Hello, new Tigers, and welcome to Clemson! Congratulations on beginning your college journey — I am confident you’ll have a great time at Clemson. When I began my time at Clemson three years ago, I...

One of the most exciting parts of college is expanding your horizons and experiencing new culture and art, and Clemson has plenty of opportunities to do so. One of my favorite parts of being at Clemson...

Over their nearly 40-year career, Nine Inch Nails have carved out a reputation as popular music’s most abrasive and sexually tormented figures. Trent Reznor’s repertoire of industrial floor fillers,...

It seems there’s a new film marketed with histrionic pull quotes every other month, calling it the “scariest movie ever.” The latest of these is “undertone,” an audio-centric horror-thriller...

Sturgill Simpson, the alt-country artist now doing business as Johnny Blue Skies, has always been more provocative than many of his contemporaries, speaking out against the country music establishment...

Like pretty much any college town, Clemson is home to a variety of bands. With so many groups playing every kind of music, Back Porch Band — downtown Clemson and Greek life staple — emerged victorious. The...

To understand “The Moment,” the new mockumentary from Charli XCX and director Aidan Zamiri, it’s instructive to understand what the movie isn’t. It’s not a hagiographic celebration of her artistry...

One of Clemson University’s most philanthropic spring traditions will return this year with The Pursuit on April 1-2. The event, which includes a trivia night and an on-campus scavenger hunt race, was...

2025 saw an uncommonly good slate of film releases from major studios. While they coexisted with typically underwhelming work, some of 2025’s best films came from the Hollywood studio system. I’ve...

2025 was a strange year for music. Most of the major pop releases were underwhelming, especially after 2024’s fantastic slate of mainstream pop material, but digging a little deeper turns up an array...

Last year, the first half of Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of “Wicked” emerged onto multiplex screens nationwide. It proceeded to make an obscene amount of money despite having the color palette of wet...

Recently, there has been discussion that Clemson might join the growing ranks of universities encouraging their students to outsource their thinking to computers. If the University inked a deal with OpenAI...

We’ve all heard it a million times: “Did you know,” someone who thinks they’re a comedic genius will ask, “that Tame Impala is just one guy?” That may be true of the project’s studio recordings,...

The late actor Chadwick Boseman, an upstate South Carolina native best known for his iconic performance as Black Panther in various Marvel Studios films, will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,...

This Friday, Nov. 21, get ready to rock for a cause. Clemson’s Interfraternity Council has announced its newest event, taking place at ROAR Clemson: Battle of the Bands. The event is headlined by...

Indie music fans were gifted an unexpected Halloween treat this year. At midnight on All Hallows’ Eve, a surprise album by the new indie rock supergroup Snocaps dropped on streaming platforms. Snocaps’...

Country superstar Morgan Wallen will play two shows in Clemson’s Death Valley this summer, the University announced Monday morning. The news follows the recent announcement that George Strait will...

As we venture further into October, spooky season is in full swing, and that means that it’s time to dust off old DVDs or, for most people, navigate to your favorite streaming service in search of an...

Moe Joe Coffee Co. was overtaken by seasonally appropriate spooky sounds on Oct. 17, when goth bands Tears for the Dying and Dead Cool took the stage. The event was organized by Maxwell Greenzweig, a sophomore...

George Strait will return to Tigertown this May, Clemson University announced on Oct. 17. The last concert in Death Valley was in 1999, when the country music legend headlined his own music festival in...

Just over a year ago, I opined in this publication that the indie pop star known as The Dare was “a one-trick pony.” I received his debut record, “What’s Wrong With New York?,” with a relative...

There are few accolades as tired and hackneyed as calling a film “the movie we need right now.” Aside from the fact that timely themes don’t inherently constitute a good movie, the films burdened...

A few weeks ago, I proclaimed Geese frontman Cameron Winter “a musical genius,” rhapsodizing about his amazing solo album “Heavy Metal.” At the time, I was confident that no one could release a...

Current Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is back in the news again, and to no one’s surprise, he’s found himself there by spouting inane pseudoscience that no doctor worth...

The most quintessential song on David Byrne’s new album “Who Is the Sky?” is its third. Entitled “My Apartment Is My Friend,” the track finds Byrne wistfully recalling the ups and downs of life...

It’s like the 90s all over again — the biggest and loudest Britpop band has once again overshadowed the cleverest and best. Oasis have set aside their differences in the name of becoming wealthier...

