Music

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Born on August 2, 1992, Charlotte Emma Aitchison, more famously known as Charli XCX, always knew she wanted to be a part of the music scene. From making music on Myspace during the late 2000’s, to gaining over 30 million monthly listeners on Spotify, to eventually having her own indie movie, the popularity of Charli XCX has been consistently growing. 

In an interview with The Guardian, Charli described her first gig for a rave at just 15-years-old, needing her parents to drive her to the venue. After a few years, Charli was signed to Asylum Records. Despite this signing, Charli began to feel disconnected from music, stating in the same interview, “I didn’t know who I was. I didn't know what I liked.” Her label, worried about her…

1. DURAND JONES AND THE INDICATIONS
Album: Flowers
Label: Dead Oceans

2. JACK WHITE
Album: "G.O.D. And The Broken Ribs" b/w "Derecho Demonico" [Single]
Self-Released

3. EARL SWEATSHIRT
Album: Pompeii//Utility
Label: 10k

4. RACECOURSE
Album: July, December
Label: Reya Langen

5. OTRACAMI
Album: Runoff
Label: Figure & Ground

6. MILA CULPA
Album: "Leech" [Single]
Label: Community

7. RED PK
Album: Horse Like Me
Label: Storm Chasers

8. SUKI WATERHOUSE
Album: "Back In Love" [Single]
Label…

1. AVALON EMERSON
Album: Written Into Changes
Label: Dead Oceans

2. LORD SKO AND STATIK SELEKTAH
Album: "How It Is" [Single]
Label: Stimulated

3. MARIA BC
Album: Marathon
Label: Sacred Bones

4. BEABADOOBEE
Album: "All I Did Was Dream Of You" feat. The Marías [Single]
Label: Dirty Hit

5. SAAPATO
Album: In Alaska
Label: AKP

6. COURTNEY BARNETT
Album: Creature Of Habit
Label: Mom+Pop

7. MITSKI
Album: Nothing's About To Happen To Me
Label: Dead Oceans

8. TRASHCAN SINATRAS
Album: "Bad Husband" […

Photography from the Beetlejuice Original Broadway Cast Recording

Earlier this month, the Tony nominated and six-year running Broadway show, “Beetlejuice,” came to the Hult Center. The musical opened on April 25, 2019, but had to close not less than a year later due to COVID. Despite this, two years later, in April 2022, the show was back on Broadway! The show is an onstage adaptation of Tim Burton’s classic 90’s movie, “Beetlejuice.” 

When asked in an interview with AMERICAN THEATRE about bringing something like “Beetlejuice” to the stage, creator of the show, Alex Timbers, explained, “There are a lot of movies being made into musicals, and I think as a theatremaker you have to feel really passionate about how and why something needs to be told on a stage.” In the same interview, Timbers discussed approaching Broadway…

1. KID SISTR 
Album: "American Teenage Prophecy" [Single]
Label: Giant LLC

2. JUANA MOLINA
Album: DOGA
Label: Sonamos

3. KALI UCHIS
Album: Sincerely: P.S.
Label: Capitol/UMG

4. ORCA
Album: "Soren" [Single]
Label: Open

5. LALA LALA
Album: Heaven 2
Label: Sub Pop

6. OPERELLY
Album: "Under my bed" [Single]
Label: deadAir

7. LANA DEL REY
Album: "White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter" [Single]
Label: Polydor/Interscope/UMG

8. LOCAL WEATHERMAN
Album: Right One [EP]
Label: Karol

Photo by Maevis Sanders

You're probably familiar with NPR’s Tiny Desk series – National Public Radio's intimate live sessions where artists ranging in sound and fame perform acoustic renditions of their songs. Since its start in 2008, the series has hosted a number of artists to play stripped down songs behind a cluttered office desk that sports memorabilia and trinkets from previous artists – from cowboy boots and wigs to a large orange lego bear left by The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir. Notable performances include Mac Miller, who covered songs off “Swimming” and guest starred Thundercat; Ca7riel & Paco Amaroso, whose acoustic renditions of their usually electronic trap and hip hop sound went insanely viral; and Dua Lipas’ at-home Tiny Desk in 2020, featuring tracks from “Future Nostalgia.”

In February, local Eugene punk band Nuisance had their own makeshift Tiny Desk, playing songs off their 2025 EP “Halfway Home” and new demo “…

1. DON TOLIVER 
Album: Octane
Label: Atlantic

2. ALEX G
Album: Headlights
Label: RCA

3. CHARLI XCX
Album: Wuthering Heights
Label: Atlantic

4. PINK PANTHERESS
Album: Fancy Some More?
Label: Warner UK

5. DEFTONES
Album: Private Music
Label: Reprise

6. THE SYLVIA PLATTERS
Album: Will Tomorrow Be Enough [EP]
Label: Dutch Customer

7. ENDIVE
Album: Under Lies
Label: The Numero Group

8. WOLF ALICE
Album: The Clearing
Label: RCA/Sony

9. THE…

1. CHARLI XCX 
Album: Wuthering Heights
Label: Atlantic

2. DEFTONES
Album: Private Music
Label: Reprise

3. MARCEY YATES
Album: House Rules
Label: Culxr House

4. LANA DEL REY
Album: "White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter" [Single]
Label: Polydor/Interscope/UMG

5. ROCKET
Album: R is For Rocket
Label: Transgressive

6. STEREOLAB
Album: "Cloud Land" b/w "Flashes In The Afternoon" [Single]
Label: Duophonic

7. FREDDIE GIBBS AND THE ALCHEMIST
Album: Alfredo 2
Label: ALC/ESGN

8. WEDNESDAY
Album: …

1. BAD BUNNY 
Album: DeBí TIRAR MáS FOTOS
Label: Rimas

2. PINKPANTHERESS
Album: Fancy Some More?
Label: Warner UK

3. DURAND JONES AND THE INDICATIONS
Album: Flowers
Label: Dead Oceans

4. CAT POWER
Album: Redux [EP]
Label: Domino

5. KIM PETRAS
Album: "I Like Ur Look" [Single]
Label: Amigo

6. A$AP ROCKY
Album: Don't Be Dumb
Self-Released

7. SMERZ
Album: Big City Life
Label: Escho

8. THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
Album: Eyeball [EP]
Label: Idlewild

9.…

Album Cover for Ranil's "Galaxia Tropical"

Along the Northern part of the Amazon River, past the Brasilian-Peruvian border, there is a small city accessible only by aircraft, boat, or boot. It was here in Iquitos, Peru, a city surrounded on all sides by lush Amazon rainforest, that a new selvatic style of cumbia was born in the early 1970s. Characterized by delightfully treble-heavy guitar melodies, galloping percussion, and lots of wah-wah pedal, this style of music – called “llullampeo,” or more commonly, “chicha” – blends classic cumbia with indigenous Andean musical elements, and a generous dose of psychedelica.

One of chicha’s most important musicians is Ranil, born Jorge Raúl Llerena Vásquez in 1935 in the city of Iquitos, Peru. Ranil grew up listening to criollo waltzes, Colombian cumbias, Brasilian carimbó, and anything else that could be picked up on the crackly signal of transistor radio. As a young adult, he worked as a…