ALL ARTICLES — afterglow

A look into the latest music trend taking YouTube by storm, complete with Middle English, medieval aesthetics, and plenty of memes.

Afterglow ATXJune 18, 2021C.S. Harper, bardcore, YouTube, C.S. Hayter

Football Chants Show Why a ‘Super League’ of European Football Was Destined to Fail

Even after decades of professional management, football clubs are still grounded in the communities of their birth, not their billionaire owners. There’s no better proof of that than football chants.

Afterglow ATXJune 17, 2021wonjune lee, football, soccer, sports

Music Without Borders: Miss You Much, Leslie Cheung

Eighteen years after Leslie Cheung’s untimely death, his music and the pop culture of 1980s Hong Kong seem more relevant than ever.

DIVERSITYAfterglow ATXJune 4, 2021wonjune lee, leslie cheung

Playlist: 30 Days of Queerantine

A collection of songs to sashay to in your at-home Pride parade this year.

PLAYLISTSAfterglow ATXJune 1, 2021paola flores, playlist

The Albums That Defined Our College Years: Class of 2021

From Frank Sinatra to Solange, here’s what helped our graduating members through both the monumental and mudane of collegiate life.

POV: You’re an Orchestra Dropout

Listening to songs that have no business being next to each other in a playlist? More likely than not for the new age of classical fans.

Afterglow ATXMay 21, 2021raymond lam, classical music

The Style of Sound: Runway Records

Living room catwalks never sounded so good.

AESTHETICSAfterglow ATXMay 21, 2021adithya srinivas, playlist, the style of sound

Artist Spotlights: Bartees Strange Defies Categorization and Conclusions

Bartees Strange scales new sonic territory with confident ease, traversing explosive post-punk and acoustic meditations with the help of choppy samples and swelling choruses — all while focusing on what it means to resist genre conformity as a Black man.

DIVERSITYAfterglow ATXMay 21, 2021kateri david, bartees strange

Release Radar: May 2021

At the end of each month, Afterglow presents a staff-picked list of new albums and singles that left an impression on our ears.

The Philosophy of Love: Classical Views on Love as Indie Tracks

If philosophers and Indie artists have one thing in common, it is this: they talk a whole lot about love. Explore all the facets of the innately human emotion by listening to these hits.

Afterglow ATXMay 20, 2021emma tanner, micaela galvez, philosophy, love, listicle

Songs of Protest: Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young’s “Ohio” Challenges the National Guard’s Overuse of Force on Student Protestors

CSNY’s “Ohio” boldly responded to the murder of four students on Kent State University’s campus by the Ohio National Guard at a May 4, 1970 protest of the Vietnam War.

CULTURAL CONTEXTSAfterglow ATXMay 20, 2021katy vanatsky

Playlist: Madeline Miller’s “Song of Achilles”

This modern retelling of “The Iliad” explores the friendship and eventual romance between Achilles and Patroclus. “Song of Achilles” inspires a playlist to follow their lives and love story, ending in just as much tragedy as the book itself.

PLAYLISTSAfterglow ATXMay 20, 2021gracie warhurst, playlist, song of achilles, book