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Dodie stands in a room with shadows on the wall

YouTube musician Dodie hits hard with debut album ‘Build a Problem’

Peyton Lee
  •  
May 13, 2021
Music
(Photo: Taylor Swift)

‘And just like a folk song our love will be passed on’: Taylor Swift surprises us with her folk-inspired album, ‘folklore’

Michael Espinosa, Lydia Chen and Bridget Stuebner
  •  
July 27, 2020
The Grind
The Tallest Man on Earth (CAITLYN RIDENOUR/ Wikimedia Commons)

The Tallest Man on Earth’s poetry

Nur Shelton
  •  
May 9, 2019
Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird. (Courtesy of The B-Side)

Andrew Bird lights up Bing with graceful melodies guaranteed to warm your soul

Olivia Popp
  •  
Oct. 25, 2017
Dylan performing in 1964 (St. Lawrence University Yearbook, 1964)

An American bard in Britain: Bob Dylan in concert

Nick Burns
  •  
June 3, 2017
John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats. (Steevven1, Wikimedia Commons)

The Mountain Goats’ ‘Goths’ ditches the guitar and finds light in dark places

Nick Burns
  •  
June 1, 2017
Courtesy of Press Here

The next thousand miles: Vanessa Carlton in concert

Jourdann Fraser
  •  
May 9, 2017
(Side Stage Collective, Flickr)

Father John Misty gets it half-right on ‘Pure Comedy’

Dylan Grosz
  •  
April 26, 2017
(Courtesy of Thomas Reidy)

Rooney Pitchford ’15 gets a hero’s welcome in San Francisco

Benjamin Sorensen
  •  
April 13, 2017
(Courtesy of Stanford Live, Rahim Ullah)

A night at Bing with Vikesh Kapoor, American bard

Benjamin Sorensen
  •  
April 7, 2017
(Courtesy of Rooney Pitchford)

Familiar Faces: Getting to know Rooney Pitchford ’15

Benjamin Sorensen
  •  
Jan. 30, 2017
Lady Lamb performs at the Night and Day Café in Manchester in 2013. (Wikimedia Commons, Phil King).

Lady Lamb explores love and surrender on ‘Tender Warriors Club’

Medina Husakovic
  •  
Jan. 27, 2017
Leonard Cohen at the Arena in Geneva in 2008. (Rama, Wikimedia Commons)

Leonard Cohen faces mortality on ‘You Want It Darker’

Jacob Nierenberg
  •  
Nov. 8, 2016
Bon Iver delivers a stunning performance at the Fox Theater in Oakland. (ANDREA LIM/The Stanford Daily)

Concert review: Justin Vernon broke up with melancholy, and it was awesome

Andrea Lim
  •  
Oct. 27, 2016
Jeff Tweedy, frontman and principal songwriter for Wilco, performs an acoustic set (Wikimedia Commons, Alterna2).

New Wilco finds vulnerable, cynical Tweedy looking back

Nick Burns
  •  
Oct. 19, 2016
Bon Iver gives an impassioned performance at the Fillmore in San Francisco. (Moses, Wikimedia Commons)

Bon Iver’s ‘22, A Million’ finds beauty in uncertainty

Tyler Dunston
  •  
Oct. 4, 2016
Thao Nguyen performing with her band, The Get Down Stay Down, in 2009. (Courtesy of musicisentropy, Wikimedia Commons.)

‘A Man Alive’ delivers a little slash, a little burn

Tyler Dunston
  •  
March 3, 2016
(Courtesy of Snarky Puppy)

Album review: Snarky Puppy’s ‘Family Dinner – Volume 2’

Benjamin Sorensen
  •  
Jan. 31, 2016
"Familiar Places," by Rooney Pitchford '15. (Courtesy of Rooney Pitchford)

Complex roots: Rooney Pitchford’s debut “Familiar Places”

Tyler Dunston
  •  
Jan. 24, 2016
Raury performing with his signature sunhat. (S. Bollman, Wikimedia Commons)

Raury’s ‘All We Need,’ and the indigo child’s shortcomings

Benjamin Sorensen
  •  
Nov. 3, 2015
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