Afterglow Crossword Puzzle Vol. 1

Take a break after sitting through mind-numbing Zoom calls and reilluminate your brain with Afterglow’s first crossword puzzle!

Created and illustrated by Micaela Garza

CROSSWORD

CLUES

ACROSS

2 The name of Mac Miller and Post Malone albums

4 The musical marking of a prolonged note or rest

9 PJ

11 Apple’s music production software

14 Lovecraft or Metallica?

15 11th studio album by The Beach Boys

17 Precursor to reggae

18 A woodwind that “quacks”

20 Onomatopoeic subgenre of metal

21 Damon Albarn’s virtual band

25 First name of a Canadian pop singer rumored to be replaced by a clone

26 Needs more ________

28 Cowboy from The Valley, now based in Austin

33 AKA “Queen of Salsa”

34 Phoebe Bridgers’ 4x Grammy-nominated album

36 ____ (2017), Sawayama (2020)

37 Por Vida; Sin _______

38 The iconic treadmill music video

41 The soundtrack of New Orleans 

42 Creator of the iconic Apple ringtones

43 Mongolian folk-metal band

44 Giorgio Moroder used this to create the sound of the future

45 Sleater-_________

47 Taylor Swift or Don Toliver song?

DOWN

1 “_____ Trees is the perfect place for shade”

3 Shoot For The ______ Aim For The Moon

5 Patterned recurrence of a beat

6 This rapper starred as "Jimmy" on Degrassi 

7 Nirvana drummer-turned-frontman

8 Every rapper’s favorite place to get sushi

10 Barbadian singer who hasn’t released an album since 2015

12 "Don’t call my name, don’t call my name…”

13 Tension heard when certain combinations of tones are played together

14 Birthplace of house music

16 AKA “Lady Day”

19 Music television program that was created by Don Cornelius and featured R&B, soul, and hip-hop artists

22 “I’m in your area, I know the first three numbers…”

23 Parliament and Funkadelic bandleader

24 Standout track from "Shrek"

27 The Texas capitol’s very own music festival

29 Guitarist, producer, artist: ____ Frusciante

30 Destiny’s Child anthem

31 Masked hip-hop enigma

32 Pt. III and a Grammy nominee

33 She’s Every Woman

35 Trumpet player who influenced Miles Davis and Fats Navarro

39 The scale that forms the composition of a song 

40 Be the cowboy!

46 Shorthand for audio adjustments