There are few experiences as strange as watching a movie and feeling completely unmoved. Most films inspire, if not excitement, then at least annoyance or distaste. Darren Aronofsky’s “Caught Stealing,”...

Occasionally, an album comes along that feels like an instant musical watershed moment. These records go beyond the traditional, and often overstated, classification of an album as an instant classic,...

Since the end of the spring 2025 semester, theater screens across the country have been graced by — or, in some cases, subjected to — a host of high-profile new releases that vary wildly in both financial...

The Brooks Center for the Performing Arts is Clemson’s home for theatre, music and variety shows — essentially any kind of entertainment that can be found on a stage. Its 31st season, which begins...

Hello everyone, and welcome to Clemson! I’m confident that your next four years will be great, and I thank you for picking up and reading this special Orientation issue of The Tiger. I serve as The...

One of many on-campus activities at Clemson is the film series that the world cinema program puts on each semester. Students in WCIN 3990, taught by Dr. John Smith, choose the theme and films for each...

In a press conference last week, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a laundry list of activities that autistic people will never do. According to Kennedy,...

Chances are you’ve already heard about “Sinners,” the latest film by “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler. It has been receiving a level of unanimous and passionate praise from both critics...

The theater was suffused with a feeling of unbearable anticipation. A quiet murmur rumbled throughout the audience — could this be it? Could this be the moment we’ve been waiting for? The chicken...

Reviews of Black Country, New Road’s recent music often feel like eulogies for a previous incarnation of the band. Its first two albums, recorded with singer-guitarist Isaac Wood, are rightfully hailed...

On March 20, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at accomplishing one of his most ridiculous campaign promises: the dismantling of the Department of Education. While Trump cannot...

“Dead Channel Sky,” the latest full-length album by Southern California hip-hop trio clipping., is not only the trio's most eclectic release but also its best. Since releasing debut mixtape “midcity”...

Clemson fans and hip-hop listeners were shocked when Clemson’s Tiger Cub mascot surprise-dropped his debut mixtape on March 31. The diminutive feline, who has adopted the name “Lil Cubby” for his...

Timothée Chalamet will be turning his considerable talents towards the challenge of playing both Clemson President Jim Clements and head football coach Dabo Swinney in an upcoming film Clemson University...

Bong Joon-Ho is very displeased with everything going on in the world right now. He’s been very displeased since he made “Barking Dogs Never Bite” in 2000, he grew more displeased as time went on,...

Carly Miller, the frontwoman of the two-time Best of Clemson-winning Carly Miller Band, has been performing since she was a child. “I actually have kind of a weird background,” Miller told The Tiger....

Despite a weak slate of nominees and a few disappointing awards, this year’s iteration of the Academy Awards was one of the best in years. Host Conan O’Brien forewent any of the obnoxious “comedy”...

“Crispy Skin,” the first song on Squid’s new album “Cowards,” is one of the most elegantly composed pieces of music about eating people that I’ve ever heard. Its crystalline synth intro is...

In his review of Milos Forman’s 1984 film “Amadeus,” Roger Ebert opines on the difference between greatness and near-greatness. “True geniuses,” he says, “rarely take their own work seriously,...

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” which was recently nominated for an obscene 13 Academy Awards, is a fascinating movie largely because of how bad it is. Even discounting its myriad thematic issues,...

More so than any other year in recent memory, I felt completely disconnected from the general moviegoing audience in 2024. The big studio blockbusters I liked underperformed, while the ones I hated or...

In a recent article, Variety awards writer Clayton Davis attempted to predict which five lucky individuals will be nominated for best director at the 2025 Academy Awards. Among his predictions are some,...

Clemson students filed into the Barnes Center on Nov. 15 to celebrate the launch of The Chronicle’s fall 2024 issue. Clemson’s oldest student publication filled its board game-inspired magazine with...

Shortly before winning reelection, President-elect Donald Trump offered onetime campaign rival Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “control of the public health agencies.” The possibility of a Kennedy led Health...

The term “Oscar bait” is thrown around carelessly in film discussions, applied to essentially any movie that doesn’t have Batman in it. It’s become such a broad classification that it sometimes...

Near the end of Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers,” Mike Faist’s disgruntled tennis pro Art Donaldson tosses the ball into the air. This in and of itself is unremarkable — it’s a tennis movie,...

LCD Soundsystem’s entire career has been an exercise in irony. Disgruntled producer and DJ James Murphy, annoyed with the way his music career had stalled in his thirties, wrote the group’s deadpan...

