Pick up the PH0N3, it’s T3L3PH0N3: An Interview with T3L3PH0N3
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Pick up the PH0N3, it’s T3L3PH0N3: An Interview with T3L3PH0N3

Most teenagers have a hard time figuring out who they are. T3L3PH0N3 is not like most teenagers. He is loud, chronically online, and completely uninterested in sanding down the edges of his personality to make anyone comfortable. His music — a mix of electro-pop, rap, and chaotic internet references — feels like a direct extension of him: unfiltered and self-aware. T3L3PH0N3 makes no attempt to clean up his music; if something shocks you, that's your problem. When his single “Harajuku Hennessy” was released, we knew we had to sit down with him and pick at his brain. We hung up the ph0n3 just as confused as when we started, and that’s probably how he likes it. 
Top 5 places to break up on campus
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Top 5 places to break up on campus

Love may blossom in DC, but it also likes to die loudly in public. After seeing more breakups than we ever asked for, we’ve noticed some spots on campus are just objectively the wrong setting for heartbreak. So, if your situationship is getting stale, or you just found out your partner’s been “studying” with someone else, follow this guide to the top five worst places to end it all—romantically, of course. 
Bloggers Review: Fries on campus
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Bloggers Review: Fries on campus

Blog feels that we have a moral obligation to use our powers of taste-making and superior judgement to aid the uneducated in seeking out the best food on campus. Of particular interest to us are fries, the ultimate side, the perfect snack, the primordial sauce vessel.
ALBUM REVIEW: Jeffrey Lewis’s The EVEN MORE Freewheelin’ Jeffrey Lewis
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ALBUM REVIEW: Jeffrey Lewis’s The EVEN MORE Freewheelin’ Jeffrey Lewis

More than a story about the healing power of music, “Inger” captures The EVEN MORE Freewheelin’ Jeffrey Lewis’s theme of legacy. Notably, the singer he describes looks a lot like Lewis himself. Taken with the album’s homage to Bob Dylan’s most famous record in the midst of the current Dylan renaissance, it's clear Lewis is reflecting on his career. Capturing the way relationships shift and identities evolve, Lewis pays tribute to the past, reasserting his value at a particularly opportune time.
PICKAXE DC talks new EP, youth in the scene and plans for the future 
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PICKAXE DC talks new EP, youth in the scene and plans for the future 

PICKAXE is a high energy, female-fronted punk rock band from our very own Washington, D.C. Although their published discography consists of only four songs, all wrapped up neatly in their recently released EP, PROVOCATEUR, each track has its own unique sound and message. It’s the kind of music that pumps up your adrenaline to negate those bruises you’ll inevitably get in the mosh pit. I can confidently say that PICKAXE’s music is best experienced up close, personal, and dressed in a hot dog costume. Seeing is believing; on streaming you get a very clean, packaged version of their songs but witnessing a set live brings together the whole experience. PICKAXE is impressive in that, even through the haze of the room and the writhing mess of the pit, their vocals and instrumentals come through just as clear and polished as they do on the EP.