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-8 posts tagged "Talking Heads"
Sara Schlecht | Friday, May 21, 2021
When I first got to Saint Mary’s, I had a sticky note list of classes I needed to take over the next few semesters and a mental list of graduate programs I wanted to attend. My plan was to do everything as efficiently as possible, and I thought nothing of the way I used my
Colleen Fischer | Friday, October 23, 2020
If I was in a coming-of-age film, it would open with me slamming the door shut and blaring something David Byrne wrote. There is something about David Byrne and Talking Heads that makes my brain make sense. I was waiting for the film version of “America Utopia” for over a year, and it was worth
Colleen Fischer | Thursday, October 8, 2020
We need to change how we talk about celebrity male producers in regard to female artists. It’s fun to listen to celebrity male producers like Jack Antonoff and Mark Ronson talk about the creative process behind some of the greatest pop records of the last decade. Mark Ronson’s stories are one of my favorite parts
Nora McGreevy, Brian Boylen, Augie Collins, Cynthia Tran and Carlos De Loera | Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Senior year feels a lot like LCD Soundsystem’s song “All My Friends.” The beat speeds up, emotions rise, time slips away faster and faster until you can barely jump up and down quickly enough to keep time to the music. All of a sudden, you’re close to the end. As their final year winds down,
Mike Donovan, Adam Ramos, Owen Lane and Adrian Mark Lore | Friday, October 27, 2017
Ghosts! Goblins! Gourds! Scary words that start with G! Put your costume on, grab a plastic pumpkin pail and venture through Scene’s spookiest Halloween picks — if you dare. “The Beautiful People” by Marilyn Manson — Adam Ramos 1996 was a spooky year for music. As grunge continued to lose its relevancy in the pop charts, major
Adam Ramos | Monday, January 18, 2016
I don’t think my folks will ever give up trying to recreate the unbridled exuberance of Christmas morning from my family’s younger years. Don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas, but Lord (happy belated birthday by the way) knows running down the stairs at 7 a.m. is just not happening when sleeping until 11 a.m. is
Matthew Munhall | Sunday, September 20, 2015
During the last week of August, Pitchfork, the tastemaking online music publication, published its list of the 200 Best Songs of the 1980s. The introduction argued that from these lists “we learn something about how perceptions of decades change over time, and how the musical ideas from a given era filter through to later generations.”
Matthew Munhall | Monday, November 3, 2014
I saw Annie Clark, the musician St. Vincent, live at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago this July, and again last Friday night at the festival’s Paris incarnation. After these two entrancing sets, I am confident making this statement: St. Vincent is hands down the best live act in the world right now. Clark