To all Communications High School (CHS) students, the question as to why they applied to their school is a familiar one, and the answer usually has arts at the center of it. However, the arts curriculum...
Recently, top artists have been pumping out albums and hits like “The Tortured Poets Department” by Taylor Swift, “HIT ME HARD AND SOFT” by Billie Eilish and “MILLION DOLLAR BABY” by Tommy...
The Communications High School Class of 2025 brought friends together with a Central Perk-themed Coffeehouse on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023.
This annual tradition gives the performers of CHS a chance to showcase...
Throughout music history, countless artists have adopted “alter egos.” Crafting a new identity enables artists to experiment with different genres and styles, dive deeper into their creativity and...
The ‘90s to early 2000s was a time of bedazzled denim, emerging technology and most notably, boy bands playing nonstop on the radio.
This era marked the rise of iconic boy bands: NSYNC, Backstreet...
Sophomore Lily Costa of Redbank’s relationship with classical music and more specifically, the violin began as a four-year-old audience member to her childhood best friends’ orchestra performances....
When music videos came into existence, storytelling was suddenly as important as a song’s musical elements. Music became a visual experience, a production of performers and entertainers, rather than...
Music fans of all genres love when their favorite artists release new music, and it can be especially exciting with the hype created around new releases. Different artists take on different styles or marketing...
While technology today is more advanced than ever, teenagers are reverting to old ways of listening to music; vinyl, cassettes and other older analog media trends that lost popularity in the early 2000s...
If you have heard your parents’ favorite song from the 80’s while strolling through the halls lately, the music is probably coming from the new record player set up in the senior hallway.
Senior...
At 3 p.m. on March 4, 2023, junior and bassist James Matthews of Middletown was able to utter words previously spoken by New Jersey legends such as Bruce Springstein, Frankie Valli and Jon Bon Jovi: “Welcome...
Every time sophomore Tanner Grigoli of Ocean posts a TikTok, he’s bombarded with a plethora of comments ranging from “Wow you sound like an angel” to “I think I just fell in love.”
Grigoli’s...
