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Massachusetts Daily Collegian

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A free and responsible press serving the UMass community since 1890

Massachusetts Daily Collegian

A free and responsible press serving the UMass community since 1890

Massachusetts Daily Collegian

Suzanne Bagia

Suzanne Bagia, Head Arts Editor

Suzanne Bagia is the Head Arts Editor at the Massachusetts Daily Collegian. She’s in her final year of graduate school in UMass Amherst’s MFA program, specializing in prose and studying music history. As a music journalist, she focuses on how music shapes identity, lives, society and the overall meaning that music culture brings to our lives. She has interviewed  major names in the indie music scene and covered major music festivals like Boston Calling, Gov Ball and Lollapalooza. Though her journalism primarily focuses on music, she also writes about culture, creative nonfiction and oral histories.

All content by Suzanne Bagia
Image courtesy of the Green River Festival’s official Instagram

Dispatches from Greenfield

By Suzanne Bagia, Head Arts Editor
July 21, 2025
Image credit: Apple Music

‘Big Ideas’ on the road

By Suzanne Bagia, Head Arts Editor
July 7, 2025
Courtesy of Wednesday’s Official Instagram

Tracing Wednesday in the southern contemporary

By Suzanne Bagia, Assistant Arts Editor
April 27, 2025
Image created by Suzanne Bahia

The albums that defined the COVID-19 pandemic

By Suzanne Bagia, Assistant Arts Editor
April 3, 2025
Image made by Suzanne Bagia using Wikimedia Commons and Canva

The Liner Notes: where is music going in 2025?

By Suzanne Bagia, Assistant Arts Editor
March 30, 2025
Photo courtesy of Apple Music.

Reflecting on ‘Psychodrama’ five years later

By Suzanne Bagia, Assistant Arts Editor
March 23, 2025
Photo courtesy of 2b Entertainment (Adrian Lyles’ publicity firm).

Adrian Lyles isn’t one thing

By  Suzanne Bagia, Assistant Arts Editor
February 5, 2025
Photo courtesy of Taija New, Photographer Andrew Byrne

Introducing Taija New

By Suzanne Bagia, Assistant Arts Editor
December 31, 2024
Image made by Suzanne Bagia using images courtesy of the Official Freddie Mercury Instagram and MabMeadowsMercury (altered on Canva)

The enduring image of Freddie Mercury and Queen

By Suzanne Bagia, Assistant Arts Editor
December 1, 2024
Courtesy of Faucci PR

Alisan Porter Returns to the Road: An Interview

By Suzanne Bagia, Assistant Arts Editor
November 20, 2024
Photo from Juliette Boulay via Grandstand Media and Dead Oceans

Greg Mendez after ‘Greg Mendez’

By Suzanne Bagia, Assistant Arts Editor
November 10, 2024
Graphic Created by Suzanne Bagia using images credited to The Recording Academy

Predicting the 2025 Grammy Nominations

By Suzanne Bagia, Assistant Arts Editor
November 7, 2024
Sound of Boston

Omar Apollo: the music in performance

By Suzanne Bagia, Assistant Arts Editor
October 1, 2024
Photo Credit: 24kGoldn, Columbia Records

24kGoldn in concert

By Suzanne Bagia, Assistant Arts Editor
September 9, 2024
Photo courtesy of IMDb

An oral history of Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’

By Suzanne Bagia, Assistant Arts Editor
February 29, 2024
Image courtesy of Pitchfork.

boygenius: the year

By Suzanne Bagia, Collegian Staff
January 14, 2024
Courtesy of Haim's Spotify

Haim’s “Days Are Gone”: 10 years later

By Suzanne Bagia, Collegian Contributor
October 31, 2023
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