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Before I begin my column, I’d like to start by thanking you all for reading. For the past two years, I have been lucky enough to fill your mind with my thoughts and rants on any number of musical topics from jam bands to jam bands and then some more jam bands, with a little bit of everything else thrown in.
Azealia Banks first announced the release of her debut album in early 2012. After numerous delays, dropping a label and igniting some ugly controversy on her Twitter, Banks slipped through the cracks of publicity and drifted from the minds of those anticipating a new release from the promising musician. Now, in similar fashion to Beyoncé’s latest release, Banks surprised the industry with the release of Broke With Expensive Taste Nov 6.
This, my friends, is a story of disappointment.
On Sunday nights the most-watched show on television, AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” airs. Immediately after it ends, a foppish blonde man—comedian Chris Hardwick—comes on screen and talks about the show for the next hour. Nothing else happens. Hardwick and whatever celebrity guests and/or cast members tell jokes, talk about what just happened and what possibly could happen. The most interesting part of this is that people watch it. Viewers stay tuned in to watch Hardwick and his weekly compatriots draw the interest of “The Walking Dead’s” fans.
Some might say that beginning my residency as The Daily Cardinal’s video games columnist with an editorial on a mobile game is inauspicious. But amidst the several titles entangling me, none pull as much focus as the stark “Desert Golfing.” Described by iOS developer Adam Atomic (“Canabalt,” “Hundreds”) as “the ‘Dark Souls’ of ‘Angry Birds’”—perhaps the most absurd form of description, akin to the constant ringing question begging, “When will video games have their “Citizen Kane” moment?,” whatever that means—it is a spare experience that closely evokes the beloved RPG’s unforgiving indifference.
When one listens to non-instrumental music, the point (sometimes) is to tell a story. While one could spend all day looking for a real story in Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy,” you already know that she’s in the fast lane between California and Japan. The song is remarkably catchy but one isn’t looking to Ms. Swaggy P for an investigation into post-racial discourse in the 21st century.
Dane County officials rejected the new, government-recommended ballot for November’s election in favor of its traditional counterpart, Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell said Friday.
Fear of Men’s debut full-length album, Loom, proves there can be too much of a good thing. After establishing an inventive and unique sound, it becomes frustrating to listen to the British group continually repeat themselves on their 11-track record.
Thursday night’s audience at the Majestic was alive. Fists in the air, they matched Against Me! singer Laura Jane Grace word-for-word as the band blasted their way through a set list that dug deep into the story of the Gainesville, Fla.’s punk rock titans. The audience caved in on itself in a crowd-wide mosh pit. Fans’ hearts set ablaze by hearing their favorite songs through the amplifiers.
“I will speak now,” the Spring Offensive declares over reggae grooves and chiming guitars on their debut full-length album, Young Animal Hearts. After five years of blistering performances and staggering singles, the Oxford, England indie rockers are given time to speak here. Eleven songs make up Young Animal Hearts, 11 songs were collected over the years and make up something more akin to a greatest hits than simply a debut album.
When Telltale Games released “The Walking Dead” back in 2012, it was mostly known as the studio that was keeping alive the oft-forgotten adventure game genre with some mildly successful licensed titles. They had just come off the maligned “Jurassic Park.” The limited number of people who knew about Telltale were those paying close attention to the industry. Flash forward two years and they’re producing four different licensed series with one of the most popular game franchises in the industry.
As you have probably heard by now, a former Soviet satellite country, Ukraine, has fallen captive to the kind of protests that ran rampant throughout the Middle East over the Arab Spring and Summer.
So, lately I’ve been trying to gain an understanding of avant-garde films, seeing that I know basically nothing about them. And in my meandering through these new experiences, I’ve developed a new analogy I guess—a new way of thinking about film, which I will now present for your consideration and entertainment, in honor of the upcoming holiday.
The return of a beloved band from inactivity could be construed as messianic. And while it is overmuch to assume said band walks to every concert on rays of light and ringed with aureoles, the effect is analogous for fans.
The Daily Cardinal recently spoke with Carlos Eduardo Gacharná, coordinator of the Hundred$ gallery reception that is taking place Dec. 7 on the fourth floor of 100 State Street from 6:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
Renowned civil rights attorney and advocate Michelle Alexander spoke to hundreds of University of Wisconsin–Madison students and community members Thursday at Union South.
The Western Percussion Ensemble—a chamber music ensemble composed of UW School of Music students—will be performing a concert tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Mills Concert Hall. Entitled “Percussion Plus,” the program will consist entirely of music composed for various groups of instruments, all of which include percussion. A host of musicians from both the UW School of Music and the community at large will join the ensemble to fill out the various instrument groupings.
Grouper is sound in black and white. Peering through a telescope, lost and alone at sea. Bleak, lonely curls of fog span the view. Or wind on some forlorn, forgotten hill. A weighty fish lumbering with concealed purpose below the murky depths of a cold, dark lake. Grouper is music to drown to.
Since 2007, the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian controlled territory southwest of Israel, has been ruled by the terrorist organization Hamas. During this span, Hamas has launched a relentless campaign of rockets into the south of Israel. Temporary ceasefires between Israel and Hamas have intermittently been in play over these years; however, they are always followed by a new barrage of rockets fired from Gaza. These perpetual shellings have obstructed many Israelis from going about their normal lives and have been so terrorizing that President Barack Obama has greatly assisted in the institution of Israel’s Iron Dome, a defense system that intercepts and destroys incoming missiles.
I figure that, with the election coming up in the next week or so, I’d best input my final two cents about the political system. I’m becoming increasingly disturbed by what I see going on in the conservative spectrum of our national discourse. There’s been quite a bit of outrage over some comments made recently by one Richard Mourdock involving rape, which is only another grain of salt in a wound opened up by Todd Akin’s now-infamous “legitimate rape” statement made while defending pro-life positions. So I say to all self-respecting Americans: hasn’t this gone on long enough? Aren’t we sick of our elected representatives spewing pseudoscience as if they were some kind of political medium? The time to end this anti-intellectualism has come, and unless it does end, Americans are going to suffer because of it.
Solutions by The State News
