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Thomas Murphy | Friday, April 20, 2018
Saturday morning, thousands of audiophiles will line up in front of record stores worldwide in preparation for Record Store Day, an annual holiday celebrating independent record stores and the lost art of vinyl. Founded in 2007, what began as an attempt to generate interest in record stores, which were read more→
Hanna Kennedy | Friday, April 20, 2018
“O, wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there here! / How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, / That has such people in’t.” This “brave new world” comes to life in the Not-So-Royal Shakespeare Company’s spring production, “The Tempest.” Filled with magic, sea storms and spectacle, “The read more→
Nicholas Ottone | Thursday, April 19, 2018
Madness. “Legion,” now airing its second season on FX, is obsessed with the concept of madness. It seeps into the visual aesthetic, structure and sound. “Legion” poses a universe slightly skewed from our own to examine the delicate and easily upset balance between order and chaos. Yet, its most read more→
Brian Raab | Thursday, April 19, 2018
As someone who has watched Cardi B’s music grow since her first mixtape, I can finally say, well done. Cardi’s first two mixtapes were unpredictable and unpolished — the production, flows and rhymes were rudimentary at best and cringeworthy at worst. Cardi’s gift for crafting unforgettable quotables on reality read more→
Ryan Israel | Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Every April, thousands of people flock to the Coachella Valley of Southern California for the nation’s premier music festival. Girls put on their finest flower crowns, guys grab their slickest basketball jerseys and all festival-goers rage on for performance after performance under the hot California sun. But to be read more→
Lauren Weldon | Wednesday, April 18, 2018
The first time I listened to Oxford-formed, London-based four-piece ISLAND, I was driving north along the winding Olympic Peninsula of Washington. Maybe it was the narrowly turning, tree-lined highway or maybe it was the ocean’s mist that can engulf cars and suspend any sense of seasonality, but when the read more→
Molly Chen | Tuesday, April 17, 2018
After months in the making, an epic collaborative effort between several student groups on campus came to life last weekend at Legends of Notre Dame. Songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Melina Duterte, better known as Jay Som, performed a touchingly-intimate set at Legends on Saturday. Legends, WVFI student radio, the read more→
Nora McGreevy | Monday, April 16, 2018
WVFI, Notre Dame’s student-run radio station, will host its 6th annual 10-hour-long fundraising extravaganza, Radiothon, this upcoming Sunday, April 22. The event, which consists of recorded interviews, live interviews and music, begins at 12 p.m. and goes until 10 p.m., and will be broadcast on their online website. Dino read more→
Catherine Barra | Monday, April 16, 2018
This past Friday, the faculty and students of Notre Dame’s Department of Romance Languages and Literature came together in DeBartolo Performing Art Center’s Leighton Concert Hall to perform a wide variety of fantastic Italian music for a sold-out crowd. As part of Romance Languages International Week 2018, Professor Lesley read more→
Cynthia Tran | Friday, April 13, 2018
What do you do when you have a midterm, three projects and two essays due in one week, but by the sweep of some miracle with the fervor of Fr. Jenkins’s handshake, half of your deadlines are gratuitously extended? You listen to the new Voidz album, “Virtue.” The potpourri read more→