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ULTRA VIOLET LIVE 2010
By Helen Cronin
You have to have been studying abroad on a different planet if you haven’t seen (or at least heard about) the video from 2005’s UltraViolet Live that shows a nascent Lady Gaga (alias Stefani Germanotta) performing. At 2010’s version of the all-school talent show, you could almost hear the question, “Who’s next?” 20 [...]
FATHER FIGURES
By Abby Devora
The Father Figures formulate funky rock music fusing the principle of improvisation founded in jazz. Behind this music are five musicians (Adam Schatz, Jas Walton, Spencer Zahn, Ian Chang and Ross Edwards) who take their jazz performance and studies training from NYU and kick it up a whole lot of notches. Listeners hear [...]
NULL FRICTION: ODE TO MADRAS
By Cody Thomas
Shreyans Jha stands in one corner of the room, next to his Fender amp, which is propped up on a chair. He wears his Epiphone Les Paul very low, an ideal position for jumping around with a guitar. The New York University music practice room is extremely warm. Jha and [...]
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
By Cody Thomas
Music elitism may very well be a disease running rampant through the metal community. Many metalheads refuse to acknowledge the value of pop music. While this is a huge mistake, it is undeniable that the underground nature of metal presents some excellent advantages. When The Black Dahlia Murder performed at [...]
THE PROBLEM WITH POST-MODERN MUSIC
By Dominic Marcella
It’s hard to know what to make of post-modern music. Sometimes, one might wonder if it is music at all.
There is no clear-cut definition of music – musicians, philosophers, and scientists have been arguing about it for years. But why bother? In an ideal world, everyone would simply listen to [...]
TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY CONCERT
By Liz Ocasio-Russe
Country music is not what is usually heard drifting through the streets of New York. On February 27, though, that is exactly what crowds were jamming out to at the Terminal 5 venue on 610 W 56th St.
The sold out Texas Independence Day Concert featured country greats Eli Young Band and Pat [...]
I’M WITH THE BAND…KIND OF: THE JOYS OF CULT BANDS
By Anthony Benigno
A couple of weeks ago I saw the Dropkick Murphys in New Jersey. It was my fifth time seeing them in three years, and despite a revamped setlist and an increasingly impressive set design, the experience remained basically the same: everyone in the place knew the words to every single song the boys [...]
GORILLAZ’S PLASTIC BEACH
PARLOPHONE RECORDS, VIRGIN RECORDS
By Anthony Benigno
Three albums into their career and a lot of people still aren’t sure what exactly Gorillaz are. They should just be the guys who wrote “Feel Good, Inc.”…but they’re cartoons and therefore can’t really write anything. It’s possible that they’re just Damon Albarn’s pipe dream-version of a side project, but [...]
ANGELS & AIRWAVES’ LOVE
By Anthony Benigno
Life after fart jokes has been a bit of a rough one for Tom DeLonge; his second band Angels & Airwaves launched in 2007 with lots of fanfare (DeLonge predicted they would change rock n’ roll forever) but mixed results. Despite a minor hit or two, the grandiose-sounding group never found the same [...]
GET YOUR IRISH ON: SONGS TO PARTY, DRINK, AND PASS OUT TO ON ST. PADDY’S DAY
By Anthony Benigno
What?! St. Paddy’s Day already happened? Crap. Well, in any case, here’s a handy guide to creating your 2011 St. Patrick’s soundtrack. I’m Italian you say? I have no reason/right to be writing this? Never you mind that. Just pour yourself a car bomb with your Lucky Charms, pop in the Boondock Saints DVD, [...]
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