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-19 posts tagged "Scene"
Mike Donovan | Thursday, September 26, 2019
Lights (red, blue) flicker-flashed over the fence, waving an aggressive hello to (a) the night sky and (b) the hundreds of students gathered within its perimeter. It was the noise — some fuzzy, some funky, some fishy, all of it loud — that drew the lights to our compound, and it was the noise (the
Mike Donovan | Friday, May 17, 2019
After a few good weeks cruising along the “Old Town Road,” it’s time to take a turn down memory lane. Return to late summer 2015, when the class of 2019 first arrived on campus. Some of these newcomers found themselves tangled in a sprawling web of uncertainties, living out Courtney Barnett’s anxious anthem: “Nobody really
Patrick Witteman | Thursday, April 11, 2019
Natalie Mering, who performs under Weyes Blood, is no stranger to the music industry. “Titanic Rising,” her newest, most stunning offering, is the fourth LP that she has released since her full-length debut in 2011. What distinguishes this album from the other three is that “Titanic Rising” was released under the indie rock stalwart Sub
Patrick Witteman | Friday, March 29, 2019
British MC Little Simz is tired of being “underrated,” and the drive to progress and hone her craft as a musician and lyricist certainly shows on her new album “GREY Area.” When discussing her work with the Independent, Simz said she has grown more comfortable with her place in the rap world. “Sometimes I go on
Dessi Gomez | Friday, March 22, 2019
Some people might think the Scene section of The Observer is easier to write for than other sections, or that it is not very journalistic because we spend most of our time writing music and movie reviews. But I’m going to refute that claim. I think Scene is, in its own way, a very valid
Brian Boylen, Nora McGreevy, Lucas Masin-Moyer, Margaret McGreevy and Ryan Israel | Monday, October 1, 2018
Brian Boylen Associate Scene Editor “Sometimes” by My Bloody Valentine “Expectation” by Tame Impala “Streaky” by Death Grips “Sugar for the Pill” by Slowdive “I’m Sleepin’ In” by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard I chose these songs because all of these artists are performing at Desert Daze, a festival I am going to on
Mike Donovan | Thursday, February 15, 2018
Reflecting on the frailty of relationships, Penny Lane (played by Kate Hudson in Cameron Crowe’s acclaimed film “Almost Famous”) speaks wisely, “if you ever get lonely, just go to the record store and visit your friends.” A word of warning: If the record store in question happens to be Rumor Records in Niles, Michigan, do
Jimmy Kemper | Friday, May 19, 2017
This past weekend, the Scene-iors decided to make the trip down to my hometown of Atlanta for the Shaky Knees Music Festival. This past weekend, I made the great decision to get sick right before the trip, effectively ending my festival experience before it even started. I was pretty devastated that I was missing what
John Darr, Erin McAuliffe, Jack Riedy, Kelly McGarry and Jimmy Kemper | Wednesday, May 3, 2017
No matter what the denizens of Scene past will tell you, the class of 2017 is a special one. Notoriously banned for writing music reviews during their freshman year in an attempt to publish articles on someone besides Kanye West, this year’s Scene-iors are perhaps the most in-tune in the section’s history. They can be
Nora McGreevy | Tuesday, February 28, 2017
We can all identify at least one thing that surprised us about the 89th Academy Awards. It’s hard to be alive in the United States with functional Internet access and not possess at least an inkling of Sunday night’s dramatics: mayhem, Steve Harvey memes, justified anger, public statements of apology, awkward celebrity interviews and the New