By Hannah Wisterman Assistant Web Editor Ready or not, Bobcats, here the semester comes. The Texas heat is just getting started and so are we. We're kicking off your semester with our annual Back to School Broadcast, a collection of tips, tricks and information to help your start at Texas State go as smooth as the San Marcos River. Listen in this weekend to hear some of our best interviews […]
By Hannah Wisterman Assistant Web Editor Well, Bobcats, the clock is ticking: the new semester is right around the corner! Whether you're a senior approaching your final lap, a transfer who's new to San Marcos, or a freshman with no idea how to do college, KTSW is here for you with our annual Back to School Broadcast. Stream live or tune in this weekend to hear our all best advice […]
By Hannah Wisterman Music Journalist This may be the mere misinformed supposition of a college student, but I’m willing to hedge a couple bucks on the idea that “Africa” by Toto might be one of the most emotionally rousing and jammable tracks on Earth. That opening synth line? Bobby Kimball’s clear, pleading voice? The woodwind solo? Incomparable. Since turning into something of a meme, “Africa” has become so ubiquitous that […]
By Hannah Wisterman Music Journalist There is no mood so tense and hopeless as the one that exists on college campuses the week after spring break. We’ve all spent a week running away from all our problems, completely ignoring schoolwork, living our best lives and tasting once again that fleeting flavor of freedom—only to return to class and find our lives to be a giant firestorm, the likes of which […]
By Hannah Wisterman Music Journalist Break out your party suits and put on your dancing shoes, because Rainbow Kitten Surprise is back. Well, “back” is a little unfair—they haven’t exactly gone AWOL. Their Audiotree session at the top of last year made it abundantly clear that the band had too much life in them to sink into the shadows. During that session, they hinted at an incoming album, but in […]
By Hannah Wisterman Music Journalist Artist: Pianos Become the Teeth Album:Wait for Love Label: Epitaph Records Release Date: February 16, 2018 When we last saw Baltimore post-hardcore band Pianos Become the Teeth, it was on the final lingering notes of Keep You, a gut-punch of an album. Lead singer Kyle Durfey’s father had died of multiple sclerosis years earlier, even before their sophomore album The Lack Long After, but Keep […]
By Hannah Wisterman Music Journalist The year is 2013. Like any self-respecting indie teen of the time, I’m going through a heavy The xx obsession. My greatest, never-to-be-fulfilled dream is to go to Coachella, a veritable playground of all the best bands (as I was so convinced). As a night owl who also happened to more or less live on the internet, I was doing my usual routine of diving […]
By Hannah Wisterman Music Journalist Artist: Joe Kye Album: Migrants Label: Self-released Release Date: January 8, 2018 Within seconds of hitting play on Joe Kye’s debut album, Migrants, you hear something both delightfully unique and naggingly familiar. Figuring out how and why it can be both is something of a challenge. It sounds a little like Beirut with its plucky, playful instrumentation, but the actual melody structure rings more of […]
By Hannah Wisterman Assistant Web Editor Rev up your coffee machines and flex those note-taking fingers: the semester starts this week, whether we’re ready or not. However, before you decide to run away to Japan and dedicate your life to the ancient art of haiku rather than face your responsibilities, remember that of all the semesters, spring semester is the one that rules the hardest. Between that and the fact […]
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