If critics and fans have long considered hip-hop to be the official music of the globe’s disenfranchised, a new artist who’s appeared in the genre only further confirms this. With the release of her new song, “Our Neighbors,” 23-year-old Sosan Firooz claims the title of Afghanistan’s first female rapper — or rather, the first, at [...]
The term “artist” is thrown around far too cavalierly when it comes to music these days: just about anyone who has written anything is handed the title — often by journalists trying to embellish their copy — when it’s a title to be earned. If we were to follow the standard set by singing, songwriting, [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
