FeelTrip is part label, DIY space and creative incubator, and is more of a collective than a physical or business entity. The physical venue closed about a year after its first show in a classic case...
2014’s new releases were lackluster at best. Case in point: Meghan Trainor, Hozier, Nikki Minaj.
Luckily, 2015 has blessed us all already with great new albums from favorites like Sleater-Kinney,...
While there’s nothing wrong with the grandiose John Williams treatment, sometimes a movie’s score needs a little pizzaz, so filmmakers ditch the fanfares for an Idina Menzel interlude. From Elton...
Any artist could write a protest song. It takes a special artist, one who is viewed as an agent of change and hope in a time of dissent, to write an anthem that moves those who condemn such marginalization....
I’d imagine deciding upon a band name used to be simple. Someone would suggest a dumb mashup of words between slugging beers and waking up the neighbors in his mom’s garage, and the others wouldn’t...
The DePaulia interviewed DePaul men’s basketball players Forrest Robinson and Durrell McDonald to create a playlist of songs that pump them up and soothe their nerves before a big game.
1. The Temptations...
A new year means a new you — or so every resolution promises. Instead of going into total black bear hibernation mode to survive every polar vortex or ice storm Mother Nature decides to throw at...
Here’s a few facts that will cause you to confront your mortality a bit. Ten years ago, 2004 was coming to a close. Children born in that year are in the fifth grade and do not remember a world without...
Though we have yet to hit Thanksgiving and a few big releases are certainly on the way before the year closes out, 2014 has been a strong year for music. Here are some of my favorite albums that came...
The easiest way to assure that your Halloween party isn’t lame is to ban “Monster Mash” from the playlist. Indeed, it might be best to avoid all traditional Halloween music, otherwise you might...
Though for the most part, The DePaulia’s staff gets along quite well together, lately there has been a feud going on. Specifically, there’s been a battle over what music to play as we toil away...
In this world, there is only one concretely perfect nugget of human creativity and inspiration: Piotyr Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.” It tells the story of a young woman who gets turned into an actual...
