Performing at Wellesley College as part of their 2025 Winter Tour of the East Coast, the St. Olaf Choir achieved exactly what they had intended: a message of hope and light in dark times.
On the evening of Sunday, Feb. 9, I, along with 133.5 million viewers, tuned in to watch Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show. While I was excited to see the 22-time Grammy-winning artist perform...
The 67th annual Grammy Awards took place on Sunday, Feb. 2, in Los Angeles, just a short distance from the destructive wildfires that ravaged parts of the city in January. Along with recognizing and celebrating...
sweet93, a rock band from New York, opened their first-ever tour at The Sinclair in Cambridge on Oct. 15 as the opening act for Porches. Prior to the show, sweet93 frontwoman Chloe chatted with The Wellesley News about new music, performing and existential spirals.
When Isaac Dunbar asked “who here is gay?” the enthusiastic response made it clear that Dunbar, a Massachusetts-based musician and Wellesley’s 2024 Fall Concert artist, had found his target audience.
On...
“All of my music is exactly what’s going on in my life,” indie-folk musician Odie Leigh told me over a Zoom call on Oct. 10. “So in a really broad sense, it’s all part of the same story.”
Hailing...
Charli XCX’s new album, “Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat”, is the sonic embodiment of 2024’s ‘brat summer’ — chaotic, euphoric and unabashedly experimental. With...
On Friday, Sept. 19, the Wellesley College Concert Series kicked off the fall semester with “RICANO,” an Afro-Caribbean jazz experience led by award-winning saxophonist and composer Jonathan Suazo....
Confetti burst in the air and magically descended above our heads like snow, as royal blue lights illuminated the hall. A dark masked figure emerged; it's Alan Walker, the headlining artist.
The iconic...
Can a dance party be successful without any music playing aloud? The “silent disco” model involves attendees listening to music on wireless headphones instead of a speaker system. The headphones offer...
If you’re anything like me, you’ve heard bits and pieces of CupcakKe’s music over the years through Tik Tok audios and viral remixes. Or maybe you hadn’t heard of CupcakKe at all, in which...
This fall, Wellesley College’s music department welcomes Reinaldo Moya, a new associate professor of music. This semester he is teaching two music courses: “Composition” and “Harmonic Concepts...
