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(11/29/06 6:00am)
Even as they were faltering in a season-long six-game losing
streak, the Wisconsin Badgers men's hockey team knew that its hard
work was bound to pay off. Fortunately for the team, that funk
ended just before the first lull in their schedule.
(11/26/06 6:00am)
Protecting the lead—a rarity during a five-game losing streak
heading into the weekend—has been a point of emphasis this season
for the Wisconsin men's hockey team. Playing in the College Hockey
Showcase, the Badgers (3-6-1 WCHA, 5-9-2 overall) turned in mixed
results against two top-ten teams at the Kohl Center Friday and
Saturday.
(11/19/06 6:00am)
After suffering a heartbreaking loss to Minnesota Wednesday at
home, the No. 10 UW volleyball team (14-4 Big Ten, 23-6 overall)
seemed to find its footing. The Badgers pulled out of the funk
plaguing them lately with a 30-16, 30-22, 30-20 sweep of Iowa
(2-16, 13-17) Friday at the Field House.
(11/16/06 6:00am)
Surpassing a Grammy-loving, platinum-winning album like Get
Lifted is not always easy, however, John Legend exceeds all
expectations on his new album Once Again. Blending '60s and '70s
music with Legend's soulful voice makes Once Again sound
irresistible. Although he strays away from the funk and soul that
marked his first album, Legend enchants the listener with his
lyrics and phenomenal voice.
(11/13/06 6:00am)
To hear head coach Mike Eaves tell it, there was a silver lining
amid this past weekend's results at the Kohl Center. Yes, the
Badger hockey team (3-4-1 WCHA, 4-6-2 overall) was swept for the
second-straight time at home, dropping their overall and conference
records below the break-even point.
(11/12/06 6:00am)
It was around this time last season when the Wisconsin Badgers
men's hockey team was showing signs of promise, building confidence
with sublime play and on its way to an impressive unbeaten streak
that would set the stage for a memorable year.
(10/05/06 6:00am)
The Information, the new Beck album, has no set cover: the album
sleeve comes with stickers for you to design your own. Each song
has a homemade video slapped together on an accompanying DVD. Its
15 tracks are lush, muscular illuminations and wonderfully hazy
abstractions. But it's no surprise to anyone following Beck over
his last few albums that these sounds are some of the most
enjoyable collages you're likely to hear.
(09/28/06 6:00am)
After leaving the most rewarding and promising boy band of the
'90s—which truthfully isn't saying much—Justin Timberlake created a
flawed debut album that nevertheless gifted us with four absolutely
killer singles. More importantly, Justified established him as a
legitimate musical force to be reckoned with. He took four years to
give us a follow up, and while FutureSex/LoveSounds may not give us
numerous blockbusters along the lines of ""Rock Your Body,"" it
does show that Mr. JT is capable of moving forward.
(09/28/06 6:00am)
Having been birthed from the ashes of the incomparable Rage
Against the Machine, Audioslave had some high expectations to live
up to. Claims of Audioslave trying to be a recapitated Rage have
been oddly persistent following their first two albums, Audioslave
and Out of Exile, as even a quick listen makes it clear that the
two bands sound very little alike. Assertions of imitation
notwithstanding, the real issue critics were probably dealing with
was that for a band including 75 percent of one of the '90s'
seminal acts, Audioslave just weren't that good. On their new
album, Revelations, Audioslave do more Rage-like things than ever.
And the ironic thing is, it's their best album yet because of
it.
(09/26/06 6:00am)
Though the effect seems lessened three years into the current
glut of post-punk and new wave-revivalists, when the Rapture
debuted with the fantastic Echoes in 2003, their angular, spacious
dance-punk seemed, if not entirely unprecedented, at least very far
off the beaten path. In subsequent years, no other band has come
close to duplicating Echoes' abrasive edge or its weird, manic sex
appeal. Consequently, fans rabidly awaiting a follow-up have had
their hopes resting squarely on the band's shoulders for a long
time.
(09/20/06 6:00am)
In their latest release, the foreboding and ambitious Game
Theory, Philadelphia hip-hop veterans the Roots exhaust little time
and mince few rhymes before conveying the monolithic cloud of
social and political turmoil that shrouds our nation. The first
full-length track, ""False Media,"" depicts a disoriented country
stuck inside the nightmare of Columbine High School, a country
where ""Eleven million children are on Ritalin."" They explain
resolutely, ""That's why I don't rhyme / For the sake of
riddling."" Game Theory earnestly identifies with America's
struggling youth and couples raw, emotionally vivid poetry with
nuanced, funk-inspired riffs, offering a dark, stimulating hip-hop
experience par excellence.
(09/12/06 6:00am)
Considering that Christina Aguilera came to prominence as part
of the boom of frothy, fairly untalented teen pop stars, the public
can be forgiven for expressing astonishment that seven years into
her career she has released a double disc album that is not only
great, but is also the work of a truly focused and inspired
artistic vision.
(09/07/06 6:00am)
Don't believe the hype about Idlewild, the much-delayed
soundtrack to OutKast's feature film debut, of the same name. Yes,
the movie and album acknowledge the tenuous relationship between
Big Boi and AndrAc 3000. Yes, the two continue to record
separately. However, OutKast is not breaking up, and Idlewild is by
no means a substandard album. As with most 25 track albums, its
quality is inconsistent. Yet OutKast continue to explore their
unique musical universe with thrilling results.
(06/01/06 6:00am)
Sometimes, the only way to move forward is to take a step back.
For the Red Hot Chili Peppers, that means abandoning the direction
of 2002's extremely subdued, harshly reviewed By the Way and
returning to the grand alterna-funk glory with which they dominated
the '90s. Stadium Arcadium is a remarkably elucidatory title: The
Peppers are back to making commanding, stadium-deserving rock, and
they sound as comfortable there as in an Arcadian paradise.
(04/06/06 6:00am)
No matter how big of a rut hip-hop is in, a song about SpongeBob
driving a Bentley coupe underwater will always shake things up.
Leave it to Ghostface Killah, rap music's reigning absurd genius,
to drop the year's most engaging album almost 15 years into his
legendary career.
(04/06/06 6:00am)
On the opener of The Flaming Lips' latest album, At War with the
Mystics, lead singer Wayne Coyne tries to deliver a scathing
political statement to powerful world leaders by asking, With all
your power, what would you do?\
(04/04/06 6:00am)
People feel a variety of emotions at any given second of any
given day: Someone may be simultaneously lonely, depressed, happy,
loved and angry. However, these feelings give life its intricate
value and individual meaning. In the two-disc album Both Sides of
the Gun, Ben Harper interweaves his various states of emotion into
his entrancing and enticing music.
(03/30/06 6:00am)
After spending the better part of a decade making music
seemingly no one but he wanted to hear, Prince made an unexpected
but entirely welcome return to pop music with 2004's spectacular
Musicology. His recently-released 25th album, 3121, proves his
return to form was no one-off. For reasons we may never know,
Prince has decided to make a long-term return to the public
consciousness, release (and produce, arrange, compos & per4m)
the kind of music people want to hear from him, and best of all he
is making it sound just as effortless as it did on his first
classic album, 1980's Dirty Mind.
(03/07/06 6:00am)
Do not be intimidated by the title of Scottish DJ Myles
Macinnes' debut album. Recorded under the moniker Mylo, Destroy
Rock & Roll finds its method of destruction through
straightforward electronica bliss. Already a sensation in the UK,
the collection first reached U.S. shores in early February, just in
time to warm up even the most frozen dance-music enthusiasts.
(02/17/06 6:00am)
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