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Michael Askins | Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Indie rock band The National recently surprise-dropped their tenth studio album “Laugh Track” as a follow-up to “First Two Pages of Frankenstein,” which they released earlier this year. If you are unfamiliar with the band, The National is made up of frontman Matt Berninger, brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner and brothers Scott and Bryan Devendorf,
John Clark | Thursday, February 24, 2022
Considering the fact that my music taste is dominated by white rock music, it always surprises me when I remember that I got into Beach House via Kendrick Lamar. On the song “Money Trees” from his 2012 album “Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City,” Kendrick sampled Beach House’s “Silver Soul” from their 2010 breakthrough album “Teen Dream.”
Kate Casper | Thursday, February 10, 2022
The Minnesota-based indie pop/rock band Hippo Campus released a new album, “LP3,” last weekend — their first full-length project since 2018. The album follows up on the edgier sound and subject matter from their 2021 EP “Good Dog, Bad Dream.” Releasing four singles in advance of the 10-track album, listeners knew what to expect when
Aidan O'Malley | Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Michelle Zauner, the frontwoman for indie rock band Japanese Breakfast, has outright stated that their third studio album is one about joy. And with a name like “Jubilee,” perhaps that shouldn’t come as a surprise. A quick listen through the record only underscores the obvious, as nearly every track is a bonafide banger — even
Willoughby Thom | Monday, September 7, 2020
Michael Donovan, the Brooklyn-based yodeler. I remember the first time ever meeting Mike “Donny” Donovan (’20), former Scene Editor and WVFI Station Manager, at my first Scene meeting in 2019. I vividly recall entering the dark Observer office in the basement of South Dining Hall and seeing a tall, lanky guy sitting at the cluttered
Mike Donovan | Friday, April 17, 2020
“I just wanted to be one of the Strokes,” Alex Turner sings to introduce his meandering through the “Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino.” Alex and I both. One indie-tinged suburbanite among millions, I worshipped the understated, airtight and incontrovertibly analogue articulations of 2001’s “Is This It” and 2003’s “Room on Fire” as the epitome of
Matthew Kellenberg | Thursday, October 17, 2019
Fans of indie rock band Big Thief were surprised last July to receive unmarked, unannounced packages at their doors. Those fans had purchased vinyl copies of the group’s third album, “U.F.O.F.,” back in May, but these new packages contained something different: a two-song record, etched only with the date 10/11/19. The first song on the
Mike Donovan | Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Culture favors the futurist, the sample-heavy synth pop, spliced together post-modern masterpieces of poetic beauty and electronic grace. The charts — and the internet news feeds — rise and fall in response to the dexterity of the musically inclined computer wiz, master of software, producer extraordinaire. Guitars, tube amps, lovelorn feelings. These are nothing more
Matthew Kellenberg | Thursday, February 28, 2019
“The Pitchfork Effect”: When a Pitchfork review, typically given on a debut or early album, appreciably alters the trajectory of a given artist. Examples include Arcade Fire (“Funeral”: 9.7/10), Bon Iver (“For Emma, Forever Ago”: 8.1/10), Travis Morrison (“Travistan”: 0.0/10). The same can be said for the indie-pop/rock project Broken Social Scene. Its 2003 debut,
Ryan Israel, Dessi Gomez and Nia Sylva | Monday, February 25, 2019
Friday, indie-rock bands Sure Sure and Young the Giant played at Stepan Center for the Student Union Board’s spring concert. Our Scene writers offer their impressions of some of the concert’s best moments. Sameer Gadhia By Ryan Israel, Scene Writer Sure Sure put on a fitting opening performance, and there’s no arguing that — but