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Scene Selections: the White Album turns 50

Charlie Kenney, Matthew Munhall, Carlos De Loera, Jake Winningham, Sara Schlecht and Ryan Israel | Wednesday, November 14, 2018

On Nov. 22, the Beatles’ White Album — the iconic white square with “The Beatles” stamped in irregular print — celebrates 50 years since its release. With the release of “The Beatles” in 1968, the Beatles introduced some of the group’s most beloved and controversial tracks, a grab-bag of gems that Scene writer Charlie Kenney describes as

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The White Album: Backhanded brilliance 50 years later

Charlie Kenney | Monday, November 12, 2018

In many ways, on the fiftieth anniversary of its release, the cover of “The Beatles” tells a much more coherent story than the songs within it. The cover of the 1968 album, more colloquially known as the White Album, is stark white with the two words “The Beatles” crooked and located just off center in

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Weezer returns triumphantly with beach-themed self-titled album

Jimmy Kemper | Thursday, April 7, 2016

A few years ago, critics scrutinized Weezer as just another washed-out, creatively-dead band, lingering on the fumes of a career that burnt out a few decades ago. Then, everything changed with 2014’s “Everything Will Be Alright in the End,” frontman Rivers Cuomo’s equivalent of turning around a class with an all-nighter paper after an entire