On July 22, the legendary Prince of Darkness, the father of heavy metal and one of the genre’s defining vocalists, Ozzy Osbourne, passed away at age 76. His health had been declining for years after a slew of back injuries, several respiratory infections and Parkinson’s disease. Despite his poor health, Osbourne still managed to put on one final concert mere weeks before his death. The concert was a massive metal bonanza in England which saw Osbourne perform nine songs – five with his solo band and four with the band that started it all: Black Sabbath.
It’s 7 p.m. and Kelsea Ballerini is on stage with a crowd of 11,000 fans filling a stadium for the first time in her career. After a decade in the industry, Ballerini has become a household name, rising to Taylor Swift levels of fame, and often reaching a similar fan base. On Feb. 19, a sea of young women in denim and sparkles made their way to Newark’s Prudential Center to see the “Legends” singer live in concert.
Saturday, April 5, is a solemn day for fans of grunge music. The date represents the tragic passing of two of the genre’s most revered voices: Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and Alice In Chains’s Layne Staley. Although the singers passed from different causes – Cobain from suicide in 1994 and Staley from an overdose in 2002 – both deaths were a result of lives tormented with depression, isolation and substance abuse, themes they didn’t shy away from in their music.
On Monday, March 3, legendary Long Island native emo band, Brand New, announced their reunion with three shows scheduled for the end of March. The shows will take place in Texas, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Abby Gibson, Arts & Entertainment Editor
• March 4, 2025
Sarah Kinsley is a 24-year-old American singer-songwriter from California with Chinese-American descent who is best known for her song, “The King,” which became a mass hit on TikTok in 2021. Kinsley has had a love for music and its production for her whole life. When she moved to Connecticut, Kinsley performed the violin in her youth orchestra, growing her expertise in the instrument, while also learning classical piano. When she was in middle school, Kinsley began listening to pop music and fell in love. She then learned how to play the cello and how to play guitar.
Want to hear a new genre? Cameron Winter, lead singer of the alternative rock band “Geese,” is a 22-year- old from Brooklyn, New York, who lives with his parents and just released his first solo act, “Heavy Metal,” in December of last year. Despite the album’s name, it is the furthest thing from heavy metal. The best way I can describe his music, which feels like an entirely new genre inspired by the likes of Leonard Cohen, is a mix of indie blues and pop.
Craig Mannino, Assistant Arts & Entertainment Editor
• March 4, 2025
With Hofstra Concert’s Music Fest just a month away, hype surrounding who the performing artist will be is rapidly swelling among Hofstra University students. But another question is on our minds: who will be the opener?
Bastille has done it again with their latest release “‘&’ (Ampersand),” especially with their quintessential melancholy guitar notes throughout 14 songs that is just over 51 minutes. Here are...
In “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” (“I Should Have Taken More Photos”), Bad Bunny’s sixth studio album, he intertwines expressions of love for his homeland with the mourning of a past relationship. Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, released an album in the dead of winter that had a summer-like feeling, helping us cope with the winter blues by marrying genres like salsa, reggaeton, dembow and plena.
Music and film are two incredibly powerful and widely consumed art forms, so when the latter is artistically informed by the former and filmmakers understand how to execute this tantalizing marriage, cinema’s potential can seldom be more exciting. The following films exhibit such qualities, ranging from highly recognized classics from bygone eras of Hollywood to wildly different modern critiques of fame in the music industry that are masterful all the same.
Grace Luty, Special to the Chronicle
• November 12, 2024
It has been three years since Tyler, The Creator released the album “CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST,” and his musical return has come with a creative bang: “CHROMAKOPIA,” his newest release, is the artist’s eighth studio album. Shortly before the album came out, Tyler released his single “St. Chroma.” The song begins with Tyler whisper-rapping his lyrics as if he has a confession to tell. Fans were eager to hear what Tyler had to say. “CHROMAKOPIA” is inspired by his mother’s advice and what he learned from life experiences. The collection is narrated by Tyler’s mother, Bonita Smith.
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