Music
Monday Mixtape: Fling, Flang, Flung (03.30.15)
Last week, SPEC (or, well, Ke$ha's Facebook...) released this year's Fling lineup: Ke$ha and Kygo. This week, we're listening to a mixtape of fling performers past and present.
PUSSY RIOT ON POLITICS AND PUNK
Street caught up with the incendiary founders of Pussy Riot after their talk at the Penn Museum to discuss their most recent music video, their NGO Zona Prava and the value of music.
Backstage with Magic Man: on Ghosts, Nerf Guns and Near–Death Experiences
Last year, Magic Man opened for David Guetta at Penn's Spring Fling concert. After last week's triumphant return to Philadelphia, the synth–rockers reflect and look forward.
Your Week In Music: 3.19.2015
What To See: You've gotten thousands of Facebook notifications already, but Afrojack will be spinning tonight for Penn students at the Theater of Living Arts.
How Jesse Fink Keeps It Sexy With the Heydaze
Street: So how does it feel head lining in Philly? Jesse Fink: It’s really exciting.
From Long Island to World Fame: A Conversation with Taking Back Sunday
Street: How did you guys end up playing two shows at the Electric Factory? Shaun Cooper: We do really well in Philly.
Monday Mixtape: From the iPod of Sarah Lindstedt
College senior and musical goddess Sarah Lindstedt shares the songs that inspire her, excite her and have her head banging and belting into a hairbrush.
Your Week In Music 02.26.2015
What with midterms and Beck winning a Grammy, seems like ain’t nobody got time for this shit. Good thing Music did it for you.
Best Song To...
Missing your favorite childhood board game? Head over to the Start key to begin your Music Monopoly (Musicopoly?) adventure. Listen to the song and then move to the next square. Now you finally know what to jam out to when you’re walking around campus, avoiding past hookups, cramming for last–minute midterms or working out (read: pretending to workout). Lucky you!
Q&A with 2:54: British Ambient Duo to Hypnotize Johnny Brenda's
Sisters Colette and Hannah Thurlow's gloomy and mysterious rock brought them all the way from London to the States as 2:54. Check them out on Sunday and appreciate their relocation.
Monday Mixtapes: Get Out of Your Mondaze
Music Writer Talia Sterman wants you to get you out of your Mondaze and wake you the eff up.
You Need To Listen To This: Years & Years
My older sister and I engage in a constant exchange of music, which keeps us in touch despite physical distance. So when she posted the music video to “Real” by a band called Years & Years on my wall last year, I listened to it like I did the rest.
Where the Grammys Went Wrong: Nominating Chris Brown
The Grammys made a political statement and denounced abuse. But hypocrisy pervades the music industry's biggest event.
Your Week In Music: 2.19.2015
We’ve hit the rut after Valentine’s and before St. Patrick’s Day. That rut is called midterms. Procrastinate with us.
In Photos: The Districts at Union Transfer (02.14.15)
"We've played a handful of shows here, but we didn't expect anything like this," said The Districts' frontman Rob Grote, staring out from center stage at a sold-out Union Transfer crowd.
Musical Dream Dates
It's a fact: musicians are hotter than regular people. And we've got some ear boners.
Your Week In Music 02.12.15
Valentine's Day may be coming up, but this week is just another week, because music is always our Valentine. Call us—we're single.
This isn't your average Marvin Gaye: weirdest musical hookup stories
Although "Let's Get it On" is always apropos, Penn students aren't exactly picky—or sexy—when it comes to choosing sexual soundtrack. This week, Music presents your best musical hookup songs and stories.
Monday Mixtape: Anti-Valentines Day (02.09.14)
Blast this in your headphones as you walk down Locust and ignore all of the happy couples you see. PDA is so, so overrated.
