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(11/19/14 5:18am)
The first time I heard the eccentric whirlwind of words that defines San Fransisco native George Watsky’s flow, I was a sophomore in high school and his YouTube video “Pale kid raps fast” had just gone viral. As millions of views rolled in, I strayed to the related videos and became enamored with a few singles from his first EP. Followed by his collaborative EP with Kush Mody and full-length albums Cardboard Castles and All You Can Do, this odd sampling of homemade music videos and novelty fast raps was more than enough to keep me hooked.
(11/17/14 4:29am)
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UW-Madison freshman Gregory Simpson died from injuries incurred by the trampling he experienced while leaving his Physics 201 lecture Tuesday morning.
(11/12/14 4:30am)
(11/11/14 6:38am)
Late last week, word came out that Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, along with John Bonham’s son Jason, signed a contract that would’ve given them 500 million pounds (about $800 million) for the three of them (plus Robert Plant) to play 35 shows in three cities as Led Zeppelin.
(11/11/14 4:20am)
(11/05/14 7:01am)
Professor Emeritus Graham B.D. Rice had been my advisor initially, which is why he was none too pleased that I decided to become a private eye. He was sore, too, because he had staked his legacy on me; I had been his last endeavor before retirement, his last justification. The last deft serve of tenure. My savior. Without him, I would’ve descended into the low ranks of folly. Or, ascended into mythology as the Wandering Scholar. But I digress.
(11/05/14 4:13am)
Last week, the Allman Brothers Band ended their career as a band on a high note, playing three sets at their second home, the Beacon Theatre on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a venue they’ve played more than 230 times over the course of their 45-year career.
(11/03/14 5:37am)
Members of the Student Labor Action Coalition gathered on Bascom Hill Friday for a “die-in” to protest UW-Madison’s affiliation with JanSport.
(10/30/14 6:00am)
Slug, born Sean Daley, is 42 and having some of the best years of his life. He is hailed as a God MC to so many children of the Midwest Winter.
(10/29/14 3:35am)
Hans Schneider, a UW-Madison professor for more than 30 years and a mathematician whose research in classical linear algebra led to algorithms that would help develop Google, died of esophageal cancer at age 87 Tuesday.
(10/28/14 5:00am)
Rick and Morty” is a new and popular show from Adult Swim that real cartoon and science fans should view. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has already rated it a 9.2 and ranked it as the 11th- best TV show of all time, putting it in the company of “Breaking Bad” and “The Sopranos.” All this success has come after only one season, which aired its pilot in December 2013.
(10/23/14 3:01am)
On the issues section of her website, Mary Burke uses the phrase collective bargaining, or some version of it, twice, and both of those fall inside the same paragraph. Does this seem weird to anybody? Shouldn’t the Democratic candidate who is running against, arguably, one of the country’s least union-friendly governors be making this a bigger deal. Since her victory in the primary, I’ve been waiting for Burke to become more salient on this topic, but so far that hasn’t happened. It’s like I’m pretty sure that I’m at my surprise birthday party, but I’ve been here for 45 minutes and no one has said surprise yet, or even happy birthday. So, either this is an incredibly long pause for effect, or all of my friends forgot about my birthday. In other words, I think Mary Burke forgot about my birthday.
(10/22/14 3:27am)
There’s no telling exactly what you’ll experience if you come out to see the Meat Puppets perform at the High Noon Saloon this Wednesday, Oct. 22 with tour-mate Cass McCombs. In fact, they don’t even know themselves. “I think we’re gonna wait until we get to the venue, and then put some thought into it,” says guitarist, vocalist and primary songwriter Curt Kirkwood. “We got a few different ideas we’re messing around with. We brought acoustic guitars, we might try to hook that up. We’re just playing it by ear.”
(10/17/14 6:00am)
Wednesday night, MacArthur fellows Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer graced the Wisconsin Union Theater in support of their new album Bass & Mandolin. It was a stunning technical performance, though often very dissonant and challenging to the listener. The audience was not at all put off by the complicated rhythms and shifting harmonic structures, instead meeting the performers with laughter, approval, and multiple standing ovations.
(10/16/14 4:44pm)
To some, he is a middle-aged naked guy riding around on a motorized scooter wearing nothing but a thong and a cape, shocking the town and scaring children. To most Madisonians, however, he is a caped crusader, a naked knight, a scantily clad star. He is Thong Cape Scooter Man.
(10/15/14 3:51am)
Around this time last year, I wrote a column about how I thought “The Walking Dead” was the best show currently on television. I was wrong. In fact, I have rarely been more wrong. While still an excellent piece of television in its own right, the fourth season of what is somehow cable TV’s most watched program did its best to make me look like an asshole. While taking literally forever to finally wrap up the Governor’s storyline, it also spiced things up with what may go down as the worst ever use of a Mountain Goats song and one of the most heavy-handed “Of Mice & Men” knockoffs I have ever seen (“Just look at the flowers, Lizzie!”). However, things picked up again at the end of the season when our heroes finally reunited in Terminus, which of course turns out to be an old train station that a group of cannibal cultists call home. This new development left me tentatively excited for the new season, and when it premiered on Sunday night I tuned in for what I hoped would be a solid hour of Rick Grimes straight murdering the aforementioned cannibals.
(10/14/14 2:36am)
Eyy freshmen, you’re over a month into this whole college thing and if you’re reading this, chances are you haven’t dropped out yet--so congrats! There is however, another issue at hand: You’re quickly turning into a wittle homesick baby. It’s OK to be homesick. It’s just part of the whole getting acclimated to life without mommy doing everything for you phase. WRONG. See, that was a trick so all you weaklings would let down your guard and admit to missing the ol’ homefront. Homesickness is a disease that will keep people in your dorm farther away from you than open cold sores. If you want to ride with the big dogs here at college, but there’s something--oh, I don’t know, say mommy’s chicken pot pie--that is making you miss those classic high school days, get this through your stupid thumbsucking skull: Only the loseriest of the losers feel homesick. Luckily for all you nimrods thinking about hopping on a Megabus this weekend, Almanac has compiled an exhaustive motivational pamphlet to keep your ass anchored in Witte until Thanksgiving.
(10/08/14 4:30am)
1777—Americans beat the British in the second Battle of Saratoga and the Battle of Bemis Heights. Keep tuning into Almanac to find out whether or not these scrappy Americans win their independence!
(10/08/14 4:12am)
After receiving my first CD player and a gift card to a local music store, I was the definition of both a “lost puppy” and a “kid in a candy shop.” There was so much music at my fingertips and I didn’t know what to do with any of it. I went into this music store without any idea of what I wanted and about an hour later, eight-year-old Owen walked out with a Louis Prima CD, still not knowing if he wanted it.
