When you conjure up a mental image of a “professional banjo player,” a 17-year-old young woman from Brooklyn may not be exactly who comes to…
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Since her start posting home-recorded music on Bandcamp in 2015, Sophie Allison, also known as Soccer Mommy, has blown lo-fi rock out of the bedroom and onto an international stage. Her current tour brings her to play MASS MoCa in North Adams, Mass. on Nov. 5th. Her latest album, “Sometimes, Forever,” slides smoothly into moody synths and lyrical darkness.
For students looking to engage with the full range of the liberal arts curriculum at Smith, music performance lessons can provide a new area of…
The 1975 is an indie pop band based in England, known for their witty and self-deprecating lyrics set to energetic, autotuned beats. They released their…
After constantly hearing “Stick Season” on my TikTok “For You” page this past summer, I was incredibly excited to find out that Noah Kahan would…
The Sophian sat down with Lili Greenberg, a local musician, dancer and actor set to tour with “Hits! The Musical” in 2023. Greenberg formerly attended…
On Oct. 14, the Smith radio station WOZQ welcomed the greater Five College community to dance along to the musical stylings of Emma Blue Jeans…
Jiayan Sun and Edward Arron stepped onto the stage to thunderous applause, and moments later, with the first triumphant slamming of piano keys of “Grand Duo sur des thèmes de Robert le Diable,” the concert began. This was the sixth and final performance of Sun’s series “The Timeless Genius of Chopin.”
From their two-bedroom house in Western Massachusetts, darkwave band Boy Harsher pushes the boundaries of experimental music. The Florence-based duo, Jae Matthews and Augustus “Gus”…
Lincoln Park, KORN, and Dwayne (“The Rock”) Johnson are three singers that diners at Cutter Ziskind (or Cutter Z as nicknamed by students) might hear…