Recent features for Melodic Magazine, Electrical Apparatus, Off The Record Press, and more.
Cover story: The rock star hustle of Finn Wolfhard
Melodic Magazine
Lately, Finn Wolfhard has been thinking a good deal about what it means to define his own voice. The idea of finding one’s own voice seems especially pertinent for a multi-hyphenate entertainer who has quite literally grown up in front of the world since he was 13. Wolfhard, with the 10-year saga of Netflix’s Stranger Things freshly behind him, is now chipping away at the proverbial marble slab to fine-tune his artistic identity as a solo act.
EA Reader Profile: Motor dreams and high hopes
Electrical Apparatus Magazine
Since moving to the U.S. eight years ago, Dorsa Talebi
has become a leading electrical engineer and
researcher at Texas A&M University. As a research
assistant and now a postdoctoral researcher, she
has led design work on two motors: an axial flux machine built for aircraft propulsion, and a wound-rotor motor that eliminates rare-earth magnets, brushes, and slip rings entirely.
Cover story: Ruel is kicking his feet across the globe
Melodic Magazine
Once settled in Los Angeles, Ruel spent the next year and a half writing upwards of 200 songs for what would become last October’s Kicking My Feet, an 11-track record that leans into the sweeter, more sincere sides of the singer’s lyricism and details the extremes of infatuation. Now, Ruel is hitting the road again for his Kicking My Feet Tour, which will take him across the globe this spring.
Jackson Junge Gallery’s fix for an insatiable visual appetite
Chicago Reader
The second annual “TEN by TEN” exhibition offers something for every kind of visitor.
Cover Story: South Arcade wields escapism with a pop-rock punch
Melodic Magazine
When dealing out the drug of nostalgia, there’s a fine line between offering sweet escape and losing oneself in the reminiscence of the glorified good ol’ days. British rock band South Arcade is one of the groups doing their best to walk that line and wield early 2000s nostalgia carefully while maintaining their identity as a forward-thinking foursome.
Smashed Plastic co-founder Andy Weber’s journey from radio DJ to record pressing plant owner
ChicagoTalks
The founding of Smashed Plastic can in-part be traced back to the early ‘80s when a young Andy Weber gathered around his TV set to watch The Who’s closing date of their 1982 tour. That’s when he quickly recognized the power music had to bring people together.
Everywhere Olivia O’Brien goes, there she is
Melodic Magazine
Olivia O’Brien, a razor-sharp songwriter with a propensity for penning sad songs with an icy edge, has spent nearly a decade in the music industry searching for her sound and growing up in the public eye. With the release of her new EP, everywhere i go, there i am, out today, she gets one step closer to defining that sound and artistic identity.
In the studio with Chicago funk-rock band DZ Riley
ChicagoTalks
The band who got their start at Columbia College Chicago shares plans for their upcoming album, and performance at the House of Blues Foundation Room.
Columbia alum Liam Taylor offers escapism, groove in upcoming musical projects
The Columbia Chronicle
Music has led Columbia alum Liam Taylor across the world. The singer now prepares to release a collection of singles, gearing up for a full-length release later this year.
How Britney Spears’ ‘Piece Of Me’ laid the groundwork for Taylor Swift’s ‘Blank Space’
Study Breaks Magazine
Both once deemed American Sweethearts, Spears and Swift’s respective hits lambast the cruel tabloid culture that put them through harsh criticism.
Ryan Beatty brings his almost-holy sonic reveries to Thalia Hall
ChicagoTalks
The singer-songwriter cascaded through his catalog in a syrupy sweet manner, elevating his music with stirring live renditions.
Slayyyter gets down and dirty on ‘WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA’
Melodic Magazine
In all of its raucous glory, pop provocateur Slayyyter’s third album WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA buzzes across 14 songs that lean electro-industrial at times, and bouncy and elastic at others. The result is an aggressive, euphoric pop catharsis that isn’t afraid to get gritty, existential, and in-your-face.
Columbia student’s wearable art makes splash, Chicago fashion scene under brand name Delyse
The Columbia Chronicle
Kendyl Delyse Johnson, a senior fashion studies major concentrating on merchandising, has spent roughly the last year building up her fashion brand of wearable art pieces under the “Delyse” name.
Normani’s ‘DOPAMINE’ blends experimentation and edge into smooth R&B gold
Melodic Magazine
The singer’s debut album is a culmination of musical and cultural references set to smooth, pop-infused R&B that paints a multidimensional portrait of a star unafraid of sonic constraints and eager to redefine herself.
Avery Heeringa 