On Oct. 16, Fontaines D.C. released their fifth full-length studio album, “Dopamine Chamber,” a neon, synth-heavy, doomful record circling cynical themes about the current state of humanity and technology.
Tag: Music
Continuum Exploder: Yearning through space with The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Chloe Mossey PO ’29 argues in favor of indulging in a life of unfulfilled romanticism soundtracked by The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Drawing on her teenage playlists for yearning, the work of James Joyce and a psychedelic rock track, she suggests longing as an opportunity for self-reflection.
Continuum Exploder: A beginner’s guide to Iranian pop and loneliness
Chloe Mossey PO ’29 tells a story of a sushi bar, an excellent, albeit confusing Iranian pop song and the fight to resist loneliness.
Noise from Underground: Twenty years at the Beach House
Andrea Miloshevska PO ‘28 revisits the Beach House’s formative years, their long-lasting integrity and highlights their self-titled debut “Beach House” as a token of the artists’ unique chemistry.
Noise from the Underground: Flea fuses rock and jazz in ‘Honora’
Flea, the founding and long-lasting member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, just released his first solo album ‘Honora’. Andrea Miloshevska PO’ 28 discusses the unexpected and refined jazz soundscapes, the bassist’s rediscovery of his childhood love for be-bop and the trumpet, and the heartfelt meaning of self-knowledge and discovery, at the heart of the record.
Keith LaMar performs poetry from death row at Freedom First concert
On April 17 and 18, the 5C Prison Abolition Collective hosted an abolitionist poetry reading and concert featuring the work of Keith LaMar, an incarcerated man on death row who called in to the concert to perform his spoken-word poetry.
Nochella and Kohoutek shake up the music scene at the 5Cs
As artists entered the main stage at Coachella in Indio, California, students at the 5Cs were celebrating music festivals of their own. Pomona’s Nochella and Pitzer’s Kohoutek made their annual return on April 12 and 19, respectively.
OPINION: Pomona should reconsider its approach to its troubled musical legacy
Pomona College quietly retired two of most popular songs — “Hail, Pomona, Hail!” in 2008 and “Torchbearers” in 2015 — due to their roots in Blackface minstrelsy and cultural appropriation. While Pomona’s website acknowledges these histories, Zena Ameida-Warwin PO ’28 critiques the College’s choice to remove the songs without engaging the community in any meaningful public dialogue.
Reverb: Playboi Carti — guest of his own ‘MUSIC’?
Atlanta’s rapper Playboi Carti released his third album, “Music,” on March 15. For Tomy Helman PO ’28, the new album was Carti’s attempt to prove he could take the stage on his own. But did he succeed? Is Carti doomed to remain a featured artist?
Claremont Mosaic: Monique Saigal-Escudero: How her grandmother’s courageous act saved her from the Nazis
Born in Paris, France in 1938, Monique Saigal-Escudero is an Emerita Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Pomona College. At just three years old, during the peak of Hitler’s reign in Europe, her grandmother threw her on a train headed for a small city in Southwestern France: an act that ultimately saved her life. Her passion for storytelling would soon bring her back to this history, and once again place her grandmother’s courageousness front and center in her life.