklater’s newest film, Jake, a college freshman played by Blake Jenner who’s just spent a long weekend with his future baseball teammates, enters the first class of his...

Boston University alumna Mariana Agathoklis is the vice president of communications at MTV. PHOTO COURTESY MARIANA AGATHOKLIS

TERRIERS INBIZ: Mariana Agathoklis on managing communications at MTV

Clara Hudson December 10, 2015

Terriers InBiz is a series that highlights Boston University alumni who have been innovative leaders in their field and have played a significant role in businesses, locally or globally. MTV was a staple...

RENNER: Allie Allen's blog reminds us to peel labels off of cancer

RENNER: Allie Allen’s blog reminds us to peel labels off of cancer

Elise Renner October 13, 2015

Aside from new technologies and big discoveries, cancer “news” consists mostly of human-interest pieces. Small newspapers cover sobs and support from an ailing executive’s hometown, while bigger...

NGAI: The power, destruction and influence of YouTube

NGAI: The power, destruction and influence of YouTube

Robin Ngai September 9, 2015

There’s an odd problem with YouTube we all know about. It’s the problem you arrive at after hours of watching cute cat videos. It's the problem when you’re looking to find a recipe for corn casserole...

U.S. President Barack Obama, Generation Progress and the Office of Women’s Health have partnered to launch a sexual assault campaign urging people to discourage and report cases of sexual assault. GRAPHIC BY ALEXANDRA WIMLEY/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Obama launches sexual assault prevention campaign

Jaime Bennis September 25, 2014

President Barack Obama announced the creation of the “It’s On Us” campaign on Friday, a drive to engage individuals in every professional, social and academic sphere in the prevention of sexual...

EDIT: She won’t be tamed

Daily Free Press Admin September 4, 2013

So, Miley Cyrus and the MTV Video Music Awards are still in the news. This time Miley is doing the talking and responding to the endless commentary on her performance with Robin Thicke. MTV scored an...

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