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-4 posts tagged "Noise"
Marek Mazurek | Friday, February 9, 2018
One word you’ll hear all the time from athletes is “noise.” And they’re not talking about how loud a particular stadium is. “We just have to block out the noise.” “None of that noise affects us.” In this context, noise serves as a synonym for expectations, criticism or even praise from fans or the media.
Adrian Mark Lore | Monday, October 9, 2017
We stand on the shoulders of giants, but refuse to question their infallibility. This noxious rigidity is the metastasis of blind faith: who are our “forefathers” and why do we care? What do they know that we know not better now? This anti-dogmatic thesis saturates Ben Frost’s latest studio record, “The Centre Cannot Hold,” with
Adrian Mark Lore | Friday, March 3, 2017
Xiu Xiu has been busy. Unlike most other Western bands who condense their output into discrete, full-length albums and release them in usually predictable intervals of time, the members of this avant-garde musical group have sunk their hands into a wide variety of formats and genres in recent years. Since the turn of the millennium,
Matt McMahon | Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Champaign, Illinois’s News-Gazette film critic Chuck Koplinski introduced his contribution to the Ebertfest 2016 schedule, the Brian Wilson musical biopic “Love & Mercy,” as a film that completely surprised him on his initial viewing. The first-time contributor to the festival echoed familiar Roger Ebert sentiments about humanity and the delight in coming across movies that