The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

Jacob Hamm

COLUMN: Green Day’s ‘Saviors’ is a new classic

Jacob Hamm, Columnist March 11, 2024

Spanning a career of nearly thirty years, the punk rock band Green Day released their 14th studio album “Saviors” back in January. The 46 minute long album is a mix of their classic sound with lyrics...

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Creative Outlet Ep. 7: Wander

Ryan Meyer January 18, 2022

Editor's note: This podcast contains some strong language. In this episode, I talked to Wander, a Filipino-American post-rock band from the Bay Area in California. This was one of my favorite episodes...

COLUMN: Inner Waves Apoptosis review

COLUMN: Inner Wave’s ‘Apoptosis’ review

Ryan Meyer, Columnist October 21, 2021

Social media has led me to another great album, perhaps my favorite to come out in 2021. Usually, the albums I write about are shown to me by the various Instagram accounts of outlets like Stereogum or...

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Creative Outlet Ep. 2: My 4 Favorite Albums Go Head to Head

Ryan Meyer, Multimedia Reporter September 16, 2021

In this episode, I compared some of my favorite albums in a bracket style. The four albums I chose were "Turn On the Bright Lights" by Interpol, "Hot Fuss" by the Killers, "High Violet" by the National...

EIU Jazz Ensemble releases new album

Staff Report April 18, 2019

The EIU Jazz Ensemble released an album and named it after Charleston’s zip code—“61920.” Samuel Fagaly, director of Eastern’s Jazz Studies program, said the album began production in the spring...

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