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NJ PUNK ROCK COMES TO NYU FOR STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL
By Chris Ramirez
At this years’ NYU Strawberry Festival you may be getting a little more than your fill of strawberry short cake, sweets, fun games and prizes. Come Friday April 30, you may find yourself getting a little jolt from the screams, convulsing-upbeat guitar work and hard drumming of New Brunswick, NJ band Screaming Females.
The [...]
INDIE MUSICIANS AND MUSIC VIDEOS: A LOVE STORY
By Sedera Ranaivoarinosy
The release of Lady Gaga’s video for Telephone, her second collaboration with R&B golden girl Beyoncé, was an event like we rarely see anymore: the video is more than 9 minutes long, and the next day, everyone seemed to be talking about how cool it was that she used Coke cans as rollers [...]
THE PROBLEM WITH POST-MODERN CRITICS
By Cody Thomas
In our last issue, my close friend and fellow Troubadour founder Dominic Marcella wrote a stimulating piece on contemporary composition. This is a response to his argument regarding the decline of contemporary music in the academic world.
I’d like to preface my response by noting one thing that my partner and I agree [...]
HOW WE PERCEIVE MUSIC
By Dominic Marcella
Much of the musical dialectic that I have recently encountered emphasizes the notion of expressivity in music. I have often heard it argued that a particular piece of music is either expressive or not expressive (and is consequently either good or not good), but to focus on such a notion of expressivity [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
PIG DESTROYER
A legion of metal fans squeezed onto a small boat on the Hudson may seem like a dangerous idea. For Pig Destroyer, though, the danger was part of the excitement.
This past October 24th, as part of the CMJ festival, the Temptress hosted about 500 fans (probably a few more than the boat is supposed to [...]
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