On the day after last year's Battle of the Bands , Jaymeson Green and his band Velomorta started preparing for the 2025 Battle. When musical competition finally came around again they were prepared. MCHS...

Can music help you focus on a task like homework? This is a simple answer, yes or no. Some say music helps people focus and can be therapy, whether it’s while you're cleaning, doing homework, or just...

In November of 2021, then 34-year-old rapper Rakim Meyers, commonly known as A$AP Rocky, allegedly attempted to shoot former friend Terell Ephron, also known as A$AP Relli, with a semiautomatic firearm...

Tri-M will host Children’s Music Day at the Upper Campus on Saturday from 8 a.m-1 p.m. Children's Music Day is an international holiday including most of the United States and Canada that's been celebrated...

Listening to Laufey’s new Christmas album, “A Very Laufey Holiday,” is becoming a new tradition in many people's homes. Fans have said that this album added a missing spark back into the Christmas...

As the stage lights dim and the crowds anticipation increases, the media celebrity Jojo Siwa emerges in her extravagant and sparkly performance costume, embodying both adoration and outrage from her fans...

A student was walking down the hallway early in the morning before the bell rang. They were looking at their phone realizing that Tyler the Creator’s “Chromakopia” was  out on Spotify. They have...

2023 is coming to a close and it has been an eventful year. “A Tale As Old As Time”, “The Spongebob Musical”, summer break, football season, a red carpet homecoming– as we approach first semester...

Spotify’s annual “Spotify Wrapped,” a tradition in which Spotify analyzes each listener's individual music habits and gives them their data, came out just last week. Listeners were delighted...

“The Messenger Mixtape” was a series of stories I developed last year, building a playlist in which the writers, editors and staff of the McHenry Messenger would submit songs for me to review....

Every Drake album cycle comes with the same promise that “this will be the return of the old Drake” and every album cycle comes with the same disappointment. His recent release, “For All The Dogs”...

Arguably, the most important part of the atmosphere of Homecoming is the music.  Every year a healthy mix of 2010’s and late 2000’s pop and new radio hits get played at volumes that are (probably)...