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-34 posts tagged "Indie Rock"
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
Ryan Israel | Thursday, February 21, 2019
It’s time to trade in your cowboy hat and boots for a pair of sunglasses and sandals. So far, it has been the year of the cowboy for Notre Dame musical performances, with country legend Garth Brooks performing at Notre Dame Stadium and Tim McGraw slated to perform at Purcell Pavilion. However, this Friday, two
Mike Donovan | Wednesday, February 20, 2019
“Before the World was Big” — big enough for Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad of Girlpool to have a voice of their own — the duo had to share. “Before the World was Big,” it was impossible to tell where Tucker’s voice ended and Tividad’s began. “Wearing matching dresses before the world was big,” Tucker
Ethan Utley | Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Panda Bear is the pseudonym of Noah Lennox, an electronic experimental-pop superstar. Whether he is working on his solo project, or with his more well-known group Animal Collective, Lennox masterfully sews hallucinatory undertones into noise-heavy pop. Somewhere between The Beach Boys and Yves Tumor, Lennox shines a chipper light onto an often profound and overwhelming
Ryan Israel | Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Jonatan Aron Leandoer Håstad’s latest album, “Nectar,” is to his musical career what a finsta is to a rinsta. For readers without Instagram accounts, let me explain: the “finsta” is the latest social media trend that has captured the hearts of young people everywhere. Finsta, an abbreviated term for “fake Instagram,” stands in contrast to the
Ethan Utley | Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Deerhunter has been called everything but an average indie-rock band. Lead singer and songwriter Bradford Cox is about as enigmatic as they come, and the music he creates is no exception. Pairing playful guitar and animated melodies with abstract lyrics and ghastly instrumentals, Cox has perhaps the most unique sound in today’s mainstream indie-rock scene.