From local darlings to pop starlets, here are the artists who guided us through every step of college.
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Three of indie-rock’s most prominent singer-songwriters united five years ago, before many of their current fans knew their names, to put out a six-song EP. Their debut album as boygenius delivers on the endless hype they’ve received since.
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Take a look at some of the best albums of the past year, hand-picked by the Afterglow Editorial Staff.
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One of the biggest singer-songwriters of the early 2020s released her first record five years ago, and it’s not as sad a record as one might think.
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The hit-making, boundary-pushing pop star’s been on the rise for the last 10 years. After helping to push her genre forward, she brings her major-label last hurrah.
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It’s the album which set an entire genre in motion, and though the duo have grown and evolved since, the band never forgot its blackened roots.
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At the end of each month, Afterglow presents a staff-picked list of new albums and singles that left an impression on our ears.
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If there’s one thing that got us through the (continued) hellscape that was 2021, it was music. Afterglow’s Editorial Staff revisits their favorite albums that softened the blow.
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Swift returns to her 2012 pop-rock-country crossover with a few years of critical success and a complete 180 in the public eye under her belt. It’s a detailed and faithful re-recording, which brings new light to the relationships that inspired the original.
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The two duos both began their careers with a caffeinated concoction of electronic pop, despite drawing from influences of punk, industrial, and metal. The result, both times, is astounding, impressive whiplash.
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After a tarring and feathering for the ages, this world owes an apology to the girl who cried wolf on the Catholic Church. Not that she needs it.
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At the end of each month, Afterglow presents a staff-picked list of new albums and singles that left an impression on our ears.
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The Philly musician tells two stories at once: one in which she experiences her adolescence as it happens, and another in which she meditates on it as an adult who’s grown past its heightened emotions.
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At the end of each month, Afterglow presents a staff-picked list of new albums and singles that left an impression on our ears.
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At the end of each month, Afterglow presents a staff-picked list of new albums and singles that left an impression on our ears.
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The New England noise doom duo bring their staticky, dread-inducing metal to the topics of the climate emergency and anti-racism.
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The lavish bull contains multitudes, and these songs prove it.
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The underground metal band’s 2003 album Dopesmoker is about weed. It’s also about church and the concept of religious pilgrimage.
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