Month: April 2023
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B-Boys and Buckeyes: Dr. Jason Rawls’ Journey From Hip-Hop to TEDxOSU
By Brie Blevins It is July 1988 and a group of young boys were sitting around a boombox on the south side of Columbus listening to an emerging genre: hip-hop. A song began with a drumbeat over an electronic bass line being updated with turntable scratching and talk box ad-libs. The song, “You Gots To…
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Get Dead – A Discussion and Guide to One’s Introduction to the Grateful Dead
By Will McGraw As lead guitarist Jerry Garcia himself put it, “We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.” Despite having one of the widest, most passionate, and most reputably recognizable fanbases of all musical groups, the Grateful Dead often also seems to have some of the…
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Maggie Rogers at the Aragon Ballroom
By Clovis Westlund “I promise to tell the truth,” Maggie Rogers whispers through blown-out speakers. It’s 21 degrees outside the art deco doors of the Aragon Ballroom in Uptown Chicago. Inside, it’s a mixed bag for a Friday night. A dad in sequins speaks of intergenerational interests and margaritas behind me in the coat-check. The…