BY ALYSSA FISHER There was blood everywhere. Dripping down the walls, stained on the picture frames, even on splattered along the floor. It was a horrifying site, and I couldn’t believe I was there to witness it. On October 13, I somehow willingly entered the gates of The Village... Read more

BY HAILEE YAEGER Cooper City High School’s Drama Club put on a production of West Side Story on October 4-6, 2011 and to see a high school come together to do such a big name show was impressive. West Side Story, written by Jerome Robbins, is set in the... Read more

BY BROCK LANDERS Wilco’s new album The Whole Love, the first they have self-released on their own dBpm Records label, shows a band that, nearly 20 years into their career, is comfortable in its own skin. In stark contrast to the restless boundary pushing and searching for identity on... Read more

  BY HAILEE YAEGER After a two-year hiatus from the studio, Demi Lovato has released Unbroken, a new album that showcases a different sound from her previous work. The expectation was for Unbroken to have the same sound as her single “Skyscraper”, slow, emotional, and telling of her struggles.... Read more

BY JACK BRADY Widowspeak’s eponymous debut album is a mystifying concoction of smoldering wild-west indie rock suffused with psychedelic folk, electric blues, and classic surf rock. Like a midnight drive down a forgotten wilderness trail, the listener is utterly lost in the album’s eerie, nocturnal themes and haunting imagery,... Read more

BY MICHAEL LLERENA Bon Iver’s 2008 debut album For Emma, Forever Ago was hailed as a masterpiece in the indie community. The record’s bare bones instrumentation and unrivaled ability to truly convey one man’s hardships would make the album a tough act for frontman Justin Vernon to follow. It... Read more

BY JACK BRADY The band Cults self-titled debut can’t be easily summarized or accurately described in words. The only way to truly experience Cults is listening to the album in its entirety. Yet, such is its hypnotizing brilliance that even the hopeless task of conveying some shred of it... Read more