by Erik Casarez | Oct 31, 2018 | Articles, Music
It’s been a while! I thought it would be a good idea to jump back in with a fresh playlist to celebrate All Hallow’s Eve. Below are 13 songs that remind me of Halloween. Granted some of them are metaphors and that isn’t lost on me, but I thought...
by Erik Casarez | Aug 30, 2018 | Articles, Local, Music
The lights were dim and the disposable contact lenses I was wearing were way past the monthly recommended utilization period. Shawn and I had been standing for less than ten minutes and I could already feel my knee buckle from keeping my body weight on it. We were...
by Erik Casarez | Jul 16, 2018 | Articles, Local, Music
I was born about five years too late. I watched Empire Records in the mid-90s dreaming of working at a record store as a teenager. By the time I reached high school, I had a better chance of seeing the dude that played Warren in a movie[1] than I would seeing a...
by Erik Casarez | Jul 10, 2018 | Articles, Local, Music
For as long as I wanted to be a music journalist, I have been writing about the Warped Tour. My first foray into the world of Warped Tour think pieces was an article I wrote for a fake magazine I produced for my Independent Study Mentorship class. It was 750 words of...
by Erik Casarez | Jul 7, 2018 | Articles, Music
You know that moment in Jurassic Park when Dr. Grant, Dr. Sattler and Dr. Malcolm see the Brontosaurus for the first time and John Williams’ score swells up and everything they thought they knew about life and living goes out the window? Dr. Hammond grins ear to ear...
by Alissa Perez | Jul 7, 2018 | Articles, Music
I’ve been asked by numerous people this year if I’m going to go to “the last Warped Tour.” As if I ever stopped going to Warped in the first place. I remember the first time I ever heard about the Van’s Warped Tour. I was in middle school, I wasn’t allowed to go, but...
