By Ethan Cook 1. Introduction Nihilism is the belief that all personal and societal values are baseless. Themes of nihilism include a feeling of purposelessness, the inability to affect meaningful change, and an overwhelming pessimism about the future.  The long-term …

By Ethan Cook Last Friday Arlo Parks dropped her debut record, Collapsed in Sunbeams. From the moment the first notes hit my ears I knew that I was listening to something special, and before long I was texting out …

By Ethan Cook In this series, I’m going back in time and revisiting some of the music of the past. Personally, I always enjoy listening to old albums and trying to understand how the music was historically important and where …

By Ethan Cook As the seasons transition from the warm days of summer to the chilly evenings of winter I find myself looking for musical change as well. I spent the summer listening to punk-rock and heavy-metal; music that made …

By Ethan Cook I view music through a qualitative lense, rather than a quantitative one. Qualitative and quantitative are big words that get tossed around a lot in STEM classes that involve a lot of technical writing, but the TLDR …