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Duke Reviews: “Hurry Up Tomorrow” by The Weeknd

March 24, 2025 Orion Baker

By ORION BAKER/Columnist Hello and welcome back! I’m Orion, and after some consideration, I decided to look at more popular albums to build up the audience and then get the recommendations going. The form for [Read More…]

Life & Arts

Duke Reviews: “The New Sound” by Geordie Greep

February 13, 2025 Orion Baker

By ORION BAKER/Columnist Hello, all, and welcome to Duke Reviews! This is a bi-weekly column, which will provide honest thoughts and feedback about music or movies. In these reviews, I will dissect what makes them [Read More…]

Life & Arts

REVIEW: Tyler, the Creator Redefines Self With ‘Chromakopia’

November 23, 2024 The Patriot Talon

By YESSENIA VALENCIANA/Contributor  What does Chromakopia even mean? This word doesn’t actually exist. This word combines the word “chroma,” which means color, and “kopia.”  While kopia isn’t a real word, it can be related to [Read More…]

Life & Arts

REVIEW: Ballerini’s ‘Patterns’ Highlights Vulnerability, Introspection

November 23, 2024 The Patriot Talon

By ABIGAIL SMITH/Staff Writer Kelsea Ballerini’s album “Rolling Up the Welcome Mat” became a TikTok sensation. Its raw account of the end of her five-year marriage captured listeners. The stripped-down vocals and deeply personal lyrics [Read More…]

Life & Arts

The Tallies: The Talon Staff’s Favorite Music of 2023

December 7, 2023 Larry Bonilla

By TALON STAFF/ Organized by LARRY BONILLA Friends and Fellow Patriots, welcome to “the Tallies!” This is a special Talon Staff review to tally up the music that made us cry, had us enchanted, and shaped our [Read More…]

Life & Arts

“The rest”: Boygenius Keeps it Short and Sad

October 30, 2023 Paulina Mata

By PAULINA MATA/ Social Media Editor Indie supergroup boygenius (which is stylized lowercase), coming off the high of a well-received first album and tour, released their latest EP, “the rest”, on Oct. 13. The four-track project [Read More…]

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