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-18 posts tagged "rock"
Lauren Weldon | Wednesday, April 18, 2018
The first time I listened to Oxford-formed, London-based four-piece ISLAND, I was driving north along the winding Olympic Peninsula of Washington. Maybe it was the narrowly turning, tree-lined highway or maybe it was the ocean’s mist that can engulf cars and suspend any sense of seasonality, but when the track “Stargazer” off their 2015 debut
Owen Lane | Tuesday, March 20, 2018
In 2018, the definition of music continues to expand. Even hip-hop music, once the edgiest genre of music and considered abrasive and threatening to middle-class American values, has become the dominant popular musical genre, complete with an endless queue of traditionalists complaining about the genre’s unpleasant new direction. So, what can a rock band even
Mike Donovan | Thursday, February 8, 2018
Peering through the mangled segment of fencing, her veins run cold. From a distance, the overgrown vines and bushes looked manageable. But here, alongside the century-old crumbling remnants of the zoo — once the gem of Belle Isle — the weeds posture monstrously above her. “I’ll give you a lift,” he offers. She obliges,
Ryan Israel | Monday, November 20, 2017
The era of rock ’n’ roll passed long ago. The legendary rock music produced by bands like Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and The Who is played sparingly and enjoyed by an older generation. The rockstars of today are far different from the ones that once jammed out on guitars and drums. Modern-day music icons
Mike Donovan | Thursday, November 9, 2017
A girl goes to a garage sale. In the corner, next to a pile of old clothes and a shady-looking blender, she finds her ticket to euphoria — a fantastical vehicle that translates her innermost thoughts for a world that desperately needs them. She buys the CASIO. Several years later, the CASIO sits among a
Mike Donovan | Friday, October 27, 2017
Writing sucks. As deadlines approach, I reach into the cavernous vestibules of my idle brain, shine a feeble light onto its damp walls and find nothing. My phone pings, sending up a dopamine flare. For the next 30 minutes, memes captivate my world. The clock ticks. I return to my documents, beat out a few
Grace Weissend | Friday, September 1, 2017
Growing out of Samuel Beam’s stripped down, hushed sounds of yore under his “Iron & Wine” moniker, “Beast Epic” is a fitting title for the artist’s most recent project. Yet the album is epic not in its outlandishness, size, or theatricality, but in the way nearly each song manages to envelop the listener with rich,
Owen Lane | Monday, April 3, 2017
The Andy Warhol Album. The cult classic. The Banana Album. “The Velvet Underground & Nico,” the legendary debut album of pioneering American rock group The Velvet Underground, stands out in musical history for many different reasons. The record comes with countless fun facts: For instance, the album originally achieved only modest sales, peaking at a pitiful 171 on the “Billboard”
Kelly McGarry, Erin McAuliffe, Adam Ramos, Jimmy Kemper, Adrian Mark Lore and Mike Donovan | Monday, February 6, 2017
Adam Ramos, Erin McAuliffe, Jimmy Kemper, Adrian Mark Lore, Mike Donovan and Kelly McGarry discuss the albums we listened to during our impressionable teenage years. Whatever brought us to these albums — whether the quest for love or the need to be different — it’s clear that they shaped our experiences of music.
Augie Collins | Monday, December 5, 2016
In celebration of the album’s recent 25th anniversary, R.E.M’s landmark record “Out of Time” has been reissued and expanded in style, boasting a second disc of 19 newly remixed demos. These extra tracks show the songs slowly taking shape; several drafts feature hummed or even silent sections of where lyrics had not yet been finalized.