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On a spring day nearly a century ago, Igor Stravinsky debuted a work entitled the "Rite of Spring." It caused emotions to run the gambit from utter outrage to barely-cloaked disgust.
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On a spring day nearly a century ago, Igor Stravinsky debuted a work entitled the "Rite of Spring." It caused emotions to run the gambit from utter outrage to barely-cloaked disgust.
In life, there are those that follow the rules and those that bend them. The band Yeah Yeah Yeahs would fall in the latter category.
"What is the shape of history?" This is a question that director Betsy Tucker poses in the University Drama Department's production of "Luminosity." Penned by British playwright Nick Stafford, the play explores the dialectic between black and white in British history.
Terrified of flying, I resorted to my iPod this past week to keep me calm during my travels. Luckily for me, I had some Stereolab on tap. Hypnotic harmonies from Fab Four Suture, their most recent release, were enough to send me into a near state of nirvana.
Last week tableau got an exclusive interview with Barry Burns, the pianist and guitarist for Scottish rock group Mogwai. Here's what Barry had to say:
Only 45 years after the original British Invasion, another group of Brits are hopping the pond and sowing their musical seeds in this nation. The majority of these transnational artists have been indie bands, pop groups or singer/songwriters who croon their way to number one on U.S. Billboard charts. One band stands apart from this pack. Mogwai, a group from Scotland, choose not to infuse their music with soulful lyrics and simple rhyme but with loud, boisterous melodies.
When someone says Battle of the Bands, what comes to mind? For many people it's the image of high school talent shows that are often devoid of the key word -- "talent." Others imagine intensely serious marching bands ready to fight to the death. While that would be awesome to behold, the University Program Council's second annual Battle of the Bands has much more to offer. Feb. 11 eight bands are sure to shake the foundations of the Student Activities Building.
Yellowcard was likely prepared for a slow rush of success, but not a catapult into fame. Their first album, Ocean Avenue, quickly earned cult status among rock and pop lovers alike. The record had three hit singles, each generating more publicity than the last. The first of these three, "Ocean Avenue," featured an unexpected instrument, the violin. Although use of string instruments is not that uncommon in the music industry, never before had a popular rock band used the violin as a permanent fixture in their sound.
Do you remember when a new kid joined your class in elementary school? Maybe he was a little bit odd or a little awkward, and, when you told your parents about it after school, they'd say to you, "Never judge a book by its cover." This, of course, was advice that went unheeded.
When I saw Madonna on the cover of "Vogue" in July, I thought to myself, "Wow, look how much she's changed." It had only been a year since she had started what I assumed would be her last tour, The Re-Inventions Tour, and for some time after that it seemed as if this 40-something, 80s pop idol had changed: She married a Brit, had two children and made a home in London.
When the movie soundtrack record first came about in the 1950s, its function was to advertise the movie with popular music.
You can tell a great deal about a play before the actors even appear on stage. If there are props outside of the curtain when the house lights are not yet dimmed, one can gauge how those one or two objects fit into the play's whole. Of course, if the curtains are already open when you take your seat, then part of the jigsaw already is solved.
For some new artists, getting noticed is an exercise in perseverance and grave determination. For Ashlee Simpson, fame was a walk in the park under the shade of her sister's success and her father's tutelage. The 21-year-old artist celebrated both a birthday this month and the release of her second album, I Am Me, on her father's new label, Papa Joe Records, a subset of Geffen Records.
If you take your music cues from the prime-time melodrama The OC, then I'm sure you've heard of matt pond PA. One of the more recent bands to be engulfed by the teeny-bopper indie eater, matt pond PA released their fifth album, Several Arrows Later, last week.
With a 20-person group behind their name, a cacophony of instruments and guests like Stars, Metric, Raising the Fawn, The Dears and Julie Penner, Broken Social Scene is able to create some of the most aurally satisfying and interesting music that I've ever heard. Its array of instruments may be difficult for the listener to decipher, but sifting through the noise is definitely worthwhile.
It's a sad fact that most good relationships go bad; people change, you change, but what happens after the end? The Loss of Life peeks into the life of Uri (played by 2005 College graduate Alexis Ohanian), recently dumped, and the path he chooses post-breakup. But it's more complicated than that. In case the title didn't give it away, this movie is not for the faint of heart. The Loss of Life explores the darker side of a broken heart and the decay of a fallen relationship.
To hear their voices you'd think that the four members of the Wrens were all twenty-somethings with few cares other than their next party. Instead, they're average Joes, working the 9-5 (except for one who was downsized "a year and some change ago"), touring on weekends and rushing in between shows to see their kids play the first game of the soccer season. Their lifestyles just don't fit what you see on stage: four older men, some gray, some balding and all jumping around, throwing guitars into the air and belting out evocative vocals like they don't have to be back in the office Monday morning. It goes without saying: the Wrens are a band like no other.
Before Kanye West wowed us with his debut album, College Dropout, he produced established artists like Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. But West's production prowess pales next to his sophomore effort, Late Registration.