Features — Orpheus Review

The State of Spotify and Bandcamp Going Into 2024

Tristan HaegerDecember 9, 2023bandcamp, spotifyComment

In Defense of Covers

Is the cover better than the original? Sometimes! Here’s a list of covers that may be worth checking out.

Hope DworkinSeptember 30, 2023Comment

Grunge Night at Olde Club

Live music seemed dead, even after COVID restrictions were lifted, but last semester’s run of Olde Club shows proved where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Hope DworkinFebruary 9, 2023phillyComment

The 2022 List

Happy New Year! Here are some of our favorite albums from 2022.

Orpheus ReviewJanuary 5, 2023Comment

Dirty and Slanted: How 1992 Changed Rock

The year is 1992: twelve years before I was born, a presidential election year and leap year, and (as I am legally obligated to say) a year after Nirvana released Nevermind.

Hope DworkinDecember 9, 2022Comment

Funny Music is Good: a Ween Retrospective

I first listened to Ween in the Spring of 2021. Like a lot of music that I’ve gotten into, Ween came at the recommendation of a girl I was kind of seeing at the time. Admittedly, I didn’t like it. At all.

Hope DworkinOctober 18, 2022Comment

Apotheosis of the Voice: An Exploration of Synthetic Vocal Modification in Modern Music

The human voice in music is evolving. I would even akin to an apotheosis of sorts, where the voice is reaching heights that were never predicted before

Aryan AshrafOctober 3, 2022Comment

A Tribute to the Cowbell

The cowbell is at once both incredibly versatile and completely invariant. It has worked its way into the repertoire of nearly every genre of music, all while having the same sound.

Ben RotkoOctober 3, 2022 Comment

A Night with Lorde: the Solar Power Tour

“I go away. I figure shit out. You know, I start spending a lot of time at the beach. And I bring you what I found and you’re always so, so generous and so kind with how you take it and make it your own, and I'm so grateful for that, Philly.”

Katie RyuMay 10, 2022Comment