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Before Brat: Sounds that Shaped the Dance floor

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2025/08/25

Marissa Quiroga Music Journalist As the temperature rises, we’re all wondering who will impact this year’s summer with hits. After Charli XCX dominated the radio stations and became a staple on everyone’s playlist, Brat reignited the club scene back to mainstream. In just four words, Brat became a revolutionary movement [...]

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IDK’s Life in Lyrics

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2025/08/25

Emma Paff Music Journalist From serving time in prison to teaching at Harvard, IDK, short for “Ignorantly Delivering Knowledge,” is a force to be reckoned with in the rap community. Born in London, IDK moved to the States when he was 2 and grew up in Prince George’s County, Maryland. [...]

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San Mo in the Mainstream

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2025/08/25

Chloe Rawlinson Music Journalist While we, as San Marcos residents, usually think of our little college town as the perfect place for growing bands in the DIY scene, there’s several great bands that you may have heard without knowing they hail from our area. I’m gonna start you off with [...]

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Align Again by Phonefoot: A Retrospective Review

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2025/08/25

Juniper Wolf Music Journalist Phonefoot’s freshman album, Align Again, was an underground success- even three years after the album first released. Phonefoot is a 4-piece, San Antonio based band with over 37,000 monthly listeners as of July. With two singles and a full length album released, Phonefoot have accumulated a [...]

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God Does Like Ugly Album Review

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2025/08/25

Emma Paff Music Journalist Three long years post-Forever Story, there is finally a new chapter from JID: God Does Like Ugly. This 15-track album showcases JID’s maximalist style with stacked features, dense lyricism, and dramatic beat switches. Leaning into his narrative, each song has its own message and theme. In [...]

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EKKSTACY Forever Tour Review

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2025/08/01

Robbie Howard Music Director On July 22nd, Canadian artist EKKSTACY brought his Forever tour to Austin, Texas, performing at The Parish for a crowd of punk, emo, and alt-leaning fans. The tour follows the release of his latest album, Forever, which dropped on May 16. Best known for his breakout [...]

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Clipse Returns: A Vengeful Comeback

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2025/07/28

Emma Paff Music Journalist When I first listened to “Let God Sort Em Out” I was hit with a range of emotions. At first, I was excited to listen to something new that reminded me of the music that first got me into rap. Then I felt lost. My various [...]

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Kills Birds lets it all out on Crave

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2025/07/15

Aliya Sanchez Music Journalist Many new bands are drawing inspiration from the raw energy of 90s grunge and alternative rock. One band that is perfectly capturing this energy is L.A.’s Kills Birds. A four-member rock band led by vocalist Nina Ljeti; her vocals effortlessly shift from quiet vulnerability to raw, [...]

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The Creation of Blush

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2025/07/15

Emma Paff Music Journalist Rap/Hip-hop Fresh out of a breakup, Kevin Abstract returns to his roots to create Blush, a beautiful and moving album with many collaborations. Abstract was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, but grew up in The Woodlands, Texas. Growing up black and queer in a conservative town, [...]

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A Summer Playlist: 2025

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2025/07/08

Rubi Jimenez Music Journalist Every summer the conversation of what’s the next song of the summer roughly starts around now at this time of summer. While most people give the title of the song of the summer to the widely popular most overplayed song of that summer, for me the [...]

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The Importance of an Album Cover

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2025/07/08

Juniper Wolff Local Music Journalist We have all seen an album cover before. We have all seen the iconic The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd or Nevermind by Nirvana. Album cover art is often unappreciated. It adds a lot more depth and creativity to the album than [...]

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Side B: A 3THUUN Production

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2025/07/07

Marissa Quiroga Music Journalist Definitely one for the books the crowd might say. Friday night marked the second live performance hosted by none other than 3thuun productions. As you enter the apartment, what should’ve been a living room… is now a fully transformed DJ booth. With just a simple set [...]

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Country Rap

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2025/07/07

Emma Paff Music Journalist Rap/Hip-hop The first exposure I had to country rap music was in 2018 when Lil Nas dropped “Old Town Road.” The song sparked the debate about what qualifies as “country music.” Despite the song’s increasing popularity at the time, Billboard removed it from their Hot Country [...]

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Texas State Joins the Pac-12: An Emerging New Era

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2025/07/03

By Ben Cameron SAN MARCOS – Texas State has officially accepted the Pac-12’s invite to join the conference in July 2026. Next year will be the final season of the Sun Belt era in San Marcos that began 12 years ago. Texas State has won three of the last [...]

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Kevin Abstract’s Blush And The Art Of The Album Rollout

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2025/07/02

Jonathan Marin Music Journalist Who’s an artist or a group that you feel like changed the game? A musical act so innovative that nobody could ignore them. When BROCKHAMPTON burst onto the scene in the late 2010s, it felt like they were on this caliber of artist. There had been [...]

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Cinema’s Soundtrack

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2025/06/26

Clementine Lawless Journalist Ever since silent films, every film has had some sort of music present. Whether orchestral and classical, electronic, world music, jazz, etc., something would be played in hopes of invoking certain emotions from the audience or creating long-lasting memories. This is my mini analysis on how a [...]

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Generations of Music

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2025/06/25

Clementine Lawless Music Journalist Music can be a generational aspect for many people, even in ways that may not be the most obvious. Culture, formal education for music, modern media and technology influence, as well as even social to intergenerational connection are all key aspects that contribute to music being [...]

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The Soundtrack to Life

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2025/06/24

Shalini Malik Music Journalist Dating in today’s generation, if you haven’t already heard, is… let’s stick with the word HORRIBLE. And with the rise of ultra-popular dating apps—Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, Wizz, etc.—it’s not getting any easier and, in fact, is making the dating game a lot more complicated than it [...]

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Mazzy Star: Fading Into Psychedelia

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2025/06/17

Aliya Sanchez Music Journalist When people think of psychedelic music they usually think of bands that emerged from the mid 1960’s such as The Beatles, The Doors, Grateful Dead known for their colorful visuals and experimental instrumentals that pushed boundaries within the 1960s. However, in the 1990s a new sound [...]

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The Hidden Genre Taking Over San Marcos

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2025/06/17

Juniper Wolff Local Music Journalist Plenty of genres come to mind when thinking about the San Marcos music scene. Typically, an outside observer would assume San Marcos to be a massive hub for jazz, rock, country, and adjacent genres due to George Strait and Eddie Durham’s upbringing here. However, there [...]

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