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BIG TROUBLES IN THE WEB’S SPOTLIGHT
By Carolyn Keogh
Although NYU student Alex Craig and high school pal Ian Drennan (who attends the School of the Museum of Fine Arts) began their musical project Big Troubles in July of 2009, they have been gaining a bunch of buzz in their few short months of existence. With a debut 7’’ LP released on [...]
MUSE: THE HEIGHT OF MUSIC PERFORMANCE
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, FRIDAY MARCH 5TH
By Chris Ramirez
If Muse had not earned the title of “one of the best live performers” before, they earned it on Friday March 5, where the bands show at Madison Square Garden was nothing short of awe striking, spontaneous, and visually bedazzling.
The Resistance Tour, which supports Muse’s most recent album, [...]
ADAM GREEN’S MINOR LOVE
FAT POSSUM RECORDS
By Sedera Ranaivoarinosy
Adam Green’s latest release, Minor Love, is an odd combination of kitsch 70s pop, folk, blues and DIY rock. And it’s wonderful.
The New York based singer-songwriter goes from writing Simon and Garfunkel-like tunes in “Don’t Call Me Uncle” to singing to compositions influenced by African music in “Goblin” while also incorporating [...]
JOHNNY CASH’S AMERICAN VI: AIN’T NO GRAVE
American Recordings/Lost Highway
By Sedera Ranaivoarinosy
American VI: Ain’t No Grave compiles the last leg of recordings Johnny Cash made with bearded super-producer Rick Rubin before his death in September 2003. Released a few days before what would have been his 78th birthday, the songs in this record are particularly relevant in a posthumous album.
Most of the [...]
NYU STUDENTS FOR HAITI
By Chuck Furlong
An international line-up of musicians came to NYU to raise money for earthquake victims in Haiti.
On February 23, the Student Senators Council hosted NYU Students for Haiti: A Benefit Concert at the Skirball Center. The featured acts included Ghanaian Blitz the Ambassador, rapper Nyle, and the headliner, Grammy nominated Katia Cadet. The [...]
NOISE: New York Underground, New Media Gatekeepers
By Eugene Reznik
Oliver Ackermann makes Total Sonic Annihilation—the stompbox, that is. With a flick of his pick, strings vibrate sending a signal to the magnets of a humbucker pick-up. Then down a cable it goes, through the metal casing of a tin box, bouncing in and around a series of cleverly arranged resistors [...]
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Writers
Abigail Devora
Helen Cronin
Lizbette Ocasio-Russe
Jim Gallagher
Rega Jha
Amanda Katz
Anthony Benigno
Navjot Sobti
Carolyn Keogh
Editor
Edward Chu
Web Design
Shannon Geis
Devin Chanda
General Managers
Cody Thomas
Dominic Marcella
BEACH HOUSE
By Abigail Devora
Ethereal vocals and poetic lyrics craft Beach House’s newly released Teen Dream. This is the third album by the Baltimore indie pop outfit comprised of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally.
The duo creates calming compositions that put the listener at ease. In the band’s single, “Norway”, Legrand’s voice lightly layers itself on top of [...]
LADY GAGA ROCKS RADIO CITY
By Abigail Devora
Lady Gaga glowed onstage, kicking off the last leg of “The Monster Ball Tour” and her final night at Radio City Music Hall on January 24.
Wearing a flesh-colored costume adorned with lights, she opened the show with the song, “Dance in the Dark”. Gaga doppelgangers, mothers and their daughters and Whoopi Goldberg were [...]
LIL’ WAYNE
By Anthony Benigno
Two years ago, Lil Wayne’s cockamamie plan to make a rock album called Rebirth has raised a lot of eyebrows and a lot of questions. Does Wayne know the first thing about how to make a rock song? And even if he does, would it be any good? And even if it were, [...]
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