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Spotify playlist to start academic year

By Northern Star Staff | September 4, 2023

As we ease into the start of the new school year, here's a diverse range of music to get you through it. Sarah’s picks: Frank Ocean - “Ivy” Don Henley - “Dirty Laundry” Bôa - “Duvet” Frank Ocean is known for creating...

Now that’s what I call indie Christmas

By Sarah Contreras | November 27, 2012

Looking for a hip way to amp up your Christmas cheer? Search no more. Here are five holiday albums guaranteed to fit right in with your Vampire Weekend-laden music collection: Various Artists - Maybe This Christmas Tree Only one event could unite Lisa...

Incoming band can make a mess like nobody’s business

By Troy Doetch | May 3, 2011

DeKALB | There is an idealism in the artistic restart. Whether it's the clichéd acoustic wanderings of a rock ‘n' roll vocalist who wants to un-sell-out or the avant-garde who feels suffocated by just one name, the restart is a documentable phenomenon...

Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s invade Otto’s

By Jerene-Elise Nall | April 5, 2011

Indie group Margot & the Nuclear So and So's will headline Thursday night at Otto's, 118 E. Lincoln Highway. With their most recent release, Happy Hour at Sprigg's Volume 1: Live and Acoustic, Margot proves that it is ready to let its subtle maturation...