Recent Stories
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Songwriters Hub Spotlight #2: Birdcage
Edited by Jacob Saucier My therapist tells me that I need to be more optimistic, assume the best in people, look at the glass like it’s half full, all that jazz. To that end, even though I’m writing the second installment in the Songwriter’s Hub Spotlight series – this installment, the one you’re currently reading…
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Songwriters Hub Spotlight #1: Alizeh
Avid readers of The Rival American might recognize the name on the byline of this article as a regular satire writer for the paper. But my real passion is music, which, frankly, has kept me sane these past few years, but has also been isolating, as AU doesn’t have a real music community – or…
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The Lesbian Era of Pop Culture
Lesbianism has been at the center of pop culture lately, and not in the demeaning ways I normally expect as a lesbian! To celebrate this era, here are some spectacularly sapphic moments that have been ingrained in my brain recently. MUNA’s New Song, Dancing On The Wall The title track for MUNA’s first new album,…
