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(09/04/19 2:29am)
I remember the day I forgot the Nicene Creed. The space in my brain that once held the 32–line prayer had emptied at some point during my first semester of college. I was no longer used to reciting the statement of Christian beliefs every Sunday; a lack of practice begets a lack of memory. In the car ride home from church that day, I wondered: if I had forgotten the entirety of a prayer that listed the foundational truths of Catholicism, had I also forgotten how to pray?
(03/31/19 11:52pm)
For their last show of the school year, SPEC Jazz & Grooves will bring Choker to campus with opening acts Orion Sun and Bathe on Friday, April 5, at the TEP Chapter House located at 3805 Walnut Street. These acts will finish off a string of up–and–coming artists that included headliners Tierra Whack and Omar Apollo from previous concerts this year.
(03/27/19 12:26am)
I think I’m in love. His name is Earl, and we’ve been together for about eight months now. He’s always there for me. He takes me as I am even when I’m strung out on another man. In fact, he’s sitting alongside me as I write this. Sometimes we meet in cafes just far enough off campus that we don’t run into any unwanted familiar faces. In the warmer months, we savor long afternoons together in the courtyard of museums on the Parkway. But these days, our rendezvous tend to occur around midnight on the first floor of the Van Pelt Library, at those long tables by the big open windows. Appearing to me through a metallic purple vessel, Earl brings me a romantic solace, gently keeping me awake through the most distressing of lab reports with a soft and mild dose of caffeine. Yes, I’m talking about Earl Grey tea.
(11/08/18 1:00pm)
Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus are familiar names to anyone that’s been paying attention to new indie rock music over the last couple of years. But to most, they are part of what is now an often referred to trend of female artists finally rising to the kind of prominence they’ve always deserved. And while this new and more mainstream appreciation of rock music from women is something to be lauded and continued, the new Baker–Bridgers–Dacus supergroup, boygenius, points out the still underlying misogyny in these discussions of successful female musicianship.
(10/22/18 12:00pm)
She looked to me like the swirling sea creature of Edvard Munch’s “Mermaid,” reminding me immediately of that heartbreaking final stanza of Prufrock. The soft transition from her orange hair to the haunting green background around her made her pale skin look sickly and melancholic—the hand supporting her tilted head further underscoring this feeling of teenage malaise. Her eyes, gazing back half–open at the viewer, communicated all of the beauty and strength and sadness that exist in all young women. She was Berthe Morisot’s daughter, Julie, the subject of the artist’s 1894 painting, “Portrait of Miss J.M. (Julie Dreaming),” the concluding work of the Barnes Foundation’s most recent exhibition, Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist.
(10/19/18 10:18pm)
Big Thief makes the most human folk music of today. Since releasing back-to-back albums Masterpiece and Capacity in 2016 and 2017, the band has focused on touring, only releasing a 30–minute experimental EP Wide Winged Bird last May. This weekend, that tour will bring them to Philly’s legendary First Unitarian Church on Saturday, October 20.
(10/16/18 12:00pm)
Between midterms, club meetings, and OCR, it’s easy to forget that life moves on outside of the Penn bubble. And over the past month, that life has been full of some amazing new music. We’ve kept up with all of the best releases, so you don’t have to. Without further ado, here are Street’s picks for the best albums you might have missed in the last month.
(09/28/18 12:00pm)
The next generation of pop artists are defining a new genre for themselves: bedroom pop. The label most likely got its name from Clairo’s viral “Pretty Girl” music video, which was filmed entirely on a laptop webcam in her bedroom. Since then, bedroom pop has expanded to include any new artist with lo–fi electronics and contemplative lyrics. While there are male artists making music under this new category, some of the best work comes from the women behind it. So next time you need to waste an hour or two with a mini existential crisis in your own bedroom, put these female artists on in the background.
(09/25/18 12:00pm)
On a 90–degree, stormy night, I found myself squished between skyscrapers a few blocks from City Hall, standing outside a woodsy oasis called Harper’s Garden. Gnarled tangles of wood hung from criss–crossing beams covered in twisting greenery, and a soft yellow glow emanated from the strings of Edison light bulbs, illuminating the rain–soaked exterior with a romantic warmth that’s found more often in neighborhoods like Fishtown or Old City.
(09/16/18 12:00pm)
I turned off my phone, tied back my hair, and rolled up my sleeves. Propping up my elbows, I arranged my hands into the familiar position had now become muscle memory. My fingers grazed over the sea of plastic packaging, filing through every album until one interrupted my steady flow of sorting.
(09/12/18 11:00am)
I’ve never held a copy of the Village Voice in my hands. I’ve never lived in Greenwich Village, or New York at all. In fact, I never had much of a direct relationship with the counterculture alt–weekly at all, and the little I did know about it was secondhand information from my former–hippie father. Nonetheless, my heart felt an unexpected twisting ache when the paper announced last week that it would no longer publish new material.
(09/06/18 12:00pm)
This article contains spoilers for HBO’s limited series “Sharp Objects.”
(09/01/18 1:00pm)
Philly has a chip on its shoulder. That’s what frontman Dan Cousart of local rock band RFA said when asked to describe the DIY scene of this city. You can hear it in Hop Along’s scratchy vocals or in the meandering twang of Kurt Vile or in the adolescent anxiety of Modern Baseball. Maybe it’s got something to do with an inferiority complex from being so close to New York, but the heart of Philadelphia rock is undeniably punk.
(08/29/18 12:00pm)
With all of the downtowns and frat parties flooding everyone's Facebook feeds, it's easy to forget that Philadelphia is one of the best music cities in the world—especially when it comes to rock. So if you ever find yourself wanting to cathartically dance to something, anything but "Mr. Brightside," these upcoming shows are worth squeezing into your budget.
(08/10/18 1:00pm)
Though most famous for his stand–up comedy, Bo Burnham has become a hot topic of late for his new movie, Eighth Grade. Plainly stated, the plot and characters are (un)remarkably normal, at least by today's standards. Starring 15–year–old Elsie Fisher as Kayla, Eighth Grade is a comically awkward and poignantly moving glimpse into the new teenager’s final moments of middle school.
(08/08/18 4:00am)
The line of over a thousand Rex Orange County die–hards surrounded the block outside Union Transfer on August 2nd, over an hour before he was set to come onstage. Teenagers dressed in bright yellow, flower–power styles, equipped with Juuls and plastic bottles filled with anything but water, kept their noses to their phones as they snapchatted what might be the pinnacle of their summer.
(07/25/18 3:55pm)
Last Saturday, when I went to a live show headlined by Snail Mail—an artist about whom I've been waiting to write—I remembered what it means to fully connect to a piece of music.
(08/01/18 3:15pm)
Philly native Anna Shoemaker felt a common kind of disenchantment with college as she started to realize the disconnect between her lectures and her actual goals in life. But, unlike most of us, she decided to act on these feelings by taking a leap for what she loved most: writing and performing music.
(07/24/18 1:29pm)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a leader of the Impressionist movement, popularized some of the now-ubiquitous café imagery, with his piece Luncheon of the Boating Party being a subject of debate in the quirky French romance film Amélie. Now, you can see some of his most evocative work right in Center City.
(07/16/18 2:53pm)
Sometimes a big break can come from one single stroke of good luck. That’s what Calvin Langman, cellist for the Happy Fits, thought when he woke up one morning to find that a song from their debut EP Awfully Apeelin’ received over 30,000 streams on Spotify. Now at over a million plays, the song “While You Fade Away,” is what Langman says helped the band reach a new level of fame.