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Artist of the Week Yosué Gonzalez ’24 on Shakespeare, Orion, and Color
I met Yosué Gonzalez ‘24 in Modern Political Thought with Professor Arlen. I announced to the class that I was looking for third and fourth-year students to interview when Yosué mentioned that they...
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Morgan Freeman on the Track!!: How Metro Boomin’s “Heroes & Villains”...
I was 0.25 miles away from the finish line. One lap around the track. A 400. I had already pushed my body through 12.85 miles of running, and this was my final effort. My legs burning from the...
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Artist of the Week Quincy Ponvert ’23 on Community in Music
On a sunny April afternoon, I sat down with Quincy Ponvert ’23 to interview them for Artist of the Week. This article has been a long time coming — Quincy is a pillar of the campus art scene, but they...
View ArticleUgly Album Covers, Good Songs: I’m In Your Mind Fuzz
Album of the Week: “I’m In Your Mind Fuzz” by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Being ugly doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. And in the case of album covers, ugliness can transform itself...
View ArticleAn Education in Classical Music: Decolonizing the Mind of Classical Concerts...
What comes to mind when someone says “classical music”? Formality? Traditions? Outdated antiquity? It’s funny how the term has adjectival implications. I was once described by a stranger who, upon our...
View ArticleUgly Album Covers Good Songs 3
Album of the Week: Proxima Estacion: Esperanza by Manu Chao Music is a beautiful thing. It brings together people of all different ages, races, ethnicities, genders, sexualities, etc. In many cases,...
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Artist of the Week Elijah Santos ’26 on Containing Multitudes
I’ll never forget when I first followed Elijah Santos ’26 on Instagram. Instead of the usual stories, Eli posts what he’s listening to — I can attest to the fact that he has killer music taste. We...
View ArticleUnions and Jazz in Philadelphia: A Problematic, Informative, and Instructive...
Last semester, more than 90% of the Swarthmore Resident Assistants (RAs) voted to unionize, capping the first successful union campaign in the college’s history. The vote happened amidst a wave of...
View ArticleArtist of the Week Olivia Scarozza ’25 on Passionate Professional Performance
I have a confession: I owe an apology to Swarthmore’s musicians. When browsing through my previous Artist of the Week profiles, I realized that I hadn’t interviewed a singer in … over a year. As a...
View ArticleSonic Bodies: A Reflection on Taiko and Emotions
On Saturday, Oct. 5, the Swarthmore community welcomed taiko legend Eitetsu Hayashi and his ensemble Fu-Un no Kai in the Lang Performing Arts Center’s Pearson Hall Theatre, for their concert “Sonic...
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