Mason Cheng

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Medium
05/27/2020
Albums That Influenced My Music Taste Pt.1

A little while ago, I was tagged to do the “10 Albums that Influenced Your Musical Taste” challenge on Facebook. While, I didn’t participate in it due to how anxiety inducing it was to pick just 10 albums, it got me thinking about how my musical taste came to be. So, instead of just posting covers for 10 albums that heavily influenced my taste in music, I decided to do a write up of a small selection of my favorite albums.

Trend Prive Magazine
03/11/2018
Titus Andronicus: A Productive Cough Album Review - Organized Chaos - Trend Prive Magazine

I discovered Titus Andronicus when a friend got me The Monitor for Christmas during my sophomore year of high-school. Their distinctly punk-rock-meets-americana-folk sound definitely caught my attention. Since then, Titus Andronicus has been slowly abandoning their punk roots with the bar-band sounding Local Business and the ballad heavy The Most Lamentable Tragedy.

Trend Prive Magazine
10/24/2017
Writing Songs and Evolving Rock: An Interview with Middle Kids - Trend Prive Magazine

An interview with one of the unquestionably best upcoming acts in Indie Rock. Australian indie-pop rock stars, Middle Kids, really came out of nowhere earlier this year. After getting a shout-out from Elton John, they took off running. They toured the U.S twice, appeared on Conan, played at SXSW, and finally appeared at Austin City...

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