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2018 Campus Times summer playlist
The Campus Times staff recommends their picks for their favorite song from the summer. The songs range from contemporary to 19th-century impressionist. Read More
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CT Recommends: John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’
About once a year there will be a big snow in New York City. If we’re lucky, we’ll get a day off from school. So every New York City kid, like me, has been classically conditioned to feel great joy when exposed to extreme amounts of snow. Snowy days, for me, call for snowy movies. […]
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CT Recommends: ‘Spiderland’ by Slint
The album has a unique surrealness, where we can be told what to envision but are somehow unable to conjure up images even remotely concrete. Read More
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CT recommends: Dua Lipa
Now 22, Dua Lipa has come out with a shimmery, sometimes sardonic, synth-pop debut album. Read More
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CT Recommends: Dan Barrett
Connecticut musician Dan Barrett's expansive discography as Have A Nice Life and Giles Corey exhibits his talents in capturing depression, mortality, and all aspects of human despair across a multitude of genres. Read More
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CT Recommends: ‘Shrink’
A show filled with Chicago-based improvisors from the iO and Second City, “Shrink” is an eight-episode series on the NBC/Amazon comedy streaming network, Seeso, and it’s the best show I’ve watched since “Atlanta.” Read More
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CT recommends: Angel Olsen
The breathiness of Lana Del Rey, the jazzy upbeat of Zooey Deschanel, and a devil’s-in-the-details touch that’s all her own, Angel Olsen’s album is one to dance around your room alone and maybe have a good cry to. Read More
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CT recommends: ‘Jackie’
“Jackie”—starring Natalie Portman in what should be a career-defining role—goes far beyond the constraints of its genre, where it arrives at catharsis for both subject and viewer. Read More
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CT recommends: Shakey Graves
Few artists have the flexibility and consistent ability to amaze with their songwriting as Shakey Graves Read More
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CT Recommends: ‘The Babadook’
It’s a story about grief and depression—two subjects rarely talked about in mainstream media, and even more rarely talked about correctly. Read More
