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(02/02/17 4:59am)
Have the post-rush blues? Celebrating a bid from the frat or sorority of your dreams? Need some sick beats to remind you that you can't push off school anymore and need to get back into the grind? Recess has got you covered for post-rush with the simple reminder that everybody at the end of the day will still be friends and not destroy our freshmen friend groups and that everything is going to be just the same. Cheers!
(12/07/16 5:02am)
For those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings and those awkward encounters with the homophobic drunk uncle at the dinner table...it's the most wonderful time of the year! Recess has you covered for your winter break work detox with these holiday picks:
(12/07/16 5:00am)
Drew Haskins: “Into You” by Ariana Grande is the best song of the year. Does it have synths so sonorous they could make the floor shake? Yep. Just the right touch of funky bass? But of course: this is a Max Martin production. Delightfully dumb lyrics like “A little less conversation and a little more touch my body?” Indeed it does, and many more where that came from. What else could it possibly need? Oh, what? It also has a stunning diva turn from the greatest pure pop singer of the decade? That’s how you make the best song of the year.
(10/26/16 4:00am)
Whether you're going to Franklin Street, a frat party, contributing to the mass genocide of pumpkins everywhere or holding a Oujia party with dead people in your common room, Recess has got you covered. We present the Halloween playlist:
(08/24/16 4:00am)
Dreading the start of classes on
Monday? Can’t wait to reunite with friends you haven’t seen in months? Whatever
your feelings about the new school year, Recess has a grade A playlist
guaranteed to get you through endless hours in Perkins.
(07/20/16 12:23pm)
It's been a crazy first half of the week, let alone first half of the summer. From Kimye exposing Taylor as a not-so-nice girl to Melania's plagiarism problems, let's just all agree to drown out all the chaos with some music, even if it's just for a moment.
(06/06/16 4:04am)
Tired of the radio's summer smash hits? Did you realize you can actually stop feeling JT's new single or that seems like "7 Years" more accurately describes how long the song has been on track lists? Recess has got you covered. Here are a few tunes on our Spotify that the Recess staff has picked for you to jam out to this summer.
(02/12/16 7:12pm)
This week's theme is Non-Valentine's Valentine's. We're talking about non-sappy songs that speak both the good and the bad about love. Whether you’ve got a hot date or Haagen-Dazs for Valentine’s Day, this playlist promises to leave you with no regrets the morning after.
(02/04/16 9:04pm)
Recess playlists are back! Check back each week at "dukerecess" on Spotify for a slate of tunes. This week's theme is: there is no theme.
(06/15/15 8:56am)
More than a month may have passed since school let out for the summer, but the summer is still very much alive and young. Need a new tune for that summer internship grind? The perfect pump-up song before those raging summer fiestas? Maybe a melody to beautifully accompany a warm summer night with friends around a campfire—maybe a little too cliché? We think so. Regardless, Recess is here to give you our must-listen-to songs for Summer 2015.
(02/12/15 9:31am)
Mellow music for a mellow week.
(02/05/15 11:23am)
Re-live the brilliance of the Super Bowl halftime show and then immerse yourself in the latest hits.
(01/29/15 10:30am)
Cold weather jams.
(01/22/15 10:55am)
From the streets of Atlanta's hip hop scene to the weird corners of Björk's mind.
(01/15/15 10:01am)
All songs approved for singing in the shower.
(01/08/15 9:33am)
Praise be unto R&B Jesus, D'Angelo.
(12/29/14 9:12pm)
Recess 2014 saw it all—Afro-Cuban legends, demon babies, Zadie Smith, D.C. punk and much more. Here are five stories chosen by Recess Editor Katie Fernelius that you should make sure you read before breaking in the new year of art and culture at Duke.
(12/04/14 10:26am)
Not holiday songs, but songs for the holidays.
(11/20/14 10:25am)
Just be grateful that this playlist wasn't ten different iterations of "Baby, It's Cold Outside."
(11/13/14 8:36am)
Contemporary rap meets Pitchforks darlings.