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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
CMJ AT NYU
Fall in New York City means many things – some of them questionable – to many people. But to music aficionados, it rings one harmonically perfect, super-loud bell: the CMJ (College Music Journal) Music Marathon (October 21st – 25th). As every year, the festival will span 5 days, 5 nights, 75 venues around the city, [...]
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