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(11/05/14 4:59am)
The most nerve-wracking part of taking creative risks is the chance that certain manifestations function better in theory than they do in practice. the Flaming Lips’ With A Little Help From My Fwends is, unfortunately, one of those things. What could have been a lovely partner to one of the greatest albums of all time, created “with a little help from [their] friends,” the album makes the tragic mistake of being different for the sake of being different, without really adding anything to the Beatles’ sensational 1967 album. Where there could have been further development on the original—adding new technology to the Kaliope-styled “Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!” for example—it’s distant. That seems to be a trend with many of these tracks. Wayne Coyne, the lead singer, and friends just did not capture the spirit, sound or essence of the originals track, and those that are lyrically profound or cheekily jovial, such as “She’s Leaving Home” or “Getting Better,” respectively, fall quite flat and don’t necessarily “get there” in the same way the original did. Most importantly, and most shockingly, though is the fact that the Beatles’ original album ends with one of the most prolific and important album closers of all time—“A Day In The Life.” What was originally crafted to be a literal orchestral orgasm was completely scrapped. The Flaming Lips’ Pepper ends with, well, nothing. There’s nothing there, except a bit of rambling by miss Miley Cyrus herself. This is completely inexcusable.
(03/14/14 2:19am)
Five Wisconsin county executives voiced their concerns over two bills affecting the juvenile justice system in an open letter Thursday to the state Senate and the state Assembly.
(02/10/14 6:33am)
Sunday evening marked the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," and as such, The Grammy’s hosted a show in honor of the infamous band. Artists ranging from Katy Perry to Gary Clark Jr. spent the evening performing their own renditions of classic Beatles tracks, interspersed with interviews with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and CBS associates who attended the fateful show back in 1964. The 90-minute long special paid warm homage to the most important band in history.
(01/23/14 3:53am)
Tom Brosseau’s latest release Grass Punks is everything that a folk album spanning thirty minutes should be. It isn’t exactly ground-breaking, it isn’t exactly “favorite album” material, but it is definitely worth a listen for anyone interested in folk.
(12/04/13 5:54am)
Oh good, another pop star Christmas album. Because that’s what the charts need—another singer good enough to make radio play but not good enough to keep pumping out the hits, instead singing the same 10 songs as every other depleted artist out there.
(11/06/13 4:29am)
Cut Copy’s latest release, Free Your Mind, encourages you to do just that. A heady journey through funky electronic pseudo-psychedlia, the album nods to ’90s dance club grooves, yet remains relevant with soaring choruses and sailing vocals.
(10/30/13 4:52am)
Moonface’s Julia With Blue Jeans On is the kind of album you listen to once and never forget. It unapologetically commands full attention and respect, and refuses to back down throughout the last chord. This album is heavy. I mean weight-of-the-world-on-your-shoulders heavy. I mean agonizingly heavy. I mean “it should be impossible for one person and a piano to create this kind of heaviness” heavy. Apathetic and wise, Julia With Blue Jeans On composes exactly the type of atmosphere for the lost, lonely and misunderstood.
(10/23/13 2:59am)
Fade Away, Best Coast’s newly released mini-album, is undeniably the strongest effort we’ve seen from the band in their short four-year span. With seven songs led by Bethany Consentino, a pop-powered California girl for the college crowd, Fade Away transitions the band into a new phase of Vaccines-like power pop with a coastal vibe.
(10/17/13 6:33am)
On their new album, Let’s Be Still, The Head And The Heart have expanded their boundaries just a bit—enough to make the new release a full step forward. Let’s Be Still widens their style enough to label their sound pleasantly upbeat, even at its mellow, smell-the-roses pace.
(09/27/13 4:06am)
Sometimes it’s all just too much. I get stressed over things I really don’t have to worry about, nothing makes sense and I just want to escape into being a girl. When these episodes strike, I usually put on a limited, repeated loop of The Smiths and Hole and float along through my estrogen ocean, waiting to come back to equilibrium. So I sat down this afternoon, pen in hand, to write an album review. What I was not expecting was to be assaulted with a Riot Grrrl throwback for the 21st century. Lord Snow’s Solitude threw me right into that aforementioned hormonal ocean, but instead of floating back to shore, I doggy-paddled myself to exhaustion, wanting to stay in place.
(09/12/13 1:56am)
Minus The Bear recorded a second unplugged album—Acoustics II. The album, if you didn’t infer from the title, is a 10-track spread of unplugged versions of some of their most popular songs.
(09/03/13 3:39am)
Directly following Miley Cyrus’ asinine performance at the Video Music Awards, it seemed as if every corner of the Internet swelled with commentary on the pop singer’s desperate publicity stunt. And as expected, the satire empire that is The Onion took it upon themselves to not only comment on the shenanigan, but also shift the focus to where it was deserved—mass media and the news outlets that turned what should have been a public embarrassment into an issue of national concern.
(06/02/13 3:24am)
On Wednesday, May 22, pro-choice and pro-life groups gathered in Wisconsin's State Capitol to debate a bill that made it into the legislature in just one short week. The bill, sponsored by Representative Andre Jacque (R-2), would make it much more difficult and expensive for a woman to get an abortion and would ban the use of public tax-payer dollars to fund abortions that fall under public employee's health insurance plans. It would also keep employers such as hospitals, schools and organizations with a religious affiliation from having to provide contraceptive coverage in their health insurance plans.
(04/26/13 5:49am)
Most college football programs around the country would be more than pleased with a proven running back like senior James White. However, as alluded to in Wednesday’s feature, the running back tradition at Wisconsin is unlike any other, as redshirt sophomore running back Melvin Gordon is a guy who could start at almost any other Division 1 program.
(04/22/13 3:46am)
For Record Store Day 2013, April 20th, the experimental rock group The Flaming Lips re-released their 1997 album, Zaireeka, on vinyl.
(04/04/13 3:44am)
Movies are all about perception. And not in an “our perception of a subjective reality created by the editing of time and space is what defines out movie going experiences” sort of way.
(03/11/13 4:46am)
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(01/31/13 7:45am)
Often times the rhetoric surrounding an issue becomes the issue itself. Emotional hang-ups and the ever-present argument of deeming something “unconstitutional” can overwhelm the issue at hand, and that can not only hinder solving that problem, it can also blow the problem out of proportion and then lead an effort to fix things that aren’t broken.
(01/30/13 4:23am)
With John Kerry being confirmed as the new secretary of state, Hillary Clinton is now able to manage her health, as well as possibly, a spot on the 2016 presidential ballot. As the former secretary of state has left her desk in positive standing, she is in the perfect position to go for the presidency. If this is the case, and if she were to win that election, then it will be clear America has entered a new age of politics, where the image of the politician is no longer that of the savior.