More money, less awareness: how fame is making celebrities tone deaf

As influencers grow in wealth and fame, their increasing distance from the realities of their followers leads to a shift in how they perceive the world around them. So much so that two 30 year old’s get rich off of laughing at fart jokes and claiming Greate Thunbergs’ legacy to be “lisbon, lesbian ‘I shouldn’t be up here.'”

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ALBUM REVIEW: Right Side of Wrong, Wrong Side of Good

Having a hard time describing the music they create, JD and Freak (the duo behind “Thrown To The Wolves”) write: Most of our songs tell stories, and the sound changes depending on the story being told. Their new album, “Right Side of Wrong, Wrong Side of Good,” is something close to a novel as each track (story) interwinds into one significant and complex picture.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Innocent

“I’ve been loving you for some time/ And you knew that,” sings Ben Roter (lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for Quarters Of Change) on their lovely second EP. “But you ran off again with some guy.” “Innocent” is the band’s latest recording, released on the 26th of last month. The album is extremely upbeat and positive-sounding, despite the lyrics that point to things like damaged relationships, toxic traits, and being guilted into things. 

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Behind the Song: Mississippi Goddam

Early morning on June 12, 1963, shortly after President John F. Kennedy’s Civil Rights Address, activist Medgar Evers was shot through the back in the driveway of his own home. Evers was returning from meeting NAACP lawyers and officials. He was taken to the hospital, where he later died. 

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ALBUM REVIEW: Prairie

“Prairie” by Neil Howell made its release on the 11th of this month. The album is a large melting pot of various subgenres of rock, blended together brilliantly. Howell has found a way to mash metal with a distinct folk sound, something that feels undone before. 

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Six Things You Probably Didn’t Know About B.B King

B.B King has gone down in history as one of the best blues artists ever to live. I can’t stress enough my appreciation to the blues pioneer. His message of universal hope, love, peace, and joy has touched thousands. Here are six things you probably didn’t know about B.B King, The King Of The Blues.

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SINGLE REVIEW: Kingdom

Artemis (the all-women rock group from the UK) recently released their empowering and badass single “Kingdom.” The band was “drawn together by an extending passion for rock music, equal rights for women, and an intention to leave an imprint on Rock’ N’ Roll history.”  The group’s sheer talent bleeds through all over this single, from their foot-stomping rhythms to their guitar lines worthy of air-strumming along to. Not only is the single musically strong, but lyrically the piece is brilliant.  In an interview with The Edge, they said, “We wanted a name that stood for something strong and powerful.” As a result,

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ALBUM REVIEW: Fine & Dandy

Arrogant Criminals are a rock group from Paris. “The band exists since 2010 and experienced a second birth in 2017,” says Simon (guitarist and vocalist). They published their EP entitled Arrogant Criminals in 2014 with a remix of “Five Years of Dreams” the next year. Their engaging LP “Fine & Dandy” was released just last year. 

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Five Overlooked Women Who Helped Create Rock

In honor of Women’s History Month, I thought it would be fitting to talk about some of the overlooked women who helped create rock. “For sixty years, conventional wisdom has told us that women generally did not perform rock and roll during the 1950s.” Nearly seventy years later, the only women presented to us by the media are half-naked on their covers. Time moves on; however, many things get swept under the rug, like every pioneer before Elvis and, frankly, most women. It’s easy to think nowadays that back then, women played submissive roles as fans, studio audience members, groupies,

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