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8-Tracks to No Tracks: The Rise and Fall of Mixtapes in Hip-Hop

To those who know me, you’ll know that my least favorite question of all time is, “What’s your favorite album?” It’s a cruel question. Instantly, my mind runs to at least a hundred albums that I’ve once considered the best, mostly leading with whatever I’ve listened to last.

But after some deliberation, I usually end up with the same answer: “Faces” by Mac Miller. An hour and twenty five minutes of some of the most dope beats and bars I’ve ever heard. Mac Miller has always been my favorite rapper (I’ve even got a tattoo inspired by his music!), and to me, this was his magnum opus. However, as great as this project is to me, I technically can’t give it as an answer. “Faces” isn’t an album at all: it’s a mixtape.

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WVU Baseball to Host UCF on Sunday

On Sunday April 14th the West Virginia Mountaineers face the #17 Central Florida GoldenKnights at 1:00 pm at the Kendrick family Ballpark as they look to earn the sweep in this pivotal Big 12 series.

The Mountaineers who moved to 21-13 in last night's matchup are coming into Sunday's game after rallying late in Friday's opener to take game one. Kyle West led the late comeback with a game tying two-run HR in the 5th and a go ahead RBI triple in the seventh. 

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Jolene Celebrates Turning 50 Years Old

Dolly Parton’s album ‘Jolene’ turned 50 this past February. On February 4th 1974, Dolly Parton released the iconic album ‘Jolene’. This was Dolly Parton’s thirteenth solo album. While the song ‘Jolene’ is one of Dolly’s most celebrated songs, this album also holds another one of Dolly’s notorious songs, ‘I will always love you’. Most people recognize Whitney Houston for this beautiful song but it was actually originally written and released by Dolly Parton. Dolly said in an interview that she actually wrote ‘I will alway love you’ and ‘Jolene’ on the same day. 

A countless number of artists have covered ‘Jolene’ as well as ‘I will always love you’. One of my favorite covers of ‘Jolene’ is when Miley Cryus and Noah Cryus performed this song at Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party on NBC in 2022. Both Noah and Miley are so talented and their voices together while singing this song is truly breathtaking. The most famous cover of ‘I will always love you’ is for sure when it was sung by Whitney Houston. 

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Night Of The Where Wolf

Beverly Avenue. 9:50 PM. March 28th. The sound of crashing drums streams out through my neighbor’s garage as the nursing student working the doors marks my hand. I proceed through the garage into the smallest basement venue I have ever been in.

“We’re not playing yet, we’re just f****** around,” I hear. Two dozen or so people fill the basement looking eagerly at a group of people, one behind a drum kit, two with stringed instruments, and one with …  a saxophone? This wasn’t going to be an ordinary punk show. This was Auric Echoes, a Morgantown band that had long been on my radar but I had yet to check out. I was excited for them– but the real treat would come later in the evening.

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DJ Matt's Album Review: Of Robert Smith, Legacy, and Disintegration

Imagine for a brief moment that you are approaching your 13th birthday. You may have experienced some success in your life before, but now you are worried about what you will be leaving behind in the world. What would you do? Would you give more to charity or volunteer more? If you’re Robert Smith, lead vocalist of The Cure, you go down a different route. Instead, you make Disintegration. The eighth studio album by The Cure is slowly nearing its 35th anniversary on May 2nd, and it is about time that we look back on it and see just how well this gothic album really holds up.

When it comes to the history of this album, we need to go way back. We need to go all the way back to 1987, fresh off the tail of Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me, The Cure’s previous album. It was an absolute smash hit, but the idea of being a pop star wasn’t sitting right with Robert. As part of a coping mechanism with this stress, he soon turned to psychedelics to hopefully alleviate the stress. Then there was the fact of Rober Smith’s age. He was swiftly realizing that in a year he would be 30, a sort of unstated deadline for artists to make their most iconic pieces. Eventually, partially due to said substances, Smith had finally decided on what this album would be. Stepping away from the more pop-based trappings of the last album, the band decided to return to its more gothic roots. The hope was that this darker album would show the listeners just how misunderstood the band really was! Smith’s dismay over his age leaked into the composition and form of the album. After a year of recording and 32 tracks recorded, even though 12 would actually make the final cut, Disintegration was finally finished.

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Mountaineers set to take on the top seeded Iowa Hawkeyes in the Second Round of 32 of the NCAA tournament

The West Virginia Mountaineers took down the Princeton Tigers 63-53 to advance to the second round of 32 in the NCAA tournament. 

West Virginia used its best field goal shooting performance in an NCAA Tournament game at 52.5% and a dominant third quarter to advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2021. 

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WVU Will Host Ohio State for a Three Game Series

On March 15th, the West Virginia Mountaineers will begin a three game series against the Ohio State Buckeyes at the newly named Kendrick Family Ballpark in Granville, West Virginia. 

The Mountaineers currently hold a 10-7 overall record with a series split against Western Kentucky, a series win against BIG 12 opponent BYU and a 11-2 win against in-state rival Marshall. 

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