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Listen to this! Music for when you need a pick-me-up!

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Andrea Hammack Trojan Living Editor “It’s a lovely day today, so whatever you’ve got to do, you’ve got a lovely day to do it in, that’s true,” sings Ella Fitzgerald in her rendition of Irving Berlin’s “It’s a Lovely Day Today.” As we move past midterms, some of us have been weighed down by a heavy workload, which has affected the way we handle our day-to-day tasks.  For me personally, it’s been a rough few weeks, and when times get hard, it’s sometimes difficult to pull yourself out of it…

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Student discusses benefits of sharing in a friend’s music and letting shotgun choose the song

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Draven Jackson Arts and Living Editor Whether you’re picking up your friend for a night out, or just driving around with the windows down feeling the cool air hit your face, what’s the one thing you almost always do? If it’s turning on your Spotify playlist and cranking up your favorite song, then you’re just like every other driver out on the road.  There’s something about driving around that just makes music better. Not to say that the songs aren’t still bops when you’re listening to them at home –…

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Student discusses benefits of physical art and music in the age of instant streaming

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Andrea Hammack Staff Writer While most people can agree that art and music can be timeless, an important conversation for music and art lovers centers around what form is the best for consuming them.  Nowadays music is mainly consumed digitally through apps such as Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, etc., which allows the content to remain popular, immediate, and at the consumers’ fingertips.  For some, this accessibility to multitudes of music is important – but to others, it’s more about the search for lost treasures.  Vinyl was one of the first…

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