WOBC vault picks with Levi Dayan, host of Everything is Improvisation
by Teagan Hughes Staff Writer Free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor [originally published May 9, 2022] The couch on the south wall of the WOBC...
The Grape is Oberlin College's student news and culture magazine, published bi-weekly since 1999.
- Jul 13
DJ Kopano Talks Musical Curation and Decentering the White Gaze
by Raghav Raj Staff Writer [originally published May 9, 2022] If you’ve been to a show or a house party at Oberlin in the past few...
- Jul 13
Perspectives on Current and Not-so-current Happenings in Occupied Palestine
by Zane Badawi Contributor [originally published May 9, 2022] Recent events have gotten me thinking about my dad’s time in Gaza when I...
- Jul 5
Long Live Nipsey Hussle
By Jason Hewitt Staff Writer [originally published April 12, 2019] On March 31st, the world lost a real one. That’s one of the best ways...
- Jul 1
The Bleary Radicalism of Billy Woods’ Aethiopes
by Raghav Raj Staff Writer Aethiopes album cover [originally published April 22, 2022] From the very first moments, it feels like the...
- Jul 1
Modern Music Guild Presents Jeff Carey and Sarah Davachi
by Levi Dayan Editor-in-Chief art by Eva Sturm-Gross [originally published April 22, 2022] Despite being one of the first music...
- Jul 1
Kassa Overall plays at the 'Sco
by Raghav Raj Staff Writer photo by Daniel Sheehan [originally published April 22, 2022] Even before Kassa Overall and his all-star...
- Jul 1
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s “Art As Transformation: Using Photography for Social Change”
by Anna Holshouser-Belden Staff Writer LaToya Ruby Frazier's Momme, 2008 [originally published April 22, 2022] On Tuesday, March 29th...
- Jun 30
Colin Farrell and the Mid-Career Balancing Act
by Fionna Farrell Staff Writer art by Eva Sturm-Gross [originally published March 25, 2022] We have the same last name, and we were born...
- Jun 30
Catalytic Sound and the fight for musical self determination
by Levi Dayan Editor-in-Chief Chicago composer and improviser Ken Vandermark [originally published March 25, 2022] A few weeks ago,...
- Jun 30
Disco Deewane: On Biddu, Bappi, and Bollywood in the ’80s
by Raghav Raj Staff Writer Qurbani poster [originally published March 25, 2022] Last night, I watched Whit Stillman’s Last Days of Disco....
- Jun 30
Interview: The Ever-Experimental Gabriel Baskin
by Saffron Forsberg Arts & Culture Editor art by Gabriel Baskin [originally published March 25, 2022] When I attended Gabriel Baskin’s...
- May 4
TIMARA Faculty Recital review: Jessen x Stine
by Levi Dayan Editor-In-Chief image taken from Eli Stine's video "through a fragile traverse" [originally published February 2021] The...
- May 4
Goddessmen and $quib at the 'Sco
by Anna Holshouser-Belden Staff writer art by Eva Sturm-Gross [originally published February 2022] After a long Winter Term/Omicron...
- May 4
BabyTron — Megatron Review
by Raghav Raj Staff Writer [originally published February 2022] Despite the constant, half-hearted insistence that there’s a bright...
- May 4
Review of Angel in Realtime by Gang of Youths
by Jonah Covell [originally published February 2022] To say Dave Le’Aupepe and indie rock quintet Gang of Youths have been through a lot...
- May 4
Album Review: Hell on Church Street
by Wyatt Camery Features Editor art by Eva Sturm-Gross I have only recently become a Punch Brothers fan. This is in part due to my...
- Apr 14
REVIVING THE “EVER-EVOLVING” STUDIO B
by Anna Holshouser-Belden (with help from Nico Moreta) Staff Writer [originally published November 2021] If there’s one student...
- Apr 14
Eternals - Lifeless or Sentimental Work of MCU
by Ana Nguyen [originally published October 2021] At the Apollo, I purchased tickets for Eternals with little anticipation, after having...
- Apr 14
My Favorite Albums of the Year
by Levi Dayan [originally published November 2021] In the past few years, and especially the past couple, opening any year-end...