Galen Tipton Talks Pop Accessibility, Accidental Virality, and Collaborative Magic
by Saffron Forsberg Arts + Culture Editor [originally published October 2021] Galen Tipton makes pop music—well, sort of. Her music is...
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The Grape is Oberlin College's student news and culture magazine, published bi-weekly since 1999.
- Apr 11, 2022
The NBA Turns 75
by Wyatt Camery Features Editor [originally published October 2021] Since this year marks the 75th NBA Season, we here at the Grape...
- Apr 11, 2022
Lana Del Ray: Blue Bannisters Review
by Emma Kang Staff Writer [originally published October 2021] Lana Del Rey is excellent at wallowing. She’s good at capturing a wrong...
- Apr 10, 2022
The Nostalgia Crisis: Why the business of the past is killing the art of the future
by Levi Dayan Editor-in-Chief Sun Ra, still from the 1980 Robert Mugge documentary A Joyful Noise [originally published October 2021] One...
- Apr 10, 2022
The Eyes of Tammy Faye: A Biblical Disappointment
by Levi Dayan Editor-in-Chief art by Eva Sturm-Gross [originally published October 2021] Warning: contains descriptions of sexual assault...
- Apr 9, 2022
Crocs, Prairie Dresses, and "Wife-Pleasers": What are Obies Wearing This Summer?
by Daisy Vollen [originally published August 2021] As the summer semester comes to an end, we are reflecting on campus culture over the...
- Apr 9, 2022
Picks from the WOBC Vault with (½ of) Journey Beyond the Khatru
By Teagan Hughes Staff Writer [originally published August 2021] On August 6th, I met Tempest Baum in the WOBC vault and asked them to...
- Apr 8, 2022
Movie Review: The Forever Purge
by Priya, Julia, and Nico [originally published July 2021] Released on July 2, 2021, The Forever Purge is the most recent installment in...
- Apr 8, 2022
Childhood and Memory in the Age of YouTube
by Teagan Hughes Staff Writer [originally published July 2021] When I was in elementary school, I made sketches and music videos with my...
- Apr 8, 2022
The Role of Jazz in Present-Day Spiritual Trends
by Levi Dayan Editor-in-Chief art by Priya Banerjee [originally published July 2021] America is at a spiritual crossroads, in multiple...
- Apr 8, 2022
Space Jam: A New Legacy Review
by Kira Mesch art by Eva Sturm-Gross [originally published July 2021] If Space Jam: A New Legacy had come out about 10 years earlier, I...
- Apr 8, 2022
Float and Crash: An Hour with Joaquim Stevenson-Rodriguez
by Saffron Forsberg Arts + Culture Editor art by Joaquim Stevenson-Rodriguez [originally published Summer 2021] Joaquim and I finally...
- Mar 3, 2022
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra Come Together on a Collaboration
by Levi Dayan [originally posted April 2021] Some time ago I came across a copy of Elaenia, the debut album by Floating Points, at a...
- Mar 1, 2022
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG PARADE! WE LOVE YOU!
By Priya Banerjee Originally published June 2021 In the last issue of the Grape, I talked to Laura Dahle, the de facto leader and only...
- Feb 21, 2022
Milford Graves, Chick Corea, and the Myth That the Good Have to Die Young
by Levi Dayan [originally posted February 2021] February was a particularly gruelling time for the jazz community. Nine days into the...
- Feb 20, 2022
The Country Music Industry’s Morgan Wallen Problem
by Levi Dayan [originally posted early 2021] It already feels like a million years ago, but prior to Phoebe Bridgers guitar-gate and the...
- Feb 20, 2022
Artist Profile: Eva S-G
[art by Eva Sturm-Gross, originally posted early 2021] Eva Sturm-Gross (she/they) is a third year Studio Art major at Oberlin College,...
- Feb 20, 2022
Ten “Stacy’s Mom” Covers, Ranked
by Teagan Hughes [originally posted December 2020] Since its original release in 2003, Fountains of Wayne’s “Stacy’s Mom” has become a...
- Feb 20, 2022
Everything is improvisation
by Levi Dayan [left to right: sun ra, jerry garcia, mary halvorson, nicole mitchell; originally posted December 2020] I first came up...
- Feb 20, 2022
The Streaming Industry’s Existential Threat to Independent Music
by Levi Dayan [originally posted fall 2020] Imagining a post-COVID future to me is as utterly stupefying as imaging the nightclubbing and...
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