The Revival of Olde Club Brings Live Music Back to Swarthmore
After a long drought, live music returns to campus this fall. With the restoration of Olde Club, a space historically used as a concert venue, Swarthmore hosted two local indie rock bands, Best Bear...
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Artist of the Week Mirabai Smoot ʼ23: the Connectivity of Music
When the first notes of a concert ring out and the audience quiets, a musician hovers in a state of nervousness and excitement. Months of practice, however, must come before the figurative curtain can...
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Yahritza Y Su Esencia: TikTok’s Must-listen Viral Heartbreak Band
Lamenting to an accompaniment of an acoustic bass and a twelve-string guitar, lead singer Yahritza from the band Yahritza Y Su Esencia beautifully croons the lyrics to their hit single “Soy El Único.”...
View ArticleArtist of the Week Gabriel Straus ʼ23 on the Cohesiveness of Singing
When I met Gabriel Straus ʼ23, I felt a little undressed when I compared my jeans and boots to his collared shirt and sweater. He’d had a fellowship interview that morning, he told me. As a senior,...
View ArticleAccess to the Arts at Swarthmore: A New Perspective from a Semester Abroad
If you’ve paid any attention to your Swarthmore Gmail account in recent weeks, you’ll have doubtlessly received numerous emails from the theatre, dance, and music departments advertising the plethora...
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Drexel at Olde Club
Last week, Drexel bands Hotel Breakfast, Simply Sedated, Slow Burning Daydream, and The Jette Planes performed at Olde Club. Photos shot on a Nikon d7000. The Jette Planes The Jette Planes Slow...
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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 Gabriel Straus ʼ23 on the Cohesiveness of Singing
When I met Gabriel Straus ʼ23, I felt a little undressed when I compared my jeans and boots to his collared shirt and sweater. He’d had a fellowship interview that morning, he told me. As a senior,...
View ArticleAccess to the Arts at Swarthmore: A New Perspective from a Semester Abroad
If you’ve paid any attention to your Swarthmore Gmail account in recent weeks, you’ll have doubtlessly received numerous emails from the theatre, dance, and music departments advertising the plethora...
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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