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Kara Miecznikowski | Friday, February 23, 2018
This weekend, collegiate bands from across the nation will travel to South Bend to perform in Notre Dame’s 60th annual Collegiate Jazz Festival (CJF). The festival — which is the oldest in the nation — also features a panel of world-renowned jazz musicians, who serve as performance adjudicators throughout the event and participate in a “Judges’
Molly Chen | Thursday, November 2, 2017
If you’re finding it difficult to nail down Yellow Days’ genre, you’re not alone. In fact, the 18-year-old himself has said there’s no such thing as genre anymore — the absence of any one classification may be exactly what makes this artist so distinct. The Southeast England-based teen first made himself known in November of
Alvaro del Campo | Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Kamasi Washington’s “Harmony of Difference” EP is an ambitious journey through a number of broad concepts related to human nature. Track titles like “Humility” and “Perspective” give the project a grandiose framework that its experimental jazz attempts to encapsulate. Washington’s method for conveying these different concepts largely involves variations in instrumentation and rhythmic composition. The rhythm section
Adrian Mark Lore | Tuesday, September 12, 2017
And there we have it: The record we’d needed Giant Claw to produce this whole time. In the wake of 2014’s mind-bending, body-bending “DARK WEB,” all bets were off as to what Orange Milk Records founder Keith Rankin would transmute for his follow-up record. The denouement was predictably unpredictable. “Deep Thoughts” was excellent, yes —
Adrian Mark Lore, Adam Ramos, Mike Donovan and Brian Boylen | Friday, September 8, 2017
Album art is the unsung hero of the music industry, because — let’s face it — everyone judges a book by its cover. So the saying goes, anyways — but most of the industry’s more thoughtful musicians do take great care to convey important messages about their music through record sleeves alone. Lest their efforts
Augie Collins | Friday, September 1, 2017
While some of us were busy forming a symbiotic relationship with our sofas over the summer, the busiest band in the world had their hands full releasing not one, but two full-length studio albums in a two-month span. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, an eyebrow-raising seven-piece crew led by front man Stu Mackenzie, hails
Adrian Mark Lore | Wednesday, August 23, 2017
To put it bluntly, Laurel Halo is the kind of musician who — while overflowing with talent — falls under everyones radar, never having produced a single record that fully captures the multidimensionality of her skills. Contrast her with Hyperdub labelmate Fatima Al Qadiri, who has turned heads with her sensational musical output, which is
Adrian Mark Lore | Tuesday, May 2, 2017
If Greek tragedies are the fossils of human experience, documenting our emotional range with melodramatic flourish, then Colin Stetson’s oeuvre is an osteological study of humankind’s potential, from our glorious peaks to our basest vices. Perhaps classical antiquity is populated by larger-than-life characters casting the long shadow of Platonic ideals — of suffering, as it happens.
Mike Donovan | Thursday, February 23, 2017
If you’re looking to get your cultural fix Thursday, head over to the LaFortune ballroom where, starting at 7 p.m., you can see Notre Dame’s New Orleans Brass Band and Jazz Band 2 perform in the Collegiate Jazz Festival preview. Tonight’s show will be the first of many opportunities to experience the excitement of live
Kelly McGarry | Thursday, October 13, 2016
As a venue for improvisational and interactive arts, Merriman’s Playhouse brings jazz to life in South Bend. On Thursday evening, jazz vocalist and composer Keri Johnsrud will bring her quartet to Merriman’s to showcase selections from their latest release alongside arrangements of jazz standards. Before beginning her career in jazz, Johnsrud explored a host of other