“Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop Hip-Hop and Social Change”

A pair of professors teamed up at Marywood University to put on a conference dedicated to the underground movement and fight for social change found in hip-hop music.  Their goal?  To break the stereotypical views of hip-hop and demonstrate how the music can be a tool for activism, as well as expression and religious ideology. 

The evolving music form has been a part of protest music and poverty reflections for several decades now, and continues its reach across the world.  Through religion and local visionaries, hip-hop is as diverse as ever and reflective of...

Sol Productions, a non-profit film production company, aims to educate the public on global, social and political conditions where conventional media fails to do so. The founders...

For international hip-hop ambassador and poet Toni Blackman, hip-hop can be a vehicle for...

Face to Face Frontman Discusses Solo Career

Face to Face singer/guitarist Trever Keith hasn’t played in front of fans since the band split shortly after releasing How to Ruin Everything on Vagrant Records in 2002.  But Keith is back with a new solo album, Melancholics Anonymous, released digitally through his website in February.  The album’s layered production and gradual build-ups stray far from...

Trever Keith: Melancholics Anonymous

The voice that permeates Trever Keith’s solo debut, Melancholics Anonymous, is a far cry from the final Face to Face album, How to Ruin Everything.  Through the eleven tracks, Keith has removed the husk and holler from his throat, taking advantage of the natural punk rock soulfulness of his voice.  He is actually singing from a much more relaxed and comfortable place. 

This change, however...

All Things Reconsidered: Face to Face: How to Ruin Everything

By the time How to Ruin Everything came out in 2002, Face to Face had returned to the ranks of indie labels (Vagrant), paired itself down to a three piece (with the departure of guitarist Chad Yaro), and recorded a stop-gap covers album (the previous year’s Standards and Practices).   Much like Brian Ferry or Bowie’s cover albums, Face to Face...

Artist Profile: Caitlin Scott

Art as Revitalization

For Scranton native Caitlin Scott, her hometown has the potential to become far more than an old coal mining town undergoing a sluggish revitalization.  Her latest artistic project, a slew of silk screened images of Scranton’s architecture on...

Now that I’m out of the newspaper world, I figured I finally have enough time to use all of those skills I learned in undergraduate journalism courses to create something that I feel is meaningful and worth promoting--a publication that fosters intelligent discussions and supports the...

As I sit here at Northern Lights, a café in downtown Scranton, working on what is to be our first issue, I realize how important this is. This ‘zine is a project that my friends and colleagues can contribute to and build a repertoire of ideas and independent thinking.  I’m applying my thoughts and...

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