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On June 2, the Instagram tag #BlackoutTuesday contained roughly 28 million black square posts.

We Need More Than a Black Square

By Arts & Entertainment Department | June 3, 2020

When you actively profit from Black trends and Black ideas, solidarity isn’t enough.

TEST SPIN | Polo G — 'THE GOAT'

KYLE Fills in for A Boogie Wit da Hoodie

Abi Bernard '19, at work on her keyboard.

No Idle Hands: Mourning and Memorializing Through Music

Passenger and the Beauty of Live Streams

Arts & Entertainment

How a Cornell Senior is Redefining Gospel and Christian Music in Quarantine

By Zachary Lee | June 2, 2020

It is evident that faith plays a key role in defining music for Massillon — for him, while it might be tempting to lose faith or be upset at God in this time or be frustrated, he sees it only as a way to draw closer to faith and to what anchors him.

Arts & Entertainment

Swae Lee and A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie to Headline Virtual Slope Day

By Emma Plowe | May 7, 2020

Swae Lee, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Rico Nasty and Matoma are set to play the Virtual Music Festival on May 14 and 15 at 8 p.m. EDT, Slope Day Programming Board announced on Facebook.

Arts & Entertainment

John Prine, photographed in Nashville, 2016.

The State Theatre Holds a Remote Tribute Concert to John Prine

By John Colie | May 6, 2020

A community separated by uncontrollable circumstances can still be united through the appreciation of a life well-lived.

Arts & Entertainment

Concerts Celebrating the End of Classes Move to Two-Day Online Live Event

By Emma Plowe | May 5, 2020

Students missing music on the slope will still be able to celebrate the end of the semester.

Arts & Entertainment

How to Keep Anthony Fantano from Weaseling Into Your Simple Reptile Brain

By Anna Canny | May 3, 2020

I’m not going to let the music nerds of the world get me down. And neither should you.

Arts & Entertainment

Bertolt Brecht, Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

YANDAVA | The Music-Makers

By Ramya Yandava | April 27, 2020

Although music and art don’t have magical healing powers (I’m the sort of person who tends to frown upon the sometimes simplistic view of art as therapy), I have often found that they unblock emotions that the grind of daily life forces me to suppress out of the necessity to function in the world.