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Jeremy Flick is native of Indianapolis, IN. He currently holds a BA in English and a Master's in Creative Writing from Ball State University. He holds an MFA from University of Kentucky.

Laugh Tracks – Knocked Loose

The Louisville, Kentucky music scene is undoubtedly catching fire. With the release of Greyhaven’s monumental album, Cult America, and the Pop Culture EP from Knocked Loose released in 2014 , there is no sign of the momentum stopping. Both bands take the idea of hardcore or metalcore music and do new and innovative things with the genres. […]

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Grad School Confessional

(This post originally appeared on the BSU English blog.) In my final spring semester at Ball State, before the air became toxic from the dogwood trees near the Atrium, I was over college. The sleepless nights and the mountains of reading were something I had been looking forward to leaving behind. My mighty keyboard had vanquished all of […]

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Ode to Sylvia

I have never quite understood my fascination with Sylvia Plath. From my first encounter with The Bell Jar to my in-depth studies of her poetry, I have always had an admiration for her ability to weave a devil-may-care sense of despair between the lines.

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Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz

Miley Cyrus seems to have quite a presence in the spotlight recently–the VMAs may have helped–and mostly for terrible reasons. I want to start by initially recognizing that her appropriation of black culture is something worth examining and is not only disheartening, but disrespectful and damaging. However,  I won’t be addressing that further in this […]

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More Wreck, More Wreck – Tyler Gobble

Rating: 5/5 Lights “You are the earth the dog displaced. You are the neat little pile. I’m sorry whatever came back to haunt me ended up a silly ghost.” -from “How Many Years” On the vast spectrum of contemporary poetry, Tyler Gobble’s More Wreck More Wreck lands somewhere between experimental and uniquely charming. While Gobble’s […]

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Local Spotlight: Red Light Syndrome EP – Bad Fiction

Rating: 4/5 Lights With the resurgence of the grunge and garage punk genres–no doubt due to the fact all of the teens and twenty-somethings that grew up listening to 90’s grunge and 2000’s garage punk music are starting their own bands–it’s no surprise that local Indy group Bad Fiction is reminiscent of bands like The Hives (circa Veni Vidi Vicious) or […]

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Wolf – Tyler, The Creator

Tyler, The Creator is known for his extremely violent, hate filled lyrics and that one time he ate a cockroach (see “Yonkers” video). This had fans anticipating carnage with Wolf, but the question is, did they get it?

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