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A Grande hit

“Maybe one day I’ll get away with something naughty,” Ariana Grande quipped in a recent New York Times profile. Like many teen idols before her, the 21-year-old former Nickelodeon star is in the midst of navigating the transition from child star to bonafide pop diva.

Introducing 'Weekly Watch'

Sophie's Sugary Electro

"What If" You Like It?

Pitchfork Upsets

Summer Recap

FILM

Notre Dame Style Guide

Student band Sober Sinners out with debut LP

I recently had the opportunity to talk to Garrity McOsker, singer for Sober Sinners, a student punk rock band. The band is composed of Garrity, Joe Ferguson on bass, Alex McDermick on electric guitar and Patrick Samuels on drums. McOsker, who is currently a junior in the Mendoza College of Business, said he met Joe on the first day of school and started the band together quickly after that. 

What to expect at South By South Bend

With spring finally gracing the Bend, we know two things for certain: summer is coming and so is festival season. As a self-regarded festival junkie, I cannot get enough of ‘em. Just ten days ago I was prancing along the Coachellan Polo Fields and a few weeks before, it was Claude Vonstroke who had my heart at Ultra during Miami Music Week. Now that I’ve confessed my trade, I’ll share a well-known secret: the festival of the season will be here in South Bend. 

Jack is back with 'Lazarreto'

4/5 Shamrocks

'Alight' Sheds Light On Young Artists

While You're Away

Festival Frills

Stop Pop Stars

Most successful soundtracks

'The Coronation of Poppea' took the audience's breath away

Local acts on the quad

Goo Goo Dolls exceed expectations

Eels, Not Too Electric

Once called “the Kurt Vonnegut of Rock” by Rolling Stone Magazine, lead singer, songwriter and front man for the band Eels Mark Oliver Everett — known more commonly as MOE and even more commonly as E — has been delivering music racked with sardonic hope, cynical humanism, wit and dry humor to the indie rock community for just shy of 30 years, since before it was cool — since before it was cool to do things since before they were cool. With a long beard, raspy voice and worn-out strumming style, E has been telling youths of the 80s, 90s and today that although it’s really freakin’ hard, the good in life ultimately outweighs the bad.

Goo Goo Dolls, Actually

I unapologetically am absolutely not an expert music critic, and have never pretended to be anything of the sort, even in the rare album reviews I’ve done — I fear the five-shamrock rating I handed to Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s “The Heist” will prevent me from ever being good friends with any self-important, “real” music fans for years to come. My defense to friends, colleagues and haters over the years has always been that I may not know what’s good, but I know what I like and don’t like, and that’s good enough for me.