In the second scene of Francis Ford Coppola’s long-gestating magnum opus “Megalopolis,” protagonist Cesar Catalina stumbles onto a scaffold, towers over a model city and manically recites the entire...

Lily Fontaine and Nicholas Eden of English Teacher performing at the Tabernacle in Atlanta

Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” now in theaters via Mubi, opens with a card touting its Best Screenplay win at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. The movie that follows led me to call the Cannes...

The experience of watching Jane Schoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow” is best encapsulated by a line that Owen, the film’s main character, utters early on. “It feels,” he says, “like someone took...

Over the past few months, tastemakers and artists on the trendier side of the pop spectrum have become obsessed with reviving “indie sleaze.” Indie sleaze is an aesthetic defined, as far as I can tell,...

Tigerama, Clemson University’s homecoming pep rally, will feature a headlining performance from X Ambassadors as it returns for the 68th year on Sept. 27. This year’s Tigerama theme, “110%,” plays...

Synthpop duo Magdalena Bay’s sophomore album, “Imaginal Disk,” opens with a short burst of mechanical noise, followed quickly by a single word: “Hello,” placidly intoned by vocalist Mica Tenenbaum....

I am not sure I have ever seen a movie more opposed to the things I find valuable in cinema, or in art and entertainment in general, as “Deadpool & Wolverine.” The latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic...

Hi, everyone, and welcome to Clemson! My name is Thomas Merzlak, and I am the editor of The Tiger’s TimeOut section, which covers local and general arts and culture. I joined The Tiger at the beginning...

Starting college can be intimidating. I myself was very apprehensive about making such a significant transition last year. Despite my initial misgivings, though, I’ve had a great time at Clemson so far....

Clemson’s oldest student publication launched its most recent issue at a release party on Monday. The Chronicle, Clemson’s arts and literature magazine, spent the past semester soliciting submissions...

Shortly before the release of her new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” Taylor Swift’s marketing team set up a temporary “library” in a shopping mall. The installation consisted of faux-aged...

Clemson students and community members gathered in the courtyard behind the Kinard Laboratory of Physics on Monday afternoon as the University’s department of physics and astronomy hosted a solar eclipse...

The logline for “Love Lies Bleeding,” the latest film from “Saint Maud” director Rose Glass, is simple: Lou, a listless gym manager, and Jackie, a competitive bodybuilder, find their romance disrupted...

In Robert Altman’s classic Hollywood satire “The Player,” a studio executive muses to an underling about how to cut costs. “I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the...

In my capacity as this publication’s most long-winded film writer, I have viewed several movies over the last few months. I have given many of them glowing reviews, praising their formal sophistication...

In a shocking turn of events, the 96th Oscars weren’t terrible. The last few ceremonies have been varying levels of abysmal: in 2021, the show’s producers rearranged the show to honor a deceased...

In the 1890s, when cinema was in its infancy, audiences were enraptured by a particular genre of silent film known as the “phantom ride.” To make these movies, filmmakers attached a camera to the front...

When the Clemson community needs somewhere to go grocery shopping, Publix is the clear favorite. The popular supermarket chain’s Gateway Village location has been voted Clemson’s best grocery store...

It’s difficult to articulate what exactly makes Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part One” so effective. “Dune” doesn’t seem appealing on paper; it’s a long, dense movie composed mostly of political...

2023 was a banner year for movies. Major filmmakers Michael Mann and Jonathan Glazer returned from long hiatuses, while Wes Anderson released a staggering five films. The following are my picks for the...

David Fincher, the director of landmark 1990s films including “Seven” and “Fight Club,” has spent the last decade or so seeming somewhat dissatisfied with his cultural legacy. His last several...

Literary adaptations have been cornerstones of cinema since the medium’s inception, as filmmakers have attempted to translate classic stories by great writers from written words into moving images. These...

“Killers of the Flower Moon,” the new picture from Martin Scorsese, is a masterpiece. That descriptor is often overused, but it’s the only term that encompasses the massive, devastating impact of...

In December 1983, a thin man in an ill-fitting white-gray suit walks onto a stage. He carries with him a guitar and a boombox, which he carefully sets on the ground. He adjusts the guitar strap around...

“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” the sequel to the acclaimed 2018 release “Into the Spider-Verse,” debuted this June. The film, which is the first of a planned two-part story, is as visually...