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-10 posts tagged "EDM"
Willoughby Thom | Tuesday, January 21, 2020
As awards season is in full swing, every music festival line-up is also being released. Waiting for festival line-ups to be released is often more nerve-wracking than seeing the same predicted film win every award. Festival line-up release dates are all over the place, adding to a festival-goer’s anxiety. There is no rhyme or reason.
Ryan Israel | Friday, April 5, 2019
A classical piano plays a familiar melody. A comforting voice begins to sing, “Mama, just killed a man / Put a gun against his head / Pulled my trigger, now he’s dead.” It’s Freddie Mercury; this is “Bohemian Rhapsody,” a classic rock song long launched back into popular culture by the historically inaccurate, self-aggrandizing Queen
Patrick Witteman | Thursday, October 4, 2018
Richard D. James is having a late-career renaissance. Early in his career, James pioneered an electronic sound that would dramatically influence the electronic dance music and intelligent dance music (dance music that transcended clubs) scenes for years to come. After taking a 13-year hiatus following his album “drukqs,” Aphex Twin has released new material that
Adrian Mark Lore, Adam Ramos, Mike Donovan and Matthew Munhall | Wednesday, October 4, 2017
In the wake of controversy surrounding many NFL players’ decision to protest racial inequality by kneeling during the national anthem, rapper Vince Staples tweeted “The national anthem don’t even slap.” The comedic response directly defies the many pundits — and President Trump himself — who’ve criticized the players for ostensibly disrespecting the anthem, and the
Helen Sung | Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Rezz (aka Space Mom) blessed us all with her bass heavy, alien-trippy, brainwashing studio debut album “Mass Manipulation.” The title itself reveals Rezz’s dark, cynical side that is portrayed in her intertwined passions of EDM and human cognitive psychology. Rezz, a 22 year old from Niagara Falls, has quickly caught the attention of high profile
Adrian Mark Lore | Thursday, April 6, 2017
I left my last hope for electronic dance music in the hands of The M Machine. See, while I watched other artists crumble under the pressure of capitalistic interests to assimilate to the same tired song-writing molds, The M Machine soared eminently as the genre’s secret weapon. Could they be the ones to innovate it
John Darr | Thursday, November 10, 2016
This piece is in response to “The Chainsmokers’ music simply checks pop’s boxes” by Christian Bunker, which was published in Wednesday’s issue of The Observer. Most pop music is just trash that hasn’t been thrown out yet. The majority of tracks that roll through the Billboard Hot 100 disappear within a few months and are never
Christian Bunker | Tuesday, November 8, 2016
It’s been four years since American pop duo The Chainsmokers formed, and they are still yet to release an album. This kind of wait is by no means unprecedented — 16 years separated the Avalanches’ first and second album — nor would it be unforgivable if their work up to this point showed any promise.
Adam Ramos | Friday, September 30, 2016
As the trees begin to shift colors and hoodies become more and more prevalent on campus, it seems we have no choice but say goodbye to summer — at least we get pumpkin spice lattes. Thankfully, Legends Nightclub, home of the iconic “hip-hop night,” aims to provide one final ode to the sunshine season. This
Dan Brombach | Sunday, January 26, 2014
Last February, Ryan Raddon, the Chicago-based DJ better known as Kaskade, wrote a blog post titled “No One Knows Who We Are,” in response to an Los Angeles Times article which highlighted many of the dangers of drugs and what they dubbed as “electronic festival culture.” In his writing, Raddon called the Times out for