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(09/07/17 5:16am)
After returning her songs to Spotify, a silent Taylor Swift has returned to the stage with the single “Look What You Made Me Do.” This is the first track released in anticipation of her upcoming album “reputation.” Though the new song presents Swift as tough, intense and self-aware, the actual perception this song creates does the opposite.
(05/23/17 2:56am)
Monday morning, UPC announced Future and Lil Yachty as the 2017 Welcome Week concert performers. The Welcome Week concert is staged partly as an alternative to Block Party, which takes place on the same night.
(04/03/17 6:27am)
University faculty in the studio art and drama departments make significantly less than their colleagues in other fields and schools.
(03/24/17 5:18am)
Self-proclaimed Mr. Worldwide, also known as Pitbull, released his 10th studio album “Climate Change” last week with some help from 16 of his closest artists friends. Running at 44 minutes too long, the album’s 12 songs present formulaic, familiar radio beats overplayed by pop artists years ago. While the album may be named “Climate Change,” in the wake of such a mild winter, Pitbull still does not seem to have heated anything up.
(02/22/17 2:46am)
Kodak Black is no stranger to controversy. After questionably featuring Danielle Bregoli — the 13-year-old “Cash me Ousside” girl from Dr. Phil — in his previous video “Everything 1K,” Black was thrust into the spotlight.
(02/10/17 5:23am)
West Palm Beach band Surfer Blood has had a shaky, controversial past three years. Their darker 2013 album “Pythons” was released in wake of lead singer John Paul Pitts’ arrest for domestic violence. A revival of their established jovial, beachy aura seemed to be in the cards, though the album was still tinged with the sentiments of Pitts’ personal drama.
(01/20/17 12:41am)
Over the course of a 33-year career, The Flaming Lips have always presented a solid psychedelic rock sound. Although this sound has sometimes been altered on albums such as “With a Little Help from My Fwends,” their Beatles tribute album and “Imagene Peise — Atlas Eets Christmas,” their Christmas album, the psych rock influences were consistently present. Unlike these past albums, “Oczy Mlody” presents a much more synthesized, formulaic and electronic sound in comparison with a few subtle allusions to their original style.
(12/15/16 2:04am)
“Enlighten Us: The Rise and Fall of James Arthur Ray” first premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival and was re-aired as a CNN special this month. The documentary covers the story of James Arthur Ray, a motivational speaker who spent two years in jail after being found guilty of negligent homicide during a retreat at a sweat lodge in Arizona. Directed by Jenny Carchman, the film tracks Ray’s rapid rise and fall from grace as one of the most prominent motivational speakers in both the country and the world.
(11/22/16 2:38am)
French electro-pop duo Justice has returned after a four year hiatus — five years, if you exclude their last album of live performances — with a new yet familiar sound on “Woman.” The composition of each song lends a new air to the band’s quintessential style of electronic dance pop. The album has newfound maturity and intensity that did not seem to be present in previous releases.
(10/12/16 12:07am)
Two years ago, Banks snuck onto the scene with the release of her first full album “Goddess.” On “Goddess,” the singer established her distinctive style, marked by dark, rhythmic house beats, melancholic lyrics and melodically gritty croons. Each song flowed to the next without too many surprises, setting a clear framework of what could be expected from her.
(10/10/16 1:40am)
In her third full studio album, Solange offers a refreshingly intimate, yet powerful take on identity and blackness in America. Although “A Seat at the Table” mirrors many issues of visibility and vulnerability outlined in her sister’s groundbreaking video album, “Lemonade,” Solange looks inward where Beyoncé did not.
(07/14/16 2:13am)
Three years ago, an apartment fire destroyed nearly all of Dev Hynes’ belongings. He lost his dog Cupid, many of his clothes and a computer containing almost all of his demos and samples. In the wake of this tragedy, however, the producer and singer remains undaunted. Last week Hynes released “Freetown Sound,” his third album produced under the pseudonym Blood Orange, a stirring 17 song narration on race, identity and life in New York and the world as a whole.
(04/28/16 12:25am)
Last weekend, Beyoncé released her sixth studio album, “Lemonade,” with an accompanying 56-minute visual album of the same name. Initially, the film was initially released solely on subscription-based platforms, HBO and Tidal, but, unsurprisingly, “Lemonade” is still surging to the top of the charts and is projected to start at number one on the Billboard top 200.
(04/20/16 2:52am)
Director Pamela Romanowsky makes a valiant effort but ultimately misses the mark in her adaptation of Stephen Elliott’s memoir “The Adderall Diaries.” In the true fashion of A24 Studios and James Franco’s own production studio, Rabbit Bandini, Romanowsky’s solo debut film is a slew of potentially powerful montages, but is punctuated by mostly inconsequential dialogue.
(03/16/16 3:53am)
Miike Snow, the indie pop trio composed of Christian Karlsson, Andrew Wyatt and Pontus Winnburg, released “iii,” their first full-length studio album since 2012, after a three-year silent period. With their third album, the group returns with an updated, smoother, warmer sound that still holds true to the style from the first album that shot them into the spotlight back in 2009.
(01/22/16 1:43am)
On his 69th birthday, just two days before his death, David Bowie released his final album. Though it is quite short, with only seven songs at 41 minutes long, its impact is large. “Blackstar” is easily one of Bowie’s more experimental albums, and also one of his best. This album greeted fans three years after his last album, “The Next Day,” which marked his surprise return from a ten-year hiatus at the time of its release.
(11/24/15 3:57am)
The past two years of Justin Bieber’s life have been marked by more mistakes than triumphs. Since the release of his 2013 collection “Journals,” the star has not only been charged with a DUI in Miami — the charge that lead to his infamous mugshot — but he has also been charged for assault in multiple major cities. A White House petition also gathered hundreds of thousands of signatures demanding his deportation to Canada.
(11/13/15 4:33am)
Carrie Underwood released her last studio work three years ago. Audiences have been anticipating her latest album, “Storyteller,” especially since she announced it in August 2013. A great hits compilation and the birth of Underwood’s first child contextualize the album’s production process, and perhaps those aspects made this new release stand out as unique compared to Underwood’s other albums.
(10/27/15 5:53am)
October 18 was a regular day until Drake announced he would be releasing his video for his runaway bootycall hit "Hotline Bling" on Apple Music. The italicized, arial black words "OCTOBER 19" are repeated in white, against the quintessential baby pink backdrop, just like the album cover for the single. If one could not connect the date to the occasion, then one probably wasn't a dedicated enough fan to care about the video anyway.
(10/23/15 3:21am)
It has been two years since Avicii’s last formal, studio release, “True”. With his Sept. 2013 album, he took the industry by storm, producing a slew chart-topping hits like “Wake Me Up” and “Hey Brother” that would dominate the charts for months. Unlike Avicii’s previous album, "Stories" seems to rely on the same europop beats and big-name features that fans have grown used to, sandwiched between a few solid anthems that keep the album afloat.